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17.05.2012 - 20.05.2012

Budapest, Hungary The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender@2012
The 8th European Feminist Research Conference invites scholars, students, activists and policy makers to re-visit their politics of location in the light of current crises in Europe and beyond, and to reflect upon the ways in which feminist scholarly tools can be used for understanding and for changing the world.
Conference
Link http://www.8thfeministconference.org/index.php?menu=1
24.05.2012
kl. 14:15-16:00

Bergen, NorwayRethinking the perceived conflict between culture and universal human rights in post-colonial societies: women and multi-culturalism in South Africa
Lecturer: Professor Amanda Gouws, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Seminar
Link http://www.uib.no/skok/en/seminar/2012/03/rethinking-the-perceived-conflict-between-culture-and-universal-human-rights-in-post-colonial-societies-women-and-multi-culturalism-in-south-africa
25.05.2012 - 26.05.2012

Linköping, Sweden“Entanglements of New Materialisms”
The 3rd annual New Materialisms-conference - Linköping
Conference
Link http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-g/Posthuman/conference-call-for-papers?l=en&sc=true
30.05.2012 - 01.06.2012

Gothenburg, SwedenMaking Sense of Consumption - NCCR 2012
We welcome you to the second Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, May 30- June 1, 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden, organized by the Centre for Consumer Science, CFK.
Conference
Link http://www.cfk.gu.se/nccr2012/
31.05.2012 - 01.06.2012

Oslo, NorwayMasculinities in Motion - Men and (E)Quality of Life
New times, new solutions? What does it mean being a boy or a man today? How can women and men be understood being masculine? How is “masculine space” developing in a gender equal society?

Conference
Link http://www.stk.uio.no/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/2012/masculinities-in-Motion/index.html
06.06.2012 - 08.06.2012

Kristiansand, NorwayAfter the Crisis. An Interdisciplinary Conference on Narratives of Traumatic Events
People who are exposed to traumatic events have a profound need to make sense of them. They seek to express, explain and understand their experiences through words.
The conference’s aim is to focus on of trauma narratives. Various dimensions of trauma narratives, such as form and function, gender inscriptions, sexuality and power will be explored.
Conference
Link http://www.uia.no/no/portaler/om_universitetet/humaniora_og_pedagogikk/nordisk_og_mediefag/forskning/traumets_litteraritet/after_the_crisis
14.06.2012 - 15.06.2012
kl. 10:00

København, DenmarkGender and Health through Life
Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Blegdamsvej 9
2100 København Ø
Conference
Link http://www.sundmand.dk/Gender%20and%20Health%20conference%20Copenhagen%202012.pdf
14.06.2012 - 15.06.2012

Umeå, SwedenSubjectivity / subjectification / desubjectification. A Humanist Category under Renegotiation?
UCGS samarrangerar med Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper:

Internationellt symposium vid Umeå universitet, 14–15 juni, 2012
Conference
 
18.06.2012 - 21.06.2012

Bergen, Norway32nd Nordic Conference of Ethnology and Folkloristics
The conference offers several panels relevant to gender researchers. For example:
"Gendering body and sexuality: the making of unequal desires"; "Sports, women and the cultural dynamics of difference".
Conference
Link http://bergen2012.no/kongresser/kongresser-2012/den-32-nordiske-etnolog-og-folkloristkonferansen-18-21-jun/welcome/
18.06.2012 - 20.06.2012

Tromsø, NorwayGender and mobilities : current empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives and challenges
This international symposium/PhD course aims to reveal the knowledge status of research on gender and mobility through a critical lens in order to clarify and illuminate some of the different perspectives used in various disciplines such as sociology, geography, anthropology, gender studies etc.
Conference
Link http://www2.uit.no/ikbViewer/page/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_document_id=270083&p_dimension_id=88183&p_menu=28714&p_lang=2
20.06.2012 - 23.06.2012

Oslo, NorwaySimone de Beauvoir: Philosophy, Literature and the Humanities
The 20th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society
will highlight Beauvoir’s life and works from a broad range of perspectives, disciplines and locations, addressing the impact in her own time as well as her significance for the 21st century.
Conference
Link http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser-seminarer/2012/beauvoir.html
08.08.2012 - 10.08.2012

Tampere, FinlandIFLA Satellite Conference 2012
How can libraries and information centres improve access to women’s information and preserve women’s cultural heritage?
Conference
Link http://www.minna.fi/en_US/web/guest/ifla-preconference-2012
14.08.2012 - 15.08.2012

Oslo, NorwayVulnerability as a basis for justice and equality in the Nordic countries
Researchers and social scientists are invited to join in exploring the relevance and possible uses of the vulnerability approach in a Nordic context in this workshop with the leading feminist legal theorist Martha Albertson Fineman.
Meeting
Link http://www.margunnbjornholt.no/workshop
16.08.2012 - 18.08.2012

Bergen, NorwayTHOUGHT AS ACTION:Gender, Democracy, Freedom
This conference marks the completion of a four-year international research project, THOUGHT AS ACTION: Gender, Democracy, Freedom, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project has had a theoretical focus, organized around three major themes: ”Bodies and Sexualities”, ”Citizenship” and ”New Technologies”, themes that will also serve as an overarching structure for the conference.
Conference
 
21.08.2012 - 22.08.2012

Oslo, NorwayReassessing the Nordic Welfare Model
For five years a number of researchers have investigated whether five Nordic welfare societies are able to reconcile economic effectiveness and social equality in a Nordic Welfare Model. This is the final international conference of the project.
Conference
Link http://www.reassess.no/id/25062.0
23.08.2012 - 25.08.2012

Oslo, NorwayWelfare states facing global turbulence, ageing and migration: rising to the occasion, coping or adjusting downwards?
"How does the meeting of care needs reinforce global care-chains and highlight migration’s gendered consequences both in sending and receiving countries?" This and other questions will be discussed at the annual conference of Research Committee 19 in the International Sociological Association.
Conference
Link http://www.nova.no/id/24834
29.08.2012 - 31.08.2012

Bergen, Norway7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education
The conference will focus on gender equality in a changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Europe and beyond.
Conference
Link http://www.uib.no/gender2012
07.09.2012 - 08.09.2012

Reykavik, IcelandHas feminist philosophy changed philosophy?
Conference of the Nordic Network for Women in Philosophy at the University of Iceland (in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy and EDDA – Center of Excellence), September 7 and 8, 2012.
Conference
Link http://online.sfsu.edu/~asta
26.09.2012 - 29.09.2012

Lillehammer, Norway6th Congress of the European Society on Family Relation
Demographic changes, along with the current economic crisis and increased migration, raise new questions and research interests concerning family practices, family policy, relatedness, family crisis and intervention. Speakers representing a wide range of disciplines address these issues at the congress.
Conference
Link http://www.congrex.no/esfr2012/
08.10.2012 - 10.10.2012

København, DenmarkBreaking through the Glass Ceiling
Råvarebygningen
Porcelænshaven 22
2000 Frederiksberg
Copenhagen, Denmark
Course
Link http://cbs-simi.dk/woman-in-management
08.10.2012 - 09.10.2012

Århus, DenmarkPhD seminar: Researching gender in the alcohol and drug field: Methodological and theoretical challenges and possible ways forward
The Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University, Denmark, hereby invites applications for a PhD seminar entitled ‘Researching gender in the alcohol and drug field: Methodological and theoretical challenges and possible ways forward’.
PhD-course
Link http://crf.au.dk/genderconference/
10.10.2012 - 12.10.2012

Aarhus, DenmarkGender and Sexualities - Revisioning Drug and Alcohol Rresearch
Conference
Link http://crf.au.dk/genderconference/
24.10.2012 - 26.10.2012

Shanghai, China Doing Gender Studies in Global Contexts
This PhD course introduces and discusses theory and knowledge production in gender studies from interdisciplinary social sciences and humanities perspectives using the Nordic countries and/or China as examples and concrete cases.
PhD-course
Link http://nias.ku.dk/news/phd-course-doing-gender-studies-global-contexts-24-26-october-nordic-centre-fudan-university
24.10.2012 - 26.10.2012

Oslo, NorwayBodies in Motion. The Politics/Poetics of Movement and Stillness
The 6th International Conference of the Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health will approach issues within overarching themes from a broad range of disciplines and fields of research.
Conference
Link http://www.stk.uio.no/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/2012/Bodies-in-Motion/index.html
16.11.2012 - 17.11.2012

Tampere, FinlandFeminist spaces and futures
Women’s Studies Conference
Conference
Link http://www.uta.fi/yky/naistutkimuspaivat2012/english/workshops.html
29.11.2012 - 30.11.2012

Trondheim, NorwayReproduction and gender at the crossroads
The main aim of the seminar is to raise pressing debates, and to create a meeting place where scholars from different disciplines, policy makers and practitioners mutually can explore each other's knowledge, inspire each other, and discuss current controversies and future challenges in the multidisciplinary field of gender, ethnicity and reproduction.
Seminar
Link http://www.ntnu.no/kult/crossroads

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