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Donna McCormack, post doctoral fellow at SKOK, has recently released a critical analysis of Judith Butler's and Homi Bhabha's intersecting theories of performativity. In the book she shows how non-institutionalised forms of witnessing serve to reconfigure theories of literary performance.
Professor emerita Ida Blom in picture from UiB's magazine Hubro international.
As a historian, she studied women’s liberation. As a woman she experienced this liberation. For Professor Ida Blom, history and life are two sides of the same coin.
Researcher at SKOK, Gaudencia Mutema, has published an article on her research on Rwandan refugees in the journal Trauma & Gewalt.
The next Luce Irigaray Circle conference will take place at University of Bergen in June 5-7, 2013.
Randi Gressgård’s book "Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts" is discussed in the journal "Dialogues in Human Geography".
We are extremely pleased to announce that David Eng, Professor of English/Asian American Studies at University of Pennsylvania as of this semester has been appointed our new adjunct professor at SKOK, after Elizabeth Grosz’ two periods in the same position have ended.
The conference, which is organized around three major themes: ”Bodies and Sexualities”, ”Citizenship” and ”New Technologies”, will take place in Bergen August 16-18 2012. Registration deadline is June 1, 2012.
The conference will take place at the University of Bergen, Norway, August 16th-18th, 2012. It will mark the end of the four-year research project Thought as Action: Gender; Democracy; Freedom led by Professor Ellen Mortensen, Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK).
Centre for Women’s and Gender Research offers the graduate course, On Feminism and the Animal, 18 – 20 May, 2011.

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