Thursday seminars

The Centre for Gender Research has a seminar series on Thursdays, open for all interested in gender and gender research. The Thursday seminars reflect the breath of gender research and touch upon different research areas. The seminars aim to create cross-disciplinary meetings between researchers and between researchers and students.

This semester's seminars are held via Zoom. Registration required! Click on the links below for more information about each seminar.

Programme autumn 2021

16 SEPTEMBER
What is kinship in the age of assisted reproduction? Blood, intent and everything in-between
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne, Professor of Ethnology at the Department of Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University.

7 OCTOBER
Two presentations by previous Master students' thesis work at the Centre for Gender Research:

”It’s like someone makes your entire existence invalid”: A study of non-binary people’s experiences of embodiment and negotiating institutional lines
Lo Jatko Mührer

A/Wakening, Healing and Caring in the Pandemic Borderland(s) - Theorizing an Emancipating, Pleasurable and Restful Black femme form in Gender Studies
Agnese Noah

28 OCTOBER
From stereotype to entrepreneur: Exploring the logics at play in gendering and racializing the geek
Eva Silfver, Professor of Education at the Department of Education, Umeå University

16 DECEMBER
Demanding visibility? Queer perspectives on foreign and development policy and LGBTQ activism
Emil Edenborg, Associate senior lecturer in gender studies at Stockholm University and postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs