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The Gender Lab
In the fall of 2010, the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research, Delegation for Gender Equality in Higher Education (DJ), granted 1.5 million SEK for the project The Gender Lab: Gender Conscious Research Careers Across the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences.
Is there life after PhD?
What does an academic career look like today for men and women within the natural sciences and the humanities? What can we learn across the disciplines? How to shape a creative, collaborative and competitive research environment? Pursuant to Swedish law, women and men have the same possibilities to create their future in academia, but in real life things look a lot different. - As nobody really wants inequality, why does it keep happening anyway? What can we do about it?
Experimental attitudes at Linköping and Stockholm University
Guided by curiosity, gender pedagogy and a flair for the experimental approach, The Gender Lab offers PhD-students, postdocs and research leaders (at Linköping and Stockholm University), women and men, social and natural scientists and cultural scholars a toolbox for creating gender conscious research careers!
The project consists of customised labs (workshops) for select participants, public lectures (open for all at Linköping University and Stockholm University) and a scientific follow-up. The Gender Lab project runs until fall 2012.
Do YOU want strategic career advice?
Do you need tips to navigate and challenge the existing gender inequalities in your research group or in academia in general? Are you a PhD-student, post doc or research leader, curious and open to cross-disciplinary dialogue? Then, do not hesitate to enrol in The Gender Lab!
Contact:
Linnea Bodén, Linköping University: linnea.boden@liu.se
Project leaders:
Cecilia Åsberg , Linköping University: cecilia.asberg@liu.se
Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Stockholm University: hillevi.lenz-taguchi@ped.su.se
The Gender Lab events
How to create a gender equal and creative research enviroment
November 3rd, 13:00-16:00, Room: Forum Library, Tema Building, Linköping University
Workshop with Prof. Anna Wahl, Dr. Sofie Linghan and Associate Prof. Charlotte Holgersson. Please register with Linnea Boden.
Gender Searching for support and survival in gendered academia
September 30th, 13:15-16:00, Room: Forum Library, Tema Building, Linköping University
The Gender Lab workshop with Prof. Liisa Husu will focus on post/doctoral futures. Please register with Linnea Boden
Open Lecture with Cynthia Kraus: Making Sex, Making Science: Gender as an Engine of Discovery
June 10th, 15:00-17:00h, Ahlmannsalen Geovetarhuset, Stockholm University
Cynthia Kraus, philosopher, isTenured Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for social sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (http://www.unil.ch/iss).
Her research areas include gender and sexuality studies, and science & medicine studies, with special interest for the intersections and tensions between scientific knowledge production, clinical practice, discourses and actions from medicalized people, as well as for the critical and normative tasks of the social sciences and humanities in societal debates.
For further information, please contact Linnea Bodén, project secretary, at: linnea.boden@liu.se
Collective biograhy. A creative research environment: opportunities and difficulties
May 3rd, 15:00-17:00, Geovetarhuset, SU. Lab 1, Linköping University
Please register with Linnea Boden
Collective biograhy. A creative research environment: opportunities and difficulties
May 2nd, 13:00- 17:00, Jordan Fermi, LiU. Lab 1, Linköping University
Please register with Linnea Boden
The Gender Lab Open Lecture: Sex och kön hos djur – Genus i upplösning.
April 13, 13:00-15:00, Plancksalen, Linköping University
Måns Andersson Genusforskare inom beteende- och evolutionsbiologi, Tema G, Linköpings universitet.
Please register with Linnea Boden
The Gender Lab Kick off: Is there life after PhD? Gender in the academy
April 13, 13:00-17:00, Plancksalen & D315, Linköping University
Please register with Linnea Boden
The 'posthumanities', however, seems to me a useful notion for tracking scholarly conversations
Donna Haraway 2008: 308.
'Human' is definitely not a neutral or innocent category, but a highly gendered and racialized one
Mette Bryld & Nina Lykke 2000: 33.
"What is 'The Human' of the Humanities today?" Listen to a pod cast by Rosi Braidotti (2009)
"Re-thinking the human sciences", see video lecture with Srinivas Aravamudan and Rosi Braidotti (2012)
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Translations of translations...
"Posthumanistiska nyckeltexter" (2012) - an introduction to, and translations of posthumanist keytexts by Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, Michel Callon, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Serres and Annemarie Mol - in Swedish.
Post-humanities issue of NORA
Read about posthumanist gender studies in the 2011:4 issue of
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Transdisciplinary Seminars at the Gender Lab
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Events archive
By ’posthumanist’ I mean to signal the crucial recognition that nonhumans play an important role in naturalcultural practices, including everyday social practices, scientific practices, and practices that do not include humans. But also, beyond this, my use of posthumanism marks a refusal to take the distinction between ’human’ and ’nonhuman’ for granted, and to found analysis on this presumably fixed and inherent set of categories. Any such hardwiring precludes a geneological investigation into the practices through which humans and nonhumans are delineated and differently constituted. A posthumanist performative account worth its salt must also avoid cementing the nature-culture dichotomy into its foundations, thereby enabling a geneaological analysis of how these crucial distinctions are materially and discursively produced.
Karen Barad 2007: 32
Interviews Master students 2012
“Inspiration is provided by the teachers”
Gender studies on facebook
About Gender Studies
Gender Studies is an inter- and transdisciplinary research unit focusing on issues regarding gender in history and society. Education in Gender Studies: under graduate level, graduate level (Ph.D).
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cecilia.asberg@liu.se
Last updated: 2012-11-03
