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Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning (SKOK)
@uibgender.bsky.social
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SKOK is a multidisciplinary research center that aims to strengthen the critical diversity, sexuality and gender research at the University of Bergen, Norway.
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I sommar fekk vårt studietilbod den tvilsame æra av å bli stempla som "tullestudium" av Peter Frölich. I @bergensavisen.bsky.social i dag slår desse tre nye studentane våre tilbake: – Det er overflatisk å ignorere at dette er kompetanse som er nyttig i mange forskjellige fagfelt 👏Lenke til saka 👇
August 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#Arendalsuka er i gang, og onsdag deltek senterleiaren vår på arrangementet Akademisk frihet – et ideal under press? Samtalen blir leia av Hilde Danielsen, professor ved NLA Høgskolen, og i panelet er også Sindre Bangstad (KIFO) og @olavelgvin.bsky.social (FAFO).

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Skjermbilde frå programoppføringa for arrangementet Akademisk frihet - et ideal under press? under Arendalsuka 2025.
August 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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SKOK og vener under paraden i Bergen i dag 🏳️‍🌈 Kampen og festen held fram 💪
Happy people with Pride flags in front of tall trees and an old building
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Kom på Regnbuedagene i Bergen i morgon, 19.45: Stipendiaten vår, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, modererer ein samtale med skeive menn om mannekroppar, kroppspress, kroppsnormer og maskuline kroppsideal. I panelet er Isak Bradley, Arne Johan Aastvedt og Erwin Rapiz Navarro:
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Portrait photos of four people in circle frames on a pink and purple background, the words Pride house below one of the circles. The images show, from top left, the panel conversation participants Isak Bradley, Arne Johan Aastvedt, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen and Erwin Rapiz Navarro.
June 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Hvem er redd for #kjønn og #mangfold? I morgon held senterleiaren vår foredrag for Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi om den internasjonale anti-kjønnsrørsla. Det er mogleg å få det med seg både fysisk og digitalt, og foredraget blir teke opp og gjort tilgjengeleg i etterkant.

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Skjermbilde av arrangementsside med tittelen Hvem er redd for kjønn og mangfold? Bildet viser tidspunktet, kl. 18, 12.06.2025, adressen: Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, Drammensveien 78, samt praktisk informasjon: "Møtet er åpent og blir strømmet. Du vil finne strømmelenken på denne siden samme dag som arrangementet finner sted. Foredragene blir deretter publisert på Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademis YouTube-kanal" og ingressen: Foredrag ved Kari Jegerstedt. Hun er senterleder for Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning (SKOK) som er et tverrfakultært forskingssenter som har som sin viktigeste oppgave å styrke den kritiske mangfolds-, seksualitets- og kjønnsforskingen ved Universitetet i Bergen."
June 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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And now the party begins! Our fantastic students are in charge of the entertainment, and their band kicks off our reception and celebration 🎉
May 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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We're rounding off our symposium with a panel conversation starring three former Heads of Centre at SKOK, moderated by @sirigloppen.bsky.social, where the former heads describes what characterized their centre periods: From left: Siri, @cmjacobsen.bsky.social, Ellen Mortensen and Haldis Haukanes
Four women in chairs in front of a table, a screen behind them with the text Panel Discussion Former Heads of Centre to the left, and images of all four women to the right
May 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The last speaker on our programme, Marianne Hafnor Bøe, was connected to SKOK when she took her PhD in the study of religions at @unibergen.bsky.social, and today she gave the presentation "Why gender remains key for researching religion in new and unprecedented times"
A woman with dark, shoulder-length hair and a dark top in front of a screen with an image of people in the streets and the text Towards a critical lens on religion
May 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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SKOK's dear former colleague, Redi Koobak, had a comeback as SKOKer with her presentation 'How to tell _your_ story as the story of _my_ feminism: Notes towards cross-border solidarities.'
A woman with long, blond hair and glasses, in a white shirt in front of a screen with the text 'beyond normative inclusivity. The importance of keeping an' open-ended, liminal conception of gender' (Pan 2022: 1). Only through connecting feminist solidarity and trans identities that 'trans women can be recognised as subjects of feminism' (Pan 2022: 1).
May 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Our first speaker after lunch was @rosetrappes.bsky.social from @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social, who gave the presentation: Mainstreaming feminist philosophy of science: Time to celebrate?
A woman with shoulder-length hair, glasses and a flowery shirt speaking in front of a screen with the words 'So what to do about marginalization? Do celebrate the successes of mainstreaming. Do also counteract its limitations. Accept diverse traditions. Continue separatist work. Maintain connections with feminist philosophy. Claim feminist heritage.'
May 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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During our symposium, students at the Bergen School of Architecture have been broadcasting from our programme on an AM radio station as part of their project On Air. They have been doing deep listening and reacting to what they've been hearing in various ways. Check out radio.kontakt on Insta!
May 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Before lunch, we had wonderful panel conversation with our early career researchers Sunniva Árja Tobiasen and @riikkaprattes.bsky.social, moderated by Randi Gressgård, which touched on themes like the importance of transdisciplinarity and critical research & being an early-career researcher.
Three people in chairs on a scene, a table in front of them and a screen behind them with the text Panel Discussion Young Researchers and photos of the three panelist: Randi Gressgård (moderator),Sunniva Árja Tobiasen and Riikka Prattes.
May 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Jill Halstead from the Grieg Academy @unibergen.bsky.social giving the talk 'The feminist ear and the art of deep listening: audibility, resistance, and hope in the polycrisis'
A woman with long dark hair speaking in front of a screen with the text in black capital letters on a white background: No music on a dead planet
May 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki gave a presentation on building coalitons across structural borders as a form of radical intimacy and kinship, and contradictions in South Africa: One of the most progressive constitutions in the world, but for people of colour, it remains aspirational & sex work is illegal
A woman with long, dark & braided hair, a red top and yellow airrings in front of a screen with an image of a group of people and her name and affiliation: Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki, University of Essex (some more text on the screen is blurred)
May 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Svati P. Shah: "I am trying to ‘fan the spark of hope in the past’ (Benjamin, Theses on History); thinking about the radical history of gender and sexuality studies, and the radical potential of civil society in India, which was and is to make another world."
A person with dark hair and glasses in front of a screen with a pink background and the words Queer and Trans Radicalism in Authoritarian Times: Lessons in Resistance from Autonomous Feminism in India, Svati P. Shah, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Guest researcher SKOK UIB, Research Associate Univers (rest of text obscured)
May 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Greeting from the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities @unibergen.bsky.social, Camilla Brautaset: Thank you SKOK, gender researchers & students for being critical and telling the world what it means to be human
A woman with short blonde hair speaking in front of a screen with an image of a water puddle with a rainbow reflected and the words SKOK is 25! Join the celebration 26 May 2025 and the University of Bergen and Centre for Women's and Gender Research logo
May 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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The SKOK 25 year anniversary symposium has kicked off with an introduction by Kari Jegerstedt, Head of Center. We're looking forward to an amazing day with excellent presentations and conversations!
A woman talking in front of an image of a water puddle with a rainbow reflected in it, with the words SKOK is 25! Join the celebration 26 May 2025 and the logo of University of Bergen and the Centre for Women's and Gender Research.
May 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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In connection with the @holbergprize.bsky.social being awarded to Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak of Columbia University, our Head of Centre, Kari Jegerstedt, is interviewed about the importance of Spivak's research and the prize being awarded to her.
Three people at a stage with the Holberg Prize logo overhead
March 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Til deg som skriv BA- eller MA-opg m/kjønnsperspektiv & deg som rettleier slike studentar: Sjekk ut vår BA-stafett 21.03 og MA-stafett 24.03. Lenker under, frist 16.03. Del gjerne! @sirigloppen.bsky.social @rmuriaas.bsky.social @liserakner.bsky.social @drbertelsen.bsky.social @jilltxt.bsky.social
A sign on a fence, greenery in the back, the sign says: Universitetet i Bergen - Ida Bloms hus - Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning (SKOK) - Centre for Women's and Gender Research - Senter for vitenskapsteori SVT) - Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities - Parkveien 9
March 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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SKOK represented at the #standupforscience2025 demo at @unibergen.bsky.social: Head of Centre Kari Jegerstedt flanked by Chair of our board @sirigloppen.bsky.social (right) and research advisor @kamillastolen.bsky.social (left)
Three women posing in front of a university building with Stand up for science posters
March 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I nyaste utgåve av Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning melder stipendiaten vår, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, antologien "Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe" redigert av @elengebretsen.bsky.social og Mia Liinason. Både antologi og melding er opent tilgjengelege 🔗👇🧪 🎓🌈 #OpenAccess #GenderSky
December 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Vi på SKOK er stolte av vår nye doktor, Rowan Maddox, som på utmerka vis forsvarte avhandlinga si i dag 🎉 Gratulerer!

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We at SKOK are proud of our new doctor, Rowan Maddox, who did an excellent job defending their thesis today 🎉Congratulations!
Image from Rowan Maddox' public defence of their thesis - Maddox in a stripey shirt in the middle; holding flowers, the committee leader to their left, the first opponent on the screen behind, the second opponent on Maddox's right and head of the defence next to the second opponent.
November 29, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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In spring 25, SKOK, LawTransform & SkeivForsk offer a cross-disciplinary, combined master and #PhD course for students in Bergen about the dynamics between sex and politics in a global perspective. Info and registration link in the comments - deadline 13 January. #LGBTQpolisky #LGBTQ 🌈🎓🧪#gendersky
A graffiti piece of a rainbow-coloured banana smeared with black paint
November 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Next week, our PhD candidate Rowan Maddox will defend their thesis "The Centrality and Marginality of Disability." Press release (in Norwegian): www.uib.no/nye-doktorgr.... The thesis is in English - find link in the comments below. Good luck, Rowan! 🧪🌈🎓#queerpolisky #gendersky
Portrait of Rowan Maddox with their dog
November 20, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Postdoktoren vår er på veg til Oslo for å delta i sluttkonferansen for prosjektet TemPro. Under konferansen i morgon vil publikum få pamfletten Opphold på ubestemt tid, med sitat frå feltarbeid som Kari Anne har bearbeidd poetisk. Det er framleis nokre plassar igjen: tinyurl.com/yc8rwrtj 🧪#migcitsky
November 5, 2024 at 11:33 AM