Program spring 2011
NB! Unless otherwise announced, all activities will take place at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), Ida Blom's house, Allégaten 34, 3rd floor (the seminar room). The seminars are open to all unless otherwise announced. If you have questions about the program, contact marianne.eskeland@lle.uib.no
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JANUARY
January 18, 10:00 AM
Guest lecture: Contesting Gender Identities and Practices: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Search of the Self
Lecturer: Professor Joanna Regulska, Women's Studies and Geography, Dean of International Programs, SAS,
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
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January 21, 9:00 AM-12:30 PM
Internal PHD-seminar: PhD Candidates at SKOK present their projects.
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FEBRUARY
February 17, 2:15 PM-4:00 PM
Theory Workshop: ”The affective turn”
First speaker: Professor and academic director Ellen Mortensen, SKOK
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MARCH
March 9
Master relay: Master students at UoB discuss projects with gender perspectives.
Registration: marianne.eskeland@skok.uib.no
Deadline: February 21
March 11, 2:15 PM-4:00 PM
Guest lecture: "Reading Gender in the Memoirs of German Jewish Refugees during the Nazi Era"
Lecturer: Professor Judith Gerson, Departments of Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
March 17, 2:15 PM -4:00 PM
Seminar: Presentation of Britt Andersen’s new book, Ubehaget ved det moderne. Kjønn og biopolitikk i Knut Hamsuns kulturkritiske romaner (Oslo: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2011).
First speaker: Professor and author Britt Andersen, Department of Scandinavian studies and comparative literature, NTNU.
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APRIL
April 6
Guest lecture/seminar: Well-Read Lives. How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
Lecturer: Barbara Sicherman, writer and professor of American Institutions and Values, Emerita, at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Organiser: SKOK and AHKR
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April 7-8
Program meeting (NFR): Gender Research
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April 13, 6:00 PM
Dialogue with author Grete Kleppen about her new book, Blå fuge for far min (Samlaget, 2010)
Location: STUDIA
Organiser: SKOK, LLE and STUDIA
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April 26 – May 2
Seminar and workshop: Thought as Action, Casablanca
Guest lecturers:
Professor Fatema Mernissi, Sociology, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Professor Soumaya Guessous, Sociology, University of Casablanca, Morocco
Professor Maria do Mar Castro Varela, Gender and Queer Studies, Alice Salomon University of Applied Science, Berlin, Germany
Junior Professor Nikita Dhawan, Political Science, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
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MAY
May 12, 2.15 PM-4:00 PM
Guest lecture: "Affective Politics: States of Debility and Capacity"
Lecturer and author: Associate Professor Jasbir Puar,Women's and Gender Studies and Geography, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
May 13, 2.15 PM-4:00 PM
Guest lecture: "Anthropogenic Ruin, Post-Human Feminist Polar Terrains"
Lecturer: Elena Glasberg, Whitman College – Writing Program, Princeton University, NJ, USA
May 18-20
Graduate course: On Feminism and the Animal
Lecturer: Professor Elizabeth Grosz, SKOK/Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Register before March 30 to marianne.eskeland@skok.uib.no
Location: Sydnesplassen 12/13
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May 18, 5:00 PM
Guest lecture: "My Home Is (In) Trouble"; Irigaray, Antigone and The Future of Feminist Politics
Lecturer: Professor Nicole Fermon, Department of Political Science, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York
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May 31, 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Panel discussion during Bergen’s International Music Festival: Hijab: requirement, duty or right? Debate on muslim women’s clothing
Panel:
Research Fellow Marianne Bøe, SKOK
Postdoctor Christine Jacobsen, IMER/Uni Rokkansenteret.
Panel leader:
Professor and academic director Ellen Mortensen, SKOK
Location: Logen Bar
Organiser: SKOK, IMER//Uni Rokkansenteret og Festspillene
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JUNE
Mid June
WUN-Workshop
June 20 - July 2:
Bergen Research Summer School: Gender and Globalization: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Deadline: March 1st, 2011
Lecturers
Professor Ellen Mortensen, Center for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK)
Associate Professor Marit Tjomsland, Gender and Development (GAD)
Postdoctor Kari Jegerstedt, Center for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK)
Postdoctor, Cecilie Ødegaard, Gender and Development (GAD)
Postdoctor Gaudencia Mutema, Center for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK)
Guest lecturers:
Professor Anne Hellum, Institute of Women’s Law, University of Oslo
Professor David L. Eng, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Teemu Ruskola, Emory Law, Emory University, USA
Collaborator:
Postdoctor, Synnøve Bendixsen, Uni Rokkan Centre
Location: Dragefjellet skole