Different members of the project group presented first results at academic online conferences in 2020:
- Flora Tietgen presented at Menntakvika conference and Þjóðarspegillinn conference in October 2020 – The title of her presentations was “Power dynamics and internalized oppression: Immigrant women and intimate partner violence in Iceland”
- Randi W. Stebbins and Brynja E. Halldórsdóttir presented at Menntakvika conference and Þjóðarspegillinn conference in October 2020 – The title of their presentation was “Caught like Fish in a Net: How Icelandic Laws Keep Immigrant Women in Abusive Situations“
- Brynja E. Halldórsdóttir presented at Þjóðarspegillinn conference in October 2020 – The title of her presentation was “Violence, misrecognition and grievability: Ways we can view those we understand as other”.When we think of violence it is often at distance from us, it is something that happens to the other. Someone far away, not in our near kinship, friendship, or national circles. Yet violence is daily bread to many. In her most recent work Judith Butler discusses violence from the perspective of grievability. How people and groups judge whom to protect and whom it is acceptable to be violent towards. Groups and individuals that are understood as grievable: family members, famous people, people we feel a sense of kinship with are deemed of value and thus grievable; the people we seek to protect. The others are not construed as having grievable value. Through this sorting of individuals into categories we construct justifications for the perpetration of violence on these others who fail to fit into the structure of values. Through this violence it becomes systemic and institutionalized as we exclude members of society. You can find a recording of her presentation here.
- Linda Rós Eðvarðsdóttir presented at Menntakvika conference and Þjóðarspegillinn conference in October 2020 – The title of her presentations was “The role of critical education in shifting paradigms that perpetuate violence against immigrant women in Iceland”
- Telma Velez presented at Menntakvika conference and Þjóðarspegillinn conference in October 2020 – The title of her presentations was “The implementation of article 20 of Instanbul Convention in the #metoo era: The services available to immigrant women”