International conference: Thought as Action

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The project, which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council, gathers around 20 researchers from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, The United Kingdom and the U.S. and is structured around three major themes: "Bodies and Sexualities", "Citizenship" and "New Technologies". The planned international conference aims to gather gender researchers from all over Europe and hopefully, from other parts of the world as well. A call for papers will be widely distributed, also beyond Europe, but the number of participants will be limited to 120.

Within the project period (2009-2012), it has been organized three international conferences and seminars in addition to the final conference to be held in Bergen in August 2012: one at WGS at Rutgers University, New Burnswick in October 2010 entitled Affective Tendencies; one at Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco in April 2011 devoted to Gendered Citizenship: Global Perspectives; and one to be held at Södertôrn University College in Stockholm in April 2012 entitled Somatechnics. The final conference,THOUHT AS ACTION, will be structured around all the three major research themes of the project.

The list of key note speakers is ready, and in addition to the active partners in the project Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, USA and Lecturer Jenny Sundén, Södertörn University College, Sweden, the following has accepted to be key note speakers: 
* Professor Sara Ahmed, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
* Professor Sarah Franklin, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics
* Professor Malathi de Alwis, Colombo University, Sri Lanka
* Professor Aihwa Ong, University of California-Berkeley, USA