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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.

  • 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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Organisation

Introduction

GEXcel is an international research centre for excellent gender research. 

The research centre is hosted by the inter-university Institute of Thematic Gender Studies of the universities of Linköping and Örebro, Sweden. The institute is a unique new unit for interdisciplinary gender research and education, creating a framework for close collaboration between 

* Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University
* Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Örebro University
* Division of Gender and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University  

The excellence centre is organised and chaired by a Board of six professors  (five in Gender Studies and one in Sociology with a focus on Gender Studies), who are all affiliated with the Institute. An International Advisory Board has been set up to advise the Board.    


GEXcel Director
Prof. Nina Lykke, Linköping University

GEXcel Board
Prof. Nina Lykke, Linköping University - Director
Prof.
Anita Göransson, Linköping University - Co-director
Prof.
Jeff Hearn, Linköping University - Co-director
Prof.
Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Örebro University - Co-director
Prof. Christine Roman, Örebro University
Prof.
Barbro Wijma, Linköping University

GEXcel International  Advisory Board
Elzbieta Oleksy, Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Lodz, Poland
Raewyn Connell, Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities,  University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Karen Barad, Professor, Feminist Studies Department, University of California, St. Cruz, USA 
Kathleen B. Jones, Professor Emerita, Women's Studies, San Diego State University, USA
Birte Siim, Professor, Gender Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
Leonore Davidoff, Research Professor, Sociology, University of Essex, UK
Berit Schei, Professor, Women’s Medicine, The Technical University of Norway(NTNU), Norway