Workshop programmes

Place: Universitetet i Oslo, Blindern: Niels Treschows hus, HF-12

Address: Niels Henrik Abels vei 36

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Friday 25 August 2017

10:15-11:00
Meeting organizing committee

11:00-11:45 
Arrival and registration

11:45-12:15
Lunch

12:15-12:30
WELCOME

Beatrice Halsaa (Oslo University) and Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University)

12:30-14:00
KEYNOTE 

Chair: Suvi Keskinen (University of Turku/ Helsinki University)

Transversal Mourning and Coloniality: Towards Transformative Justice for Common Futures 
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez (Justus-Liebig-University)

14:00-14:15
Coffee/Tea

14:15-16:00
PAPER SESSION 1

Chair: Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University)
Discussant: Mia Liinasson (Gothenburg University)

The ‘Crisis’ of White Hegemony, Neonationalist Femininities and Antiracist Feminism 
Suvi Keskinen (University of Turku/ Helsinki University)

Dilemmas of citizenship: New Challenges for Feminism in Times of Right-wing Mobilization
Birte Siim (Aalborg University)

16:00-16:15 
Coffee/Tea

16:15-18:15 
PAPER SESSION 2

Chair: Suvi Keskinen, (University of Turku/ Helsinki University)
Discussant: Stine Bang Svendsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Making noise, making room: tackling the whiteness norm in the Finnish LGBTI movement
Nina Järviö (Helsinki University

Marching for pride? Towards a history of lgbt activist visibility in Norway
Elisabeth Engebretsen (Oslo University)

19:00
Workshop dinner
Place: Niels Treschows hus, HF-12

Saturday 26 August 2017

08.30-10:00
KEYNOTE

Chair: Beatrice Halsaa (Oslo University)

Decolonizing Feminism in the North
Keynote: Rauna Kuokkanen (University of Toronto)

10:00-10:15 
Coffee/Tea

10:15-12:15
PAPER SESSION 3

Chair: Beatrice Halsaa (Oslo University)
Discussant: Ina Knobblock (Lund University)

The Sami, Indigeneity and shades of whiteness
Astri Dankertsen (Bodø University)

Unhu-ubuntu indigenous feminism: Rethinking friendship and sisterhood in Nordic feminist practice
Faith Mkweshia (Helsinki University)

12:15-13:00 
Lunch

13:00-14:00
PAPER SESSION 4

Chair: Christel Stormhøj (Roskilde University)
Discussant: Elisabeth Stubberud (KUN centre for gender equality)

Mobilisation from below, integration from above? A study on the impact of the women's organisations in the Norwegian Anti-discrimination Reform
Johanna Hjertquist (Oslo University)

14:00-14:15
Coffee/Tea

14:15-16:15
PRESENTATION SESSION 

Chair: Diana Mulinari (Lund University)

Feminist Movement in Political Turbulences in the MENA
Susan Rakhsh (MiRA-centre)

Film
Amany El Gharib (FOKUS - Forum for kvinner og Utviklingsspørgsmål)

16:15-16:45
PUBLICATION BRAINSTORM

Chair: Beatrice Halsaa (Oslo University) and Diana Mulinari (Lund University)

Dinner (not arranged) 

Sunday 27 August 2017

09:45-10:00 
Coffee/Tea 

10:00-12:00 
APPLICATION BRAINSTORM

Chair: Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University)

12:00-12:30
Lunch

12:30-13:00
Goodbyes

13:00-
Meeting organizing committee

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Place: Lund University, Department of Gender Studies, Allhelgona kyrkogata 14 M, Lund

Friday 10 March 2017

10:15-11:00 
Meeting organizing committee 

11:00-11:45 
Arrival and registration 

11:45-12:15 
Lunch

12:15-12:20 
WELCOME
Diana Mulinari and Pauline Stoltz

12:20-15:00
PAPER SESSION 1

(Chair: Christel Stormhøj) 

The bodies of others in Swedish feminism
Diana Mulinari and Marta Cuesta
Discussant: Ulrika Dahl

The (Analytical) Abstraction of Lived Identities from the Body: Entering Conversations and Making Room(s) in the Neoliberal University  
Taveeshi Singh
Discussant: Elisabeth Engebretsen

Feminist resistance in the triangle of neoliberalism, conservatism and nationalism
Anna Elomäki and Johanna Kantola

15:00-15:15 
Coffee/Tea

15:15-18:00 
PAPER SESSION 2

(Chair: Christel Stormhøj)

Feminist Theories and Indigenous Perspectives: Challenges and Opportunities 
Astri Dankertsen
Discussant: Diana Mulinari

Dynamics of power, dynamics of struggle
Mia Liinason
Discussant: Cecilia Milwertz

Cancelled:
Feminist challenges to the reframing of equality and solidarity – an intersectional approach
Birte Siim
Discussant: Ulrika Dahl

19:00- 
Workshop dinner

Saturday 11 March 2017

08:30-10:00
KEYNOTE BY FAKHRA SALIMI

(Chair: Beatrice Halsaa)

21st cenury Nordic feminism – how does it embrace diversity?

10:00-10:15 
Coffee/Tea

10:15-12:00
PANEL 1 ANTIRACIST AND QUEER FEMINISM 

(Chair: Suvi Keskinen)

Participants: Nazila Kivi, Lesley-Ann Brown, Astrid Dankersten, Hansalbin Sältenberg 

12:00-12:45 
Lunch

12:45-13:00
POEM

(Chair: Suvi Keskinen)

Cunt-tree- Road Map to Liberation 
Lesley-Ann Brown

13:00-14:30 
KEYNOTE BY CHANDRA MOHANTY

(Chair: Diana Mulinari)

Walls, Borders, Bridges:  Cartographies of Violence and Transnational Feminist Critique

14:30-14:45 
Coffee/Tea

14:45-15:15
PRESENTATION SESSION

(Chair: Beatrice Halsaa)

The gender perspective on securing rights for refugee and minority women
Uzma Ahmed

15:15-16:45 
PANEL 2 FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY

(Chair: Pauline Stoltz; organizer: Diana Mulinari)

Paula Mulinari; Anna Elomäki; May-Britt Öhman; Riya Raphel

Sunday 12 March 2017

08:15-09:45
PAPER SESSION 3

(Chair Pauline Stoltz)

Contested spaces in German Feminist classrooms: experiences and survival strategies of students of color in Germany  
Sheila Ragunathan
Discussant: Paula Mulinari

Thinking decolonially in research collaboration      
Faith Mkwesha
Discussant:  TBC

09:45-10:00 
Coffee/tea

10:00-11:30
PAPER SESSION 4

(Chair Pauline Stoltz)

Are Nordic Gender Studies scholars interested in meeting scholars from China?
Cecilia Milwertz
Discussant: Mia Liinason

Nordic Feminist Space 1975-1990: A Geopolitical Site
Ulla Manns
Discussant: Mirjam Katzin

11:30-12:30
PRESENTATION SESSION

(Chair: Suvi Keskinen)

Creating friction – or how I became a radicalized feminist and stole my agency back. Editor of feminist magazine Friktion, Nazila Kivi on activism, scholarship and feminationalism
Nazila Kivi

What are the roles of feminisms and transnational connections in developing ways of solving conflicts and searching for peaceful solutions in regional/global politics? 
Amany El-Gharib, Interfem

12:30-13:00 
Lunch

3:00-13:30
PUBLICATIONS, APPLICATIONS AND REMAINING WORKSHOP. GOODBYES

Pauline Stoltz and Beatrice Halsaa

13:30-
Meeting organizing committe

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FRIDAY 26 AUGUST 2016

10:15-12:00 
Meeting organizing committee (room: Acm15 1.043)

11:00-12:00 
Arrival and registration (Main entrance A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, by the reception)

12:00-12:30
Lunch (room: Acm15 1.043)

12:30-13:00 
WELCOME AND PRESENTATION OF ORGANIZERS AND PARTICIPANTS (Room: Acm15 1.043)

Chair: Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University)

Organizing committee: Beatrice Halsaa (University in Oslo); Suvi Keskinen (University of Turku); Diana Mulinari (Lund University); Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University); Christel Stormhøj (RUC); Research assistant Helene Møller Larsen; Project secretary Marianne Ellersgaard.

13:00-14:00 
PAPER SESSION 1 (Room: Acm15 1.043)

Chair: Christel Stormhøj (RUC)
Discussant: Ulla Manns (Södertörn högskola)

Feminist mobilization in the Nordic region
Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University) and Beatrice Halsaa (University in Oslo)

“Friends, I almost said Comrades!” Feminist movements and collective identity in the Nordic region
Miia Linasson (University of Gothenburg)

14:00-15:00 
KEYNOTE SPEECH (Room: Acm15 1.043)

Sisters, Sluts and Solidarity: Feminist Activism in the US and UK
Elizabeth Evans (Goldsmiths, University of London)

15:00-15:15 
Coffee/Tea 

15:15-17.45 
PAPER SESSION 2 (Room: Acm15 1.043)

Chair:  Suvi Keskinen (University of Turku)
Discussant: Astri Dankertsen (Universitetet i Nord) and Ina Knobblock (Lund University)

Feminist mobilizing for mainstreaming or recuperation? Rethinking difference and solidarity politics in Norway 
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen (University of Oslo)

Musings and Inquiries on Nordic Feminist Politics
Pauline Hortelano (Åbo Akademi University) and Katarina Jungar (University of Helsinki)

A Nordic/ transnational perspective on Islamic feminism
Connie Carøe Christiansen (KVINFO)

Challenging Nordic colonial feminism and gender studies: everyday struggles for the protection of Forest Sámi culture against “environmental friendly” power production and other colonial racist technoaggressions
May-Britt Öhman (Uppsala University)

Politics of transformation – feminism, democratic resistance and activism in the Nordic region
Birte Siim (Aalborg University)

19:00- 
Workshop dinner (Address: Dalle Valle Fisketorvet, Kalvebod Brygge 59, 1560 Kbh V)

Saturday 27 August 2016

09:00-10:00
PAPER SESSION 3 (Room: Acm15 1.043)

Chair: Diana Mulinari (Lund University)
Discussant: Birte Siim (Aalborg University)

NORWEGIAN STATE FEMINISM OR MARKET FEMINISM?A Case Study of the Norwegian State and Forum for Women and Development in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
Gurminderjit Kaur (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Feminist mobilisation in the Norwegian trade-union movement 1977-2009: Conflicts and inclusion
Trine Rogg Korsvik (University of Oslo)

10:00-10:15
Coffee/Tea

10:15-10:45
Film Nordiskt Forum Oslo (Room: Acm15 1.043)

10:45-11:45 
KEYNOTE SPEECH (Room: Acm15 1.043)

Looking Forward – Looking Back. The Forum 88 Newspaper and Its Feminist Legacy
Elisabeth Eide (co-organizer of Nordiskt Forum Oslo in 1988 and the editor of the daily journal published during the conference)

11:45-12:15
Publications, applications and remaining workshops (Room: Acm15 1.043)

12:15-13:00
Lunch

13:00-13:30
Introduction memory workshop and presentation of participants (room: Acm15 1.043)

15:30-15:30
MEMORY WORKSHOP 1 (Room: Acm15 1.009 + Acm15 1.005 + Acm15 1.042)

15:30-15:45 
Coffee/Tea

15:45-17:15 
MEMORY WORKSHOP 2 (Room: Acm15 1.009+ Acm15 1.005 + Acm15 1.042)

Sunday 28 August 2016

09:15-09:45 
Introduction future workshop (Room: Acm15 1.043)

09:45-11:00 
FUTURE WORKSHOP 1 (Room: Acm15 1.009 + Acm15 1.005 + Acm15 1.042)

11:00-11:15 
Coffee/Tea

11:15-12:15 
FUTURE WORKSHOP 2 (Room: Acm15 1.009 + Acm15 1.005 + Acm15 1.042)

12:15-13:00 
Lunch

13:00-14:00
FUTURE WORKSHOP 3 (Room: Acm15 1.009 + Acm15 1.005 + Acm15 1.042)

14:00-14:15
Coffee/Tea

14:15-15:00
SUMMARY
Preliminary discussion results memory and future workshops (Room: Acm15 1.043)

15:30-
Meeting organizing committee (Room: Acm15 1.043)

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