CENTER FOR GENDER RESEARCH

UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, NORWAY

2009

Management and equipment. Structure

Independent research center organized directly under the University Board.

  • Direction
  • Head of Office
  • Senior Advisors
  • Higher Executive Officer
  • Academic staff

Objectives

  • To carry out interdisciplinary research, teaching, and dissemination within the field of gender studies, as well as promoting gender research at the university’s other units.
  • The centre should be outward facing, play an active role in developing interdisciplinary arenas and networks, and seek contact and cooperation with other research institutions, both in Norway and abroad, and with authorities and other social institutions.
  • The centre should be able to offer teaching at every level, and, by agreement, to offer singular courses or larger course groups to cooperating faculties. The centre has a particular responsibility to encourage high-quality research training within its field.

Research and results

Finished Projects (42) – Related to Heritage and Humanities:

  • Intimacy: Meetings between Art and Research (Jørgen Ludvig Lorentzen, Wencke Mühleisen and Christel Sverre, 2011).
  • Feminist Activism on the Margins (Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy, 2008-2011).
  • Gender in time and space (Stian Overå, 2008-2010/11).
  • Genealogy of Feminism From Descartes to Irigaray – the Philosophical History of Modern Feminism (2009-2011).
  • New Forms of Intimacies in Literature and Film (2008-2012).
  • The Geography of Rape: A Study of the Legal Mangement of Sexual Citizenship in Norway (Anne Bitsch, 2011-2015).
  • Patterns of change and disclosures of difference. Family and gender in New Kingdom Egypt: titles of non-royal women (Reinert Vikjord Skumsnes, 2014-2018). Publication: Reinert Vikjord Skumsnes, Patterns of change and disclosure of difference. Family and gender in New Kingdom Egypt: titles of non-royal women, University of Oslo, 2018.
  • Intimacies in contemporary literature and art (Wencke Mühleisen, 2008-2012). Publication: Christel Sverre og Wencke Mühleisen (ed.), Together in this?, Tapir Akademisk forlag, 2012.
  • Book project: Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism (Beatrice Halsaa, 2016). Publication: Beatrice Halsaa, Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Ongoing projects

  • Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Feminism in a Scandinavian Context (STK 2017-2024).
  • New sexualities – new vulnerabilities? (STK 2018-2024).
  • Too drunk to fuck? – Exploring the boundaries between consensual and non-consensual sexual encounters under the influence of alcohol (STK 2019-2024).
  • Frozen fertility: Elective Egg Banking among Norwegian Women (STK 2019-2023).
  • Epistemic injustice in academia: Class, Race and Gender in feminist knowledge production (STK 2019-2024).
  • 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).
  • (Re)imagining Medieval Icelandic Femininity in Victorian Britain (STK 2022-2026).