FW: Conference in Finland, MULTIPLE MARGINALITIES: GENDER AND EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL, LOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL WORLD

[Katalin Fabian]

> Subject: Conference in Finland, MULTIPLE MARGINALITIES: GENDER AND EDUCATION
> IN THE GLOBAL, LOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
>
> MULTIPLE MARGINALITIES: GENDER AND EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL,
> LOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL WORLD
>
> 2-4 June 2004, Department of Education, University of Helsinki,
> Finland,
> Bulevardi 18
>
> We invite you to the first interim Gender and Education
> Conference in
> order
> to discuss multiple dimensions of marginalization in educational
> theories,
> processes and practices. Our aim is to generate dialogue on how
> the
> global,
> local and transnational are played out in diverse educational
> sites and
> spaces. How are marginalities lived, embodied, experienced and
> transgressed
> and how can they be challenged and transformed? Themes such as
> pedagogical
> practices, youth cultures, space, embodiment, sexuality,
> activism,disabilities and age will be discussed from multiple
> disciplinary
> perspectives, such as education, sociology, psychology, women's
> studies,
> youth studies and history.
>
> The Conference is organized by EDDI (Education and Difference
> researchers
> in Finland), in association with the Gender and Education
> Association,
> Department of Education, Department of Sociology, Helsinki
> Collegium
> for
> Advanced Studies, Finnish Youth Research Network and Christina
> Institute
> for Women's Studies.
>
> The conference workshops welcome papers with a variety of
> empirical,
> theoretical and methodological perspectives, data-based,
> conceptual as
> well
> as speculative and provocative papers. Following ideas for
> possible
> workshop themes reflect the foci of the symposium.
>
> Workshops:
>
>  1. Education for All (chair: Tuula Gordon)
>  2. Children and Young People in the Margins (chair: Sinikka
> Aapola)
>  3. Multiple Marginalities in School Practices (chair: Tarja
> Palmu)
>  4. Representations of and in Marginalities (chair: Sirpa
> Lappalainen)
>  5. Embodiment and Education (chair: Sanna Aaltonen)
>  6. Inclusion and Exclusion in Pedagogy (chair: Pirkko
> Hynninen &
>     Katariina Hakala)
>  7. Global/Local Identities and Subjectivities (chair: Tarja
> Tolonen)
>  8. Sexualities in Education (chair: Jukka Lehtonen)
>  9. Reflexive Methodologies (chair: Elina Lahelma)
>  10.Education in Life Histories (chair: Katri Komulainen)
>  11.Higher Education (chair: Liisa Husu)
>  12.Disabilities in Education (chair: Reetta Mietola)
>
> For more details and forms for abstracts and registration,
> please see
> home
> page http://www.helsinki.fi/ktl/gened
>
> Timeline for abstracts and early bird registrations is the 31st
> of
> March.
> Early booking is essential, we can accommodate 100 participants.
>
> Registration fee:
>
> Registrations before March 31, 2004: 100 EUR, for post-graduate
> students 50
> EUR
> Registrations after March 31, 2004: 110 EUR, for post-graduate
> students
> 55
> EUR
>
> The first 10 participants from areas adjacent to Finland,
> including
> Estonia,
> Latvia, Lithuania and Russia do not need to pay the membership
> fee or
> conference dinners.
>
> Keynote speakers:
>
> Leslie Roman, University of British Columbia, Canada
> Penina Mlama & Francisca Senare (FAWE - Forum for African Women
> in
> Education, Kenya)
> Sheila Riddell, University of Edinburgh, UK
> Elena Zdravomyslova, European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP)
> Sinikka Aapola, University of Helsinki, Finland
>
> The organizing committee (University of Helsinki):
>
> Sinikka Aapola, Department of Sociology, Tuula Gordon, Helsinki
> Collegium
> for Advanced Studies, Elina Lahelma, Department of Education,
> Reetta
> Mietola, Department of Education, Helena Outinen, Department of
> Education,
> Tarja Tolonen, Department of Sociology
>
> If you have any queries, please contact members of the
> organizing
> committee:
>
> Reetta.Mietola at Helsinki.Fi, Helena.Outinen at Helsinki.Fi,
> Tuula.Gordon at Helsinki.Fi, Sinikka.Aapola at Helsinki.Fi,
> Elina.Lahelma at Helsinki.Fi, Tarja.Tolonen at Helsinki.Fi
>
>
>
> Location: Finland
> Deadline: March31, 2004 (June 2004 event)
> Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/ktl/gened
>