Research seminars

Every semester, the Division of Gender Studies host research seminars where researchers from around the world are invited to present and discuss their research. Our research seminars are open to the public and usually held in English. 

Gender Studies Seminar 

The Gender Studies Seminar Series invite researchers to share their insight on key issues for gendered and sexualized lives and knowledges, and to engage in critical discussions about the development of gender studies as an interdisciplinary and intersectional research field. Bringing together scholars from various research fields and theoretical traditions, this seminar series offers a platform for critical reflexions and new insights. Seeking to provide a space for intellectual exchanges around the role of knowledge production in turbulent times.

During spring 2025 the Division of Gender Studies are hosting a series of seminars within the Gender Studies Seminar Series.

Contact: Professor Mia Liinason

Programme spring 2025

The Weaponization of Time: Legal Liminality and the Reproduction of Disposable Lives in Sweden’s Migration System

Sara Philipson Isaac, Postdoctoral researcher at at the Center for Sustainability Research at the Stockholm School of Economics

Wednesday 12 February

When: 13.15-15.00
Where: Gamla lungkliniken, Rum 335

This presentation draws on my dissertation, Temporal Dispossession: The Politics of Asylum and the Remaking of Racial Capitalism in and Beyond the Borders of the Swedish Welfare State. The thesis delves into the transformation of Swedish asylum legislation post-2015, marking a shift towards temporary residence permits as the new norm and intertwining migration policies with labour market dynamics. Through a lens of temporal dispossession and racial capitalism, it examines how dispossession operates in and through the border regime and, more specifically, through time, and how the latter is weaponized to dispossess people of their life chances. Drawing on a denationalist approach, the thesis explores how temporal dispossession affects citizens and non-citizens alike, highlighting migrants as subjected to the sharpest end of temporal control. Drawing from four years of ethnographic engagements with people who sought asylum in Sweden after 2015, it scrutinizes the temporal governance of migration bureaucracy, the dynamics within asylum camps and enforcement archipelagos, and the temporal dispossession in and through the labour market. Ultimately, the thesis contributes to understanding how border regimes sustain racial capitalism and exacerbate labour market exploitation through the operation of legal liminality and deportability.

Queer and trans assisted reproduction in a Norwegian context – (re)producing ordinariness?

Lærke Munk Rigtrup-Lindemann

Wednesday 26 March

When: 13.15-15.00
Where: Gamla lungkliniken, Rum 335

Abstract TBA

South-East Conversations Roundtable on Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Roundtable with reception afterwards

Tuesday 15 April

When: 13.15-16.00
Where: R240. Reception will take place at 16.00 in the library at the 4th floor of Gamla Lungkliniken.

This roundtable will share transnational perspectives on feminist, gender and sexuality studies in the context of global power relations, and develop new conceptual frames on anti-gender movements situated in and across local, national and transnational sites. 

Participants: 

• Manuela Boatcă (Professor of Sociology at Freiburg University, Kerstin Hesselgren Professor (2025) Södertörn University)
• Neferti Xina M. Tadiar (Moa Martinson Guest Professor (2024-2025) Lingköping University, Sweden, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University), 
• Mia Liinason (Professor of Gender Studies Lund University, Wallenberg Scholar) 
• Ov Cristian Norocel (Reader of Gender Studies, Lund University). 
• Diana Mulinari (Senior Professor of Gender Studies, Lund University).

Wednesday 14 May

To be confirmed.