Organizing the Kvinneforskermaraton, or the "women's research marathon", is a biannual tradition started in 1989 by the Network for Women in Research (from 1996 the Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research) at the University of Tromsø. The marathon is a day-long series of short lectures offered to the general public. The general set-up has been three presentations per hour, non-stop, and every one of the five marathons organized so far has lasted for at least 12 hours, involving at least 36 women.

Organizing the Marathon as part of Women's Worlds 99 provides the general public with a unique opportunity to participate in a part of the academic program of the conference, alongside the conference delegates, at no charge. But first and foremost, the Kvinneforskermaraton gives both conference delegates and the general public a unique opportunity to get a feeling for the diversity of topics and issues under discussion during this gathering of women from around the world!

Where: Teaterloftet, KulturHuset (Tromsø Performing Arts Centre)
When: Monday June 21 through Friday June 25, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Admittance: Free

NB! We kindly ask all lecturers to note that we request you to report to the organizers of the marathon at Teaterloftet at least 10 minutes before the session in which your mini-lecture is included begins.

Women and human rights
11.20 Hannelore Schröder (Netherlands) Women's human rights
11.40 Ingrid Muenstermann (Australia) German women in South Australia
12.00 Heide Schütz (Germany) Peace is a human right - time to abolish war
12.20 Turid Smith Polfus (Norway) Lobbying for women's rights in Palestine
12.40 Farida Ahmadi &  Maryam Azim (Norway) Afghanistan women under Taliban regime

Gender, Research and Academic Life
13.20 Elaine Carey-Belanger (Canada) Longitudinal research as a tool for policy change and empowerment
13.40 Stella Williams (Nigeria) Women in fisheries: research network and documentation of global results
14.00 Siri Gerrard (Norway) The history of women's local community studies at the University of Tromsø
14.20 Ausma Cimdina (Latvia) Feministica Lettica - research and creativity

Marathon Medley
14.40 Jeanette Rhedding-Jones (Norway) How to get a job in another country
15.00 Vicki Ward (Australia)  Trans national networking- The model of the ATn network
15.20 Victoria Meyer (USA) Putting menopause in perspective: challenging the medicalization of midlife women
15.40 Anne Aarskog (Norway) Human rights as ethical basis for scientific and technological development
16.00 Anne Helene S. Tandberg (Norway) What is the border of a species?

Equal Opportunities and Discrimination
16.20 Hilkka Pietila (Finland) Women and the United Nations
16.40 Lesley Ann Foster (South Africa)  Impact study on the implementation of CEDAW in South Africa
17.00 Ingunn Yssen (Norway) The Centre for Gender Equalities in Norway
- an unique institution, an office for paid opposition

Gendering History and Culture
17.20 Atsuko Fujitani & Akiko Nishio (Japan) Power politics and the cultural creativity of women in Japanese history - transition from the pre-warrior to the post warrior period
18.00 Jessika Grahm (Sweden) Emotional and corporal diciplining regimes in relation to gender differences as expressed in etiquette books during the 20th century in Sweden
18.20 Helena Knutsson (Sweden) A stone age example of the place of ethnography in archaeological work
18.40 Anne-Sofie Gräslund (Sweden) Viking age women in Scandinavia: their social status and engagement in religion
19.00 Liisa Savunen (Finland) Did women vote in ancient Pompey?

Gendering Work
19.20 Tarja Pietilainen & Heidi Keso (Finland) Grounding business idea on gender
20.00 Gro Altern (Norway) The business manager: an environmental hero or an opponent? Different views on how a business  becomes ”green”
20.20 Anita Kalnina (Latvia) Women employment and women entrepreneurs in Latvia
20.40 Mary Field Belenky (USA) Women’s leadership and public homeplaces

Gendering Health
11.20 Ramji Tiwari (Norway) Women's health and life circumstance in Nepal from a gender perspective
11.40 Siri Moe (Norway) Body movement as social phenomenon
12.00 Emma Matos (USA) Latino women client  empowerment through training in mutual support group development: A psychoeducational intervention
12.20 Margrethe Hochleitner (Austria) The decrease of women throughout cardiological methods. Is this a prehospital referral problem?
12.40 Agneta Wikberg (Sweden) Women’s experiences of having repeatedly severe attacks of acute intermittent porphyria
13.00 Inger Grete Narum (Norway) Know Yourself: Using the wisdom of your body-mind to face a a stressful working situation. Course program for female hospital staff

Women and Faith
13.20 Rehana Ghadially (India) Muslim women in South Asia
13.40 Eva Evers Rosander (Sweden) Translocal Islam: Senegalese Mourid women in the Diaspora – Islam & women in Africa
14.00 CANCELLED Efrat Kedem (Israel) The immigration and absorption in Israel and America of Jewish women from a Syrian origin
14.20 Dalia Marcinkeviciene (Lithuania) Catholic divorce of XIXth - the beginning of XX Centuries in Lithuania
14.40 Helen May Hacker (USA) Female voices in the Hebrew Bible: challenging patriarchy
15.00 Marianne Rasmussen (Denmark) Kvindelige præster i Norden

Marathon Medley
15.20 Gerd Bjørhovde (Norway) Nora. The story behind Ibsen's character
15.40 Bente O. Skogvang (Norway) The culture in Norwegian elite football (soccer): consequences for male and female football players
16.00 Jacqueline H. Gentry (USA) Transforming age: celebrating crones
16.20 Salima Sarwar (Bangladesh) Neither a profession nor a right: The case of floating prostitutes in Bangladesh

Procreative Health Care
16.40 Elisabeth Helsing (Norway) East-West differences in European reproductive health care
17.00 Karen Marie Moland Traditional birth attendants in a modern world
17.20 Meredith McIntyre (Australia) Mother/Baby in-patient unit; measuring outcomes
17.40 Jytte Aagot Moeller (Denmark) Danish midwives and their special Centerwork-possibilities
18.00 Chalidjah Hasan (Indonesia) The role of traditional midwife in rural society (case study in district of Deli Serdang, North Sumatera, Indonesia)
18.20 Nancy McCaochan (USA) Pre- and postnatal yoga: Maintaining optimal maternal health through the practices of asana and pranayama

Life in the Arctic
NB! Moved to Wednesday 9.00-10.00 and Thursday 9.00-10.00
19.40 CANCELLED Jaana Maria Vikström (Norway) Happiness and quality of life in the north

Feminist Activism Worldwide
10.00 Manisha Desai (USA) Three waves of women's movements in India
10.20 Felicitas Klimpel-Weger (Chile) The other side of the medal
10.40 Trine Lynggard (Norway) "The FOKUS Experience" 10 years of unique cooperation between Norwegian Women's Organizations and sister organizations in the south
11.00 Danute Vaikionyté-Narkeviciene (Lithuania) Women's Movement in Lithuania
11.20 Marina Thorborg (Sweden) Women's and Women's Organizations in Post British Hong Kong
11.40 Wanda Hop Wo (Canada) British Columbia working toward equality for women
12.00 Liabov Shtyleva (Russia) Gender studies and the Women's Movement

Ethnicity, Race and Gender
12.20 Simi Kamal (Pakistan) The effects of the interplay on formal and customary laws on women in tribal cultures
12.40 Anna-Stina Segas (Canada) A Women’s Center and Shelter in Aboriginal Australia: Women’s co-operation and spiritual traditions
13.00 Darima Mangataeva (Russia) The problems of adaptation of the native women to the transforming society
13.20 Margrete Aarmo (Norway) Race, space and gender: Black and white lesbians in Zimbawe
13.40 Geraldine Moane (Ireland) Gender and colonialism: a feminist psychology

Women and Art
14.00 Anna Rita Cedroni (Austria) Masked gender in architectural space
14.20 Hilde Hauan Johnsen (Norway)  Female artists life local-global: Perspectives about common experiences of international art education and local identity
14.40 Christina Svens (Sweden) Suzanne Osten - a Director with a Feminist Approach
15.00 Olga Tchurakova (Russia) Sacrality and aesthetics in the women's creative activity (comparative analysis of ornament systems of the Northern people)
15.20 Svetlana Samodurova (Russia) Women in painting of Northern artists
15.40 Jurate Stauskaite (Lithuania) Mini introduction of Lithuanian Women artists (slides)

Living for Tomorrow Project
16.00 Marika Truumure (Norway) Living for Tomorrow project
16.20 Eda Leesalu (Norway) High risk activities-working with gender and youth. Sexual health issues in cross-cultural contexts

Gendering Work
16.40 Birthe Refslund (Denmark) The Free trade agreement between The EU and South Africa and its consequences for women in South Africa. How does free trade in general affect women in Ghana and Sénégal
17.00 Hanna Westberg (Sweden) Gendering work: limiting freedom of action for both worker and employer
17.20 Ronit Kark (Israel) Gendering identification processes as the deconstruction of boundaries between the private and public sphere
17.40 Patricia Pierce (USA)  Sex and power in the workplace
18.00 Marie Nordberg (Sweden) Constructing masculinity in Women's Worlds: Men in female occupations occupations
18.20 Nina Amble (Norway) Do research methods have gender? Experiences from using control self assessment workshops at Brynild (candy company) to initiate participation in organization and training

New Constructions of Family
18.40 Knut Oftung (Norway) An introduction to the Norwegian policy of fatherhood
19.00 Margareta Bäck-Wiklund (Sweden) The social construction of fatherhood in stepfather families
19.20 Maren Bak (Sweden) The social construction of fatherhood in stepfather families
19.40 Muneezeh Saeed Khan (Pakistan) Gender relations within families in rural feudal society
20.00 Mary Bernstein Queer families, queer politics: Understanding lesbian family law
20.20 Curt Rice (Norway) Two mothers are better than none: A mistake and its motivation in Norwegian adoption policy
20.40 Charlott Nyman (Sweden) Money, consumption and sharing in families

Equal Opportunities in Higher Education
10.00 Lise Bjørg Løken (Norway) Agnes Mathilde Wergelang, Norway's first doctorate
10.20 Kamlesh Banerjee (UK) Race and gender monitoring-implementation of equal opportunities politics
10.40 Emebet Mulugeta (Etiopia) The cultural barriers of female education in Ethiopia
11.00 Marianne Kriszio (Germany) Financial incentives for gender equality in higher education in Germany
11.20 Elisabeth Maurer (Switzerland) Design of a higher education policy- search for strategies to keep women in academic life

Sexualized Violence
11.40 Rachel Paul & Knut Oftung (Norway) How can men and women work together against violence against women - strategies for the future?
12.00 Jiaxiang Wang (China) Domestic violence
12.20 Lydia Campillo (Australia)  Hurting is not only hitting\Emotional abuse is real
12.40 Anita Rahman (Indonesia) Women circumcission in Indonesia
13.00 Mette Groes (Denmark) The social worker and the welfare state: how to cope with war-time personal and private violence as it is observed in families, at working places and in society
13.20 Alka Sharma (India)  Bride burning in India
13.40 Satu Ranta-Tyrkko (Finland) Meeting points of gender and violence in South Asia

Feminist Activism Worldwide
14.00 Keith Lousie Fulton (Canada) Women's literature and the Women's Movement
14.20 Electa Arenal (USA) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) and the First Declaration of Women's Emancipation in the Americas
14.40 Anne Holden Rønning (Norway) Early feminist texts and their message to us today
15.00 Natalya Gafizova (Russia) Russian Organizarion against traffic in women from the end of XIXth to the beginning of the XXth Century
15.20 Igor Shkolnikov (Russia) Links between Russia and British woman's movement at the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century
15.40 Olga Shnyrova (Russia)  Suffrage Movement in Russia and Great Britain: comparative analysis

Women, Power and Politics
16.00 Maria Teresa Guerra Medici (Italy) Women and power: Margaret of Denmark - Queen and Queen Regent
16.20 Malin Rönnblom (Sweden) Half the power? Political influence by women in Sweden

Women’s Lives
16.40 Inge Strüder (UK) Elderly women in Germany
17.00 Kira Mouravieva (Russia) Women's culture
17.20 Teresa Martinez & Carmela Sanz Rueda (Spain) New measures in the social order and its incidence in women's every day life in Spain
18.00 Britt-Marie Thurén (Sweden) Women’s space in a Spanish social movement
18.20 Mieke W A Minkjan (Netherlands) Cyberspace, gender and inequality

The Power of Words and Images
18.40 Tove Bull & Toril Swan (Norway) Women and men in the Norwegian language
19.20 Marianne Boere (Netherlands) The European Women's Thesaurus
19.40 Anna Margrete Flåm (Norway)  Dialogens kraft: Vilkår for dialog og mulegheit for å sjå den andres perspektiv
20.00 Susan Bright (USA) Collaboration, community and the circle of the word
20.20 Elo Lindsalu (Estonia) Women and Estonian media
20.40 Sylvi Liljegren (Norway) Debate about women's place in the media

Motherhood and Fertility
12.40 Johanne Sundby (Norway) Women and infertility in North and South
13.00 Lena Alex (Sweden) Women’s experiences related to abortion
13.20 Manuela Ribeiro (Portugal) Adolescent women's motherhood
13.40 Bagian Aleyssa Abdulkarim (Philippines) Islamic scholars perspectives on family planning methods
14.00 Ulrike Brisson (USA) From the periphery to the center: The aqppropriation of motherhood in Mary Seacole's The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Gender and Sexuality
14.20 Kamma Langberg (Denmark) Sex (the biological ‘køn’) is not a proper measure of gender (the social  ‘køn’) in connection with the activity ‘childcare’
14.40 Lise Widding Isaksen (Norway) Gender, care and sexuality
15.00 Katrina Roen (New Zealand) Transgender and the category "woman"
15.20 Ailbhe Smyth (Ireland) Sex, sites and scenes: surveying lesbians and public space in Ireland
15.40 Eva Skærbæk (Norway) Sexual difference and ethical interaction
16.00 CANCELLED Carolyn Yewchuk (Canada) Intuitive awareness: is gender an issue?
16.20 Lisbeth Bjerrum Jensen (Denmark) Views of women as sexual beings: The protrayal of female sexuality in a selection of novels from the early 20th century

Marathon Medley
16.40 Cathrine Vembre Jensen (Norway) Geometry and symmetry - important ideas in modern mathematics
17.00 Liliana Pagu (Romania) Enlarge the network involving different women’s NGOs
in countries in transition ”Karat Coalition”
17.20 Tatyana Zavalko (Russia) Russiske barna på 1990 tallet of SOS Barnebyprosjekt på Kolahalvøya
17.40 Geneview Vaughan (USA) A socioeconomic paradigm based on gift giving
18.00 Elisabeth K.Moen (Sweden) Women who kill in Sweden
18.20 Elena Rybalova (Russia) Praktikum: creation of original advertisement based on up-to-date technologies
18.40 Eirin Marie Pedersen (Norway) Figure drawing: A way to insights and knowledge? An investigation in words and images

Women and Fiction
19.00 Francisca Gonzalez-Arias (USA) The contemporary Spansih author Soledad Puertolas: Her work in the context of today's world.
19.20 Sarah Ljungquist (Sweden) Pictures from the year 2378: Emancipation in a utopian novel from 1878
19.40 Monica Loeb (Sweden)  Male echoes in Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories marriages and infidelities
20.00 Fahmida Riaz (Pakistan) Poetry of Pakistani women
20.20 Gloria H. Cuadraz (USA) Sharing stories of “Spirit and Will”
20.40 Tiina Aunin (Estonia) Estonian women as reflected in folklore and fiction