Intersectional Gender Equality in Academia in the Arctic North

Summer Conference – Equal futures – Day I

Implicit: Uncovering gender bias in academia, focusing on philosophy (2021 – 2022 | RCN 321031)

When? June 15, 2022, from 11h00 – 16h00

Where? SV-HUM bygget, E-fløya E-0101, UiT

Zoom: Meeting ID: 932 561 5768

Program:

11h00 – 11h10: Welcome address

Kjersti Fjørtoft, Professor at the Department of Philosophy, UiT

11h10 – 11h40: Democratic equality in academia

Kjersti Fjørtoft, Professor at the Department of Philosophy, UiT

11h40 – 12h20: Lunch

12h20 – 12h50: Women in the history of philosophy – lack of canonizing. Exemplified by Sophie Charlotte of Prussia

Fredrik Nilsen, Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, UiT

12h50 – 13h30: Affirmative Action and DEI in Academia

Melina Duarte, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, UiT

Gabriel Goldmeier and Dominik Jackson-Cole, Invited commentators, SFHEA

13h40 – 14h10: Transgender student and staff

Mathea Sagdahl, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, UiT

14h20 – 14h50: Epistemic injustice

Kerstin Reibold (zoom), Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy, UiT

15h00 – 16h00: Guest lecture, What comes after decolonial critique?

Filipe Campello, Researcher at the University of Pernambuco, and guest researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen

18h00 – 20h00: Dinner at La Famiglia

Summer Conference – Equal futures – Day II

Prestige-project: Gender Balance in Research Leadership at UiT (2018 – 2023 | NRC 281862)

When? June 16, 2022, from 9h00 – 16h00

Where? SV-HUM bygget, E-fløya E-0101, UiT

Zoom: Meeting ID: 932 561 5768

Program:

9h00 – 9h15: Morning coffee

9h15 – 9h30: Opening addresses

Hege K. Andreassen, Associate Professor at the Center for Care Research at UiT and former Head of the Center for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT

Kenneth Ruud, Project leader. Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at UiT and Director General, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and former Vice-chancellor for Research at UiT

The Prestige-Project

9h30 – 9h45: The Prestige-project from 2018-2019: The start

Sigfrid Kjeldaas, Researcher at Norce and at the Department for Language and Culture at UiT, and former project coordinator.

9h45 – 10h00: The Prestige-project from 2020-to date: Binding findings together canonizing.

Melina Duarte, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, researcher at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT and project coordinator

10h00 – 10h15: Coffee break

WP1: Concepts WP leader: Katrin Losleben

10h15 – 10h30: Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation, book edited by Melina Duarte, Kjersti Fjørtoft, and Katrin Losleben

Katrin Losleben, Professor at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, UiT

WP2: Quantative Research WP leader: Adrianna Kochanska

10h30 – 10h45: Gender Distribution Beyond Course Measurements: Balancing gender distribution in professor positions at UiT fron 2020 onwards, report by Melina Duarte, Adrianna Kochanska, and Torill Nustad. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/sr.2020.8

Viktoria Angelsnes, Former research assistant at the Prestige-project

10h45 – 11h00: Balancinator for Organizations: an open-access resource for monitoring gender balance, software by Lilli Mittner & Matthias Mittner.

Lilli Mittner, Senior researcher at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, UiT

Matthias Mittner, Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, UiT

11h00 – 11h15: Gender distribution in Research Group Leadership at UiT: from basic structure to leadership roles, report by Melina Duarte, Adrianna Kochanska, and Malin Rönnblom.

Adrianna Kochanska, Research assistant at the BRIDGE research group, UiT

11h15 – 11h30: Coffee break

11h30 – 11h45: Mapping Experiences of Gender-Based Discrimination at UiT, report by Lise Gulli Brokjøb and Sarah Martiny

Lise Gulli Brokjøb, Student-researcher at the Department of Psychology, UiT

Sarah Martiny, Professor at the Department of Psychology, UiT

11h45 – 12h00: Why researchers at UiT apply for external funding and why they don’t? Gender Perspectives in Motivation, Capabilities, and Institutional Support, preliminary findings from a study by Adrianna Kochanska, Viktoria Angelsnes, Dina Abdel-Fattah and Lise Gulli Brokjøb, assisted by Ida Johannessen.

Lise Gulli Brokjøb, Student-researcher at the Department of Psychology, UiT

Dina Abdel-Fattah, Associate Professor at the Department of Technology and Safety

12h00 – 13h00: Lunch

WP3: Qualitative Research WP leader: Lilli Mittner

13h00 – 13h15: How do researchers think about research leadership? Preliminary results from a focus group study with early career and senior researchers at UiT, by Lilli Mittner, Malin Rönnblom, and Ann-Therese Lotherington

Lilli Mittner, Senior researcher at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, UiT

Malin Rönnblom (online participation), Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, Karlstadt University, Sweden

WP4: Normative Analysis WP leader: Kjersti Fjørtoft

13h15 – 13h30: Gender- and diversity-sensitive leadership at UiT: Leading for an equitable and inclusive organization for all

Melina Duarte, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, researcher at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research at UiT and project coordinator

13h30 – 13h45: Ways forward: do we need feminism in theory and practice?

Kjersti Fjørtoft, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Head of the Ethics Committee for the Defense Ministry of Norway

13h45 – 14h00: Coffee break

UiT Balance Hub

14h00 – 14h15: About the network

Lilli Mittner, Senior researcher at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, UiT

14h15 – 14h30: Better Balance in Informatics: An honest discussion with the students

Elisavet Kozyri, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and project leader

14h45 – 15h00: Implisitt-project: Gender Bias in Philosophy

Kjersti Fjørtoft, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Head of the Ethics Committee for the Defense Ministry of Norway

15h00 – 15h15: Girls network at Faculty of engineering science and techology (IVT) campus Narvik.

Line Ditlefsen, Studentrådgiver, Norges arktiske Studentsamskipnad Campus Narvik

Tanita Fossli Brustad, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and project leader

15h15 – 15h30: Diversity and inclusion beyond gender equality/UiT-SusSTEMEd)

Abhik Ghosh, Professor at the Department of Chemistry, UiT, and project leader)

15h30 – 15h45: (TBC)

Gregor Maxwell, Associate Professor at the Department of Education, UiT

15h45 – 16h00: Q&A (not recorded)

17h00 – 18h00: Café Sånn (non-official gathering)

18h00 – 20h00: Dinner at Skirri

Summer Conference – Equal futures – Day III

NOS-HS Gender Equality in the Arctic. Exploratory workshop

When? June 17, 2022, from 9h00 – 15h30

Where? SV-HUM bygget, E-fløya E-0101, UiT

Zoom: Meeting ID: 932 561 5768

Program:

9h00 – 9h15: Welcome coffee

9h15 – 9h30: Purpose and structure of the NOS-HS exploratory workshop

9h30 – 10h00: Gender in the Arctic.

Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Professor at the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT

10h00 – 12h00: Round table: Project participants give a short account of barriers and facilitators to equal Arctic futures at their institutions

12h00 – 13h15: Lunch break

13h15 – 14h15: PhD workshop: Short presentations of PhD projects on gender equality at the partner institutions

14h15 – 15h30: NOS-HS project partner meeting: Discussion of the proposal for collaboration

Second NOS-HS Exploratory workshop on

Intersectional Gender Equality in Academia – Exploring Sustainable Futures in the Arctic North

30.11.-2.12.2022, Lapland hotel, Oulu Finland

This hybrid workshop is part of NOS-HS funded project, and it´s explorative workshop series focusing on Intersectional Gender Equality in Academia in the Arctic North. During the first day, project partners and invited quests present and discuss on current issues related with gender equality in wide range of topics relevant to Arctic, including indigenous and Sámi knowledge production, gendered care in academia, politics, and research and innovations. Gender equality issues are approached from power perspective.

The workshop is attached with the 2022 Gender studies conference “Feminist matterings in the Arctic”, held following two days, 1-2.2022 at the University of Oulu, Linnanmaa campus.

Anyone interested are welcome to participate to the event online: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/61482549636

Program

EXPLORING GENDER REGIMES AT NORTHERNMOST NORDIC UNIVERSITIES

9.00-9.45 Coffee and welcome

University lecturer Mervi Heikkinen – Welcome words & Introduction to NOS-HS project

Postdoc researcher Anna Rönkä – “Gender equality work in the northernmost parts of Nordic countries”

9.45-11.00 Discussion 1: Gender equality, Indigenous and Sami knowledge production.

Professor Rauna Kuokkanen – “Intersectional Gender Regimes”

University lecturer Kristina Rolin – “Resisting Epistemic Exploitation”

11.00-12.00 Lunch, Lapland hotel

12.00-13.15 Discussion 2: Gender equality in Arctic politics and borderlands

Associate Professor Melina Duarte – New Book: GEDEIA

Professor Lena Abrahamsson – What’s going on in LTU?

13.15-13.30 Break

13.30-14.45 Discussion 3: Gendered career and care in academia

Professor emeritus Jeff Hearn – “Men and Masculinities in Academia, University and Science” (online)

Professor Firouz Gaini – “Faroese fatherhood and the question of higher education” (online)

14.45-15.00 Coffee

15.00-16.15 Discussion 4: Gender equality in research and innovation.

Senior Professor Liisa Husu – Research Funding Organsations as Change Agents for Gender Equality and Diversity

Professor Kirsti Lempiäinen – UniSAFE survey on gender-based violence

16.15-16.30 Introduction to the edited book proposal

Closing the meeting

18.30 --> Dinner for invited guests, Restaurant Rauhala, Mannenkatu 4, 90130 Oulu

More information:

Postdoctoral researcher Anna Rönkä

Tel: +358 294 483813

e-mail: anna.r.ronka@oulu.fi

Arctic Five Chair in Feminist STS Mervi Heikkinen

Tel: +358 294 48 3817

e-mail: mervi.heikkinen@oulu.fi

https://arcticfive.org/2022/06/08/heikkinen/

Gendered Landscapes, Intersectionality and Change in Arctic North

27-28 March 2023 Place: Umeå University, Sweden

Monday 27 March Humanisthuset, Hörsal F (HUM-D.220)

9.30-10.00 Coffee

10.00-10.15 Welcome and introduction (Britt-Inger Keisu, Umeå University, and Lena Abrahamsson, Luleå University of Technology)

10.15-12.00 Doing Gender Studies differently: appreciating decolonization in theory and practice (Angelika Sjöstedt Landen, Mid Sweden University, and Astri Dankertsen, Nord University)

12.00-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14.30 How to transform academia from within (Anna Wahl, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Sara Wilson , U-NET, Umeå University)

Network members + invited guests

14.30-17.00 The gendered landscape bus tour (Linda Gustafsson)

19.00 Dinner

Tuesday 28 March Samhällsvetarhuset, Sam.A. 323

9.00-9.40 A crisis of hope? Gender studies in an affective atmosphere of anti-gender (Maria Carbin, Umeå University)

9.40-10.15 Between decolonisation and resurgence: Sámi- and Tornedalian feminist stories from the borderland (Ina Knobblock, Mid Sweden University)

10.15-10.45 Coffee

11.00-12.30 How to challenge and develop knowledge (Maria Udén, Luleå University of Technology)

Gender in the arctic five network meeting, UCGS library

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Discussion and work with manuscripts

• Tromsö-paper (35 min)
• Oulu-paper (35 min)
• Umeå/Luleå-paper (20 min)
• The antology (30 min)