Angela Davis Guestprofessorship – Videos of Lectures available

The digital lecture Interrogating intersectional contestations: Should the privileged speak? by Ann Phoenix is available below. Further Information can be found in our accompanying booklet. Interrogating intersectional contestations: Should the privileged speak? Language: English As intersectionality has become both more ubiquitous and more popular, it has increasingly been more debated and contested. This is partly because, as Kathy Davis suggests, it is sufficiently expansive to accommodate…

The members of the Cornelia Goethe Center conduct research on the significance and problems of gender relations in all areas of society. This includes the symbolic constructions of masculinity and femininity, but also the social inequalities and power relations in which they are embedded. The research takes up current socio-political issues and is characterized by an interest in theoretical reorientations, socio-cultural differentiation processes and international developments. The research…

The German Council of Science and Humanities has set up a working group for the evaluation of gender studies in research and teaching. The group is expected to begin its work in the second half of 2020. Its goals are to assess the current situation of Gender Studies in Germany and to develop proposals on how the research field can be further developed and how universities, research institutions and science policies at the federal and state level can contribute to this. The results of the…