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.

Conference of Workshops: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism

By Gunnel Karlsson on 22 Feb | 0 comments

The conference will revolve around the the two main parts of the theme:
I.
Love Studies – mapping the field; and II. Love Studies – remaking the
field.
The latter has three sub-themes:

(1) Gendered interests in sexual love, for instance how (if at all)
care practices relate to erotic agency

(2) Temporal dimensions of loving and love activities, preferably as
compared with temporalities of working, or labour activities; or with
thinking and action time. Is there a philosophy and politics of time
that should be distinguished and developed about love, to understand
better the social conditions, cultural meanings and political struggles
of love in our time?

(3) Love as a strong force in the intersection between politics and
religion and also as a useful key concept for a new political theory of
global revolution. What is to be said and done from feminist points of
view about postmodern revitalising of pre-modern ideas of passionate
love?

Conference Workshop Format

The conference will begin on Thursday morning (2 December 2010) with
three keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field (to be
announced), followed by workshop meetings in the afternoon. Friday (3
December 2010) will be organized similarly with both plenary sessions
and parallel workshop meetings. A final plenary will be held on
Saturday morning (4 December 2010), where summaries of major research
and discussion themes will be presented.

Workshops are designed to be a forum for discussion of research in
progress precisely related to the conference sub-themes and to
facilitate collaboration among junior and senior scholars. Each
workshop will go on for two days and involve ten participants from
several institutions. Only those scholars currently working in the
field addressed by the workshop will be accepted to participate.

The workshop format is intended to enhance participation in a
collegial atmosphere. Each participant presents a paper or research
document for discussion, and takes part in the discussion of the other
sub-theme papers presented. In addition, each sub-theme participant
will be assigned the role of formal discussant on one paper. Each
sub-theme will be assigned a coordinator, whose tasks will include
maintaining the group’s schedule of presentation, summarizing research
and discussion themes and presenting these summaries at the closing
plenary.

We expect these workshops to lead to publications, as well as to
continued collaboration between members.

Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung

By Katherine Harrison on 26 Nov | 0 comments

GEXcel: Gendering EXcellence Themes 4 & 5 is proud to announce two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung:

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/

GEXcel Themes 4&5 Conference – Call for abstracts and participation

By Katherine Harrison on 01 Oct | 0 comments

November 24-26
Linköping University, Sweden

GEXcel’s current theme, Sexual Health, Embodiment and Empowerment: Bridging Epistemological Gaps invites junior and senior scholars to attend a workshop conference 24-26 November 2009.

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. Click here for full description of the Themes.

Conference subthemes:
Sex education
Critical sexology
Violence

Keynote speakers include: Kathy Davis (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Ann Pelligrini (New York University, USA) and Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden), with panel presentations by the GEXcel Themes 4&5 visiting scholars (for more details on the scholars, click here).

Abstracts are now invited for this conference. Please send abstracts (max 250 words in English) and a brief biography (max 150 words) no later than 23 October 2009 to coordinator@genderexcel.org

Attendee registration is now open for this conference. Please register to attend by emailing coordinator@genderexcel.org no later than 23 October 2009. Places are limited.

Format: This conference will begin on Tuesday morning (24 November 2009) with keynote addresses and an Introduction to GEXcel Themes 4&5. Wednesday and Thursday (25-26 November 2009) will include further keynote addresses combined with parallel workshop meetings (on each of the sub-themes), and a final plenary panel on 26 November. 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.

Costs: There is no conference registration fee. Lunches, welcome reception and coffees will be provided by GEXcel. Costs for accommodation and travel will normally be paid by participants. (The cost of the conference dinner on November 25th will be covered for GEXcel scholars and members of the Network on Sex Education and Critical Sexuality Studies. All other participants will be asked to contribute SEK 400 if they wish to attend the dinner).

Address for Registration and Abstract submission:
coordinator@genderexcel.org

Deadline for Registration and Abstract submission:
23 October 2009

GEXcel Symposium:"Distinctions and Authority. New Trends in Gender, Work and Power"

By Katherine Harrison on 30 Jun | 0 comments

A two-day symposium on "Distinctions and Authority. New Trends in Gender, Work and Power" (previously titled: "Distinctions and Authority: Specifying and Contextualizing the Orders of Distinction and the Recognition of Authority") will be held on October 8-9 2009, at T Building, Linköping University (please see below for programme). The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 3: Disinctions and Authorization (click here for more details on Theme 3).

The emerging new global division of labor is both gendered and based on ethnic divisions. It is also creating new class structures which are complicated by regional difference and educational stratification, as well as the gender division of labor and migration. This development coincides with the tertiarization of work and new employment arrangements that could be connected with the shift in power relations between socioeconomic groups.

This development calls for a more intensive discussion of the new distinctions or social categories of various kinds and how to study them simultaneously. The analytical value of the gender concept has increasingly been problematized in gender research and debate. Today this relativizing may be said to have reached new depths in the call for systematic analysis of intersectionalities and of contextualities. Do we need a new understanding of the class concept adapted to today's multicultural, gendered and service dominated information society? Have life styles and consumption become so important as to affect our evaluation of social groups and strata - more or as much as the occupational position and economic possibilities of a person or a group? What is the role of equality policies in the interconnections between different power orders/inequality regimes?

To participate, please register by September 21 by email to: coordinator@genderexcel.org

Programme:

Thursday October 8

13:15-13:30  Welcome (Anne-Li Lindgren, Prefect, Tema Institute, Linköping University)

13:30-14:15 Welcome and Introduction: Power Shifts in the Service and Knowledge Society (prof Anita Göransson, Linköping University, Sweden)

14:15-15:15  Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities (prof Sylvia Walby, Lancaster University, UK)

15:15-15:45  Coffee break

15:45-16:45   Eduscapes. Gendered Imaginaries. Educational Biographies and Speaking Positions.  (prof Ulf Mellström, Luleå Technical University, Sweden)

19:00             Symposium Dinner

Friday October 9

9:15-10:15    Care, Migration and the Gender Order (prof Ursula Apitzsch, J W Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany )

10:15-10:45  Coffee break

10:45-11:45 Work Life Balance for Fathers in Globalized Knowledge Work. Some Insights from the Norwegian Context (prof Elin Kvande,  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

12-13:15       Lunch

13:15-14:45  Concluding panel debate

Symposium: Men, age and embodiment: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

By Malena Gustavson on 16 Oct | 0 comments

If you wish to attend, please contact Malena Gustavson, malena.gustavson@liu.se before 1 December

Programme

12.30-12.45   Registration

12.45-13.00  Introduction Prof. Nina Lykke and prof. Jeff Hearn (Linköping University)

13.00-14.00  Aging bodies, constructions of masculinities, and the anti-aging industry
                   Professor Toni Calasanti (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA)

14.00-14.30  The slackening self: Concepts of agency in old manhood
                    Associate Professor Neal King (Virginia Tech, USA)

14.30-15.00  Coffee

15.00-15.30  Performing grandfatherhood: The intersections of age and masculinity
                   PhD student Anna Boden (University of Lancaster, UK)

15.30-16.00  Young, male and experiences of aging
                    Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

16.00-16.30  Getting intimate: Old Age, Masculinity and new(?) Heterosexual Morphologies
                    PhD student Linn Sandberg (Linköping University)

16.30-17.00  Break

17.00-18.00  Roundtable

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Mini conference: Men and masculinities in transnational contexts: Power, hegemony and deconstruction

By Malena Gustavson on 16 Oct | 0 comments

If you wish to attend, please contact: Malena Gustavson, malena.gustavson@liu.se before 9 November

Programme

9.15-10.15    Coffee & registration

10.15-10.30  Welcome
                   Prof. Nina Lykke (Linköping University, LiU)

10.30-11.00  Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities
                   Prof. Jeff Hearn (LiU)

11.00-12.00  Male buyers in the global sex industry: Outsourcing women’s
                   subordination in business and leisure prostitution
                   Prof. Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne, Australia)

12.00-13.00  Lunch

13.00-13.30  A bedroom of his own: Intersections of webcams, surveillance
                   and male sexuality in the transnational context
                   PhD student Alp Biricik (Linköping University)

13.30-14.30  Detours for heterosexuality:
                   Young boys viewing male bodies in pornography
                   Dr Niels Ulrik Soerensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

14.30-15.00  Coffee

15.00-16.00  Subversions of techno-masculinity in the global economy
                   Dr Winifred Poster (Washington University, St Louis, USA)

16.00-17.00  End panel

17.00           Mingling

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hearn

Seminar Series Autumn 2008

By Malena Gustavson on 18 Sep | 0 comments

GEXcel 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.

Seminar with Kimberlé Crenshaw: "The Curious Resurrection of First Wave Feminism in the US Elections"

By Gunnel Karlsson on 26 Feb | 0 comments

Kimberlé Crenshaw is one of the visting fellows of GEXcel Theme 1.