Category Archives: Congressen, seminaries, lezingen, summer schools

Event: ‘Gender, Society and Inequality’ KU LEUVEN, November 4-7, 2015,

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Dear all,As many of you already know there will be a number of events this November 4-7 in Leuven around the theme of Gender, Society and Inequality. More information is below, as are instructions on how to register (registration is required).

First there will be a number of public lectures accessible to all. These coincide with two events that we have organized in Leuven: an international meeting on Male Communal Roles – Developing a Research Agenda and a special symposium with Professor Peter Glick funded by the KU Leuven Doctoral School for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Glick is known for his work on the stereotype content model (with Professor Susan Fiske) and his work on ambivalent sexism. There will be public lectures for staff, postdoctoral scholars and Ph.D. candidates, as well as for the public. On Thursday November 5 (19.30-21.00) Professor Glick will give a public address entitled ‘What Keeps Men Away from Communal Roles?’– followed by a reception. In addition, Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral scholars can sign up for the special symposium in which potential research ideas are explored and discussed (November 4-5). Please see http://ppw.kuleuven.be/home/english/research/cscp/symposium for more information and instructions on how to register (registration is required).

It may also be possible (as long as room allows) to attend specific key note sessions of the international meeting that we have organized in Leuven on Male Communal Roles – Developing a Research Agenda. General information can be found at http://ppw.kuleuven.be/home/english/research/cscp/conferences (more details on the program will be placed on this website over the next few weeks). Please contact Nathalie Vissers (Nathalie.Vissers@ppw.kuleuven.be) should this be of interest to you.

We hope we will see many of you at the Peter Glick keynote or at one of the other events. Should you have any questions please contact Nathalie.Vissers@ppw.kuleuven.be. Please forward this to possibly interested others.

Best wishes,
Colette van Laar

Professor of Psychology
Center for Social and Cultural Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Leuven
Tiensestraat 102 — box 3727
3000 Leuven, Belgium
Email: colette.vanlaar@ppw.kuleuven.be
Phone: +32-16-373273
Room 3.16

Conferentie Vrouwenkracht is Vredesmacht

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Op 31 oktober 2015 organiseren Moeders voor Vrede, Stad Ieper, de Vrouwenraad, Universiteit Gent vakgroep geschiedenis en IGVM de conferentie ‘Vrouwenkracht is vredesmacht’. Daarin focussen we op de rol van vrouwen in conflictsituaties. Specifiek komen voor deze conferentie heel wat sterke vrouwen uit binnen- en buitenland naar Ieper. Mis dit niet en schrijf je snel in via de website!

Lecture: Srećko Horvat – Love in the Age of Selfie

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With a response by Frank Furedi

12 November 2015 – 14.30 -16.15 – Raadzaal UFO – Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33, 9000 Gent – collaboration with the UGent Policy Unit Gender & Diversity.

In 2013 Oxford Dicitionary announced selfie as “the international Word of the Year”. Since then, it seems we are witnessing a selfie-pandemic. According to the Russian Ministry of the Interior at least 10 Russians have been killed and 100 more injured while taking selfies this year alone. Social networks and new technologies, from Facebook to Instagram, only enforce these trends that are correlated with narcissism and self-commodification. If Christopher Lasch warned about the normalization of pathological narcissism in late 20th century, what we should do today is not only to investigate various new modes of narcissism, but pose the really crucial question:  what about love in the “Culture of Narcissism”? How did love or falling in love change due to new technological developments from the late 70s, when Lasch’s book was originally published up until today? And above all questions: is there falling in love without narcissism? That are some of the questions that the lecture will try to raise.

Srećko Horvat  (1983) is a philosopher born in Croatia. He is author of “What Does Europe Want?” (Columbia University Press, 2014) co-authored with Slavoj Žižek, “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia” (Verso, 2014) with Igor Štiks, and most recently “The Radicality of Love” (Polity Press, 2015). He regularly publishes for The Guardian, Al Jazeera and New York Times.This is a boxed text block. You can use it to draw attention to important content. Frank Furedi is Emeritus professor of Sociology, University of Kent and Visiting Professor, Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. He has published widely about controversies relating to issues such as health, parenting children, food and new technology. His books include Authority, A Sociological History (2013), Invitation To Terror; Expanding the Empire of the Unknown(2007), The Culture of Fear (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001).

Please, register for this lecture at the UGent Policy Unit Gender & Diversity