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
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Visiting Fellows hold seminars at Örebro University
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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
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(What's this?)Seminar Series Autumn 2008
By Malena Gustavson on 18 Sep | 0 comments
Categories: Activity
Time:
08/28/2008 - 13:15 - 12/04/2008 - 17:00Location:
Linköping University, T-buildingGEXcel Theme 2 and Tema Genus Open Seminars
August 28, Thursday 13.15-15.00
Professor Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney, Australia): 'Globalisation and Gender Relations'
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
September 17, Wednesday 13.15-15.00
Professor James Messerschmidt (University of Maine, USA): 'Masculinity, G.H.W. Bush and the First Gulf War' (provisional title)
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
October 16, Thursday 13.15-15.00
Professor Robert Morrell (University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa): 'Reflections on hegemonic masculinity in African context: Zulu masculinity and stickfighting'
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
GEXcel mini conference: Men and masculinities in transnational contexts: Power, hegemony and deconstruction
If you wish to attend, please inform Dr Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se
November 20, Thursday
Click here for full programme
• Professor Jeff Hearn (Linköping University, Sweden): ‘Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities’
• Professor Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne, Australia): ‘Male buyers in the global sex industry: Outsourcing women’s subordination in business and leisure prostitution’
• Dr Winifred Poster (Washington University in St Louis, USA): ‘Subversions of techno-masculinity in the global economy’
• Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark): ‘Detours for heterosexuality. Young boys viewing male bodies in pornography’
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
GEXcel Theme 2 symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction
If you wish to attend, please inform Dr Malena Gustavson, Email: malena.gustavson@liu.se
December 2, Tuesday
Please click here for full programme
• Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA): ‘Aging bodies, constructions of masculinities, and the anti-aging industry’
• Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark): ‘Young, male and experiences of aging’
• Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK): ‘Performing grandfatherhood: The intersections of age and masculinity’
• Associate Professor Neal King (Virginia Tech, USA): TBA
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
GEXcel Theme 2: internal seminars
November 19, Wednesday 13.15-17.00
TEMCAS, T-building
• 13.15 Professor Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne, Australia): `Transgenderism and male domination: The social and political implications of a harmful traditional practice’
• 15.30 Dr Winifred Poster (Washington University in St Louis, USA): `Multi-level challenges by Indian professionals to US ICT hegemony’
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
December 4, Thursday 13.15-17.00
Location: Faros, T-building
• 13.15 Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA): ‘Old men, masculinity, and spousal care work’
• 15.30 Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK): ‘Older men and ageing: gendered performance, intersectionality and identity’ (provisional title)
Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn
**All speakers at GEXcel events are attached to GEXcel Theme 2 Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities, Linköping University & Örebro University) as professorial, postdoctoral, doctoral or open position fellows, or, in the case of Professor Connell, member of the GEXcel International Advisory Board.
For more information on Theme 2, see: http://www.genderexcel.org/node/101
These Theme 2 events also build on ongoing work of the Research Group on Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities formed at LiU in 2006.