The Nordkalender lists conferences, seminars, doctoral courses and other events both within and outside the Nordic countries. The Nordkalender is a co-operation project between NIKK, KILDEN in Norway, KVINFO in Denmark, MINNA in Finland and the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research. Please be aware of the other versions of the Calender for an overview of smaller and more local events in Denmark, Finland, Norway og Sweden. Information about events to be included should be addressed to nikk@nikk.uio.no

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Date	Location	Description	Category	URL
06.03.2012 kl. 09.15-16.10	Brussels, Belgium	Equality in the Workplace: Zero Tolerance on Gender-Based Discrimination and Harassment in Europe This conference will discuss gender-based discrimination and equality between men and women at the workplace.	Conference
11.04.2012 - 14.04.2012	Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	9th European Social Science History Conference The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences.	Conference
24.04.2012 - 27.04.2012	Oslo, Norway	The Nordic model: work-life balance -a trap or an opportunity? In the Nordic countries women's and men's employment rates are almost identical. With the ageing population, women and men at midlife are increasingly involved in taking care of their own parents, while still caring for their children and working outside the home. These individuals are "sandwiched" between the needs of their children and their parents or other relatives. Thus, work-life issues need to be viewed from a broader perspective.	Course
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
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
06.06.2012 - 08.06.2012	Kristiansand, Norway	After 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
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
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
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
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