Kari Jegerstedt is Head of Centre at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK). Her research interest includes: Feminist theory, Literary Theory, Narrative theory, Psychoanalysis, Post colonialism, Globalisation, Feminist fiction, South African Literature, Postmodern fiction, Radical Philosophy, Resistance and Queer theory.

2024

Women looking at men looking at women. Conversation during Bergen International Literary Festival, 09.02.24

Expert contact for 2024 Holberg Prize winner Achilles Mbembe.

2023

Enquete: Four Norwegian gender research centres on the anti-gender movement. Fett, 07.03.23 (in Norwegian)

2022

Presentation: "Begjærmaskinenes 50-årsdag: Deleuze/Guattari avec Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmann" during a full day seminar marking the 50 year anniversary of Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Litteraturhuset i Bergen, 26 November 2022 (in Norwegian)

Conversation: Boklansering (book launch): Ovartaci - The Signature of Madness. The event is organized by SKOK, Research Group for Radical Philosophy and Literature (RFL) og Kunsthall 3,14. 25 November 2022 (in Norwegian and Danish)

Panel conversation: This month’s classic at the library: Audre Lorde – «Zami». Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet. 16 November 2022 (in Norwegian)

Conference paper: The "Scandinavian Carter: A Comparison between Translations and the Reception of Angela Carter in Norway, Sweden and Denmark" at Angela Carter Around the World: Translation and Reception. Department of English, University of Lausanne. 4 November 2022

Initiator: SKOK's diversity workshop. 13 October 2022

Moderator: Queer Politics & Democratic Rights in India: 1975 - Present. 5 October 2022

Stage play, Den Nationale Scene in Bergen: Kommisjonen for de gode løsningene. 19 September 2022

Moderator: How to document and tell queer history? 29 August 2022

Co-organizer of conference: Why (Queer) History Matters, 28-29 August 2022

Interviewed in the article Nytt mannsutvalg utelukker kvinner – frykter useriøs gutteklubb, NRK Troms og Finnmark, 4 July 2022

Press release: Eksperter fra UiB: Skeivt kulturår/Pride 2022. 25 May 2022

Podcast episode, Femihelse: Kjønn: Hva skiller oss og hvordan blir vi de vi er? 23 May 2022.

Who's afraid of the white woman? Conversation with Rafia Zakaria about what it takes to create a new, inclusive feminism. Bergen International Literary Festival, 12 February 2022

Op-ed in Norwegian daily Aftenposten: Støtte til Store Norske Leksikon om kjønn. 11 January 2022

2021

Introduction before the screening of the film Examined Life - a warm-up to the Holberg debate 2021. 2 December 2021

Moderator of panel conversation during Torborg Nedreaas-dagen 2021. 13 November 2021

"Gender in times of globalization": Presentation at event to celebrate UiB's 75 year anniversary: Globale challenges that shaped the University 26 October 2021

Interviewed in the article Ny rapport viser at forskning på kjønnsperspektiver ikke har økt in Kilden, 21 September 2021

Interviewed in Norwegian daily Klassekampen about the start-up of Bergen International Book Club at the House of Literature in Bergen (behind paywall), 11 September 2021

Moderated the conversation during Election 2021 - The abortion issue in Norwegian politics at the House of Literature in Bergen, 8 September 2021

Moderated the conversation during the book launch of Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues, online, 8 June 2021

Moderated the panel What is gender research? during Kjønnforskning NÅ! (Gender Research NOW!) 2021. 26 May 2021

Op-ed in Kilden: Navnet former kjønnsforskningen. 20 May 2021

Presentation at the seminar Gender, Brain and Health, online, 21 May 2021

Interviewed in the article – Kvinnedagen er fortsatt viktig in Kilden, 8 March 2021

Presentation at seminar about Griselda Pollock, online, 22 February 2021

Moderator during Day Zero panel, SDG Conference 2021: Epistemic Inequalities: The Challenge of Decolonizing Knowledge in Gender Studies. 10 February 2021

2019

Psykoanalyse i litteraturen. Panel talk at the House of Literature in Bergen. 25 November 2019

SKOK seminar: Native/Immigrant/Refugee: Crossings and Divides. 28 August 2019

During this year's NORA conference (Nordisk tidsskrift for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning) in Reykjavik, Kari partipated in several panels. 22-24 May 2019.

Workshop for the project Brain-Sex - about brains and gender differences. Presentations from Stephen Dougherty, Mi-Kyung Yi, Neil Vickers, Claus Halberg, Marco Hirnstein, Emily Maddox, Magnus Michelsen, Sigrid Sandal. 11-12 January 2019

2018

Annual conference for RINGS (International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies). In the roundtable about “Teaching critical gender studies – dilemmas of identity and politics”, Kari, together with Rosemarie Buikema (Netherlands), Tamara Shefer (South Africa) and Christine M. Jacobsen (Norway) discussed about dilemmas that arise from ‘intersectional identities’ teachers and students bring to the class room. 17- 19 October 2018.

Jegerstedt's teaching experience covers introductory courses in gender studies, gender theory and psychoanalysis courses.

In addition to the regular teaching at SKOK, Kari has recently taught the following PhD courses:

• Gender, Justice and Environmental Crises during Bergen Summer Research School, June 2022
• Feminist Visions for Justice in Times of Environmental Crises, December 2021
• Technologies are Us: Feminist Perspectives on Posthuman Futures, September 2020
• Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change, August 2015

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Jegerstedt, Kari; Marhaug, Sofie (2023). De varme hendene: Betraktninger over den politiske kunstens (u)mulighet. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Michelsen, Per Arne; Neple, Anemari (2023). "Vent ikke noe beskjedenhet fra meg". Om kanoniseringen av en forfatter. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2020). Literature as Philosophy of the Real: Ethics and Sexual Difference in Coetzee's Disgrace. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). The Voice of Venus. Angela Carter's Black Venus and the Democratization of Literature. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Svrljuga, Zeljka; Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen (2019). Refiguring Black Venus. Preliminary Considerations. (external link)
• Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen; Jegerstedt, Kari; Svrljuga, Zeljka (2016). "The Hottentot Venus is Unavailable for Comment": Questioning Representation through Aesthetic Practices. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2012). The Art of Speculation. Allegory and Parody as Critical Readings Strategies in The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2012). Frykten for det feminine. Kjønnssymbolikk og misogyni i Behring Breiviks ”manifest”. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). 'Teaching in the End Times'. Humaniora og kunnskapsproduksjon i globaliseringens tidsalder. (external link)
• Egeland, Cathrine; Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Diskursiv tilnærming. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Litteraturvitenskap. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Camille Paglia. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Judith Butler. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Egeland, Cathrine (2008). Diskursiv tilnærming. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Mortensen, Ellen (2008). Hva er kjønn? Ulike tilnærmingsmåter. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Dekonstruktiv tilnærming. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Joan Copjec. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Mortensen, Ellen (2008). Seksualitetsteori og skeiv teori. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). bell hooks. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Antigone og den allmenne litteraturvitenskapen: Om forholdet mellom kjønnsteori og litteraturteori. (external link)
• Gressgård, Randi; Jegerstedt, Kari; Rosland, Sissel (2008). Postkolonial teori, svart feminisme og antropologi. (external link)

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

• Jegerstedt, Kari; Michelsen, Per Arne; Neple, Anemari (2023). Politikk, kunst og kjærlighet. Nye perspektiver på Torborg Nedreaas' forfatterskap. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Rösing, Lillian Munk; Bjerre, Henrik Jøker et al. (2020). Analysing the Cultural Unconscious. Science of the Signifier . (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen; Svrljuga, Zeljka (2019). Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices. (external link)
• Danielsen, Hilde; Jegerstedt, Kari; Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise et al. (2016). Gendered Citizenship and the Politics of Representation. (external link)
• Mortensen, Ellen; Egeland, Cathrine; Gressgård, Randi et al. (2008). Kjønnsteori. (external link)

Academic article

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2022). Simone de Beauvoir og den feministiske arven etter Hegel: Revisjon, subversjon, dekonstruksjon. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Mortensen, Ellen (2014). Introduction. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Angela Carter og Rødhette i eventyrskogen. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Anitras etterliv. "Ibsens kvinner" i en postkolonial kontekst. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Seksualitet, makt og motstand: Joan Copjec vs. Michel Foucault. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2006). Kampen om forståelsen: Om feminisme og postkolonialisme etter 11.september og Muhammed-karikaturene. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Jegerstedt, Kari; Koobak, Redi (2021). Rendering Difference: Art, Politics, and the Call to Decolonize. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Writing the Effects of War through the Feminine Body. A Reading of Dubravka Ugresic's Yugoslavian Essays.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Sex and Subjectivity in the Age of the Brain: Philosophical and Aesthetic Imaginaries of (Post)Human Futures in Light of Neuro-Technologies. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Caught Between Colonial Violence and Ecotourism: A Second Look at Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000). (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Transgender Narratives and the Truth of Sex. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). Marcusian Feminism: Angela Carter and the Spirit of 68'. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). De-colonial Critique and SDGs. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Marhaug, Sofie (2018). De Varme Hendene: Nedreaas's miskjente kommunistiske roman?. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Jacobsen, Christine M. (2018). Teaching Critical Gender Studies – Dilemmas of Identity and Politics. Roundtable discussion also including Rosemarie Buikema and Tamara Shefer. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Kjønn og makt som språklige praksiser. Lesninger av kulturen som tekst. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Angela Carter and the Democratization of Literature: Rereading Black Venus. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Thinking the Event in the Postcolony. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Post-Colonial Theory and South-African Literature. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). What is Imagination?. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). Necro-politics and the affirmation in/of the feminine in postcolonial literary knowledge production. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). Literature; or, Philosophy of Sexual Difference. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). Necropolitics and Affirmation in/of the Feminine in Postcolonial Literature. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2015). Hvorfor ikke lese en roman? Lesning og skrift som feministiske strategier. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2015). Planetarity and Literary Climate Imaginaries. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2014). The Sexuality of Extremism: A Reading of Two 'Manifestos'. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2013). Lange netter: Kjærlighet som sannhetsprosedyre og skaperkraft. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Svrljuga, Zeljka; Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen (2013). Postcolonial citizenship and the figure of woman: The case of the 'Hottentot Venus'. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2012). Sexual Difference in a Post-colonial, literary context. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Citizenship, Democracy and the Figure of Woman. Nongqawuse's Legacy. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Figurer for motstand i globaliseringens tid. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Disgrace in the Age of Multiple Identities: Feminism and 'the Politics of Subtraction'. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Tverrfaglighet og den instrumentelle kunnskapsproduksjon. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Gendered Bodies in a Postcolonial Context: Reading Zoe Wicomb's David's Story. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Figures of Resistance in/for a Globalized World. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). The Big Bad (Were)wolf and the Biopolitics of Female Sexuality. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). 'Teaching in the End Times': Humaniora og kunnskapsproduksjon i globaliseringens tidsalder. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Motstand. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Realistisk dokumentasjon eller (post)moderne eksperiment?: Noen refleksjoner rundt begrepet kvinnelitteratur med utgangspunkt i svart, sør-afrikansk 70-tallslitteratur. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Om Kjønnsteori. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Opposition and/or Resistance: Disgrace in the Age of Multiple Identities. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Parody and Allegory as Critical Reading Strategies in The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Feminisme i de mangfoldige identiteters tidsalder. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2008). Lesning og globalisering. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2006). Hva er kjønn? Hva er litteratur? Og har de to spørsmåla noe med hverandre å gjøre?. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2005). Beretningen om den store krigen mellom lystprinsippet og realitetsprinsippet: Allegori og parodi i Angela Carters The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Jegerstedt, Kari; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne (2021). Naturlege Gleder. Samtale med Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson om boken På Naturens Skuldre og Dara McAnulty Diary of a Young Naturalist. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2020). Blood, Sweat, and Writing. Samtale med Gloria Gervitz og Mary Rufle om litteratur og kvinners aldring.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2020). Man, Woman, and Art. Samtale med Susanne Christensen og Marie Darrieussecq om Leonora Carrington og Paula M. Becker. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). What He Said. How did the Idea of Men as the 'Strong Sex' Get Established? Samtale med Angela Saini og Helene Uri.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Non-Binding Contracts. Does the author have a responsibility for clarifying how their text should be read? Samtale med Dubravka Ugresic og Ane Farsethås. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Har terapeutens kjønn noe å si for utfallet av terapien? Samtale med Hanne Haavind. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Selnes, Gisle (2019). Psykoanalyse og litteratur. Samtale mellom Gisle Selnes, Kari Jegerstedt og Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). Det teknologiske mennesket. Samtale med Bår Stenvik, Cathrine Knudsen og Aksel Tjora.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). Arven etter Nedreaas. Samtale med Ingri L. Ramberg, Frode L. Boasson og Grethe F. Syéd. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). When the Rules Do Not Apply. Samtale med Ariel Levy.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). To write as a female author. Samtale med Siri Hustvedt og Karolina Ramqvist. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Margareth Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale. Paneldebatt. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). Tribute to Jamaica Kincaid. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). 'Å lese Lessing. Tett på Martha Quest'. Samtale med Elisabeth Beanca Halvorsen og Tomas Espedal.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). Feminisme og Nyliberalisme. Debattledelse.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2015). Kenya as a Novel. Samtale med Yvonne A. Owuor og Stefan Helgesson. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2015). Afropolitan Feminism. Samtale med Minna Salami. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2013). The Meaning of An Aesthetic Education on the Era of Globalization. Samtale med Gayatri Spivak. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2012). Santu Mofokeng i møte med sentrale forfattere fra Sør-Afrika. Samtaleleder.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Høyreekstremismens kjønnsideologier. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Hottentott Venus. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Buvik, Per (2010). Samtale med forfatteren Tomas Espedal. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Kjønnsforskning og biologi. (external link)

Lecture

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2020). Hegel og feminisme: Fra Simone de Beauvoir til Judith Butler. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Kjønn og språk. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). "A Cyborg Manifesto" av Donna Haraway. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Are We Witnessing a Renaissance of Psychoanalysis? Samtale med Renata Salecl, Henrik Jøker Bjerre og Vladimir Safatle. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Psykoanalyse og nevrovitenskap. Samtale med Siri Hustvedt. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). Om Rosi Braidottis The Posthuman. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Meirmans, Stephanie et al. (2013). Why Does all the Girls Have To Buy Pink Stuff? Panel discussion. (external link)

Poster

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2019). Concluding Remarks. Roundtable.. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). 'Nyttig' kunnskap – for hvem?. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Michelsen, Magnus ; Jegerstedt, Kari (2018). Tarrying with Sexual Matters. Thinking Change from Lacan to Badiou. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Sætre, Lars (2008). Angela Carter leser Freud. Allegorien og parodien som kritiske lesestrategier i The Passion of New Eve. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2007). Angela Carter leser Freud. Parodien og allegorien som kritiske lesestrategier i The Passion of New Eve. (external link)

Reader opinion piece

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2017). Kommentar til humaniorameldningen. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Poststrukturalisme og kjønnsforskning – svar til Cathrine Holst/Helene Aarseth og Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Sluttreplikk om kjønnskritikk. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Kjønnsforskning på alvor?. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Hva var poststrukturalismen – og har den utspilt sin rolle?. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Mageplask om "Hjernevask". (external link)

Interview

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2016). 22. juli: Hatet mot kvinner. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2015). Holbergsamtalen 2015: Marina Warner. (external link)

Report

• Slaattelid, Rasmus Tore; Brautaset, Camilla; Sandin, Pär Ola et al. (2016). Tematiske profilområde ved HF. (external link)

Introduction

• Danielsen, Hilde; Jegerstedt, Kari; Muriaas, Ragnhild Louise et al. (2016). Gendered Citizenship: The Politics of Representation. (external link)
• Mortensen, Ellen; Egeland, Cathrine; Gressgård, Randi et al. (2008). Innledning. (external link)

Book review

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2014). Eva Heggestad, Anna Williams og Ann Öhrberg (red.): Fält i förvandling. Genusvetenskaplig litteraturforskning. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Litteraturen og det fremmede. Om Erich Auerbach. Verdenslitteraturens filologi. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2006). For lite kropp og for lite litteratur. Anmeldelse av Unni Langås (red.) Den litterære kroppen. Artikler om kropp og tekst fra Edda til i dag. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2002). Anmeldelse av Johan J. Tønneson (red.). Den flerstemmige sakprosaen. (external link)

Editorial

• Jegerstedt, Kari; Hamm, Christine; Sejersted, Jørgen Magnus et al. (2014). Leiar. (external link)
• Danielsen, Hilde; Jegerstedt, Kari (2014). Kjære leser. (external link)
• Danielsen, Hilde; Jegerstedt, Kari (2014). Kjære leser. (external link)
• Danielsen, Hilde; Jegerstedt, Kari (2014). Kjære leser. (external link)
• Danielsen, Hilde; Jegerstedt, Kari (2013). Kjære leser. (external link)

Feature article

• Buvik, Per; Mortensen, Ellen; Jegerstedt, Kari (2014). Europa -- et uferdig prosjekt. Kronikk om Julia Kristeva. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2012). Å jage skygger i Sør-Afrika. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Frihet i sakte bevegelse (Heteroskop). (external link)

Popular scientific article

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Amandla! Awethu! (Heteroskop). (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Hottentott Venus (Heteroskop). (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2011). Engasjert litteratur (Heteroskop). (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Jeg er ingenting. Frihet, likhet og søstersolidaritet under apartheid. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Opprør. Katastrofe. Trofasthet. The Xhosa Cattle-Killing (1856-57) og kommunismen som idé. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari; Selnes, Gisle (2009). "Kommunismen som idé". (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2005). Gayatri Spivak. Feminismens postkoloniale kritiker. (external link)

Short communication

• Jegerstedt, Kari (2010). Aktivismens former. Del av debattkollasj om meningen med litteraturvitenskapen, ved Kjersti Aarstein. (external link)
• Jegerstedt, Kari (2009). Enquete om Donna Haraway. (external link)

Non-fiction book

• Byrkjeland, Gro; Haaland, Heidi; Jegerstedt, Kari et al. (1995). Perifraser. Til Per Buvik på 50-årsdagen fra venner og kolleger ved Litteraturvitenskapelig institutt, Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)

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