Gender Lunch Talks: Gender, War Military and Peace
The Coordination for Gender Research invites to Gender Lunch Talks in May and June
Gender Lunch Talks at the University of Copenhagen will this spring semester put focus on gendered aspects of war, military and peace. an array of researchers will look into the complexities, conceptualizations, and lived realities of the theme.
The Gender Lunch Talks is an online event with a Zoom link sent to the participants. Though this semester we will sum up the theme with a panel on the 28th of June.
It is free to participate, but registration is required for each event.
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The Gender Lunch Talks turns its gaze to the potency of the military (as a social institution) and the force of war through the eyes of gender studies and feminist theory.
In recent years, the nexus of gender, conflict and violence has become a frequent object of feminist research. This research has been significant for a number of reasons. It has documented the exclusion of women in the processes following war or violent conflicts, i.e. in peace-building processes, and demonstrated that this is the norm. It has also pointed out that conflict and war, security operations and security precautions are practices and policies which are conducted and experienced in gendered ways and have gendered consequences. It has also pointed out that conflict and war, security operations and security precautions are practices and policies which are conducted and experienced in gendered ways and have gendered consequences.
(Folke Frederiksen, Carøe Christensen & Stockmar; 2013 in Women, Gender & Research).
This theme of war, military and peace simultaneously builds on, as well as challenges, traditional perceptions of and approaches to studying gendered dynamics of military life and war.