Äldre evenemang

24.04.2019 kl 15-17, room 3A:340

Title: "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of How Men’s Health Matters for Reproduction"

Presenter: Rene Almeling, Yale University

Abstract: Medical researchers have been making headlines with a surprising series of findings about how the health status of men’s bodies prior to conception can directly affect the health of their children. As a result, many of the warnings that women receive about pregnancy - regarding their age and watching what they eat, drink, and smoke - also apply to men during the three months that sperm develops inside their bodies. Scientific knowledge about the effects of men's bodily health on reproductive outcomes has only recently begun to be produced. The lack of knowledge is only more glaring when considered alongside the enormous efforts to study women’s reproductive bodies over the past 150 years. What took so long for researchers to begin asking basic questions about how men matter for reproduction? Situated within sociological literatures on gender, medicine, and knowledge-making, and drawing on historical and qualitative data, the goal of this book project is to encourage social scientists, clinicians, public health professionals, and policymakers to attend to men’s role in reproduction. Doing so has the potential to improve men’s health and the health of their children. It may also influence reproductive politics more broadly, expanding beyond the narrow focus on women to include men in discussions about how bodies and societies intersect to affect the health and lives of individuals.

 

Higher research seminar on Gender and Management

10.04.2019 kl 13.00-16.00, room 11A:316, CTF, Karlstad University

Title: "Markets, Masculinity and Entrepreneurship"

Welcome to a multidisciplinary seminar on emerging issues of gender, power,
feminism and masculinity in reference to management issues, and in particular
entrepreneurship and marketing.

The seminar will start with an introductory speech by Dr. Wendy Hein,
Birkbeck University of London, UK, in relation to her ongoing research on gender,
feminism, gender inequality and markets. Other participating and presenting
researchers are: Elisabeth Ljunggren, Norduniversitetet Bodø, Norway, Karin Berglund,
Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Ulf Mellström, CGF, Karlstad University
and Anna Fyrberg Yngfalk and Markus Fellesson, CTF, Karlstad University.

The seminar is open, but please send an email to anna.yngfalk@kau.se
to confirm your participation (refreshments will be served).

The seminar is co-arranged by:
CTF, Service Research Center, CGF, Centre for Gender Studies,
and Karlstad Business School, at Karlstad University

 

10.04.2019 kl 15-17, room 3A:340

Title:  "Situated Neuroscience: Bringing together sex and gender"

Presenter: Gillian Einstein, University of Toronto, Linköping University

Abstract:  In this talk I describe what I call, “Situated  Neuroscience”, an approach to enquiry that situates the nervous system within the whole body as well as within the culture. I describe neuroscience research on two cultural practices most often considered in terms of their effects on the reproductive system: Female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting (FGC) and ovarian removal.  I use a situated approach to consider how these gendered practices affect other body systems, in particular, the nervous system. In doing so, it becomes clear that one cannot cut one part of the body without affecting the whole body and that gender becomes biological. 

 

13.03.2019 kl 15-17, room 5A415

Title: "Clitoral reconstruction (CR) after female genital cutting (FGC) – women’s motives, expectations and experiences"

Presenter: Malin Jordal, Uppsala University

Abstract: Clitoral reconstruction (CR), with the aim to restore anatomy and function of the clitoris, is offered to women with female genital cutting (FGC) in some European countries, including Sweden. Yet, there is a dearth of evidence regarding women’s experiences of CR. This study aims to explore motives, expectations and experiences of CR surgery in a Swedish context. Twentyone (n19) women requesting surgery at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm were recruited and interviewed individually at two occasions; once before surgery and once one year post-operatively (continued). Preliminary findings indicate that all the women had come to see FGC as a violation of bodily integrity and sexual rights. The women wanted surgery to repair the visual aspect of what they considered ‘damaged’ genitalia, symbolically reclaim their clitoris, restore a damaged sexuality and reduce pain. One year post-operatively, some women reported that the result was better than their expectations. Other women reported that they were satisfied with surgery in some aspects, but not all.  The study indicates that motives, expectations and experiences of CR is complex and involves a web of interlinked physical, sexual, social, and emotional aspects.

 

CGF Higher Seminar | 13.02.2019 kl. 15-17, room 5A:415

Klara Goedecke, Uppsala University

"Other Guys Don’t Hang Out Like This. Gendered Friendship Politics Among Swedish Middle-Class Men"

Friendships between men have often been accused of shallowness, homophobia and fear of closeness. However, they have also been seen as relations where closeness between men and new ways of being a man may develop. Departing from in-depth interviews with individual and pairs of men, friends with each other, I discuss friendships are connected to productions of masculine positions, discourses around sexuality and class, as well as Swedish ideologies of gender equality. I show that friendship is explicitly politicised and seen as a tool of social change, and argue that these meaning-makings around men’s friendships contribute to reproducing, normalising and disrupting gender relations and expectations of men, which complicates and deepens discussions about men’s friendships and men’s relationships to processes of social change.

 

CGF Higher Seminar | 23.01.2019 kl. 13-15, room 5A:415

Prof. Ericka Johnson, Linköping University

"A constant torment: Tracing the discursive contours of the aging prostate"

This talk presents the results of a 6 year interdisciplinary research project on the aging prostate. I have been leading a team of nine researchers: sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and a sexologist, have studied different aspects of the prostate – how it has been imagined, diagnosed, and treated historically; how it – and the bodies containing it – are examined today; the PSA debate; PSA testing facility practices; cancer treatments and their side effects; and the daily experiences of bodies whose prostates are causing problems. The majority of the research team have a background in gender studies or feminist technoscience studies, and gender and feminist research – both theories and methodologies – have contributed significantly to this work. I will speak about this, and also reflect on what our study can give to the field.

 

MÄN, MANLIGHET OCH MODE

Datum: 11 december 2018, kl. 18:00-20:00

Plats: Vinden, Gjuteriet (Verkstadsgatan 1, Karlstad)

Gäster: Louise Wallenberg, docent i modevetenskap, Stockholms universitet och Anthony Wagner, postdoktor i design och genusvetenskap, Linnéuniversitet

Värd: Ulf Mellström, professor i genusvetenskap, Karlstads universitet

Även om mode och könsroller är under kontinuerlig förändring så finns det också vardagsförståelser om vad som gäller som acceptabla kläder för män. En sådan förståelse är att riktiga män inte har klänningar på. Men är det egentligen sådan? Varifrån kommer dessa vardagsförståelser? Hur hänger de ihop med ideal kring manlighet och hur förändrar sig dessa ideal genom mode? Vilka inflytande har feministisk och transgender aktivism på mode? Centrum för genusforskning på Karlstads universitet bjuder in dig till en kväll om män, manlighet och mode var dessa och andra frågor tas upp. Kom och var med och diskutera med genusvetare.

 

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 5, 15:15 – 16:45, ROOM 5A:415

"Careless workers, wastelanded bodies, and colonial masculinity":
Indigenous men and the Canadian oil sands industry

Lena Gross, University of Oslo

Abstract: Canada’s oil sands industry is the largest labour sector in Northern Alberta. Oil sands are, as the name already tells, oil mixed with sand and water, and sometimes, other fossil fuels. Alberta's oil sands deposits stretch over 142,200 square kilometers of land that is the homeland of many Indigenous nations. However, the number of Indigenous workers in the industry is rather small. Characteristics of the oil sands industry for workers without higher education are, among others, remote and isolated workplaces, long workdays and shifts, and psychologically and physically demanding work conditions. Ideas of a Northern Frontier mentality, of bodily strength as sign of manhood, and racialized prejudices in addition to a huge gender imbalance in the industry lead to an atmosphere of harmful and colonial masculinity. In this paper, I will describe and analyze one year of an Indigenous heavy machine operator’s life. Through his story, I will show how structures of work insecurity, failing health and safety procedures, and racialized discrimination create a personal space of bust.

Bio: In her PhD-project, Lena investigates how existing inequalities in Canada are deepened through the (side) effects of extractive industries. She is especially interested in the gendered experience of Indigeneity, access to and understandings of land, environmental racism, and labour in an extractive, settler colonial setting.  To convey her findings, Lena has actively participated in both academic and public debates through presentations and various outreach activities, including research fairs for high school students, talks for environmental groups, writing for an environmental youth magazine, media engagement, etc. She also has experience as a board member, representing temporary staff on the departmental board at her university (2014-2017). Currently she is finishing up her PhD thesis and co-editing a volume about settler colonialism and the oil sands in Canada. She is part of Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s ERC project “Overheating. The three crises of globalization” and of “Energethics: Norwegian energy companies abroad”, funded by The Research Council of Norway and led by Professor Ståle Knudsen.

 

Wednesday, 21/11 15.00-16.45 (in Swedish), ROOM 3A:340

Joint seminar CGF and Sociology at Karlstad University.

1968: Revolutionens rytmer 

Håkan Thörn, University of Gothenburg

Abstract: Håkan Thörn presenterar boken 1968: Revolutionens rytmer (2018). I denna bok är 1968 ett nyckelår för att förstå det samspel mellan musik och politisk protest som inleddes under 1960-talet, och som fortfarande äger rum. 1968 skedde också en kulturell explosion, en höjdpunkt i den utveckling som genererat en rad nya kulturella uttryck under 1960-talet. Det var framför allt den nya musiken som skapade förbindelserna mellan de kulturella och politiska uttrycken.  Det tema som genomsyrar boken är samspelet mellan den svarta och vita kulturen. Om de protester som för många definierar året 1968 är Vietnamrörelsens, så visar denna bok hur den svarta rörelsen i själva verket stod i förgrunden för 1968 års protestvåg i USA. Precis som den svarta musiken lade grunden, och utgjorde den ständiga referenspunkten, för de vita artister som förknippades med revolten detta år, så var den svarta rörelsen den viktigaste inspirationskällan också för de rörelser som dominerades av vita ungdomar.

Bio: Håkan Thörn är professor i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet. Hans forskning handlar om globalisering och sociala rörelser och han har skrivit ett flertal böcker på dessa teman. Till dessa hör Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society (2006), Stad i rörelse: stadsomvandlingen och striderna om Haga och Christiania (2013), Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North (2017, red.) och Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe (2016, red.) och Space for Urban Alternatives: Christiania 1971-2011.

Higher Seminar | CGF | November 14, 15:15 – 16:45, Room 4A:301A

"Transgender Bodies amid the Cult of Confession and the Ontological Turn"

Prof. Ulrike E. Auga (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)

Abstract: Michel Foucault’s unpublished lectures “On the Government of the Living” were the intended fourth volume of the History of Sexuality to appear under the title Confessions of the Flesh. In the 1980 held and 2012 published lectures he explains the historical foundations of the obedience of the Western subject. It is his idea that confession has largely shaped the ‘modern’ concept of the subject. Foucault locates these foundations in the connections between obedience and confession within early Christianity. In his genealogy of confession, he underlines that the ‘West’ developed a concept of confession as ‘liberation’, which does not hold in other contexts. The confession has both made us aware of our own subject-hood and subjected us to the powers extracting confessions. The problem is: to confess, to seek to know, and to produce the truth concerning oneself amounts to a submission. The injunction “Who are you?” is an innovation of the Christian West intended to guarantee obedience.

Jo Sol’s documentary Fake Orgasm (2010) stages performer Lazlo Pearlman who explores the subversion of confessional culture via the use of the nude transgender body. As a trans performer he experiences the strong request of the audience to confess his ‘identity’, which he resists. Pearlman performs a corporeal insurrection. In his Fake Orgasm Manifesto, he writes “Fake Orgasm uses that space to find freedom from the normative; to subvert it, defy it, redefine it; even, and in fact, to enjoy and play with(in) it, whenever, however, with - and as - whoever we please”. The presentation using film extracts elaborates how the performative and material body denounces bio-political regulations as well as the production of an ‘identitarian’ body and allows for a genealogical and critical discussion of trans bodies after the performative, material and ontological turn.

Bio: Ulrike E. Auga is Visiting Professor at the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Born in East-Berlin, she participated in the peaceful revolution in 1989 and became involved with social movements and issues of solidarity, gender and religion. She further developed her postcolonial critique when she worked for several years in South Africa, Mali, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories. She is a Gender, Cultural and Religious Studies scholar at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin (ZtG) and the acting President of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender (IARG). Her research interests include: Gender, Sexuality, Cultural Memory, Nationalisms, Fundamentalisms in Transition Contexts (South Africa, West Africa, East/West Germany); Gender, Performativity and Agency in the Visual Archive; Postcolonial, Postsecular, Gender / Queer theory development; Epistemology of Gender and Religion, new Materialism and posthuman Ontology. www.ulrikeauga.com

 

INSTÄLLT! Wednesday 31/10 15.00-16.45, ROOM 5A:415 - INSTÄLLT!

”Other Guys Don’t Hang Out Like This”. Gendered Friendship Politics Among Swedish Middle-Class Men

 Klara Goedecke, Uppsala University

Abstract: Friendships between men have often been accused of shallowness, homophobia and fear of closeness. However, they have also been seen as relations where closeness between men and new ways of being a man may develop. Departing from in-depth interviews with individual and pairs of men, friends with each other, I discuss friendships are connected to productions of masculine positions, discourses around sexuality and class, as well as Swedish ideologies of gender equality. I show that friendship is explicitly politicised and seen as a tool of social change, and argue that these meaning-makings around men’s friendships contribute to reproducing, normalising and disrupting gender relations and expectations on men, which complicates and deepens discussions about men’s friendships and men’s relationships to processes of social change.

Bio: Klara Goedecke’s research interests include men, masculinities, homosociality, friendship and intimacy, as well as men’s relations with feminism and gender equality. She earned her PhD in gender studies in 2018 and is currently working as a teacher at the Centre for gender research at Uppsala University.

Wednesday 3/10 14.00-16.00, ROOM 3B:424

Joint seminar Center for Gender Studies (CGF) and Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at Karlstad University.

 Brown space invader and mestiza maiden: the transfigurations of my female body

Claudia Fonseca, Malmö University

Abstract: I would like to approach this session through a perspective of intersectionality and gender performativity. Beyond being ‘women in geography,’ I argue sometimes we are simply bodies, both at the university and when carrying out fieldwork. I present personal reflections as I transfigure, by virtue of my body, depending on what the Other is. 1) Despite the ‘space invasion’ of women and ‘ethnic minorities’ into several spheres within the Global North, the universal and rational body continues to be a White male. And then a White woman. I am a Mexican/Global South “space invader” (Puwar 2004) in Swedish academia, living in the material “borderlands” (Anzaldúa 1987) of her doctoral project.

Bio: Claudia’s background is in Biotechnology Engineering from ITESM in Mexico, followed by a Master in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) from Lund University. Her master’s thesis dealt with the environmentalism of the poor in an urban area in Mexico and through a case study strategy, attempted to shed light on the idea that the urban poor react to protect the environment when faced with ecological distribution conflicts. Claudia defended her thesis with the title “The Land of the Magical Maya: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism” in February 2018.

 

Monday-Wednesday 24-26/9

Activism, Resistances and Alliances - The 5th Nordic Transgender Studies Network Conference

Hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies and GEXcel International Colleagium

With keynote speaker Julian Honkasalo, PhD, Gender Studies, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki.

The 2-day conferences aims to connect scholars, activists and artists working on topics related to Transgender Studies within or connected to the Nordic region. Activism is the founding stone of the emerging field of Transgender Studies and is continuously an important companion to the field of Trans Studies. This conference will present papers, posters and mini-presentations along the thme of activism, resistances and alliances and create a discussion space on activist practices, academic activism and grassroot organising. The conference will feature talks on trans activism, resistance practices, methodologies, media representation, historical and popcultural archives, art, ecology, social justice movements, prison industrial system, medico-legal issues, elderly care, ally activism, as well as affective and ontological approaches to trans research. We hope to create a specific discussion on activism, as well as a broader platform for the diversity of knowledge production in Trans Studies.

For more information please contact: wibke.straube@kau.se

 

Wednesday 5/9 13.15-15.00

Joint seminar Center for Gender Studies (CGF) and Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at Karlstad University.

“What kept me going was stubbornness”: Perspectives from Swedish early career women academics in geography

Natasha Alexandra Webster, Stockholm University

Abstract: The rise of neoliberalism is creating inequalities for women as they balance their private lives and career trajectories. Geography as a middle sized discipline bridging the social and physical sciences offers insights into the ways neoliberal policies are felt by early career women (ECW). Using a life course model, this study presents the results of a workshop which sought to explore the ways in which women geographers, in Sweden, perceive and experience obstacles in their career advancement and which coping strategies they put in place to overcome those. The results show the blurring of the ECW ´s work and private lives. We find the experiences of ECW in Swedish geography departments are consistent with those of women in other countries. We conclude that ECW carry extra burdens in their career trajectories as academics due to increasingly neoliberal working environments, lack of mentorship, and an increasing pressure to produce measurable outputs and precarious employment. We argue that initiatives and programs aimed at retaining women in academia need to take on a broader perspective acknowledging the entanglement of women´s private and public spheres.

Bio: Natasha Webster is post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. She is interested in gender, entrepreneurship, migration and work-life practices. Natasha's current research focuses on feminist economic geography by exploring the role of women-led entrepreneurship in migration and integration. Natasha, following her interests of gender in the workplace, is co-editing a special issue on Early Career Women in Geography for Geografiska Annaler B. Natasha is also the chair of the Forum for Feminist Research in Stockholm.

 

Wednesday 5/9 13.15-15.00

Joint seminar Center for Gender Studies (CGF) and Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at Karlstad University.

“What kept me going was stubbornness”: Perspectives from Swedish early career women academics in geography

Natasha Alexandra Webster, Stockholm University

Abstract: The rise of neoliberalism is creating inequalities for women as they balance their private lives and career trajectories. Geography as a middle sized discipline bridging the social and physical sciences offers insights into the ways neoliberal policies are felt by early career women (ECW). Using a life course model, this study presents the results of a workshop which sought to explore the ways in which women geographers, in Sweden, perceive and experience obstacles in their career advancement and which coping strategies they put in place to overcome those. The results show the blurring of the ECW ´s work and private lives. We find the experiences of ECW in Swedish geography departments are consistent with those of women in other countries. We conclude that ECW carry extra burdens in their career trajectories as academics due to increasingly neoliberal working environments, lack of mentorship, and an increasing pressure to produce measurable outputs and precarious employment. We argue that initiatives and programs aimed at retaining women in academia need to take on a broader perspective acknowledging the entanglement of women´s private and public spheres.

Bio: Natasha Webster is post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. She is interested in gender, entrepreneurship, migration and work-life practices. Natasha's current research focuses on feminist economic geography by exploring the role of women-led entrepreneurship in migration and integration. Natasha, following her interests of gender in the workplace, is co-editing a special issue on Early Career Women in Geography for Geografiska Annaler B. Natasha is also the chair of the Forum for Feminist Research in Stockholm.

 

The Forever Road: liminality among queer refugees looking for a home

 Wednesday 28/3, 15:15-16.45 Room Hus 5a:415 (Co-arranged seminar CGF and Social Work, Karlstad University)

Thomas Wimark, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University

 

Abstract: As people continue to flee repressive regimes, discussions of refugees’ state of liminality has intensified. Spaces such as refugee camps and detention centres tend to force refugees to endure living in liminality for long periods of time. In this presentation, I focus on the actual experiences of movement from the old country to the receiving one. Widening the discussion on liminality to focus on the road to refuge, I argue that the road should be considered a metaphor for the connection between the old and the new place of belonging. Using material from interviews with queer refugees in the Swedish countryside, I discuss their travels on the road to inclusion. These stories lead to the development of the Forever Road where true belonging can never be achieved. Excerpts from the interviews show that refugees’ ways of being both put them on the road and keep them on the road. At the heart of this concept lies structures that govern entrance to and exist from the road. In the end, I argue that this way of thinking of liminality moves discussions away from refugees’ bodies and illuminates structures governing the Forever Road. 

 

Bio: Thomas Wimark is a researcher at the department of Human Geography at Stockholm University. His research concerns the nexus between migration, minority status and space.​ Recent publications include

Wimark, Thomas, Lewis, Nathaniel M. & Caretta, Martina A. (2017) A life course approach to the field and fieldwork, Area 49 (4): 390-393. 

Wimark, Thomas (2017): The life course and emotions beyond fieldwork: affect as position and experience, Gender, Place & Culture 24 (3): 438-448.

 

The performative effects of diagnosis: gender, intimacy, and being a war veteran with PTSD

Wednesday 14/2, 15.15-16.45 Room Hus 5a 415

Sebastian Mohr, Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University

 

Abstract: This presentation will explore the performative effects of being diagnosed with PTSD in Danish war veterans’ intimate and sexual lives. Based on biographical interviews with veterans from Denmark, the focus is on how medical diagnoses interplay with veterans gendered and sexualed self-perceptions leading to changes in how they enter and live intimate relationships.

Bio: Sebastian Mohr is senior lecturer in gender studies at Karlstad University. He graduated from Humboldt University, Berlin in 2010, and received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2014. As an ethnographer he is interested in how gender, sexuality, and intimacy interplay with (reproductive) technologies and (bio)medicine, (military) socialization and education, and national identity. His forthcoming book Being a sperm donor: masculinity, sexuality, and biosociality in Denmark (Berghahn: https://berghahnbooks.com/title/MohrBeing) explores Danish sperm donors’ lives as they are reformulated through the logics and politics of reproductive biomedicine.

 

 

Explaining the Right-Wing Populist Paradoxes: An Intersectional Perspective on Extreme Political Masculinities

Wednesday 28/2 15.15-16.45 Room Hus 5a:415

Ov Cristian Norocel, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

 

Abstract: To date, there are few explanations concerning the paradoxes of right-wing populism: privileged white men proclaiming themselves the true voices of white working class (men and women) against allegedly corrupt elites, and threatening migrant Other (men). In my study, I suggest a way to address these paradoxes by employing superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical perspective to examine how the right-wing populist discourses depict political masculinities through the interactions between several axes of difference and inequality: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). In so doing I focus on the junctions between the field of critical masculinities studies and that of right-wing populism, which enables an analysis of the gendered nature of right-wing populist ideology. I illustrate these theoretical articulations with examples from the US, as well as from Finland and Sweden.

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Bio: Ov Cristian Norocel is currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, in the Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s), Institut de Sociologie (IS), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium); and Docent in Political Science, University of Helsinki (Finland). Norocel’s research interests concern the study of right-wing populist parties in Northern, and Central and Eastern Europe from a comparative intersectional perspective (focus on gender and sexuality; social class; ethnicity and race). He has published in such international peer-reviewed journals as Critical Social Policy, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, International Journal of Communication, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism.

 

October 25-26 2017, Karlstad University
Workshop - Intimate matters

November 8 - Seminarium

Colonial History, Postcolonial Anxiety and the Crisis of Masculinity, 

November 27-28, Minerva; House 12, Karlstad University
The second international Queer Death Studies Workshop

 

Friday, 17 February, 13:30 – 15:00, Room 5A:415
A Transfeminist Manifesto
Maria Ramnehill, freelance journalist and author

Wednesday, 22 February, 14:15 – 17:00, Room 12A:522
Mini-Symposium
Trans Studies – Material and Methodologies

Thursday, 4 May, 10:15 – 12:00, Room 5A:415
Making death matter
Dr. Tara Mehrabi, Department of Gender Studies (Tema Genus), Linköping University

Tuesday 9 May, 13.15 – 15.00, Room 5A:415
Criminalising the client: Institutional change, gendered ideas and feminist strategies
Josefina Eriksson, doktor i statsvetenskap och forskare vid Uppsala universitet presenterar sin nya bok Criminalising the client.

Wednesday, 17 May 15.15 - 16.45, rum 5A:415
Organisatoriska förutsättningar för jämställdhetsintegrering i akademin
Dr. Birgitta Jordansson och Docent Helen Petersson, Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet

Tuesday, 30 May, 15:15 – 16:45, Room 5A:415
Migrations to Italy in the European landscape: An anthropology of mobilities perspective
Dr. Andrea Priori,University “Roma Tre”

Wednesday, 31 May, 10:15 – 12:00, Room 5A:415
Bangladeshi masculinities between Italy and motherland
Dr. Andrea Priori,University “Roma Tre”

September 20, 13:15 - 15:00, Room 3A 340
Bög i folkhemmet - en memoar
Arne Nilsson presenterar och diskuterar sin bok

January 18, 2017, 5A:415, 15.00-16.30
Environmental Pollution, Trash and the Transing* Body in the Swedish film Nånting måste gå sönder (2014)

 

Wibke Straube PhD, Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University

Abstract: In the film Nånting måste gå sönder (2014) by Swedish filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark objects of nature, landscape, city, environmental pollution and waste are enacted in close connection to the gender-dissident body. By reading this film through a transfeminist ecocritical lens I would like to discuss what kind of trans-material, trans-corporeal and trans-embodied intimacies these films enact. Is relationality a form of intimacy and which ethical implications does this intimacy have for and in a more-than-human world?

Bio: Wibke Straube is a gender studies scholar working at the Centre for Gender Studies (CGF) at Karlstad University, Sweden. They completed their PhD in 2014, in Linköping University, Tema Genus. Wibke works in the fields of Transgender Studies, affect theory and visual cultural studies.

 

15.15 - 17:00, Wednesday 11th of January, 2017
Room 5A 415 Karlstad University

The Bio/Bodypedagogical Potentials of Critically Exploring Intersex Concerns in the Sociology of Sports

Although health and physical education teachers may be acquainted with past media headlines categorizing intersex bodies as ‘deviant’, ‘non-biological’, ‘different’ and/or ‘non-natural’ in their reporting on eligibility testing in women’s elite sports, few appear to be familiar with what intersex includes and what these tests were designed to reveal. Fewer still would know when, how and why these eligibility tests came about, who the authors of these testing technologies were and the amount of times these tests have continued and discontinued since their inception. Drawing on the advocacy for critical pedagogy, notions of bio- and body pedagogies and the concept of somatechnics, this analysis seeks to unpack how athletes marked by this category cannot be understood as separate from the technologies and ‘authorities’ that mark and regulate their bodily representation. This analysis, which is based on personal teaching experience with pre-service health and physical educators in regional Queensland, Australia, tries to put critical bio/bodypedagogy into action through a social-activist-educator philosophy by encouraging educators to develop a critical reading of intersex discourses in elite sports. The analysis also encourages health and physical educators to consider future ethical and equitable directions within the discourse and to become comfortable with exploring ‘messy’ conversations which challenge societal indoctrinations into the regulation and discipline of non-gender normative bodies and athletic abilities in female elite sports. The ambition of this analysis is to inspire and encourage both in- and pre-service health and physical educators to take the ‘risk’ of engaging students in disruptive practices which explore the inscription of power onto particular bodies and abilities in sports and how they as both pedagogues and members of society are all ethically implicated in these relations of power.

 

Dr. Annette Brömdal is a lecturer in Sport, Health and Physical Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests fall within the areas of bodies, gender and sexuality in elite sports, medicine and in contemporary sexuality education. Annette’s research work is currently concerned with bodies, gender and sexuality in elite sports, which she examines in her upcoming book entitled The Making of ‘Intersex’ in Female Elite Sports. This research brings together in dialogue IOC/IAAF medical representatives involved in the management/treatment of athletes with intersex variations, intersex organisation representatives and female athletes, and examines their ways of thinking about how bodies and athletic performances are marked and regulated. The research develops understandings of how practices of the regulation of female athletic bodies have been justified, continued and discontinued. An interest in collaborative practice, inquiry based learning, critical pedagogy, and social-activist-educator ideology underpins her teaching, and in 2015 her contribution to quality learning and teaching was recognised through the School of Education Teaching Excellence Award (Deakin University). Annette is the Co-Convenor of the Gender, Sexualities and Cultural Studies Specialist Interest Group for AARE (2016 - 2018) and is currently working towards the next conference at the MCG in Melbourne.

Declosing transgender
Nordic trangenderst studies symposium 
11–13 oktober

September 21, 15.00-16.30, 5A:415

“It’s sort of like coming out, all the shame you know”: Affect, space and the “queerness” of partner-violent men’s disclosure narratives

Lucas Gottzén, Associate Professor, Department of Child and Youth Studies
Stockholm University

Abstract
From its origins in the LGBTQ community, coming out has become a narrative genre describing the experiences of recognizing and disclosing a variety of other stigmatized positions, including that of chronically ill, disabled, fat—and male perpetrators of intimate partner violence. Drawing on narrative interviews with 44 partner-violent men in Sweden therapists at batterer interventions programs, this paper explores how closets and outcomes are both discursively and spatially produced. These outcomes and closeted experiences, I argue, affect violent men’s encounters with other human and non-human bodies, in terms of how they move in space, their potentialities and what they feel.

Bio
Lucas Gottzén is Associate Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University. His research focuses primarily on gendered and generational aspects of family life; masculinity and violence against women; and relations between affect and space. 

October 5, 10.00-12.00, 5A:415

Theorizing Figurations and situated bodies: the ”sperm donors” and men´s stories about choosing to donate sperm

Mona Lilja, Professor and Liselotte Olsson, PhD-Canditate, Department of Sociology, Karlstad University

Abstract: According to Rosi Braidotti, there is a noticeable gap between our lived experiences and “how we represent to ourselves this lived existence in theoretical terms and discourses” (2011, 4). In other words, the multiethnic globalized societies that we inhabit—which are characterized by advanced technologies and high-speed telecommunications and increased security measures—do not inform how we picture ourselves in this complex world order. Instead, current discourses are marked by “an imaginative poverty”. Here, Braidotti turns to the concept of figurations, arguing that we need to reinvent ourselves. This can be seen as a transformative project in which we move away from of the standard view of human subjectivities, subject positions, and historically established habits of thought that have dominated until now. But what are the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of ”figuration”. This will be discussed at the seminar by the examples of Cambodian female politicians and Swedish sperm donors.

Bio: Mona Lilja currently serves as the Faculty Professor in Sociology at Karlstad University. Lilja’s area of interest is the linkages between resistance and social change as well as the particularities – the character and emergence – of various forms of resistance. In regard to this, she is currently working on how different articulations of gendered resistance emerge. Some of Lilja’s papers have appeared in Signs, Global Public Health, Nora and Journal of Political Power.

Liselotte Olsson is a PhD student in Sociology. Her thesis is focused on men´s experience of donating sperm and also how the donating process can be understood from a gender perspective.