Research

Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Feminism in a Scandinavian Context (STK 2017-2022)
New sexualities - new vulnerabilities? (STK 2018-2022)
Too drunk to fuck? – Exploring the boundaries between consensual and non-consensual sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol (STK 2019-2023)
Frozen fertility: Elective Egg Banking among Norwegian Women (STK 2019-2023)
Epistemic injustice in academia: Class, Race and Gender in feminist knowledge production (STK 2019-2023)
Equality and Excellence in Sustainable Balance? (NFR 2020-2023)
Future Research- and Organizational development in Natural sciences, Technology and Theology – FRONT2 (NFR 2019-2022)

EgFem – Egyptology, feminist theory and alternative worlds: Body/sex/gender in New Kingdom Egypt, and their affective environments (NFR 2020-2023)
ALCITfem – Activism and Its Moral and Cultural Foundations: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora (EEA and Norway Grants 2021-2023)
The welfare closet: The history and politics of the male homosexual closet in the emerging Danish welfare state, c. 1900-1970 (STK 2021-2025)
EuroWARCHILD (ERC 2021-2026)
(Re)imagining Medieval Icelandic Femininity in Victorian Britain (STK 2022-2026)

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C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism

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Watch the NORA 2022 keynote lectures

Did you miss the NORA Conference 2022, or would you like to listen again to the keynote lectures? Now you can view video recordings of the four lectures by Marianne Liljeström, Amund Rake Hoffart, Astri Dankertsen and Raewyn Connell.

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New online course:

Gender, Violence and Post-Conflict States

Inger Skjelsbæk (STK) has contributed to a new open online course on the interplay between gender and violence in post-conflict contexts.

Seminar:

Launch of the report on diversity at UiO

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.

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Conferences:

NORA Conference illustrates the breadth of Nordic gender research

With over 200 participants, the NORA conference 2022 was an excellent chance to gain an overview of what is happening within Nordic feminist and gender research.

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Raewyn Connell among keynotes at NORA Conference

The NORA Conference 2022 will be taking place at the University of Oslo on June 20th-22nd. The event will feature a range of exciting keynote speakers, including Professor Raewyn Connell. The deadline for registration, April 4th, is fast approaching.

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STK's award for best master's thesis

Supervisors and examiners are invited to nominate candidates for STK's award for best master's thesis / professional study with a gender perspective, submitted at the University of Oslo. The deadline for nomination is December 31.

Completed dissertation

Solveig Laugerud

Solveig Laugerud recently completed her dissertation The Legible Rape Victim: How the Disiplinary Discourses Create a New Victim Identity, and among others explore how victims become objects of knowledge in legal proceedings and how victims in these processes create themselves as credible victims.

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PRIDE – International solidarity: Stronger together

Are you wondering why we celebrate Pride? STK has collected a handful of texts from UiO-researchers, and other relevant partners, that we hope can provide some insight into the research being conducted on Pride related topics.

Would you like to be a Visiting scholar at STK?

The Centre for Gender Research welcomes Visiting Scholars from other academic institutions, nationally and internationally. We will provide an office space, access to IT-facilities, good and safe-data storage facilities, full access to the University of Oslo library, and the chance to be an active and integrated part of the Centre while here.

Application deadline: March 15.