Third Interdisciplinary Meeting of the European Network on Gender, Conflict, and Violence
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, and the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation;
In conjunction with the annual meeting of the Swedish interdisciplinary research network "From ill-health to heath - On women, violence, and changed gender-relations"
Tentative Program
Sunday, August 23, 1998
Afternoon: Informal get-together: meet those who have arrived already. If you have arrived early and are interested in a trip to the Vasa-museum, please get in touch with Maria Eriksson, maria.eriksson@soc.uu.se.
Evening: Opening of the meeting and Dinner
Monday, August 24, 1998
Eva Lundgren, University of Uppsala: "Swedish research on violence against women"
Stina Jeffner, University of Uppsala: "'Like, you know, rape': On the importance of gender and heterosexuality in young people's perceptions of rape"
Asa Elden, University of Uppsala: "Cultural affiliation as an extenuating circumstance in a Swedish verdict: On gender, violence, and culture."
Maria Eriksson, University of Uppsala: "Battered women and their children: SOcial welfare services and child contact arrangements."
Anca Dumitrescu, University of Bucharest: "Violence against elderly women in Romania."
Bo Wagner Soerensen, University of Copenhagen: "The concept of conflict in studies of violence against women."
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1998
Carol Hagemann-White, University of Osnabrueck, and Barbara Kavemann, Project WiBIG, Berlin: "Community response to gender violence: Model projects"
Rosa Logar, Austrian Women's Shelter Network: "The new intervention projects in Austria."
Marianne Hester, University of Bristol: "Mediation, 'mutual violence', and power."
Britta Mogensen, University of Copenhagen: "The persistent myth of male powerlessness: Experiences from gender political work."
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1998
Anna Kwiatkowska, University of Bialystok: "When gentlemen are gentle men to ladies, and ladies are nice to men: Gender attibutional bias under threat to gender identity."
Renate Klein, University of Maine: "Motives for conflict management and abuse."
Maria Eriksson & Renate Klein [tentatively]: "The European Network: Purpose, scope, and future directions."
Anna Kwiatkowska & Rosa Logar [tentatively]: "Planning the next meeting."