On 25 April, NIKK, together with RIKK, the Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland, and the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research at the University of Gothenburg, invite everyone who works to prevent sexual harassment through research, policy-making or in their practice to a thought-provoking and inspiring discussion.    

During the seminar, authors and editors will discuss some of the central questions in the two anthologies “The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement” (2021, Routledge) and “Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment – Perspectives from the Nordic Region”, which is edited in collaboration between NIKK and the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research and will be published 18 April, 2023 (Policy Press/Bristol University Press).   

The program will be published shortly!  

Participants:  

• Maja Lundqvist, co-editor of Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment. Perspectives from the Nordic Region.  
• Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir, PhD in Sociology of Law, author of the chapter “Beyond Restorative Justice. Survivors’ Calls for Innovative Practices in Iceland” in Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment.   
• Silas Aliki, lawyer and writer, author of the chapter “I Have Always Thought a Lot about the Nature of Violence. Carceral Feminism and Sexual Violence in the Neoliberal State” in Re-Imagining Sexual Harassment.  
• Giti Chandra, co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement and author of the chapter “The Anonymous Feminist. Agency, Trauma, Personhood, and the #MeToo Movement”.  
• Irma Erlingsdóttir, co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of the Politics of the #MeToo Movement and author of the chapter “Fighting Structural Inequalities. Feminist Activism and the #MeToo Movement in Iceland’.  

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