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  • GEXcel Seminars this Autumn

    October 16 | 0 comments

    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

    August 15 | 0 comments

    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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  • Photos from Theme 1 Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Global Change

    May 27 | 0 comments

  • 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

    February 21 | 0 comments

  • 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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Morrell, Robert, Professor

Professor Robert Morell 

Robert Morrell is professor at School of Education Studies, University of KwaZuluNatal, Republic of South Africa. He is an Open Position Fellow at GEXcel.

GEXcel Project
During my Open Position Fellowship I will work on and present a paper on Zulu masculinity and stickfighting. This has, as one of its key themes, reflections on what hegemonic masculinity looks like in the Zulu and South African contexts, and how this relates to international theoretical and conceptual debates. This specific research is a development of work with Dr Benedict Carton, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, Virginia, US. It is planned to submit this paper to a refereed journal.

The stay also provides an opportunity to work on ongoing research on men's experiences of and reporting on sexuality, violence and sexual violence being conducted with Professor Rachel Jewkes, Director of the Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, and meet with Tema Genus and Tema Barn colleagues on further the existing research collaboration between Sweden and South Africa.