GEXcel news
GEXcel Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships
March 08 | 0 comments
Conference of Workshops: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism
February 22 | 0 comments
GEXcel’s research theme Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism, directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University, invites junior and senior scholars to apply for a conference of workshops. The conference will be held at Örebro University on December 2-4, 2010.
Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII now available
January 15 | 0 comments
The GEXcel Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII is now available for download. Click here!
December 1 & 2: Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung
November 26 | 0 comments
GEXcel: Gendering EXcellence Themes 4 & 5 is proud to announce two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung
Work in Progress Report Vol. VI now available
October 23 | 0 comments
The GEXcel Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VI is now available for download. Click here!
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.
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(What's this?)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:
