GEXcel Symposium, September 15 at The Department for Thematic Studies, the Unit for Gender studies, Linköping University

By ulrica on 24 Aug | 0 comments

Gendered Stratification, Policy, and Collective Agency 

Time: Thursday September 15, 10:30 – 18:00, Venue: Temcas Hall, Tema-huset (T-House), Linköping University 

EXTENDED DEADLINE for registration: Monday Sept 12, 2011 ´

Globalization and transnationalization, migration and new ethnic hierarchies, the growing power of the middle classes and of elites everywhere, on one hand some women’s increasing access to higher education, paid work, careers and political power, on the other hand new ways of subordinating and exploiting people along ethnic, social and gender lines, growing social and economic polarization within and between countries and regions, more precarious employment forms and more centralized leadership, the shrinking scope of politics and the increasing power of market forces – what are the consequences of these structural and institutional developments in our time for the social stratification between gender, class, ethnicity, and regions?  To what extent do new developments lead to a better gender balance and to what extent do they serve to reproduce and/or strengthen gender divisions and social polarization?  What are the possibilities of subordinated groups to collective resistance and agency? And how should these new developments affect gender theory and social theory in general? These are some of the main questions taken up by the speakers below.  

Program 

10-10:30        Coffee and registration 

10:30-11:30   Anita Göransson, Professor, Linköping University, Sweden: Welcome and Introduction: Power Shifts and Social Stratification                   

11:30-12:30   Ulla Björnberg, Professor, Göteborg University, Sweden: From Social Engineering to Social Governance: Social Policy Reforms in Sweden. New Perspectives on Rights and Obligations 

12:30-13:30   Box lunch (provided for those who registered by Sept 12) 

13:30-14:30   Cynthia F Epstein, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York, USA Roadblocks to Resistance: Cultural and Structural Impediments to Women’s Collective Action in the World  

14:30-15:30   P K Vijayan, Delhi University, India:  Articulating Class, Caste and Gender through “Masculine Hegemony” 

15:30-16:00   Coffee, sandwich and fruit 

16-17             General discussion 

17-18             Joan Acker, Professor, Oregon University, USA (by link): Rethinking Class in an Intersectional Perspective  

No fees. Free box lunch and coffee will be provided for those who register by September 12, 2011.

Please e-mail your registration and info on any food preferences to our coordinator:ulrica.engdahl@liu.se, or coordinator@genderexcel.org    

ALL WELCOME!   

Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures: programme

By ulrica on 19 Jan | 0 comments

Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures

Wednesday 26 January 2011
TEMCAS Room, Tema Institute, T-Building, Linköping University

09:00 – 09:30  Registration

09:30 – 10:15 Gendered sexualed transnationalisations, deconstructing the dominant: transforming men, “centres” and knowledge/policy/practice
Jeff Hearn, University of Linköping, Sweden

10:15 – 11:00 No standing anytime, move along: men/masculinities in a globalising world
Chris Beasley, University of Adelaide, Australia

11:00 – 11:30  Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Transnational conversations

The gay migrant man: masculinities and sexualities among gay Latin American and Ibero migrant men in Ireland
Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, University College, Dublin, Ireland

“The Boy Problem”: Deconstructing critical masculinity scholars’ and “Northern” masculinity research’s part in the contemporary knowledge productions on boys and schooling in three Nordic settings
 Marie Nordberg, Karlstad University, Sweden
    
Reconstructing masculinity through otherness: transnational domination from a postcolonial perspective
Sofia Aboim, University of Lisbon, Portugal

13:00 – 14:00  Lunch

14:00 – 14:45  Sex works: the commercial-industrial bases of porn
Karen Gabriel, Delhi University, India

14:45 – 15:30 The ‘man’ of law and the hegemony of men: law’s ‘man question’, law’s “centres” and the critical study of masculinities
Richard Collier, Newcastle University, UK

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00  End discussion

17:00   Mingle at Brage

“Rethinking Transnational Dominance: Men and Other Creatures”

By ulrica on 19 Jan | 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.

Up-Coming Conference, October 12th - 14th

By bjorn on 22 Jun | 0 comments

During the peak period, in October 2010, for Subtheme 7 "Getting Rid of Violence," part of Theme 7 & 8: "Teaching Normcritical Sex - Getting Rid of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics", a conference with internationally reputed researchers is planned. 

The preliminary title is:

Violences and Silences: Shaming, Blaming – and Intervening

During the conference focus will be on the role of silences and silencing, shame and blaming for maintaining violence, thus expanding the concept of “perpetrator”. Discussions on intervention strategies will be based on including such possible mechanisms.

The program of the conference will be continuously updated on the GEXcel home page and call for abstracts from participants who want to present during a seminar will be launched together with registration forms in the late half of August.

Opening Seminar of Theme 10: Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism

By Gunnel Karlsson on 25 Mar | 0 comments

Please, register here by May 3!

Program

Location: Örebro University, Hörsal G (Lecture Hall G), Gymnastikhuset

9.30–10.15
Coffee

10.15–10.30
Welcoming
by Jens Schollin, Rector of Örebro University

10.30–11.10
Presentation of Theme 10: Love in Our Time – a Question for Feminism
by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Örebro University

11.10–11.50
Affective Equality: Love, Care and Solidarity as Productive Forces
by Kathleen Lynch, University College Dublin

11.50–12.30
Equalize Love! Intimate citizenship beyond marriage
by Eleanor Wilkinson, University of Leeds

12.30–13.45
Lunch

13.45–14.25
Love and Bodies: Shouts or Whispers? A look at discursive representation of body in Iranian love blogs
by Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Lancaster University

14.25–14.50
Coffee

14.50–15.30
Reading Hannah Arendt’s Life Writing: An Intimate Political Biography of Love
by Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University

15.30–16.00
Concluding discussion

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Kick-off Conference

By Katherine Harrison on 20 May | 0 comments

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Kick-off Conference
for GEXcel scholars and CritSex Network

”Critical Feminist Dialogues on Sex Education, Violence and Sexology: Between Agency, Pleasure, Shame and Pain”: a kick-off conference for GEXcel Themes 4&5 “Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment: Bridging Epistemological Gaps”

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden--Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by Nina Lykke. Taking place during 2009-10, Themes 4&5 will be jointly headed by Nina Lykke, feminist cultural studies scholar and Prof. of Gender and Culture, Linköping University. and Barbro Wijma, feminist Gynaecologist and Prof. of Gender and Medicine, Linköping University. See full description of the Themes

Conference subthemes:
Sex education
Critical sexology
Violence

Keynote speakers include: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden), Janice Irvine (University of Massachusetts, USA), Margrit Shildrick (Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Suruchi Thapar-Björkert (University of Bristol, UK).

Format: This conference will begin on Monday morning (15 June 2009) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 4&5. Tuesday and Wednesday (16-17 June 2009) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 17 June. Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in progress related to the conference sub-themes and to facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each sub-theme workshop will have about 10-12 participants. Each sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include summarising research and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing plenary. We expect the conference and workshops to lead to publications, as well as to continued collaboration between members. Click here for full programme

For more information contact:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

See below for pictures from the June 2009 conference:

GEXcel Symposium: Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, power and deconstruction

By Katherine Harrison on 24 Apr | 0 comments

A one-day GEXcel Symposium on "Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, Power and Deconstruction" will be held at Temcas room, T Building-Linköping University, Tuesday 5 May, 2009.  The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 2, "Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence" (for more information) with a special focus on transnational and transdisciplinary studies of gender relations, intersectionalities and embodiment at which the following current GEXcel scholars present their work:

Dr. Chris Beasley, University of Adelaide, Australia: "The Challenge of Pleasure: Let's Talk about Sex in Gender Masculinity Studies"
Dr. David Bell, Leeds University, UK: "The Gays and the Geeks"
Nil Mutluer, Central European University Budapest, Hungary: "The Role of Transnational and National Networks in Internally Displaced Men's Everyday Life"
PK Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi University, India: "The RSS and the Cultivation of the National Man"

To participate, please register with Alp Biricik (alpbi@tema.liu.se) before April 30, 2009.

Roundtable Theme 11-12

By Lena Gunnarsson on 06 Oct | 0 comments

Roundtable Theme 11-12: Interrogating Interventions

By Lena Gunnarsson on 06 Oct | 0 comments

Roundtable Theme 11-12: Imagining the Feminist University of the Future

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