PhD Course - Details

Dialogues on Understanding Violence, Body and Ill-health

Date:
September 26-29, 2010

Deadline for application:
June 6, 2010

Venue:
Olofsfors http://www.olofsforsbruk.nu/

Teachers:
Professor Susan Edwards, University of Buckingham, UK
Dr. Dubravka Zarkov, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) The Hague, The Netherlands.
Professor Barbro Wijma, Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr. Katarina Swahnberg, Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr. Kerstin Edin, Umeå University, Sweden.

Coordinators:
Dr. Katarina Swahnberg, Linköping University, Sweden, and
Dr. Kerstin Edin, Umeå University, Sweden, in collaboration with Director of the InterGender Research School, Prof. Nina Lykke.

Course description:
The course is designed for PhD students who are active in the research field of various kinds of violence. Special focus will be on gender and theorising victimisation, silence and ill health, and gender in the legal system. Targeting violence and victimisation from different perspectives, examples will be used from men’s violence against women in general as well as in pregnancy, male victimisation and patients being abused in health care.


For more information please go to www.intergender.webbhuset.com/?q=node/121


The course is offered by InterGender Research school in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: www.intergender.net

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