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(9.00 a.m. - 03.00 p.m.):
Phone: (+47) 22 85 89 30
Fax: (+47) 22 85 89 50
E-mail address: postmottak(at)skk.uio.no

Street address:
Sognsveien 70, 3. floor
across from Ullevaal Stadium
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Postal address:
Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research
Postboks 1040 Blindern
N-0315 Oslo
Norway
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Seminars marked with * may be suitable as PhD-courses.The participants must apply for acceptance on their own PhD-program. 

If you are not able to participate in one of the courses you have signed on, please remember to let us know. This will make it easier for us to organize the courses, and we will be able to invite people queuing to join.

NOVEMBER

*Research symposium: Gender and generation - a European comparative perspective (UK, Germany, the Nordic Countries).

Time: Thursday 15 November at 1000 - 1730 and Friday 16 November at 0915 - 1500
Place: SKK, Sognsvn. 70, room 505

Lecturers: Professor Julia Brannen (University of London),  professor Rachel Thomson and senior lecturer Mary Jane Kehily (Open University), professor Jenny Hockey, lecturer Victoria Robinson (University of  Sheffield), Dr. Christine Thon (University of Bielefeld), professor Ann Nilsen  (University of Bergen), and professor Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen (UiO).

More information (word document), about projects which will be presented (preliminary list) and hotel accomodations.
This symposium will bring together researchers from England, Germany and Norway who have worked with generational studies in their respective countries, in ways that connect biography, intergenerational relations and historical context. The aim is to compare the way in which different national socio-cultural contexts, especially in the after-war period, have shaped young men and women's appropriation of gender in their everyday lives and their transition to adulthood. The focus will be on the transition into adulthood/young adulthood and on the generations born under/after the Second World War and in the 1970s. The seminar is mainly for researchers who work within this field.
Organizer: Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen, SKK.

PROGRAMME:

Thursday 15 November

10.00-10.15: Welcome & coffee
10.15-11.45: Julia Brannen (University of London, Institute of Education): Four generation families: Work and caring across the generations (UK)
11.45-12.30: Lunch at SKK
12.30-14.00: Jenny Hockey and Vicky Robinson (Sheffield University): A cross-generational investigations of the making of heterosexual Relationships (UK)
14.00-14.15: Break
14.15-15.45: Mary Jane Kehily and Rachel Thompson and (Open University): The making of modern motherhood: memories, identities, practices (UK)
15.45-16.00: Coffee, cakes, fruit
16.00-17.30: Christina Thon (University of Bielefeld): Women’s movement and transition between generations (Germany)

Friday 16 November
09.15-10.45:  Ann Nilsen (University of Bergen): Expectations for the future: Two birth cohorts of  men and women (Norway)
10.45-11.15:  Coffee, cakes and fruit
11.15-12.45:  Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen (University of Oslo): Modern girls – young women in three generations (Norway)
12.45-13.30: Lunch at SKK
13.30-15.00: Discussion  and follow up

DECEMBER

*PhD-course:  Phenomenology, Anthropology and Social Sciences related to empirical research.

Time: Monday 3 December at 1000-1530; Tuesday 4 December at 1000 - 1630; Wednesday 5 December at 0900-1430.
Place: SKK, Sognsvn. 70, room 505.

Lecturers: Sara Heinämaa, professor II at SKK, Lisa Käll, Researcher, Center for Gender Studies, Uppsala university and Gunn Engelsrud, professor, Section for Health Sciences, UiO.

The aim of this seminar is to introduce the students to the methodological discussion concerning the relations between phenomenological philosophy and empirical sciences, such as anthropology, psychology and sociology. This is performed by studying two articles by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty and two recent commentaries. The seminar also offers the participants a chance to present their own research in process and to connect it, either conceptually or methodologically, to phenomenological philosophy.

The material/paper that students want to present should be sent to gunn.engelsrud@medisin.uio.no before the 1st of November. For questions contact gunn.engelsrud@medisin.uio.no tlf. 22 85 84 22.

Day I
10.00-11.00 Introduction by Sara Heinämaa, Lisa Käll and Gunn Engelsrud.
11.00-13.00 Discussion of Merleu-Ponty’s essays "The philosopher and sociology" (in Signs) and "Phenomenology and the sciences of man" (in Primacy of Perception)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14:30-15.30 1st student paper and presentation

Day II
10.00-12.00 Discussion of Beata Stawarska’s "Anonymity and sociality"
12.00-13.00 2rd student paper
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 3th student paper and presentation
15.30-16.30 4th student paper and presentation

Day III
9.00-11.00 Discussion of Iris Marion Young’s "Throwing like a girl" and "Throwing like a girl 20 years later"
11.00-12.00 5th student paper and presentation
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 6th student paper and presentation

Organizer: The course is a coarrangement with Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research and Section for Health Sciences, both University of Oslo.

READING LIST/ OBLIGATORY READING

Stawarska, Beata 2004: "Anonymity and Sociality: The Convergence of psychological and philosophical currents in Merleau-Ponty's ontological theory of intersubjectivity", CHIASMI International, vol. 5, pp.295?309.

Merleu-Ponty, Maurice [1964] 1987: "The philosopher and sociology", Signs, trans. Richard C. McCleary, Evaston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, pp.98?113.

--- [1961] 1964: "Phenomenology and the sciences of man", trans John Wild, Primacy of Perception Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics, Evaston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1964, pp.95?43.

Young, Iris Marion Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory, Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press; includes "Throwing like a girl", 1980, pp.141?159.

--- 1998: "Throwing like a girl 20 years later", in Donn Welton (ed.): Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader, Oxford: Blackwell.

 

*Reading seminar: Intimacies, Affect and Personal Life.

Time: Thursday 13 December 2007 at 1415-1600
Place: SKK, Sognsvn. 70, room 434

This reading seminar is number four out of six meetings, where both classic and newly published texts concerning intimacies, affect and personal life are discussed. 

Reading this meeting: Judith Butler: Giving an Account of Oneself (2005, Fordham University Press). For further information see this website.

Organizer: Sasha Roseneil, SKK

JANUAR 2008

* Conference arranged by the FEMM-network: Power and resistance - What is the impact of gender concerning relations between minorities and majorities?

Time: Thursday - Friday 10 - 11 January
Place: Georg Sverdrups Hus (The Library), Blindern, University of Oslo. See MAP.

We welcome researchers, scholars, students, activists, public institutions and NGOs to participate. Those who wish to present papers at the workshops must submit abstracts within October 20. Papers can be presented in English or in Scandinavian languages.

Please click here for more information.

Organizers: FEMM-network together with Cultural complexity in the New Norway (CULCOM) and Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK).

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