Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning and Linköping’s Univeristy (Sweden) (Web)

Time: 23-25 november 2016
Venue: Linköping
Proposals by 18.03.2016

g16 – Boundaries, mobility and mobilization gathers the entire interdisciplinary field of gender research in Sweden. The conference will stimulate cooperation among gender researchers from various academic disciplines and targets scholars, students, practitioners and activists. The aim of the conference is to facilitate critical investigation, sharing of experiences and to inspire to the formation of new ideas and research constellations.

The conference will consist of the participants’ contributions, and now we are inviting you to share your ideas for presentations. It can be panel sessions, open debates, paper presentations, round table discussions or any other type of presentation you can think of. Participants from all over the world are welcome to contribute. The conference will be conducted in Swedish and English, yet it is possible to propose presentations in other languages as well.

Gender research is always embedded in its context. The conference relates to current societal challenges, locally as well as globally, and discusses how gender research can contribute to analyse and integrate with the major events in the world we live in. The conference name – Boundaries, Mobility and Mobilization – refers to geopolitical, social and environmental processes that call for our attention and incite us to take action.

Boundaries, mobility and mobilization
We welcome problematizing in-depth discussions on borders, mobility and mobilization. The conference applies a broad interpretation of these concepts and sees them as encompassing issues and research fields related to, for example, gender, sexuality, globalization, economics, law, history etc. We also invite presentations on for example repression, oppression and constructions of meaning related to national borders, the epistemologies of minority positions, the colonial history of Scandinavia, but also resistance and mobilization against colonial oppression, reinstated national border controls and structural racism. Moreover, we welcome presentations on the disciplinary boundaries and mobility of gender research as well as contributions investigating how we can open for in-betweenness and transgression beyond binary notions of gender. Contributions analysing how gender research and feminist perspectives can be resources in creative and innovative projects as well as in the development of technologies, art, knowledge and critical perspectives in fields such as design and technical and natural sciences, cultural creation and cultural heritage will be appreciated.

The responsibility and ignorance of gender research
Five Swedish minority groups received state recognition in 1999: Jews, the Romani people, Sweden Finns, Tornedalers and the Sámi people, the latter of whom were also recognized as an indigenous people in the Swedish constitution. g16 – Boundaries, Mobility and Mobilization wants to acknowledge these groups and especially encourage presentations on the responsibility and traditional unawareness of gender research in relation to these minorities. In 2017, the centennial of the first international Sami congress will be celebrated. Presentations on this historical event as well as on Sami, feminist activism in a historical or contemporary perspective are most welcome at g16.

Research policy and conditions for gender research
In addition, we would like to stimulate critical researchers of all disciplines to give attention to the possibilities for research funding stipulated in the Swedish government’s new research bill (October 2016). g16 will therefore present and initiate a critical discussion on key aspects of the bill. The conference welcomes presentations on gender and research policy, research assessment and bibliometrics.

Submit your abstract
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) using https://www.conference2.ep.liu.se/ by 18 March 2016. Use g16’s keywords in your abstract to facilitate the organisation of the conference programme.

Keywords:
affect; climate; creation and cultural heritage; critical making; critical realism; cultural death; decolonialization; environment; environmental feminisms; environmental racism; feminist techno-studies; interventions in science, technology and design; feminist materialism; feminism; gender; indigenous feminisms; material imagination; material practices; migration; onto-epistemology; organization; post humanist; queer studies;
racism; reflexive, radical methodologies; refugees; research policy and conditions for research; Sámi feminisms; sex; sexualised violence; sexualities; teaching; technology; transgender studies; utopia; whiteness; working life