Pedagogical Experiments in the Musicological Classroom
In “Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom”, the eminent feminist scholar bell hooks casts the classroom as “the most radical space of possibility in the academy” (1994: 12). For hooks, teaching is a political and spiritual praxis which has the potential to…
Celebrating women’s and gender research at NTNU
Since 2017 GenderHub has served as an arena where researchers engaged in gender research can come together for candid and interdisciplinary conversations. On the occasion of International Women’s Day, GenderHub would like to recognize the important work done by researchers working on gender-related themes across…
Hello from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo!
I arrived in Tokyo on 7 October for a month-long research stay at Ochanomizu University as part of an INTPART collaboration between the two Gender Studies research centers. My research focuses on trans issues in Japan, and I hope to write an article or book…
What can Norway and Japan learn from each other when gender research takes on a global perspective?
That is the main question in the NFR-funded project ‘Norway-Japan: Bridging Research and Education in Gender Equality and Diversity’. For the next three years, the project’s team of researchers will be examining how the political ideal of gender equality relates to other axes of difference,…
Reisebrev fra Tokyo
Hei! Nå har vi vært i Tokyo i litt over to uker, tiden flyr. Vi har fått utforsket ulike deler av byen og hatt en full uke med forelesninger knyttet til sommerkurset Gender Equality and Leadership. Det var veldig godt å ha en uke til…
Fremtidens transportløsninger: teknologiske dingser eller samfunnsutvikling?
Du tenker kanskje på Nederland som et sykkelparadis? De som arbeider med å implementere selvkjørende transport i landet gjør ikke det. I stedet ser disse planleggerne og innovatørene på landets 22,5 millioner sykler som den største barrieren mot å lykkes med sitt prosjekt. Noen spørsmål…
Contemporary fairy tales: narrating women academics through images
Hundreds of literary and symbolic images are used in the literature and media to refer to the careers and experiences of women academics and the gendered professional hindrances they encounter. Most of these metaphors draw either from the natural world or from the terminology of…
Humanistiske arkitekter
I tre uker var vi tre studenter utplassert i praksisopphold hos Agraff arkitektur gjennom emnet Humanister i praksis (HiP). Her er et blogginnlegg om våre erfaringer fra praksisoppholdet. «Vi jobber jo med samfunnsutvikling – vi skulle hatt dere med på laget!» Sitatet over kom fra…