GEXcel Themes 4&5 Kick-off Conference

By Katherine Harrison on 20 May | 0 comments

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Kick-off Conference
for GEXcel scholars and CritSex Network

”Critical Feminist Dialogues on Sex Education, Violence and Sexology: Between Agency, Pleasure, Shame and Pain”: a kick-off conference for GEXcel Themes 4&5 “Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment: Bridging Epistemological Gaps”

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2009-10, Themes 4&5 will be jointly headed by Nina Lykke, feminist cultural studies scholar and Prof. of Gender and Culture, Linköping University. and Barbro Wijma, feminist Gynaecologist and Prof. of Gender and Medicine, Linköping University. See full description of the Themes

Conference subthemes:
Sex education
Critical sexology
Violence

Keynote speakers include: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Janice Irvine (University of Massachusetts, USA), Margrit Shildrick (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (University of Bristol, UK).

Format: This conference will begin on Monday morning (15 June 2009) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 4&5. Tuesday and Wednesday (16-17 June 2009) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 17 June. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members. Click here for full programme

For more information contact:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

See below for pictures from the June 2009 conference: