The Work of Gender in the Lives of Children and Young People

The conference venue is the HSL building on the University campus. Keynote lectures and wrap-up sessions will be held in auditorium E-0.101 and parallel sessions in auditorium E-0.101(room A) and lecture rooms E-0.103(room B).

Day 0 - Tuesday 27 October

1900-2030 Welcomme Tapas meal at Presis, Storgata 36

Day 1 - Wednesday, October 28

0900-0930 Registration, coffee/tea
0930-0945 Ann Therese Lotherington Welcoming
0945-1000 Chair Hanne Haavind: Introduction - the aim and scope of this symposium 
1000-1100 Julie McLeod: Then and now: gender, temporality, and memories and dreams of schooling
1100-1130 Coffee/tea
1130-1300 Parallel sessions
Session I, room A
Discussants: Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen and Hanne Haavind
Session II, room B
Discussant: Julia McLeod
Ingerid Bø: Gender and Equal opportunity in child-daycare: Preparing for involvement Marit Aure: Absence, presence and ideals of fatherhood. Men in the petroleum industry in Norway
Agnes Andenæs: '...what feels right for me and expresses who I am'. Young people's decision making concerning  higher education Siri Gerrard: Children's work on gender across time and place in a fishing village in Northern Norway
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1500 Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen:  New girls? Gendered patterns of learning in new contexts 
1500-1530 Coffee/tea
1530-1700 Parallel sessions
Session III, room A
Discussant: Hanne Haavind
Session IV, room B
Discussant: Rachel Thomson and Erica Burman
Roma Thomas: Social Work and Young Masculinities - Gender missing in action? Mona Asbjørnslett: How does gender come
into play as negotiated and challenged
in a social context
Mona Iren Hauge: Girls of immigrant background negotiate the meaning of female circumcision Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Selma Therese Lyng: Relational aggression among pupuils: Gendered practices or gendered interpretations?
1730-1930 Reception at Ardna, UiT

 

Day 2 - Thursday, October 29

0900-1000 Rachel Thomson: Now you see it, now you don't: marking gender in documents of the everyday life of teenagers
1000-1030 Coffee/tea
1030-1200 Parallel sessions
Session V, room A
Discussant: Dorte Marie Søndergaard
Session VI, room B
Discussant: Agnes Andenæs
Rebecca Webb: 'Being Yourself' at Top Hill Primary Dorte Kousholt: 'An old lady among the wild boys'
Anna Maria Stenseth: Being bullied, quality of life
and gender

Erica Burman: Gendered Lessons in the Psychology of Learning and Love

1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1400 Liv Mette Gulbrandsen: Gendering selves & bodies - Intersectional approaches to processes of growing up
1400-1430 Coffee/tea
1430-1700 Parallel sessions
Session VII, room A
Discussants: Erica Burman and Sebastian Mohr
Session VIII, room B
Disussants: Liv Mette Gulbrandsen and Rachel Thomson
Ylva Jannok Nutti and Anne Birgitte Fyhn: Mutual respect - Different gendered cultures as a resouce and not a problem Anna Margrete Flåm: "Hear me and see me!" Where  is the child in Norwegian family therapy service when violence happens?

Gry Paulgaard: Place, Attachment, Unemployment and
Masculinity - Young Men in the High North

Line Indrevoll Stänicke: Adolescents girls' subjective experience of their own self-harming behavior – a multiple case study

1930 Conference dinner

Day 3 - Friday, October 30

0900-1000 Dorte Marie Søndergaard:  Among ironic avatars and robots in love – gender formations moving across humans and their technological imitations
1000-1030 Coffee/tea
1030-1200 Parallel sessions
Open session, room A Session IX, room B
Discussant: Liv Mette Gulbrandsen and Rachel Thomson

Sebastian Mohr: Doing ethnography - doing gender reflections on the contemporary Dynamics of gender in ethnographic Research

Anne-Marith Rasmussen: Wahid and Willy: Gender, Place and Subjectification
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1430 Panel discussion and wrap-up session
Hanne Haavind: Evoking a sense of gender - and going further
All keynote speakers in panel