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?)Kumaramkandath, Rajeev, PhD Student
By Stine Adrian on 27 Aug | 0 comments
Rajeev Kumaramkandath is PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) in Bangalore, India.
RESEARCH PROJECT
The Discursive Production of Sexual Subjects in a Postcolonial Context: Sexual Morality and Homosexuality in the 21st Century Keralam
This project attempts to make an understanding of the current notions of morality and codes in Keralam, India and their role in governing the construction of gendered bodies, desires and selves against the background of the society’s colonial and post colonial history and the ongoing changes in its economy under the aegis of globalization. The discourse on the issue of morality (sadacharam) as propagated by the colonizer during the 19th century and proliferated in the society through the various apparatuses including the law, will be juxtaposed against the current structure of morality. The core concern is to see how the logical framework, in the broad sense of that term, extended by the 19th century discourse prevail amidst albeit seemingly drastic shifts in the realms of economy and individual relations.
The notions of morality thus prevailing combined with changes in the material spheres resulting in the different manifestations of the alternative desires – in the form of lesbian suicides, in the construction of the homosexual subject, the emerging sexual identity politics etc., – is precisely the point for investigation. The local specificities associated to the formation of subject in the context of Keralam, in one sense could be equated to that of similar and other developed contexts at the same time as articulating the limits for such equating exercises.
Sexual morality and homosexuality signify, on their respective turns and in their mutual infringement and encroachment, the shifts within the broader paradigms of modernity as also the limits imposed upon such shifts. Reality lies within the space between these shifts and their limits which are broadly represented by power relations and the discourses within which the subjects are constituted as also the contours in the realm of materiality associated to these constitutions.
In other words the conditioning of sexual subject, in a postcolonial/third world locale, is scrutinized by the discursive limits of modernity in shifting towards a more liberal and individual centric mechanism. This project analyses discourses on the topic of sexuality/homosexuality/gender in the current Keralam, and juxtaposes the sexual morality that is emerged out of these against the queer experiences.



