Past events
May 27, 2020 Online Seminar
Södertörn University
Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey
Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance
Presentation by Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich
Transnational solidarities from below: International Women’s Strike and the case of Turkey
December 11, 2019 at Gothenburg University, Department of Cultural Sciences
High seminar by Selin Cagatay
In this seminar Selin Cagatay will explore the notion of transnational solidarity from the standpoint of feminist activists in Turkey by analyzing the ongoing mobilization around the International Women’s Strike (IWS) since March 2017. Initiated by women from different parts of the world, IWS events took place in over 50 countries and comprised a range of protests from large scale labor strikes to solidarity statements. Within the scope of IWS, feminist activists in Turkey organized social media events and street actions where they protested male violence and femicide, militarism and war, neoliberalism, homophobia and transphobia, among other issues, emphasizing an intersectional take on feminism. More recently, in 2019, public debates around the possibilities of organizing a women’s strike in Turkey emerged. During the seminar IWS events will be discussed as examples of solidarity building from below, in the face of the worldwide rise of illiberal, authoritarian regimes and anti-gender mobilizations of the last decade, in that they take place without the mediation of states or transnational institutions and globally have been led by and/or addressed the issues of women of marginalized groups.
Shifting boundaries and new divisions: Gender studies and the changing conditions for knowledge production
Presentation in panel Exploring boundaries in Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies, at the University of Vienna, December 6, 2019
Mia Liinason
Taking departure in the shifting boundaries around the conditions for academic knowledge production, this presentation will evolve around two kinds of discourses that currently circulate in academic debates and explore the implications of these for gender studies scholars and critical scholarship today. While debates around conditions for knowledge production is crucial, I will critically engage with some of the implications of these current discourses and propose alternative modes of engagement.
Coloniality and the Sámi revival
December 5, 2019 at the University of Vienna (Austria)
Public lecture
In this lecture Mia Liinason investigates the role of religion as a form of resistance against colonization, drawing on collective memories and contemporary practices among actors involved in the Sámi revival in Finnmark, Norway. She will suggest the relevance to incorporate conceptualizations of religiosity in feminist studies more broadly and in feminist postcolonial theorizations of the global North more specifically. With the aim to examine how the Sámi revival function as a literal fight for survival against the threat of genocide/epistemicide in response to colonization (Grosfoguel 2013), she will juxtapose data collected during contemporary ethnographic fieldwork on the role of faith and spirituality in today’s Sámi revival and decolonial struggle, with counter-memories of the first known Sámi revival in the early to mid-19th century, a period characterized by violent colonial, racist and capitalist attempts of the Norwegian state and Protestant church to ‘civilize’ the Sámi people and appropriate the land. Ultimately, the lecture wishes to illuminate how the religious practices of the Sámi community expresses a form of resistance against colonization at the same time as they articulate an indigenous cosmology, based on ideas of conviviality, of living together across cultures and religions on borrowed land (Hawthorne 2014; Gilroy 2004; Bientie 2003).
Rethinking transnational feminist and queer movements through the perspective of small-scale, place-based and translocal activisms
December 4, 2019, at the University of Vienna
Lecture
In this lecture, Mia Liinason propose that we have much to gain analytically and politically from taking a step beyond intersectionality as an issue of multiple identities, moving closer to broader understandings of intersectionality, attending to the spatial and temporal contexts in which actions and relationships are immersed. Rooted in the theoretical contributions of Black feminist and queer critical race understandings from the 1960s, -70s, and -80s, she highlights the multiple genealogies of intersectional struggles and illuminate the central theoretical contribution of this approach. She hopes to give a sense of the complexities and tensions of intersectionality, rather than attempting to resolve them. Within this discussion, she will attend to the historical continuities of present-day intersectional struggles for social justice and bring forth the potentials and ambivalence of the body as both a site of social control and a site of agency.
Feminist and Queer Solidarities Beyond Borders
November 7, 2019, Project kick-off meeting in Oslo
On November 7, 2019, we held the kick-off meeting of the project Feminist and Queer Solidarities Beyond Borders in Oslo hosted by Norwegian Helsinki Committee. This two-year project is developed in collaboration between researchers from Spaces of Resistance (Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich) and our colleagues from Norway (Deniz Akin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Mina Wikshåland Skouen, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Norway) and Finland (Faith Mkwesha, University of Helsinki/ SahWira Africa International NGO). The project aims to bring together activists and scholars from Nordic countries, Russia and Turkey into a productive dialogue about how activists and researchers in these variegated locations challenge anti-gender and homophobic policies in times of political backlash against democracy and the rise of the far-right.
For further information see the project page: https://sites.google.com/view/spacesofresistance/feminist-and-queer-solidarities-beyond-borders?authuser=0
Transnational governmentality and the new precarious class of feminist and queer NGO activists
October 23, 2019 at Lund University, Department of Gender Studies
Seminar by Mia Liinason
Currently, NGO professionals gain access to wide national and international networks and platforms as community trainers and NGO experts, often under precarious conditions of employment. In this presentation Mia Liinason examined the construction of a new global class of precarious activists in transnational NGOs, and explored the subjects produced through such NGO work, seeing that these NGOs are not only mobilizing women and queers but are also involved in shaping them. Building further on postcolonial feminist and queer scholarship, the seminar highlighted the ambivalent, impure and hybrid nature of this professional class of feminist and queer activists, as they are simultaneously partners of states and positioned in opposition to states, involved in spectacular alliances with international capital, while they seek to empower the grassroots in diverse national contexts and argue for the superiority of the NGO-form, located above states and markets.
The meanings and limits of ‘the political’: Uses and contestations in feminist and LGBTI activism, arts and solidarities in Turkey, Russia, and Scandinavia
October 8, 2019
g19 - Swedish Conference for Gender Studies
Presenters: Hülya Arik, Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
On October 8, 2019, we presented some preliminary findings and reflections from our ongoing research project Spaces of resistance at g19 - Swedish Conference for Gender Studies in Gothenburg. Highlighting the variegated uses and contestations of the notion of the political in our research contexts, we drew on ethnographic material to explore the meanings and limits of the understanding of the political among feminist and LGBTI activists in the respective contexts. Departing from our engagement with activist and artistic knowledge we suggested ways to broaden the term “political”, away from state-centred ideas limited to a sphere of institutional politics, to more radical, multi-sited and open-ended meanings. We discussed how such an approach enables us to better address the range of complexities involved, attending to possibilities and contingencies in these diverse women's, feminist and LGBTI activisms, art practices and solidarities.
Forum ”Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Popular/Populist Discourse: Transnational Perspectives”, Tartu, June 25-29 2019
In the end of June, the Transforming Values: Gender, Religiosities and Secularities across the Globe network attended the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) in Tartu. In the conference, we organised the third network meeting and the forum “Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Popular/Populist Discourse: Transnational Perspectives”, with presentations by Mara Matta and Eline Huygens and responses by Maki Kimura and Lieke Schrijvers. The forum was moderated by Nella van den Brandt.
Workshop Challenging Nordic exceptionalisms, May 8-10, 2019
On May 8-10 we hosted the second workshop within Transforming Identities Project (https://www.uis.no/forskning-og-ph-d/kjonn-og-identitet/transforming-identities/ ) where we explored how notions of identity and debates around identity politics serve to reproduce, problematize or transform various forms of exceptionalisms situated within and moving between different sites in the Nordic region and beyond. We discussed how models and ideologies of exceptionalisms and their consequences manifest throughout the Nordic contexts as well as their global reach; how power, privilege and inequalities – old and new – are articulated and experienced, and how they are or might be challenged, and by who.
The workshop was attended by 23 participants from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Palestina, Sweden and US. The program included two public events with special guests - a public conversation on coloniality and decoloniality Land, exceptionalism and tactics of resistance between Palestinian artist Rana Bishara and Prof. Tommaso Milani (the photo on top) and a keynote lecture Decolonial Feminist and Queer of Color Theorizations: Artivisms and Activisms in the US and France by Paola Bacchetta, Professor of gender and women’s studies, University of California, Berkeley (the photo at the bottom).
Bringing together research on and practices of identity politics in different parts of the world, the workshop participants engaged in a critical exploration of Nordic exceptionalisms in order to foster a broader dialogue between different ways of seeing, locating and challenging “the Nordic”.
Public event: Varieties of religions and secularities: The case of equal rights
March 4, 2019, Time: 4-7 pm, Location: 115 Galton Lecture Theatre, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London
The Transforming Values: Gender, Religiosities and Secularities across the Globe network organised their second event in collaboration with the UCL Gender and Feminism Research Network and the Spaces of Resistance project.
In this interactive public workshop, two guest speakers: Dr Sian Hawthorne, Lecturer in Critical Theory and the Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); and Dr Aneeta Rajendran, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi each gave a talk examining the complex relation between gender, religion, and secularity. Through their talks and discussions involving network members and the audience, chaired by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz, Professur of Gender Studies, University of Vienna, the workshop sought to challenge the religion and secularity binarism, among other things by highlighting how gender has been formulated through colonialism in relation to this binarism; by exploring the relation between the women's rights movement and the religious movement, and by considering masculinity and femininity within the framework of Hinduism and other beliefs as religion and cultural systems.
Cultural politics, arts and resistance in Turkey
February 20, 2019, 15:15 - 17.00, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, Vasa 1
In this seminar, Hülya Arik (University of Gothenburg) and Isil Eğrikavuk (Universität der Künste, Berlin) presented on interrelated issues on cultural politics, arts and resistance in Turkey through their own academic research. Eğrikavuk will talk about collectivity in artistic production as a form of resistance by drawing from examples of Gezi protests in Turkey in 2013. She discussed notions of 'neighbourhood' and 'neighborliness' in searching for ways of sustaining hope and solidarity. Arik’s talk focused on the unprecedented rise of the Islamic and visual arts scene in Istanbul in the past decade and the parallel transformations of cultural institutions and policy at local and national levels. She explored the multilayered processes involved in the formation of a new creative industry and a new creative class, and the paradoxes experienced in the practice of artistic creativity within the framework of a tradition that heavily weighs on a Sunni Turkish national identity.
Credit: Işıl Eğrikavuk, Time To Sing a New Song, YAMA, 2016, İstanbul
Killjoy feminism through contemporary art
Workshop by Isil Egrikavuk, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, Vasa 2 February 18th, 13:00-16:00
Taking Sara Ahmed's killjoy feminism and "personal is theoretical" as departure points, this workshop brought participants to walk through the thin line between theorising and practising feminist-selves. Breathing, meditating, writing and performing were crucial elements of this three our workshop where participants looked back into their personal histories, to moments of joy and regret, to think of a feminism that is still joyfully "killjoy" yet compassionate, accepting and caring to oneself by recognizing one's own limits and vulnerabilities. Egrikavuk introduced works of several feminist contemporary artists, and facilitated a performance artwork at the end of workshop that made the participants connect with each other through laughter, and memories and fantasies of becoming a feminist. Learning collectively through our bodies and emotions were important outcomes of this workshop. (Reading: Sara Ahmed, 2017, Living a Feminist Life. Duke University Press, Chapter 1) Please check out the photos and reflections from the event here!
Two sides of a coin: A reading of contemporary and traditional art practices in Turkey
February 15th, 2019, 15.30- 17.30, Glashuset, Valand Academy Gothenburg, Sweden
In this talk Hülya Arık (University of Gothenburg) and Işıl Eğrikavuk (Berlin University of the Arts) reflected on their research and artistic practices on the two (seemingly) oppositional practices in the art scene in Turkey, addressing how they take up questions of cultural heritage, ownership, conservatism and nationality. Eğrikavuk presented on her own artistic research and on a selection of projects in the contemporary art scene in Turkey. Arık on the other hand presented her preliminary reflections of an ethnographic research on the Islamic/traditional visual arts scene in Istanbul. Through their presentations, and also with inspiring questions from the audience, Egrikavuk and Arik had a productive dialogue on the social and political forces that shape the differentiated practice of both contemporary and traditional arts from a transnational perspective.
This event is organized as part of PARSE Dialogue series and in collaboration with the Cultural Sciences Department at the University of Gothenburg. Video recording of the event will soon be available at https://metapar.se/videos/
Feminist Interventions in the Neoliberal University
Workshop with Maria do Mar Pereira (University of Warwick) and Paula Mählck (Stockholm University)
Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg
February 8, 13.15 – 16.00
In this workshop we took the neoliberal university as the point of departure for discussions around the 'altered reproduction' of inequality patterns in academia, as racism, sexism, homo/transphobia and misogyny appear at the intersection between everyday practices and institutional routines (Gutiérrez-Rodríguez 2016).
Focusing on dilemmas within the so-called performative university, our speakers highlighted questions of compliance, resistance and solidarity within and beyond the neoliberal university. Workshop participants contributed to the discussion by reading the suggested texts (below) and bringing in their comments and questions.
Speakers: Paula Mählck (Stockholm University) and Maria do Mar Pereira (University of Warwick).
Co-chairs: Olga Sasunkevich and Mia Liinason.
Readings:
Leathwood, Carol and Barbara Read (2013) ”Research policy and academic performativity: compliance, contestation and complicity” Studies in Higher Education vol 38, no. 8.
Mählck, Paula (2018) ”Racism, precariousness and resistance: Development-aid funded PhD-training in Sweden”, Postcolonial Directions in Eudcation 7(1), 11-36.
Pereira, Maria do Mar (2017), "«Man kan känna utmattningen i luften»": Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, vol. 38 no 4. English version: “«You can feel the exhaustion in the air all around»”.
Feminist and LGBTI activism in Turkey, Russia and Scandinavia. Situating struggles in neo- and transnational contexts
Higher Seminar Presentation
December 12, 2018
Location: Vasa 1, Dept of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg
Speakers: Hülya Arik, Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
In this seminar, we presented ongoing research and preliminary findings from the project. We highlighted the complexities and complicities that emerge in our research and reflected on the usefulness of shifting perspectives for an understanding of the multifaceted dynamics that arise, as we attempt to move beyond national states and state-centrism, through the use of a transnational and multiscalar approach. Attending to possibilities and contingencies in locally situated feminist and LGBTI struggles, this presentation illuminated how these departures take shape in the theoretical, methodological and empirical levels of the project.
The Nobel Prize, Swedish Academia and Feminist Challenges to Institutionalization
A discussion-based seminar
Date and time: 10.15-12.00 December 10, 2018
Venue: Room Vasa 1, Department of Cultural Sciences
Why, how, and when should feminist projects get involved in institutions? Is there a difference between different institutions in this regard? Is there a limit for what we can expect from the institution?
Participants shared their reflections on these and other questions, based in their experiences and visions of academic feminism. We were focusing on structural factors, seeking to develop our understanding of collective resistances and solidarities. Introduction: Mia Liinason
Read: Ahmed, Sara (2018) ”Confrontation?” Blog post May 4, available at: https://feministkilljoys.com/2018/05/04/confrontation/
In this text, Ahmed reflects on the dangers of institutional polishing, of a plain defence of the institution, and when work inside of the institution becomes a restoration project. It offers a useful starting point for a discussion about the role and function of academic feminism in the complexities of today’s academic life, among other things characterised by the threat of extinction from the far right and the threat of assimilation from the neoliberal academy, in addition to the continued existence of institutional racism and sexism and a westernized and colonial canon.
Welcome!
As a part of the celebration of 40 years of feminist teaching and scholarship at the University of Gothenburg, the Gender Studies unit in collaboration with the Spaces of Resistance project at the Department of Cultural Sciences organized a symposium:
Feminist knowledge production and struggles against the far-right
December 7 2018
9.30-12.30
Location: Dept. of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, room Vasa 1
Speakers: Maja Sager and Marta Kolankiewicz (Lund University); Faith Mkwesha (Åbo Akademi University Turku/Helsinki University) ; Stine H Bang Svendsen (NTNU). Co-chairs: Mia Liinason and Lena Martinsson
Maja Sager is associate senior lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies (Lund University). Together with Marta Kolankiewicz, researcher at the Department of Gender Studies (Lund University), they work on the project The court as an emerging arena for struggles against and about racism. The project explores courts as an emerging arena on which political and social contestations over racism take place in Sweden, with the purpose to understanding what kind of space courts provide for protection from and debate about racism, and to deepen our insights around how different forms of activism involving anti-racism, but also racism, are mobilised.
Faith Mkwesha is a postdoctoral researcher in gender studies at Åbo Akademi University, Turku and senior lecturer in gender studies at Helsinki University. She is also the founder and director of the NGO SahWira Africa International, fighting for women’s and girl’s rights against racism, poverty and violence. Established in 2017, the foundation of the NGO was inspired by the shared experience of racism and the need to mobilise against it, lack of community to support African, black and women of colour and lack of a network to support immigrant women.
Stine H Bang Svendsen is associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Interested in feminist pedagogies, Stine’s research interests include questions of race, racism and coloniality in education; sexuality and sex education; LGBT Issues and Movements; and ethnic and racial diversity and integration. Currently, her research focuses on how sexuality, gender and race come to matter in current Nordic cultural politics and education and she has published about sexuality in Norwegian immigration policy, and the role of LGBT issues in new northern European immigration discourses and policies, and gender equality more generally.
The entanglements of religiosities and secularities in the media, culture and arts
10th European Feminist Research Conference, Göttingen University 14/9 2018
As the first public event organized by the network Transforming Values, this panel invited interdisciplinary and open conversations on the intricate dynamics of secularity/religiosity.
The panel examined how religiosity/secularity is produced and circulated in culture and media. It opened with the keynote "Blasphemous Art, (Trans*)gender Debate and the Religious/Secular Divide" by Professor Anne-Marie Korte, drawing on examples such as Drag Sethlas and female punk artists. This was followed by a round table discussion with Olga Sasunkevich, Maki Kimura, Konstanze Hanitzsch and Mariecke van den Berg. The round table looked at cases including "The Beard Pictures" of Gilbert & George; Pussy Riot; Björk's Utopia; Ecce Homo by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin and explored wide-ranging issues such as:
why Pussy Riot has become so prominent in the West and how it influences (questions) our ideas of religious/secular divides.
how normative male body characteristics, such as facial hair, are considered the expression of male identity whether religious or secular, while female bodies have been objectified and problematized.
whether Björk's latest album Utopia is initiating a new feminist materialist religion.
the challenges of hearing the voices at the margins, like religious LGBTs.
Mia Liinason and Sabine Grenz co-chaired the panel.
Secular risk governance and the cultural politics of Islam in Turkey
May 28, 2018, 10:15, 2427C, Department of Cultural Sciences, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, University of Gothenburg
Lecture by Hülya Arik
In this lecture, Arik talked about her doctoral research on the securitisation of Islam in Turkey through gendered and corporeal practices within the social spaces of Turkish military bases from the 1980s to the end of 2000s. This research demonstrated the lived experience of a religious/secular divide as mobilised by the Turkish military's secularist security discourse, which, as a form of governance, constructed notions of security and risk through women's bodies and daily practices. Arik's current research is on women practitioners of Islamic visual arts, which is also a cultural practice that has been perceived as a part of religious revival in Turkey. Looking closely into this art form that is now being coopted into conservative populist discourses of the AKP, Arik explores how women artists use the space of creative freedom in negotiating and resisting against the mandates of mainstream hegemonic and religious nationalism.
--Hülya Arik is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender Studies, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg
Transnational solidarities: Gender and sexualities beyond geopolitics
May 23-24, 2018, Workshop, Ågrenska villan, Högåsplatsen 2, Gothenburg
In this workshop we examined possibility for transnational solidarities beyond geopolitics. We wanted particularly to explore the commonalities between context-specific experiences of gender and sexualities as well as the particularities of gender and sexualities in different geopolitical contexts, including Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Scandinavian countries and the post-Yugoslavian republics.
We had two full days of engaging discussions with participants from different geographical contexts. We talked about the lived transnational gendered and sexual geopolitical realities and imaginations, and explored questions around the potentials and possibilities of transnational solidarities in today’s polarized world. While scrutinizing the ambiguity of geopolitics in studies of sexuality and gender, we searched for tools that can engage with the entanglements of global inequalities; and tried develop approaches that can make solidarity happen beyond political borders through use of feminist, queer and decolonial theories to challenge the West-East/North-South geopolitical dichotomies.
We formed an editorial team and are currently developing plans to publish a special issue in an academic journal. Details will follow.
Doing gender politics in times of desecularization and authoritarian governance: New forms of feminist and LGBTQ struggles in today’s Turkey
May 16, 2018, 15.15-17 Vasa 1, Department of Cultural Sciences, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, University of Gothenburg.
Guest lecture by Selin Cagatay
Cagatay started this lecture by talking about the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) authoritarian turn in 2010s and the accompanying institutionalization of Islamism where the notion of equality ceased to inform the state's gender policies as secularity itself got discredited, labeled as an imposed-from-above principle of Western modernity. In response to these developments, Cagatay discussed various means of challenging and resisting that feminist and LGBTQ activists have sought, including grassroots organizing, initiating powerful social media campaigns, infiltrating other (oppositional) social movements, and building coalitions across the political spectrum. Focusing on various examples of feminist and LGBTQ activism, Cagatay explored the political implications of new forms of feminist and LGBTQ struggles in Turkey with regard to processes of desecularization and authoritarian governance through questions such as: How is the relationship between secularity and gender equality being (re)articulated by different actors in feminist and LGBTQ activism in contemporary Turkey? What are the underlying assumptions of gender equality struggles in relation to modernity, Westernization, and religion? How are these struggles shaped by factors such as actors' national/ethnic and cultural/religious belongings?
--Selin Çağatay is Guest Professor in Gender Studies at the Central European University Hungary, and she was a visiting scholar in our department in May and June 2018.
Gendered Illnesses of the ‘Sick Man’: Modernisation debates in the Ottoman women’s movements.
April 16, 2018, 10.15-12.00 Department of Cultural Sciences, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, University of Gothenburg.
Guest lecture by Demet Gulcicek
In this lecture, Gulcicek talked about her doctoral research project on the constitutions of the category of woman in the feminist magazine named Kadınlar Dünyası (Women’s World) which was published by a group of Ottoman-Turkish women in 1913. Taking this journal as part of first wave feminism, Gulcicek explored how the activist women of the magazine negotiated the modernisation process in relation to women’s rights discourse. She first discussed the changing meanings of ethnicity and religion by and for women of the magazine, and secondly focused on everyday life practices such as dressing, marriage, and participating to public life were represented in re-signifying the category of woman through the negotiations of modernisation.
--Demet Gulcicek is a PhD-candidate in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Warwick) and a visiting scholar at our Department, in April 2018.
Ethics in feminist and gender research: Workshop with invited guests
March 19, 2018 (all day)
10.15-15.00 (2427B, Department of Cultural Sciences, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, University of Gothenburg)
Lunch break 12.00-13.15
This workshop focused on ethical dilemmas in feminist and gender research with a special interest for ethnographic fieldwork and on legislative dimensions. We saw this as an opportunity to share questions and learn from each other’s experiences. During the first part of the workshop, Maria Stern presented some of her experiences of ethical dilemmas in ethnographic fieldwork. After this, participants were invited to contribute with questions and further reflections on the theme. During the second part of the workshop, Nils-Eric Sahlin gave an introduction to ethical dilemmas in relation to legislation. After this, participants contributed to the discussion by sharing questions, experiences and reflections.
--Maria Stern is Professor in Peace and Development Studies at the University of Gothenburg.
--Nils-Eric Sahlin is Professor in Medical Ethics at Lund University and chair of the state’s medical-ethical council (SMER).
Politics, limits and dangers of visibility – Reflecting on challenges and responsibilities of visual digital research
February 13, 2018 (all day)
Lecture and workshop with Adi Kuntsman
Lecture: 10.15-12.00 (E322, Humanisten, University of Gothenburg)
This talk brought together Kuntsman’s past and current work on social media politics and digital cultures to reflect on the politics, limits and dangers of on-line visibility, in particular where visual digital research concerns precarious subjects (migrants, refugees, activists) or victims of military, police and civilian racist violence.
Digital Ethnography Workshop
14.15-17.00 (Vasa 2, Department of Cultural Sciences, Vera Sandbergs Allé 8, University of Gothenburg)
This workshop provided participants with insights on various aspects of online ethnography, from approaches and research design, to mapping of how to manage online data. During the first part of the workshop, Adi Kuntsman gave an introduction to doing ethnography in a digital environment. During the second part of the workshop, participants contributed to the theme with a specific question of their choice.
Organized in collaboration with Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg.
--Adi Kuntsman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Languages, Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Workshop: Postsecularity and Gender Studies
June 8, 2017
Preparing the network Transforming values with a public workshop at the University of Vienna.
#FeministFive: Connecting contemporary global activist movements and independent feminist activism in China
Research seminar with Elisabeth Engebretsen, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg.
March 22, 2017
--Elisabeth Engebretsen is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, at the Centre for Gender Studies, Oslo University and was a visiting scholar at the Department in February and March 2017.
Workshop Methodology at risk: Power and danger in ethnographic fieldwork
March 7, 2017
Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg.
Gendered and historical aspects of shame. Analysing women’s diaries at the end of the Second World War
October 5, 2016
Research seminar with Sabine Grenz, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Sabine Grenz is Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria and was a visiting scholar at the Department in the fall 2016 and spring 2017.
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