Program
Monday 23 September 2019
09:00 -10:00 |
Registration of ParticipantsVenue: Gamle Festsal |
10:00 -10:10 |
WelcomeDean Dag Michalsen, University of Oslo Venue: Gamle Festsal |
10:10 - 10:30 |
Mapping a diverse and dynamic legal landscapeProfessor Anne Hellum, University of Oslo Venue: Gamle Festsal |
10:30 - 11.30 |
Keynote session: Nordic equality and anti-discrimination laws in the throes of changePlease note that the keynote session is open for all interested, no registration necessary. Chair: Professor Ingunn Ikdahl, University of Oslo Sweden Professor Eva Maria Svensson, Gothenburg University and Finland Professor Kevät Nousiainen, University of Turku Iceland Associate professor Brynhildur Flóvenz, University of Iceland Venue: Gamle festsal |
11:30 - 12:15 |
Lunch for all registrated participantsVenue: Professorboligen |
12:15 - 13:45 |
Keynote session continuedDenmark Professor Kirsten Ketscher, Copenhagen University and University of Oslo Norway Professor Vibeke Blaker Strand and Comments Phd in Sociology of Law, Lena Svenaeus, Lund University |
13:45 - 14:15 |
Coffee break with a light snackVenue: Professorboligen |
14:15-16:00 |
Parallel paper session 1Equal PayVenue: Professorboligen Chair: Associate professor Marianne Jenum Hotvedt, University of Oslo Commentator: Julie Lødrup, first secretary, Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) The right to equal pay in NorwayProfessor Hege Brækhus, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Pay equity in Sweden – obstacles and opportunitiesPhD in Sociology of Law, Lena Svenaeus, Lund University New legal strategies with the aim to combat the gender pay gapSusanne Fransson, Gothenburg University and Pay transparency: a step towards equal payProfessor Kevät Nousiainen, University of Turku Gendered career paths? Patterns of professorial recruitment at the Faculty of humanities of the largest university in NorwaySofia Moratti, Vivian Anette Lagesen and Knut Holtan Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Equality in international legal arenasVenue: Kjerka Chair: Professor Ingunn Ikdahl, University of Oslo Gendered dimensions of accessing asylum in the EUKristina Wejstål, research fellow, Gothenburg University In deference to the patriarchal state – gendering the margin of appreciation in the European Court of Human RightsMatilda Merenmies, Ph.D. researcher, European University Institute An alarm clock from the 1940s? Analyzing women, peace and security and the Swedish feminist foreign policy through the lens of Elin WägnerSari Kouvo, Senior lecturer, Gothenburg University Abortion as an equality issue – reflections on recent international developmentsNiklas Bruun, Professor, University of Helsinki |
Tuesday 24 September
09:00 -10:30 |
Parallel paper session 2Gender violence as an equality issue IVenue: Professorboligen Chair: Professor Ragnhild Hennum, University of Oslo Gender violence and trafficking: A one-sided and gendered conception of the victims?Associate professor Carola Lingaas, Faculty of Social Studies, VID University Gendered narrative and characterization in judicial opinionsLine Normann Hjort, University of Bergen What if we are taking the legal principles seriously – rape of humanoid sex robots – is it desirable to criminalize? If so, why criminalization, what should be blamed and who should be punished?University lecturer Wanna Svedberg, Gothenburg University Equality and freedom of religion and speech in work and businessVenue: Kjerka Chair: Professor Anne Hellum, University of Oslo The conflict between the legal principles of freedom of expression vs. gender equality revisitedProfessor Eva-Maria Svensson, Gothenburg University Internal workplace policies of neutrality – risks and barriers that hinder an including working life. A jurisprudential investigation of the conflict between the freedom of religion and the freedom to conduct a businessSusanne Fransson, Gothenburg University Same, same, but different? Governing anti-discrimination laws in Norway and DenmarkGuest researcher Helge Årsheim, University of Oslo, and When equality and diversity collide: The issue of religiously motivated reservations in employmentProfessor Vibeke Blaker Strand, University of Oslo
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10.30 - 10.45 |
Coffe break with light snackProfessorboligen |
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10.45 - 12.15 |
Parallel paper session 3Gender violence as an equality issue IIVenue: Professorboligen Chair: Professor Ragnhild Hennum, University of Oslo Is there a place for continuum thinking in criminal Law? On sexual harassment and criminalizationSenior lecturer Linnea Wegerstad, Lund University From fight against less favorable treatment to dignity protection – gender equality law in transition – sexual harassment as discriminationMaria Rasmussen, Copenhagen Business School (paper with Ruth Nielsen and Christina Tvarnø) Involuntary sterilization and castration in Sweden, Norway and Finland: unequal remedies?Reserach fellow Daniela Alaattinoglu, University of Turku Indigenous Greenlandic women's access to justiceSiff Lund Nielsen Equality and diversityVenue: Kjerka Chair: Professor Vibeke Blaker Strand, University of Oslo Legal gender recognition and messy trans experiencesFrance Rose Hartline, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Equality and gender diversity: cases concerning sexual orientation at the ECHRJuho Aalto, University of Turku Biopolitics of disability and gender – symptoms from Finnish lawMinni Leskinen, University of Turku |
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12:15 -13:15 |
LunchProfessorboligen |
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13:15 - 14:45 |
Parallel paper session 4Equality as a family and social welfare issueVenue: Professorboligen Chair: Professor Kirsten Sandberg, University of Oslo Poverty in the Nordic welfare societiesIda Gundersby Rognlien, research fellow, University of Copenhagen Substantive equality and the need for empirical legal research (Is Norwegian family property law (really) discriminatory?)Katrine Fredwall, University of Oslo Revealing the “knots” of gendering in Nordic family reunification lawAssociate professor Tone Linn Wærstad, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Renegotiating gender equality in a changing welfare stateProfessor Ingunn Ikdahl, University of Oslo Gender, equality and anti-discrimination law in legal educationVenue: Kjerka Chair: Professor Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, University of Oslo Commentator: Professor Eva-Maria Svensson, Gothenburg University From success to elimination – and what’s next? The case of gender and law in legal education at Umeå UniversityProfessor Monica Burman, Umeå University Legal education and researchSusan Arulanantham and Assia Chelaghma, caseworkers, Legal Aid for Women (JURK) Engendering and decolonizing higher legal education: south/north perspectivesProfessor Anne Hellum, University of Oslo Gender dimension integration in legal researchLisouskaya Tatsiana, PhD, Brest State Technical University and
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14:45 -15:00 |
Coffe break |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Reflections on the conferenceVenue: Professorboligen Chair: Professor Anne Hellum Frøydis Patursson, JURK Professor Susanne Zwingel, Florida International University Professor Eva Marie Svensson, Gothenburg University |
Conference theme
The Nordic countries top The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index. The notion of the ‘Nordic Gender Equality Model’ is associated with strong state feminism, and laws and policies that promote substantive equality. This international “brand” is challenged by Nordic scholarship in the field of women, gender and the law, which points to the disjuncture between the right to equality and the gendered realities on the ground.
However, the analyses of the potential and limits of the equality and anti-discrimination laws in the different Nordic countries remain fragmented and unsystematic. While most Nordic countries have some form of gender equality and anti-discrimination laws in place, their histories, legal and political origins, designs and enforcement systems vary. Furthermore, the Nordic equality and anti-discrimination laws do not exist in a vacuum, but are firmly embedded in the clay of EU law and international human rights law. Moreover, the Nordic anti-discrimination laws and welfare rights are situated in a rapidly changing economic and political context, both nationally and globally. Currently, there is increased pressure from actors that see gender equality and anti-discrimination as an individual and private matter.
Through keynote presentations and parallel paper sessions, the conference sets out to examine the construction of equality in the equality and anti-discrimination laws in the different Nordic countries. Towards this end, the conference seeks to situate the legal developments in the different Nordic countries in the context of a rapidly changing transnational, legal, social, political and economic landscape. The overall aim is to provide a legal, theoretical and critical basis for debates about past, present and future transformations of Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination laws.
The Nordic Law and Gender Conference is a biannual event that started out in 2009.