GEXcel Theme 2 (LiU/ÖU) will give several seminar series this Autumn. Open Seminars (together with Tema Genus, LiU), a GEXcel mini-conference 20th November, a GEXcel symposium 2 December, and the GEXcel internal seminars. If you wish to attend the conference and the symposium please contact Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se
GEXcel calendar
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Seminar Series Autumn 2008
Categories: Activity
Time: 08/28/2008 - 13:15 - 12/04/2008 - 17:00
Location: Linköping University, T-building
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Symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction
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GEXcel Conference “Men and Masculinities, Moving On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations”
Time: 12/05/2008 - 09:00 - 01/20/2009 - 18:00
Location: Linköping University 27-29 April 2009
GEXcel Theme 2 Conference – Call for papers and participation
“Men and Masculinities, Moving On! Embodiments, Virtualities, Transnationalisations”
GEXcel’s current Theme “Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities” invites junior and senior scholars to apply for a workshop conference 27-29 April 2009.
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New invitation to apply for GEXcel visiting fellowships
GEXcel Theme 4 & 5 "Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment. Bridging Epistemological Gaps". Apply before January 20, 2009
GEXcel news
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.
Download the Work in Progress Report from the Örebro Conference
December 04 | 0 comments
This fourth work-in-progress report comprises short summaries of most of the presentations given at GEXcel’s first research conference, which took
place at Örebro University on May 22-25, 2008.Invitation to apply for visiting fellowship
August 26 | 0 comments
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 third 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
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(What's this?)King, Neal, Dr.
By Malena Gustavson on 22 Aug | 0 comments

Dr. Neal King is an Associate Professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech, USA. He is also an Open Position Fellow at GEXcel.
GEXcel Project
"The Slackening Self: Concepts of agency in old manhood"
I will develop an ongoing project of mine on scholars' and ordinary men's constructions of */agency/*, as I look at men who feel increasingly hampered by institutional positions as they age. Social theories that specify relations between the abstract concepts agency/determinism, domination/resistance, and consent/coercion tend to advocate on behalf of particular social groups whom they present as oppressed but having agency with which they resist their oppression. Ordinary people draw some of the same moral lines, between their senses of disempowerment and their acts of defiance, for instance. Under what conditions do people wield such moral logic, and with what consequence for constructions of manhood? I intend to look at the issue of sexuality of old men in particular as a venue in which people work out their senses of personal and collective agency. Data for the larger study include professional discourses of refereed social science and social work journals, and personal/institutional discourses offered by interviews with men in the 40s and 50s about their experiences of their aging bodies.



