Roundtable Discussions

Confirmed panelists for debate are:

Senior Researcher Cathrine Holst, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. Dr. Holst’s main fields of academic interest are social inequality and the welfare state, including theories of justice, philosophy of social science, feminist theory. She is currently working with the institutionalisation of European equality politics, and is an important voice in  Norwegian public debate.

http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/people/aca/cathho/index.html

Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies Malin Rönnblom, Umeå University, Sweden.

Associate Professor Rönnblom’s main focus of research is critical investigations of democracy and equality. Current research interest span from studying regional politics and equality politics, equality strategies in academia, as well as methodological and theoretical questions of equality. 

http://www.ucgs.umu.se/om-UCGS/personal/malin-ronnblom/

Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History. She is also Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Dr. Kessler-Harris specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. She received her B. A. from Goucher College (1961) and her Ph.D. from Rutgers (1968).

Alice Kessler-Harris has served as  president of the Organization of American Historians, and am a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Kessler-Harris.html

Moderator: Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt.