CENTER FOR GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARCK

Objectives

  • To undertake cross-disciplinary gender research and teaching within the humanities. The emphasis is on the cultural and linguistic dimensions, as well as more overall epistemological and scientific issues.
  • To examine the intersections between gender and other social categories such as sexuality, nationality, race and ethnicity, class, ability etc. The different approaches share the practical and philosophical question: “How do we handle difference?”.
  • To unit a series of critical and international perspectives and includes among other queer theories, gender studiesaffect studies, post- and de-colonial studies, masculinity studies and critical race theory. These perspectives are centred around the analysis of culture and power.
  • To manage and teach the education in Gender Studies.

Research and results

The Cultural History of AIDS in Denmark (CHAD). Subprojects:

  • AIDS in the news (Camilla Bruun Eriksen).
  • AIDS activism and politics (Tobias de Fønss Wung-Sung).
  • Lived lives in affected communities (Bolette Frydendahl Larsen).
  • AIDS in literature, cinema, TV and art (Mons Bissenbakker and Michael Nebeling Petersen).
  • Concluding project (Michael Nebeling Petersen) à By assembling the results of the four subprojects, the concluding project effectively write the history of AIDS in Denmark.

Loving Attachment: Regulating Danish Love Migration (LOVA) à Projects:

  • An interdisciplinary understanding of attachment and love migration.
  • Attachment required: Danish migration legislation 2000-2018 (Mons Bissenbakker).
  • Securing love: The turn to attachment within transnational adoption (Lene Myong).
  • Mediated love: Attachment in media debates on transnational marriages (Asta Smedegaard Nielsen).
  • Justify my love: The affective governing of the attachment requirement (Sofie Jeholm). Outputs and publications about all projects in the website.

InterGen: Interdisciplinary network for gender research in the Humanities at UCPH (Mons Bissenbakker and Michael Nebeling Petersen).

Women, Gender & Research (Kvinder, Køn & Forskning) [An academic journal since 1992].

Ongoing projects

  • Women, Gender & Research (Kvinder, Køn & Forskning) [An academic journal since 1992].