Center for Gender and feminist studies

In all societies familiar to us gender is an important form of classifying. Gender differences may appear natural and obvious but are at the same time lived quite differently in various societies and at different times, and in our own society these gender relations are currently undergoing rapid changes. Social negotiations and not to mention power are attached to this gendered and sexual field of life. These cultural regimes are anything from mildly corrective to fatal. It is therefore important to study the conditions that determine how gender is surrounded by and enrolled into power. This has to do with politics, welfare and humanism.

Center for Technology and Society

Technology and science are central activities in modern societies. Studies in technology and science gives an insight in how history and social sciences makes understanding and knowledge of technology, science and knowledge. Research makes social and cultural analyzes of modern science and technology in interaction with social, political, economical and cultural processes of change.