Invisible Girl conference on gender, youth culture power and learning
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On Thursday 7 June, a conference titled "The Invisible Girl" will take place at Bildmuseet museum at Umeå Arts Campus, Umeå University. This is to celebrate the launch of an online anthology, where forty researchers and artists describes and problematise girls and girlhood.
Researchers and artists will come from all over the world to present their work. Countries represented include: Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kenya, India, Israel, Italy Nigeria, Sweden and United Kingdom. It will be an intense afternoon with a rich agenda. Between 3 pm and 6 pm the contributions will be presented nearby the restaurant, on the ground floor in Bildmuseet, lovely situated right by the river of Umeå.
The Invisible Girl is an international, Swedish-based and multi-disciplinary research project about gender, youth culture power and learning. Together with 40 researchers and artists from 15 countries we aim to offer a critical perspective to studies of girls and girlhood and extend common views of the contemporary girl and her situation. The main outcome will be a freely available, online publication where recent research will be presented as chapters but also as artworks such as; poems, video, cartoons, digital imaging, photos and installations.
