In January, Rebecca Lund began a permanent position as an associate professor at the Centre for Gender Research.
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The prize for the best MA thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo in 2023 has gone to one of STK’s own students, Miki Gebrelul.
Twelve candidates have been nominated for the STK award for the best master thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo in 2023.
Are you interested in the connections between sustainability and gender? In the Spring semester, you will be able to take a new course: KFL2055 Gender, Race, Class and Sustainability. The course is part of the University of Oslo’s Sustainability Certificate.
Each year, the Centre for Gender Research awards a prize for the best master's thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo. The deadline for nominating candidates for this year's prize is 31 December.
A new network will bring together researchers working on topics relating to men and masculinities. The network's first meeting will be on the 28th of November.
Are you interested in pursuing a career in gender research? You can now apply for a position as a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Gender Research. The application deadline is October 15th.
Doctoral researcher Auksė Beatričė Katarskytė’s reading of a forgotten play shows how the Victorians used Old Norse literature to explore questions relating to gender and relationships.
Kristin Engh Førde will receive grants from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association to write a popular science book about egg freezing. The book will be based on her postdoctoral project, Frozen fertility: Elective Egg Banking among Norwegian Women.
What do fictional representations of “bad” children tell us about cultural investments in the child more generally? Anna Young’s dissertation traces the motif of the murderous child in British and American literature.
Norway should lead the way in efforts to help Ukrainian children born of war, according to an op-ed written by EuroWARCHILD researchers.
The newly published survey "Studiebarometeret" yields largely positive results for the study programmes at the Centre for Gender Research.
Sandra Hansen (TF) has won the prize for the best MA thesis with a gender perspective submitted at the University of Oslo in 2022.
For thirty years, the Centre for Gender Research has given out an annual prize for the best master's thesis with a gender perspective submitted to the University of Oslo. The deadline for nominating candidates for this year's prize is 31 December.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Gender Research (STK) Reinert Skumsnes recently co-organized the conference “Egyptology in dialogue: Historical bodies in relations of comparisons and negotiations” at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
On November 1, the Centre for Gender Research (STK) held a seminar with the aim of starting a conversation between the new public committee on men and gender equality, and researchers on men and masculinities.
Professor and Director of the Centre for Gender Research Inger Skjelsbæk will receive the Ingrid Aune memorial prize 2022 for her research on conflict-related sexual violence.
Did you miss the NORA Conference 2022, or would you like to listen again to the keynote lectures? Below you will find video recordings of the talks given by Marianne Liljeström, Amund Rake Hoffart, Astri Dankertsen and Raewyn Connell.
Inger Skjelsbæk (STK) has contributed to a new open online course on the interplay between gender and violence in post-conflict contexts.
Beret Bråten and Maja Feng Mikalsen (STK) have carried out a research project on barriers to diversity and inclusion among staff at the University of Oslo (UiO). This resulted in the report Diversity and Inclusion at UiO, which was published in May. On August 22, the report was launched with an open seminar.
The NORA Conference 2022 was held from the 20th to the 22nd of June in Oslo. With over 200 participants, the conference was an excellent chance to gain an overview of what is happening within Nordic feminist and gender research.
The NORA Conference is less than two weeks away. The host organization, conference committee and co-organizers are thrilled to welcome over 200 participants to the University of Oslo on June 20th-22nd.
From this autumn, students taking a BA degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies or an MA in Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Research will be able to do a work placement as part of their degree.
The NORA Conference 2022 will be taking place at the University of Oslo on June 20th-22nd, and will feature a range of exciting keynote speakers, including Professor Raewyn Connell. The deadline for registration, April 4th, is fast approaching.
Thea Johanne Prytz Hammarqvist (IKOS) has won STK’s annual MA award for her analysis of the Japanese novel Yaneura no nishojo (1919). Her thesis asks whether it makes sense to call the book a “lesbian” novel, but also demonstrates how the text challenges concurrent sexological discourses that framed heterosexual marriage as the only correct choice for women.