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?)Myong Petersen, Lene, PhD Student
By Stine Adrian on 27 Aug | 0 comments
Lene Myong Petersen holds a MA in comparative literature from the University of Copenhagen. She is currently a PhD candidate at The Danish School of Education, and her dissertation is an interdisciplinary, qualitative study of Korean adoptees raised by white, Danish parents. The dissertation explores questions of identity, kinship, and racialization.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Discursive Economies of Intimacy: Transnational Adoption, Race, and Sexuality
As part of the GEXcel fellowship program I will work on a project that revolves around romantic/sexual intimacy. Drawing from the oral histories collected for my dissertation (work in progress) I wish to explore and sophisticate understandings of sexualized desire as primarily organized around gender (and sometimes class) difference.
A variety of categories inform and produce desire. And likewise, desire articulates, transforms and fixates a variety of social categories, differences and hierarchies. My ambition is to think sexualized desire as an always and already racialized social category and as a doing of embodied social relations. My primary focus is to relate this to the lives and experiences of transnational adoptees.
I will, however, also employ the question of romantic/sexualized intimacies as a lens through which we may expand and qualify understandings of racial and ethnic formation in Denmark.



