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Diverse & Divergent Approaches to Peace and Gender in the Nordics and Beyond, 1980s to Present

Workshopen Diverse & Divergent Approaches to Peace and Gender in the Nordics and Beyond, 1980s to Present, som vil foregå 20. august 2026. Programmet er nå klart.

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Foreløpig program

9.15–9.30 Opening of the workshop

9.30–11.30 Panel 1: Gender and Peace Quests in Global Conflicts and Conflict Resolution

Rósa Magnúsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland): Gendering the Summit: The Nuclear Threat and Transnational Peace Activism around the 1986 Reykjavík Summit

Sanela Bajramovic (Örebro University, Sweden) TBA

Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University, Sweden): Feminist approaches to war and militarism through historical and contemporary examples

Annette Lyth (Karlstad University, Sweden): The Grammar of Emergency – Crisis Bias, Gendered Visibility, and Permanent Militarisation

11.30–13.00 Lunch (self-funded)

13.00–15.00 Panel 2. Gender and Grassroots Peace Activism in Europe

Monica Quirico (independent researcher): Producing and Circulating Knowledge in Women’s Peace Activism – The Case of the Swedish Women for Peace in the 1980s

Vilja Myllyviita (Tampere University, Finland): Mobilising Peace Across Divides – Finnish Feminist Participation in the 1987 World Congress of Women in Moscow

Rachel Pierce (KvinnSam, Sweden): Peace photography – Documenting the Swedish women’s peace movement

Adèle Fohr (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France): “Lesbians Against War” in France and Germany

15.00–15.30 Coffee break

15.30–17.30 Panel 3: Individuals and Organisations Acting for Peace

Irina Gordeeva (Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam): Soviet-American Citizen Diplomacy as a Cold War Peace-Making Practice – Achievements and Challenges in the Experience of American Peace Activist Gale Warner (1960–1991)

Valgerður Pálmadóttir (University of Akureyri, Iceland): Ideas about upbringing towards peace and conflicts regarding peace education in schools during the Cold War in Iceland

Hannah Yoken (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): TBA

Heidi Kurvinen (University of Bergen, Norway): Children’s peace organising and gender in Finland and Norway in the 1980s

17.30–18.00 Final discussion and closing the workshop

 

For mer informasjon om seminaret se den engelske siden i denne lenken: Diverse & Divergent Approaches to Peace and Gender in the Nordics and Beyond, 1980s to Present | Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion | UiB