Kick off seminar 13-14 March

Programme

Friday 13 February

09.00-09:30   

Welcome/Introduction

Professor/Director Ellen Mortensen, SKOK.

09:30-10:00    

Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

Research areas: bodies and sexualities/new technologies

Topic: “The Animal, the Human and the Inhuman: Thinking Life beyond the     Subject”

10:00-10:30    

Assistant Professor Jami Weinstein, Gender Studies, University of Utrecht, Nl

Research areas: new technologies/bodies and sexualities

Topic:  “Techno-Zoontologies: Technology, Animality, and Human Being”

10:30-10:45     Coffee/tea

10.45-11:15   

Professor/Director Ellen Mortensen, SKOK.

Research areas: bodies and sexualities/citizenship

Topic: “Sexing Nietzsche’s Will to Power: Freedom, Aesthetics and Sexed Being”

11:15-11:45                

Assistant Professor Ulrika Dahl, Gender Studies, Södertörn Högskola, Sweden

Research areas: bodies and sexualities/citizenship

Topic: “Femme as Figuration: Rethinking (Queer) Femininity”

11:45-12:15    

Associate Professor Kristin Sampson, Philosophy/SKOK

Research areas: bodies and sexualities/citizenship

Topic: “The Freedom of the Other: Ethical Consequences of Irigaray’s Conception of Sexual Difference”

12:15-13:15    

Lunch

13:15-13:45               

Associate Professor Agnes Bolsø, Sociology/Gender Studies, NTNU

Research area: bodies and sexualities/citizenship

Topic: “Queer Critique of Gay Sexual Politics”

13:45-14:15

Assistant Professor Jenny Sundén, Media Technology at the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden

Research areas: new technologies/bodies and sexualities

Topic: “Queering Technology: Techno-Corporeality and Post-human Feminism”

14:15-14:45               

Associate Professor/Director Wenche Mülheisen, Gender Studies, U of Stavanger

Research areas: bodies and sexualities/new technologies (mass media)

Topic: “Normative and Counter-Normative Performativity of Intimacies and Sexualities in Popular Culture and the Arts”

14:45-15:00     Coffee/tea

15:00-15:30    

Senior Researcher Randi Gressgård, SKOK, University of Bergen

Research areas: citizenship/bodies and sexualities

Topic: Bondage and Boundaries: Gendered Citizenship and Radical Democracy

15:30-16:00    

Associate Professor Anne Britt Flemmen, Sociology, University of Tromsø

Research areas: citizenship/bodies and sexualities

Topic: “Intimate Citizenship”

19.00              

Dinner

Saturday 14 February

09:00-09:30    

Professor/Director Marianne Liljeström, Women’s Studies, University of Turku, Finland

Research areas: citizenship/bodies and sexualities

Topic: “Geopolitics and the Production of Feminist Knowledge”

09:30-10:00    

Professor Nicole Fermon, Political Science, Fordham University, New York, USA

Research areas: citizenship/bodies and sexualities 

Topic: “Politics, Conversion, Assimilation”

10:00-10:30    

Research Director Ann Therese Lotherington, Norut - Northern Research Institute Tromsø

Research areas: citizenship/new technologies

Topic: “The Significance of Multiple Citizenship for Democratic Participation”

10:30-10:45    

Coffee/tea

10:45-11:15    

Postdoctoral fellow Sissel Rosland, History, University of Bergen

Research areas: citizenship/new technologies

Topic: “Between Security and Liberty: Gendering Right(s) and Freedom(s) in the War on Terror”

11:15-11:45    

Professor Vigdis Broch-Due, Social Anthropology, U of Bergen

Research areas: bodies and sexualities/citizenship

Topic: “Engendering Citizens: Violence and the Embodiment of Politics in Eastern Africa”

11:45- 12:15   

Postdoctoral Fellow Kari Jegerstedt, Comparative Literature/SKOK

Research areas: citizenship/bodies and sexualities

Topic: “The African Connection: Reading as an Oppositional Force in a Globalized     Area”

12:15-12:45    

Postdoctoral Fellow Gaudencia Mutema, SKOK.

Research areas: citizenship/bodies and sexualities

Topic: “Migration, Gender and Education: Somali Children in the Diaspora”

12:45-13:45    

Lunch

13:45-15:45

Where do we go from here?