GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES Announcement and call for papers The first Nordic conference on  gender and violence November 23-24, 2001, Køge, Danmark www.norfa.no/konogvold INVITATION We have the great pleasure to invite you to the first Nordic conference on  gender and violence. The conference will take place in Køge south of  København, Denmark, November 23-24, 2001. It is arranged by the Nordic  Council of Ministers' research programme "Gender and violence" to mark that  the first Nordic research programme in the field of gender and violence has  now started. One of the aims of the programme is to connect small and dispersed research  communities in the Nordic countries and to support Nordic development of  this sphere of competence and research training. We hope that the  conference can provide all researchers and research students active in the  filed of gender and violence in the Nordic countries with a place to meet  and that it will give many opportunities for networking and sharing of  results, ideas and information. Welcome to Køge, København, Denmark! Aili Nenola Chairperson of the programme committee, "Gender and Violence - a Nordic research programme 2000-2004" Important dates: Deadline for abstracts: September 1, 2001 Deadline for payment: September 15, 2001 PROGRAMME The conference theme gender and violence in the Nordic countries will be explored in plenaries about * Victimization * Parenthood * Masculinity * "Culture" and "cultures" Plenary speakers include: Else Christensen (Denmark), Jeff Hearn (Finland), Eva Lundgren (Sweden), Inger Lövkrona (Sweden), Gudrun Nordborg (Sweden), Sylvia Walby (UK) WORKSHOPS Researchers and research students are invited to present papers within the programme's prioritised areas of research: * 1. Power, violence, sexuality and victimization as a gender specific process. * 2. Parenthood, gender and violence: parenthood as a gendered social institution. * 3. Masculinity and violence as mutually constituting one another and cultural definitions of sexuality which privilege men's and subordinate women's sexuality. * 4. The implications of "culture" and of "cultures" for the link  between gender and violence. Furthermore, researchers who want to co-ordinate workshops, or groups of researchers and research students who want to organise workshops on specific themes, are invited to give suggestions on workshops to programme co-ordinator Maria Eriksson (address below), Papers can be presented in Danish, English, Norwegian or Swedish. The conference starts with lunch on Friday, November 23, and finishes with  a joint dinner on Saturday evening, November 24 (with possibilities to stay until Sunday, November 25). Further information and the registration form, see www.norfa.no/konogvold Secretariat Registration/payment: Morten Bennum NorFA Holbergs gate 1 NO - 0166 Oslo Norway Tel: + 47 23 35 45 63 Fax + 47 23 35 45 45 morten.bennum@norfa.no Plenaries/workshops: Maria Eriksson Department of Sociology Uppsala University Box 821 SE - 751 08 Uppsala Sweden Tel: + 46 18 471 34 55 Fax + 46 18 471 11 70 maria.eriksson@soc.uu.se