Nordic Perspectives - Your Nordic view on Asia

The Third Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Studies Conference is entitled 'Gender at the Interface of the Global and the Local: perspectives from China and the Nordic Countries' and will take place 4-7 November 2008, Kunming, China

GENDER AND GLOBALIZATION
Processes of globalization have brought China and the Nordic countries in closer contact. Inherent in the concept of globalization are economic, political, demographic, social and cultural processes that are taking place in our times, bringing the global into the local and vice versa. Globalization is linked to processes of modernization and migration. A vital force in these processes is the modern market economy bringing Western enterprises into China and Chinese products to Nordic markets at an accelerating scale. Locally, these global transformations affect the social relations and discursive powers of women and men.

THE THIRD SINO-NORDIC WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE
The conference will focus on the gendered aspects of globalization. The perspective of interface situations, or two way processes, implies that gender is inherent in the directions that globalization processes take, for instance when global corporations search for female labour in low cost countries; and in the sense that changes set about by global actors may affect gender relations globally as well as locally, for instance when young women get new opportunities on the labour market implying an own income and a new freedom of movement.

CONFERENCE THEMES
1. Gendering ‘Globalization’
2. Globalization, gender mainstreaming and women’s movements in China and the Nordic countries
3. Globalization and social change

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Opening speech: Saskia Sassen
Professor of sociology, Columbia University, USA and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Theme 1:

• Kari Melby, Professor of history and gender studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  
• Speaker from China to be announced

Theme 2:

• Drude Dahlerup, Professor of political science, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Min Dongchao, Associate Professor, Depatment of Philosophy, School of Social Science in Shanghai University

Theme 3:

• Nira Yuval-Davis, Professor of gender and ethnic studies, University of East London, UK
• Pun Ngai, Associate Professor, Social Science Division, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submitting abstracts via the conference website is 25 May 2008.

FURTHER INFORMATION
Cecilia Milwertz: +45 3532 9534 / milwertz@nias.ku.dk
Conference website: Gender at the Interface of the Global and the Local

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Submit an abstract
Duedate for submission of short abstract is 15 May 2008.

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