The Swedish Research Council’s investment in gender research

By bjorn on 26 Oct | 0 comments

A Success
The Swedish Research Council’s evaluation of the three excellent gender research milieux in Linköping/Örebro, Umeå, and Uppsala shows that the investment has produced very positive results. The scientific quality is ranked as ‘good to outstanding’ and the milieux are given credit for establishing new and internationally recognized gender research.
- It has been the case that these kinds of investments not necessarily always result in excellent research. But we have succeeded in doing this; our research is both internationally important and at the forefront in many areas, says Margareta Fahlgren, research leader of Uppsala University’s excellence program GenNa.

The Research Council’s evaluative panel emphasizes the investment’s added value of enabling more resources for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers and also that all the milieux have established organizations which enable junior researchers to develop as leaders and researchers.
- The most important is, that we have secured a new generation of gender researchers who are able to continue the work we have started, says Nina Lykke, research leader for Linköping/Örebro Universities excellence programme GEXcel.

The productivity within  the milieux is mirrored in the many international conferences that have been organized, the networks and strong research groups that has been established, the increased international publication, the book series with the Routledge publishing house in New York, and the many international guest researchers that the centres have attracted. The research performed has shown societal relevance and concerns fields such as democratic development, health, science education and practice, love, sexuality and violence, and cultural systems of norms, among other things.
- Strategic leadership with different models has been the foundation that has led to this fantastic result. Even though we have been organized differently, we have all focused on continuity and sustainability when building our research programs, says Britta Lundgren, research leader of Umeå University’s program ‘Challenging Gender’.

The economic support from the Research Council will end at the end of year 2011.
- We hope for a continued investment in our research milieux, from the Research Council, this has been the case in other excellence investments, say the three research leaders.

Background
The Research Council Vetenskapsrådet appointed, in 2006 , three Swedish milieux of gender research as Centres of Gender Excellence: the research programs of GEXcel at Linköping/Örebro Universities, GenNa at Uppsala University and Challenging Gender at Umeå University/Mitt University. The final evaluation that has now been conducted has focused on evaluating the funding model, the quality of the research and the development within the research milieux and it will among other things work as a ground for future funding models.

GEXcel evaluated

By ulrica on 15 Sep | 0 comments

The Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet, recently published their evaluation of GEXcel and the other two Swedish centers of gender excellence. Here, GEXcel is said to have a 'notable position in the international context of gender research' (p. 16), and the center’s publications are assessed as 'very good to outstanding' (p. 35) ('outstanding' being the highest mark). The evaluation in PDF 

Accommodation

By Lena Gunnarsson on 09 Sep | 0 comments

The following hotels in the Örebro city centre have rooms prebooked for
the conference for a reduced rate. Note: the rooms will be held until
September 19, 2011 for the participants in the conference. The
participants are to cover their accommodation costs themselves.  

To make a reservation, please contact the hotel you prefer and give
the hotel the booking reference when you make your reservation. After
September 19 you can still make a reservation if there are rooms
available.  

HOTELS

First Hotel Örebro
Storgatan 24
SE-703 61 Örebro
Tel: +46 19 611 73 00
E-mail: boka@hotellorebro.se
Web: www.hotellorebro.se
Booking reference: GEXcel
Single room: SEK 802 breakfast incl.

Elite Stora Hotellet Örebro
Drottninggatan 1
SE-702 10 Örebro
Tel: +46 19 15 69 00
E-mail: reservations.orebro@elite.se
Web: www.elite.se
Booking reference: GEXcel
Single room (superior): SEK 1073 breakfast incl.
Single room (standard): SEK 971 breakfast incl.

Hotell Göta
Olaigatan 11
SE-703 61 Örebro
Tel: +46 19 611 53 63
E-mail: info@hotellgota.nu
Web: www.hotellgota.nu
Booking reference: GEXcel
Single room: SEK 790 breakfast incl.

HOSTELS

A less expensive accommodation alternative is the hostel Livin located in the city centre of Örebro. Please check the hostel’s website for information: http://www.livin.se/

Fellows for Theme 11-12 selected

By Gunnel Karlsson on 13 Apr | 0 comments

The Fellows are:

Suzanne de Cheveigné
Jan Currie
Jen De Vries
Heike Kahlert
Mia Liinason
Louise Morley
Paula Mählck
Irina Nikiforova
Maria do Mar Pereira
Helen Peterson
Teresa Rees
Helene Schiffbaenker
Marieke van den Brink
Monica Wirz
Angela Wroblewski

NEW BOOK: Sexuality, Gender and Power. Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives

By Gunnel Karlsson on 11 Feb | 0 comments

Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary, Sexuality, Gender and Power fosters critical conversations about sexuality across disciplinary, cultural, national and ideological boundaries.

Underpinned by a broad editorial commitment to intersectionality, the chapters deploy approaches that range from historical materialism to queer theory, and from contract theory to theories of the gendered sexual self to address recurrent questions around agency, power, identity and self-hood. Theoretical debates inform and are informed by more empirically oriented chapters focusing on topics such as gay identity in contemporary Croatia, sexual politics in the Commonwealth Caribbean, western "tango tourists," sexual violence in war, prostitution, femme fashion, changing sexual norms in China and Taiwan, and feminist politics in the 2008 US presidential campaign.

Each chapter is interesting and important in its own right; taken together, they advance gender theory and research by developing a complex conception of sexuality that explores intersections between and amongst theories, levels of analysis and identities, linking case studies to international trends and theoretical debates to everyday experiences.

Discount Flyer

Link to publisher's web site

“Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures”

By ulrica on 03 Dec | 0 comments

Announcing GEXcel Theme 9 Symposium
“Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures”

Participation is free. Please register by 21st January with your name and dietary preference by emailing alp.biricik@liu.se

Place: Temcas, Tema Building, Linköping University
Date: Wednesday 26th January 2011.
Time: coffee from 9, starting 9.30, ending with Mingel from 17.00.

The symposium opens GEXcel (Centre of Gender Excellence, Linköping and Örebro Universities) Theme 9 on “Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant: Transforming men, “centres”, knowledge/practice”.

Presentations will be made by Jeff Hearn (LiU), Chris Beasley (Adelaide, Australia), Karen Gabriel (Delhi, India), Marie Nordberg (Karlstad), Sofia Aboim (Lisbon, Portugal), Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (UC Dublin, Ireland), and Richard Collier (Newcastle, UK).

On the following day, 27th January there will be a small invitation seminar; if you are interested in that, please contact jefhe@tema.liu.se with title line – GEXcel Theme 9 Roundtable Seminar.

New GEXcel Fellows

By bjorn on 20 Jun | 0 comments

In late May and early June, 2010, several postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students have been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in GEXcel research themes.

To Themes 3 & 6, Distinctions and Authority; Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and University,  Özlem Ezer, Giulia Garofalo, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Paula Mählck, Sabrina Marchetti and Dorthe Staunes have been selected for post doc positions, and Vera Galindabaeva, Thamar Heijstra, Karolina Rzepecka and PK Vijayan have been selected to PhD students’ positions.   

Six post docs, and five PhD students were selected for the Sub-theme Gendered Violence, of Themes 7 & 8, Teaching Normcritical Sex – Getting Rid of Violence; Halimah DeShong, Sara di Palma, Mathabo Khau, Sunil Kumar Joshi, Lotta Samelius and Katarina Swahnberg will all visit GEXcel as postdoctoral scholars, and Maria Helena Bastos, Rana Jaleel, Elena Panican, Shirin Saeidi and Nicola Steffen have been granted PhD students’ fellowships. A call for fellowship applications for a second sub-theme, Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities, will open in the autumn of 2010.

To Theme 9, Gendered Sexualed Transnationalisations, Deconstructing the Dominant: Transforming Men, “Centres” and Knowledge/Policy/Practice, Sofia Aboim, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila and Winifred Poster have been selected for post doc fellowships.  PhD students’ fellowships have been granted to Tonya Haynes, Helen Longlands and Nil Mutluer. Moreover, Marie Nordberg has been appointed Open position scholar, affiliated with Theme 9.

Since March, two postdoctoral scholars and four doctoral students have been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in Theme 10, Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism. The two postdoctoral student selected for four-month positions at Örebro University were Anna Adeniji and Ewa Majewska. The doctoral students, were Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Kaye Quek, Alyssa Schneebaum, and Eleanor Wilkinson.

In the autumn of 2010, two calls for fellowship application will open; 
- Theme 7 & 8, sub-theme 2: Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities
- Theme 11 & 12: Gendered Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organization(s)

Junior Fellows selected for Theme 10

By Gunnel Karlsson on 11 Mar | 0 comments

The two postdoctoral student selected for four-month positions at Örebro University are Anna Adeniji, Södertörn University College, Sweden, and Ewa Majewska, University of Warsaw, Poland.

The doctoral students, who are invited for one-month visits, are Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, Kaye Quek, University of Melbourne, Australia, Alyssa Schneebaum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States, and Eleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII now available

By Katherine Harrison on 15 Jan | 0 comments

December 1 & 2: Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung

By Katherine Harrison on 26 Nov | 0 comments

9 – 12, December 1, 2009
Conciliation, Mediation and Peace building – with examples
(Location: BERZELIUSSALEN,Ingång 65, Campus US, Linköping)

9 – 12, December 2, 2009
A Theory of Violence: Direct, Structural, Cultural – with examples
(Location: BL32/NOBEL-salen, ingång 23, B-building, Campus Valla, Linköping)

No registration required. Limited seating on a ‘first come, first
seated’ basis. Lectures will start at 9.00 sharp.

For more information on GEXcel, see:
http://www.genderexcel.org/