(see English below)

Norræna netverkið „Gender, Body, Health“ í samstarfi við Rannsóknastofu í kvenna- og kynjafræðum (RIKK) og EDDU – öndvegissetur við Háskóla Íslands boða til alþjóðlegrar ráðstefnu sem ber heitið „Bodies in Crisis“ („Líkamar í krísu“) og verður haldin dagana 2.-4. nóvember 2011 við Háskóla Íslands. Hér má sjá dagskrá ráðstefnunnar.

Á ráðstefnunni verður leitast við að skoða „líkama í krísu“ út frá þverfræðilegum nálgunum. Sjónum verður  beint að því með hvaða hætti fjallað er um líkama á krísutímum og hvernig krísuástand birtist okkur í líkömum. Fjallað verður um viðfangsefni á borð við líkamlegt sjálfræði, birtingamyndir og orðræður um líkama í krísum, ofbeldi og áföll, líkamsþyngd, líffæragjafir, sjálfsskaða, kynheilsu og æxlunartækni.

Til að skrá sig á ráðstefnuna eru þátttakendur beðnir um að senda tölvupóst til Sveins Mána Jóhannessonar (smj7@hi.is), starfsmanns hjá RIKK – Rannsóknastofu í kvenna- og kynjafræðum við Háskóla Íslands. Skráningargjald er 7900 ISK fyrir fræðimenn en 6400 ISK fyrir nemendur. Nánari upplýsingar um skráningu má nálgast á heimasíðu ráðstefnunnar. Frestur til að skrá sig á ráðstefnuna er til 15. október.

Ráðstefnan er fimmti fundur „Gender, Body, Health“ netverksins  við rannsóknastofu í kynjarannsóknum við Háskólann í Uppsölum (Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala Universitet). Netverkinu er ætlað að hvetja til metnaðarfullra þverfaglegra rannsókna á viðfangsefnum tengdum kyngervi, líkama og heilsu.

Nánari upplýsingar má nálgast á heimasíðu ráðstefnunnar, eða með því að senda tölvupóst til Lisa Folkmarson Käll, body@gender.uu.se, eða Hildar Fjólu Antonsdóttur, rikk@hi.is.

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Bodies in Crisis

International Conference in Reykjavik, 2-4 November

The Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health, in collaboration with RIKK – The Center for Women‘s and Gender Research at the University of Iceland and EDDA – Center of Excellence at the University of Iceland, will host the international conference titled “Bodies in Crisis”. The conference will take place at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on 2-4 November. Click here to view the conference draft programme.

To register for the conference please write an email to Sveinn Máni Jóhannesson (smj7@hi.is) at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at the University of Iceland. There is a conference fee of 7900 ISK (50 EUR), with a reduced fee of 6400 (40 EUR) for students. Kindly consult the conference website for further information on registration and payment of the conference fee. The deadline for registration is October 15.

The body has become a veritable hot spot in contemporary theorizing that forcefully disrupts given disciplinary identities and fields of investigation. Bodies make themselves present at the very core of a range of different phenomena, such as emotions, desires, identity, and agency. Resisting rigid dichotomies and categories, the materiality of bodies sticks to our thinking in not always comfortable ways, and their singularities question the very possibility of retaining stability in generalizing notions and frameworks of thinking. The field of feminist thinking on the body and materiality has a long history. We might even say that the body has always figured in one way or another into the field of feminist theory and that contemporary understandings of the body have been directly or indirectly shaped by this field. From discussions of motherhood, pregnancy and abortion, of pleasure and sex, of eating disorders and the incorporation of disciplinary regimes to theoretical discussions of embodiment and individuation of bodies, feminist thinkers have played a key role in forming different ideas and understandings of the body in numerous areas.

With the conference Bodies in Crisis we turn attention to a range of different ways in which bodies are brought to presence in times of crisis and bring times and states of crisis to presence, are lived in crisis and are produced and normalized as being in crisis. The conference highlights topics such as bodily integrity, representations and discourses of bodies in crisis, violence and trauma, body weight, organ donation, stigmatization of bodies in crisis, self-injury, sexual health perspectives, reproductive technologies.

The Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health is based at the Centre for Gender Research (Centrum för genusvetenskap) at Uppsala University, Sweden and had its first network meeting in January 2008. With the aim of achieving productive interdisciplinary work on issues concerning gender, body, and health, the network gathers researchers and practitioners from a number of diverse fields such as medicine, comparative literature, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cultural geography, sports- and health sciences, psychiatry, social psychology, and history of science.

For more information, please contact the network coordinator Lisa Folkmarson Käll at body@gender.uu.se or Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir at rikk@hi.is

* The picture above is La Repasseuse by Pablo Picasso