Guest lectures and seminars
Ongoing
Welcome to the photo exhibition Women in exile, which explores Kurdish women's experiences of daily life during and after conflict.
Upcoming
Welcome to a talk by Dr. Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) on rage and generational tensions in recent cultural texts about the AIDS epidemic.
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We are thrilled to announce an upcoming event featuring the acclaimed novel "Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins" by Essmat Sophie. This event promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking discussion on the themes of identity, intersectional oppression, exile, politics, history, and the marginalized Kurdish community in Iran.
How can research shed light on the pandemic of violence against women, and bring it out of the shadows? How can academia contribute to improved sexual rights globally?
Hva skjer når et teoretisk begrep blir mainstream? Amund Rake Hoffarts nye bok analyserer diskusjoner rundt begrepet «interseksjonalitet» i feministisk teori.
The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, the Department of Musicology and the Center for Gender Research at the University of Oslo invite you to an interdisciplinary half-day seminar related to the triple bill Bluebeard's Castle, staged by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Edward Gardner.
Join PRIO and STK for a screening of the film Children of the Enemy and a panel discussion about the needs and rights of children born of war.
How can research shed light on the pandemic of violence against women, and bring it out of the shadows? How can academia contribute to improved sexual rights globally?
Women's representation in political institutions has significantly increased in many countries in recent years, but their growing involvement and visibility have also brought about an increasing trend of women in politics being subjected to attacks, threats, and harassment.
The fifth event in the seminar series "Perspectives on Thinking" will focus on objective hermeneutics. The guest speaker will be Katarina Busch (Sigmund-Freud-Institute).
This seminar considers the current status of gender equality in Poland, and the effects of what some call the "anti-gender movement".
Research and public discourse about reproductive technologies tend to emphasize the experiences and practices of women. This seminar explores how men are implicated as users of emergent reproductive technologies.
On April 28, the Centre for Gender Research (STK) will hold a joint academic lunch event together with C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism.
Over the last decade, the Kurdish areas in the Middle East have seen several violent conflicts. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds have been uprooted from their homes and areas of origin. This adds a new chapter to an already long history of displacement and migration. In this seminar, we will investigate some of the gendered aspects of these recent migration flows. The seminar will be held in English.
The Centre for Gender Research and the FRONT project are hosting the first event in the seminar series Gender Inequality and Precarity in Academia in the European Context. In this webinar, Sevil Sümer will discuss the concept of gendered academic citizenship, focusing particularly on problems experienced by early-career academics, or “transitional” academic citizens.
On April 26, Kjersti Fjørtoft (UiT) will give a presentation titled "Martha Nussbaum: Is Justice a Matter of Love?". This is the fifth event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
On April 19, Monica Roland (OsloMet) will give a presentation titled "Love as Seeing: Iris Murdoch and David Velleman on the Nature of Love and Loving". This is the fourth event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
On April 12, guest researcher at STK Kaja Jenssen Rathe will give a presentation titled "Between Erotic Perception and Lived Openness: Merleau-Ponty’s Perspective". This is the third event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
On March 22nd, guest researcher at STK Helgard Mahrdt will give a presentation titled "Hannah Arendt on Love, Friendship, and Politics". This is the second event in our digital lecture series Perspectives on Love, in which we explore different understandings of the concept of love.
This year's International Women's Day seminar at the University of Oslo will explore gendered and intersecting consequences of COVID-19, with particular emphasis on work and migration. Invited speakers, including Professor Beverley Skeggs, will consider the ways in which the pandemic has revealed and reinforced existing inequalities, both in Norway and globally.
In the first lecture of STK's new event series Perspectives on Love, Professor Tove Pettersen will consider Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy of love.
The Norwegian national commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325) will consider both the major achievements of the past two decades, and the challenges that lie ahead.