• Call for papers Next 60 days Next 90 days or from   to   Advanced search Date Location Description Category URL 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 19.05.2012 - 20.05.2012 Paris, France Theory and Politics of Gender Today French–Finnish Dialogues Seminar   21.05.2012 - 25.05.2012 Dubrovnik, Croatia Feminisms in Transnational Perspective A Postgraduate course Course   24.05.2012 kl. 14:15-16:00 Bergen, Norway Rethinking 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 25.05.2012 - 26.05.2012 Linköping, Sweden “Entanglements of New Materialisms” The 3rd annual New Materialisms-conference - Linköping Conference 30.05.2012 - 01.06.2012 Gothenburg, Sweden Making 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 31.05.2012 - 01.06.2012 Oslo, Norway Masculinities 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 07.06.2012 - 08.06.2012 Jyväskylä, Finland Violence, Power and Society The Tenth Gustav Wasa Seminar in Jyväskylä Seminar   14.06.2012 - 15.06.2012 Umeå, Sweden Subjectivity / 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, Norway 32nd 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 20.06.2012 - 23.06.2012 Oslo, Norway Simone 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 27.06.2012 - 29.06.2012 Keele, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) 7th Biennial International Interdisciplinary conference The GWO conference provides an international forum for debate and analysis of a variety of issues in relation to management, work and organisation, and to gender studies. Conference 01.08.2012 - 03.08.2012 Amsterdam, Netherlands The International Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections Conference on the Future of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans* and Intersex Histories (LGBTI ALMS 2012) IHLIA envisons that by 2020 the heritage of LGBTI individuals and the LGBTI community is collected and recognized in Europe and globally as part of the cultural wealth of society. The conference aims to be a step in that direction. Conference 08.08.2012 - 10.08.2012 Tampere, Finland IFLA Satellite Conference 2012 How can libraries and information centres improve access to women’s information and preserve women’s cultural heritage? Conference 14.08.2012 - 15.08.2012 Oslo, Norway Vulnerability 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 16.08.2012 - 18.08.2012 Bergen, Norway THOUGHT 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, Norway Reassessing 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 27.08.2012 - 31.08.2012 Utrecht, Netherlands Stillness and Movement of Images: New Perspectives on Temporality, Technology and the Senses in Feminist Theory * How do images address us as embodied viewers? * How do technological changes impinge on image production and how is the relation between technologies and bodies represented in visual media? * How do images manipulate time? How does movement change our perception of the image? * What does all of this have to do with categories of social differentiation such as gender, ethnicity, race, class and dis/ability? These and similar questions will be investigated at the NOISE Summerschool 2012. PhD-course 27.08.2012 - 29.08.2012 Tampere, Finland Power & Difference 3rd International Conference Conference 29.08.2012 - 31.08.2012 Bergen, Norway 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education: Gender Equality in a Changing Academic World Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Bryggen 5835 Bergen Norway Conference 03.09.2012 - 07.09.2012 Tampere, Finland Breaking the Silence International Women's Conference Conference 07.09.2012 - 08.09.2012 Reykavik, Iceland Has 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 26.09.2012 - 29.09.2012 Lillehammer, Norway 6th 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 04.10.2012 - 07.10.2012 Helsinki, Finland Pleasure and health by education, counselling and treatment The 34th international conference of Nordic Association for Clinical Sexology Conference 08.10.2012 - 10.10.2012 København, Denmark Breaking through the Glass Ceiling Råvarebygningen Porcelænshaven 22 2000 Frederiksberg Copenhagen, Denmark Course 10.10.2012 - 12.10.2012 Aarhus, Denmark Gender and Sexualities - Revisioning Drug and Alcohol Rresearch Conference 24.10.2012 - 26.10.2012 Oslo, Norway Bodies 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 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 15.11.2012 Tampere, Finland Challenging Heterosexuality A (post-)doctoral course with Professor Stevi Jackson PhD-course   16.11.2012 - 17.11.2012 Tampere, Finland Feminist spaces and futures Women’s Studies Conference Conference 29.11.2012 - 30.11.2012 Trondheim, Norway Reproduction 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 06.12.2012 - 08.12.2012 Vienna, Austria (In-)Equality - Political, Economic, Social, Spatial and Gender Aspects : 3rd Young Scientists' Forum on Central and South East Europe 2012 Vertical as well as horizontal (spatial) and gender inequality has increased in Central and South East Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain and during transformation. This should raise a number of questions. The 3rd Young Scientists' Forum on Central and South East Europe will aim at promoting and encouraging young scientists in the fields of cultural studies, history, European ethnology, media studies, political sciences, geography and sociology, to engage in this region. Conference