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  • GEXcel Seminars this Autumn

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    Sheila Jeffreys, Toni Calasanti and many more will visit GEXcel Theme 2 in November and December. If you wish to hear them talk, you can find out where and when in our seminar series programme.

  • New invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

    August 26 | 0 comments

    A new invitation to apply for a GEXcel visiting fellowship is announced. The research theme is "Deconstruction the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities" (Theme 2), directed by Prof. Jeff Hearn, at Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.
    Apply before October 14, 2008 (for Spring 2009).

  • Read the work-in-progress report from GEXcel's spring seminars

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    This is GEXcel's fourth work-in-progress report and it presents the proceedings from the research carried out by GEXcel Visiting Fellows Eudine Barriteau, Kimberle Crenshaw, Ann Ferguson, Stevi Jackson and Xingkui Zhang during their stay at Örebro University in spring 2008. The work is part of GEXcel’s first theme, Gender, Sexuality and Global Change.

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  • Visiting Fellows hold seminars at Örebro University

    March 19 | 0 comments

    On April 24-29 Eudine Barriteau, Ann Ferguson, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Stevi Jackson and Xingkui Zhang, all GEXcel Visiting Fellows, hold open seminars at Örebro University. Click here for schedule and abstracts.

  • International Conference: The War Question for Feminism

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  • Read the work-in-progress papers of Theme 1

    February 01 | 0 comments

    The GEXcel Work in Progress Report Volume II is the result of the initial activities carried out within the frame of GEXcel’s first research theme, Gender, Sexuality and Global Change. All the authors participated in the one-day opening seminar of the theme, which took place at Örebro University, Sweden, on October 17, 2007.

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Bell, David, Dr.

By Malena Gustavson on 05 Sep | 0 comments

E-mail:
D.J.Bell@leeds.ac.uk

David Bell
David Bell is a senior lecturer in Critical Human Geography, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. He will visit GEXcel in Spring 2009.

GEXCEL PROJECT: Geek Myths: technomasculinities in cybercultures

The figure of the geek or nerd is commonplace in popular culture; from the paranoid hacker to the addicted gamer, and from the asocial and asexual 'IT guy' to the narcissistic blogger, popular stereotypes of the geek constitute a particular formation of masculinity (though 'geek girls' contest this). I am interested in beginning a cultural analysis of the geek, and of the broader culture work that this figure does in the context of computer cultures. The folk history 'popular computing', which locates the emergence of cyberculture in the 60s counterculture, is an important strand to this story. I am also interested in Richard Florida's discussion of 'the gays and the geeks' as pioneers in the creative city, and in how broader debates about genders in cybercultures have conceptualized an emergent 'technomasculinity'. A central focus will be how the figure of the geek both contests and reinforces hegemonic masculinities. This project builds on my interest in cultural studies of science and technology, and my previous work on cybercultures and on sexualites, in order to consider the cultural location that the geek currently occupies, and what this location tells us about gender, sexuality and technology. I am also interested in exploring the globalization of the geek.

Involved with the following themes:
Theme 2: Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence
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