Gender, Body, Health – in the Anthropocene, 18-19 November 2014

Conference venue and practical information

The 8th annual conference of the Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health is to be held at the Centre for Gender Research, University. Below is some information about the Centre and its surroundings, travel information and suggestions for accommodation and meals.

The conference will start at 13.00 on 18th November (coffee/tea and registration from 11.00) and end no later than 16.00 on 19th November.

Registration procedure

Deadline for registration is 17 October 2014. The conference fee is 300 SEK per person.

Register for the conference by paying the fee (see below) and send an email to [email protected] with the following information:

• Name • Academic (or other) title • University/organization • Email address • Mobile phone number including country code (optional) • Any special information that we need to consider in order to facilitate your participation in the conference (optional)

Pay the fee to the following account:

Domestic payments (within ): Pg 18 37 97 – 0, reference code “511” must be mentioned, as well as your name.

International payments (outside Sweden): Nordea Bank. Account No/IBAN No: SE48 9500 0099 6042 0183 7970. BIC/SWIFT: NDEASESS, reference code “511” must be mentioned, as well as your name.

The Centre for Gender Research

The Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, was founded in 2003. It aims at bringing together researchers interested in transgressive encounters between cultural, social and biological understandings of sex and gender. The result is a dynamic staff made up of around thirty people from various disciplines in the faculties of the humanities, social sciences, medicine and natural sciences. We also have a number of PhD candidates, situated at the Centre, but affiliated to other departments.

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The Centre is located in the Botanical Garden, just behind the The Orangery/Linnéanum. It takes about 10-15 minutes to walk from the city center. The visiting address is Villavägen 6. https://www.google.se/maps/place/Villav%C3%A4gen+6,+752+36+Uppsala/@59.8520537,17.62549 74,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x465fcbedde19497b:0xfac5dcce0641843e (Map)

Across the street from the Centre, Thunbergsvägen, you will find the English Park Campus, which is a campus for the Humanitites. On the campus there is a restaurant, Matikum, open every day between 10.00 and 17.00. (www.engelskaparken.uu.se)

Across the street on the opposite side, Norbyvägen, you will find the rest of the Botanical Garden, including its Tropical Greenhouse (www.botan.uu.se), and the Blåsenhus Campus, which hosts the departments of Education and Psychology and a restaurant, Feiroz, open between 10.30 and 14.00 (www.blasenhus.uu.se).

Further down Norbyvägen, across Villavägen, lies the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala’s natural history museum (www.evolutionsmuseet.uu.se), as well as the Evolutionary Biology Centre with a restaurant, Mickes kök, open between 09.00 and 15.00 (www.ebc.uu.se).

Travel information

The nearest airport is Arlanda Airport, located between Stockholm and Uppsala (www.swedavia.com/arlanda/). From the airport there are trains and buses to Uppsala Central Station. The bus (UL 801) takes about 45 minutes and the trains (SL or SJ, northbound) takes about 20 minutes (buy train tickets in advance and bus tickets in advance or onboard, only payment by card). Taxis are also available (max cost 675 SEK, usually around 400-500 SEK, payment by card is preferred).

From the Uppsala Central Station there is a 15 minutes’ walk to the Botanical Garden (head for the Castle, the Garden is right behind), or you can take bus 4, 6, 7 or 20 to Slottsbacken (buy bus tickets in advance or onboard, only payment by card).

Accommodation and meals

There are several alternatives for accommodation in central Uppsala, as well as restaurants for lunch (if you do not choose any of the campus canteens listed above) and dinner. Hostels and hotels as well as restaurants and other useful information are listed on the Destination Uppsala website: http://www.destinationuppsala.se/en/

Hotel Charlotte and Akademihotellet are within a few minutes’ walk from the conference venue, while most other hotels and hostels are within 10-15 minutes. However, Uppsala city centre is small and most addresses are easily accessible by foot or a few minutes by bus.

Lunches and dinner are not included in the conference programme nor in the registration fee, but after the reception, hosted by the Centre for Gender Research, on the 18th November, we encourage the participants to go together for dinner downtown.

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