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GEXcel Seminars this Autumn

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.

GEXcel Theme 2 (LiU/ÖU) will give several seminar series this Autumn. Open Seminars (together with Tema Genus, LiU), a GEXcel mini-conference 20 November, a GEXcel symposium 2 December, and the GEXcel internal seminars. You will find the seminar series here: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/171

If you wish to attend the conference and the symposium please contact Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se

 

Photos from Theme 1 Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Global Change

 Charles W. Mills and Carole Pateman.

Conference participants.

Cynthia Cockburn.

Ann Ferguson, Bih-Er Chou and Stevi Jackson.

Valerie Bryson and Anita Göransson.

Joyce Outshoorn.

Cheryl Auger and Richard Howson.

Sarah Scuzzarello and Malena Gustavsson.

Carole Pateman and Cynthia Cockburn.

All photos by Lena Gunnarsson

Visiting Fellows hold seminars at Örebro University

On April 24-29 Eudine Barriteau, Ann Ferguson, Kimberlé CrenshawStevi 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

The War Question for Feminism: Gender Aspects on Militaries, Armed Conflict and Peacekeeping

22-23 September, 2008, Örebro University, Sweden

Submission of abstracts: April 15, 2008
Paper submission: September 1, 2008


The conference papers will be organized into three overarching themes:

I. War as a Feminist Issue
II. Militarism and Masculinities
III. Feminist concepts travelling into the area of security, the military, violent conflicts and peacekeeping operations

Please see Call for Papers for a more detailed description of the themes.

 

Confirmed Keynotes/Commentators


1   Cynthia Cockburn, Professor, City University, London
2   Carol Cohn, Director of the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, Tufts University, Boston
3   Christine Sylvester, Professor, Lancaster University
4   Paul Higate, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
5   Jeff Hearn, Professor, Linköping University
6   Inger Skjelsbaeck, Researcher, The Int’l Peace Research Institute at Oslo
7   Sophia Ivarsson, The Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm
8   Maud Eduards, Professor, Stockholm University
9   Helena Carreiras, Professor, Lisbon University
10 Dubravka Zarkov, Associate Professor, Inst of Social Studies,The Hague
 

More information regarding the conference will be posted at the GEXcel - Gender Excellence Center's homepage www.genderexcel.org

The conference is being organized by:
Erika Svedberg, Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Örebro University, erika.svedberg@sam.oru.se
Annica Kronsell, Department of Political Science, Lund University, annica.kronsell@svet.lu.se

 

GEXcel Conference of Workshops Örebro University 22-25 May 2008

GEXcel's current theme Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change arranges a conference of workshops for junior and senior scholars at Örebro University on May 22-25.

The conference is organized around three sub-themes:
1) Sexuality, Love and Social Theory
2) Power and Politics: A Feminist View
3) Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity, and Action

The conference sets off with open lectures held by Carole Pateman, Charles W. Mills and Joyce Outshoorn.

See the conference programme

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One Day Opening Seminar of the GEXcel Theme 1, Örebro University, October 17, 2007

Program

10.00 – 10.15 Welcoming to the Seminar by Janerik Gidlund (Rector, Örebro University)

10.15 – 10.30 Introduction to GEXcel by Nina Lykke, Director of GEXcel

10.30 – 11.15 Presentation of Theme 1: Gender, sexuality and global change by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Chair of GEXcel Theme 1

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.30 Presentation of paper: A materialist discursive approach to sexuality, sexual violence and sexualing globalisation: the case of ICTs by Jeff Hearn

12.30 – 13. 45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Presentation of paper: From making tools to making love: Marx, materialism and feminist thought by Valerie Bryson

15.00 – 16.15 Presentation of paper: Globalization and its Mal(e)contents: Masculinity and Sexuality on the Extreme Right by Michael Kimmel

16.15 – 16.45 Coffee

16.45 – 17.30 Plenary Session, chaired by Kathleen B. Jones

The seminar wil take place at Hörsal G, Gymnastikhuset, Örebro University 

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