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Research

Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Feminism in a Scandinavian Context (STK 2017-2023)
New sexualities - new vulnerabilities? (STK 2018-2023)
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)
The Resonance Project (NFR 2019-2024)
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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STK's award for best master's thesis

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 at the University of Oslo. The deadline for nominating candidates for this year's prize is 31 December.

Conference explores conceptions of the body in ancient Egypt

Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Gender Research Reinert Skumsnes recently co-organized the conference “Egyptology in dialogue: Historical bodies in relations of comparisons and negotiations” at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

The public committee on men and equality meets the research community

The public committee on men and gender equality has been given a broad mandate. How can research on men and masculinities help them in their work?

Ingrid Aune memorial prize awarded to Inger Skjelsbæk

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.

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.

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.

"The Quest for the Right Intersectional Metaphor" Dec. 8, 2022 1:04 PM
"Family contracts in New Kingdom Egypt" Dec. 7, 2022 3:05 PM
"The implicit epistemology of metric governance: New conceptions of motivational tensions in the corporate university" Nov. 17, 2022 2:23 PM

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