Thank you to everyone for a successful conference!!
The two-day international conference entitled "Why Gender?" brings together both Finnish and international scholars from a number of different disciplines to participate in intellectual discussion regarding future directions gender theory could take. The conference is conceived as a starting point for future networking on this topic. The continued importance of gender as a social category in the late modern world prompts us to ask the oft-forgotten question: why? As researchers in the humanities whose studies are firmly grounded in empirical data, we are primarily concerned with how gender is theorized within our disciplines, as well as how gender researchers can both draw upon and contribute to theories in areas outside the humanities, for example social studies.
The organizer of the conference is the project “Strategic Practices: Hidden Histories of Gender in Finland 1880–2005”, funded by the Academy of Finland’s research programme Power in Finland. We are a multidisciplinary team of seven researchers (ethnologists, historians and folklorists) from University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki. The project director is Prof. Laura Stark from the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä.
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Conference Programme:
Friday October 9, location Agora-building
11:00 – 12:00 Conference check-in and payment of dinner (25€ in cash) (Entrance hall)
12:00 – 12:15 Welcome and opening (Auditorium 2)
12:15 – 13:15 Keynote presentation: Dr. Wendy Cealey Harrison: Why gender? (Auditorium 2)
13:15 – 14:15 Keynote presentation: Prof. Jeff Hearn: Being, Working, Politicising, Thinking Gender: Embodiment/Virtuality, Intersectionalities, Transpatriarchies (Auditorium 2)
14:15 – 15:00 Coffee break (Piato), free for presenters and session organizers
15:00 – 17:00 Sessions
17:00 – 18:30 Reception in Agora's entrance hall (free for presenters, session organizers and invited quests)
18:30 – Dinner at Hotel Alba (for those who have reserved in advance)
Saturday October 10, location Agora-building
9:00 – 12:00 Sessions
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee, fruit & chocolates (just outside session rooms)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and coffee at hotel Alba or Wilhelmina dining commons
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote presentation: Dr. Sally Hines: Who’s Gender?: Towards a Theory and Politics of Gender Diversity (Auditorium 2)
14:00 – 15:30 Final panel and general discussion (Auditorium 2)
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Sessions and locations:
* Discources on gender in medieval and early modern Europe (AgC222.1)
Chair: Marianna Muravyeva (Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
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* Gender, care and agency (AgC221.1)
Chairs: Helena Hirvonen & Marita Husso & Tuija Virkki (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
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* Gender, community and authorship (AgC233.1)
Chairs: Dr. Phil Kati Launis (University of Turku, Finland)& Dr. Phil Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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* Gender, War and Nationalism (AgC234.1)
Chairs: Ilona Kemppainen & Kirsi Mäki (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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* Masculinities and performativity (AgD121.1)
Organizer: Strategic practice-project, contact person: Professor Laura Stark (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Chair: Professor Jeff Hearn (Hanken School of Economics)
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* New directions in practice and performativity (AgC132.1)
Chairs: Phil Lic. Pasi Saarimäki & MA Arja Turunen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland).
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* What is gender? (AgC133.1)
Organizer: Strategic practice-project, contact person: MA. Arja Turunen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Chair: PhD Saara Tuomaala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
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* Sexuality and reproduction (AgC221.1)
Chair: Lic. Phil. Heli Niskanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
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* Strange bedfellows: feminist theory and historical research (AgC134.1)
Chairs: MA Heidi Kurvinen & MA Niina Timosaari (University of Oulu, Finland)
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* Gendered Power Structures (AgC231.1)
Chair: Professor Laura Stark (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
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Further information regarding the sessions schedules will appear throughout the autumn.
Last update 14.10.2009.
