CGF - Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, SE

30/04/2024

Our honorary professor Nina Lykke together with colleagues is celebrating their new book with a book launch today!! Warmest congratulations!

We are delighted to invite you all to the second – this time virtual – book launch of  “Feminist Reconfigurings of Alien Encounters: Ethical Co-Existence in More-than-Human Worlds” by Nin…

07/09/2023

On Monday, September 11, we will have the pleasure to have Kaisa Kuurne (Helsinki University) with us at the Centre. Together with Kinneret Lahad, she will facilitate a workshop on intimacies for interested faculty members! We are very grateful for the stop-over she is able to make and looking forward to the workshop!
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/people/people-finder/kaisa-kuurne-9046409

07/09/2023

For this month, we are having the fantastic Kinneret Lahad (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) with us. As a GEXcel visiting scholar at the Centre she will engage in feedback meetings with our PhD students, give workshops to students and faculty on temporality and intimacy while also work on a joint funding application with the Centre. In the remaining time she will continue to write about the affective temporarlity of friendships for her forthcoming volume on this topic.

Among her most recent publications are A Table for One: A Critical Reader on Singlehood, Gender and Time (Manchester UP, 2017) and Affective Intimacies (with Marjo Kolehmainen and Annukka Lahti, Manchester UP, 2022).

For more details on her work and the multiple topics she engages with please take a look at this wonderful interview with her: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/publications/isa-journals/current-sociology/sociologist-of-the-month/sotm-may-2021

08/02/2023

I ett stegrande tonläge diskuteras manlighetens olika uttryck i samtiden. Varför detta intensiva intresse för män och manlighet? Anledningarna är många: Killar halkar efter i skolan. Mäns våld mot kvinnor breder ut sig och vi ser auktoritära politiska ledare världen över som försöker re...

16/01/2023

Our sister organisation in Linköping is hosting a really interesting event! More events with the Posthumanities Hub and the Eco- and Bioart Lab are coming up soon!

Posthumanities hub and The Eco- and Bioart Lab presents Webinar on "Weird Q***r Ecologies" with Dr. Alison Sperling, Technische Universität Berlin
Theory Tutor, St. Joost Academy of Art & Design
Assistant Professor of English, Florida State University
In 2010, Thomas Friedman announced that “Global Weirding is Here” in a widely-cited op-ed in the New York Times. With a nod to environmentalist Hunter Lovins as the coining the term, Friedman’s piece and “global weirding” as a concept have since gained traction across popular media as well as in the academic world, particularly within the environmental humanities. In other words, as an ecocritical category or frame, the weird is neither new nor is it restricted to an historical moment, though it has perhaps acquired a particular cultural currency in the context of an increasing awareness of a climate-changing world. "The weird" as a broader cultural mode or aesthetic has also maintained attention in cultural studies, literary criticism, philosophy and contemporary art, and has emerged as a possible way to structure our way of relating to this unprecedented ecological moment. This presentation will build on the concept of global weirding by introducing q***r and feminist studies of affect, aesthetics, and archive in order to enliven the juncture of weird and more established notions of q***r ecology.

Please register for this zoom session, using this link: http://bit.ly/3ZvpwjE

06/12/2022

New book release ! This is the first collected volume that brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for ‘the man question’. With contributions from contemporary key scholars in masculinity studies - Jeff Hearn, Lucas Gottzén, Sam de Boise, Steve Garlick, Chris Beasley, etcetera.

This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for ‘the man question’. The contributors to this book interrogate the question of how ‘Man’ as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality, and th...

29/11/2022

One of our PhD students published her first article (part of the doctoral thesis)!
Congratulations, Lisa Lindqvist!
The article came out in Feminist Media Studies: "Mapping an Emerging Hashtag Ecosystem: Connective Action and Interpretive Frames in the Swedish Movement"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2022.2149604

29/11/2022

We had a wonderful evening yesterday with a panel discussion on the q***r-feminist protests in Iran! Thank you panelists! Zan, Zendigi, Azadi!

01/11/2022

27/09/2022

g22 - SHAPING HOPEFUL FUTURES IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY:
THE CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES OF GENDER STUDIES
Karlstad University, Sweden, 26-28 October, 2022.

It is still possible to register for g22. Attend the major Swedish event for gender studies, research with a gender perspective in other disciplines, and equality work. Last day to register has passed, but there are still spots available if you want to participate.

Academic program

* 160 scholarly papers and roundtable discussions divided in twelve thematic streams

Keynotes

* Jack Halberstam, Columbia University
* Fataneh Farahani, Stockholm University
* Andrea Petö, Central European University
* Ulla Manns, Södertörn University & Jens Rydström, Lund University

Social program

* Preconference book launch with Nina Lykke - Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning.
* Welcome night with performance by Mille Bostedt. God created man and I created the c**k. About doctor and trans pioneer Michael Dillon. Panel discussion with historian of ideas Erika Alm and literary scholar Sam Holmqvist.
* Conference dinner at Nöjesfabriken in Karlstad.
Visit at Sandgrund museum or city walk

Learn more on the conference website: www.kau.se/g22

Welcome to Karlstad!
The g22 organizing committee.

26/09/2022

EDUFI Fellowship for doctoral students from Ukraine call continues to offer scholarships for doctoral students fleeing the war in Ukraine.