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CfA: GEXcel Fellowships: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism (Örebro University & Linköping University); DL: 15.12.2009

GEXcel Fellowships for Scholars
Research Theme 10: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism
Application Deadline15 December 2009

Örebro University and Linköpings University of Sweden are pleased to announce the continuation of the five-year project supported to establish a Centre of Gender Excellence–Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment. With support from the Swedish Research Council GEXcel is carrying out new research as part of its development of a more permanent Sweden-based European Collegium for Advanced Transnational and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies.
A Visiting Fellows Programme has been organized to attract scholars from Sweden and abroad with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, who will carry out thematically organized, joint gender research, under the direction of one of the six professors in Sweden who are responsible for the programme and working in collaboration with invited senior researchers.
In 2010, one research theme will be “Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir Continue reading

Symposium: „Distinctions and Authority: Specifying and Contextualizing the Orders of Distinction and the Recognition of Authority“ (8-9.10.09, Linkoeping, Sweden); DL: 01.09.09

Call for participation: one-day GEXcel Symposium:“Distinctions and Authority: Specifying and Contextualizing the Orders of Distinction and the Recognition of Authority“. Deadline for registration: September 1, 2009.
A one-day symposium on“Distinctions and Authority: Specifying and Contextualizing the Orders of Distinction and the Recognition of Authority“ will be held on October 8-9 2009, at T Building, Linköping University (Sweden). The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 3: Distinctions and Authorization (for more details on Theme 3).
The emerging new global division of labor is both gendered and based on ethnic divisions. It is also creating new class structures which are complicated by regional difference and educational stratification, as well as the gender division of labor and migration. This development coincides with the tertiarization of work and new employment arrangements that could be connected with the shift in power relations between socioeconomic groups.
This development calls for a more intensive discussion of the new distinctions or social categories of various kinds and how to study them simultaneously. The analytical value of the gender concept has increasingly been problematized in gender research and debate. Today this relativizing may be said to have reached new depths in the call for Continue reading