In spring 2025, SKOK (center for women’s and gender research), LawTransform and Skeivforsk will organize a cross-disciplinary, combined master and PhD course about thedynamics between sex and politics in a global perspective.
Registration deadline – Monday 13 of January 2025.
The main focus will be on how LGBTQ issues are used for political purposes around the globe.
The course will run throughout the 2025 spring semester, starting in February and continuing in a two-week pace. There will be both regular lectures and a 3-day gathering in May. The regular lectures are public, but registration is required, and attendance is mandatory for students interested in completing the course with credits (10ETCS).
The course focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on dynamics of polarization and how queer and trans issues are used as pretext for violence, either by pursuing a strategy of homonationalism, pinkwashing and civilizing mission that sanitizes Islamophobia, or by accusing gender and sexual minorities and LGBT legislations for threatening the natural, national and civilizational order.
You can find more information about the course here + registration link here.
For any questions you can contact professor at SKOK and main course responsible Randi Gressgård (randi.gressgard@uib.no) .
Photo credit: Randi Gressgård.