GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES

Announcement and call for papers

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