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The Cornelia Goethe Center for Gender Studies (CGC) is an interdisciplinary institute for research, teaching and the promotion of junior researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in which scientists from different disciplines and status groups cooperate.

Upcoming Events

Rethinking Social Reproduction – Latin American and Decolonial Material Feminist Perspectives

8 December, 2025 - 5:00pm

Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, Casino (Cas)

Friends' Association

Cornelia Goethe Salon 2025

Festive gathering

9 December, 2025 - 6:00pm

Guest House of Goethe University

Cornelia Goethe Colloquia

Authoritarianism, Conspiracy Theories, Gender: Critical-theoretical Perspectives

18 December, 2025 - 6:15pm

Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG

Cornelia Goethe Colloquia

Being a woman is not an agenda in itself!?

15 January, 2026 - 6:15pm

Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG

Neoliberal Gestation

19 January, 2026 - 6:00pm

Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG

GRADE Center Gender

Discourse analysis as an analysis of the reproduction and transformation of orders of un_speakability

22 January, 2026 - 10:00am

From the CGC

December 4 2025

CGColloquia: Talk on 4 Dec 2025 cancelled

The tallk "Racial Fascism, Surplus and Abolition Feminist Resistance" with Vanessa E. Thompson sadly has to be cancelled due to illness.

December 1 2025

Call for applications

Three teaching positions in Gender Studies available

The Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt is advertising three teaching positions for Bachelor's seminars in Gender Studies for the summer 2026 semester, pending funding allocation.

November 17 2025

Statement by the Gender Studies Network Hesse

Protest against the abolition of the HMWK's research focus on “Dimensionen der Kategorie Geschlecht”

The “Gender Studies Network in Hesse” founded in 2024, sees itself as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary network that brings together and promotes the perspectives and voices of gender studies in Hesse.

November 17 2025

Cornelia Goethe Prize 2025

Sophie Bauer to receive the Cornelia Goethe Prize 2025

October 22 2025

Final semester program Gender Studies certificate published

Certificate Program Gender Studies

The final version of the semester program Winter Semester 2026/2026 for the certificate program Gender Studies is finished.

“Remembering means changing”: On solidarity practices and multidirectional remembering

LIVESTREAM-Link

Poster CGColloquium Summer Term 2025

The event with Said Etris Hashemi, Newroz Duman and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez tonight, Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 6:15 pm will be streamed LIVE via the CGC's YouTube channel.

New Publications

Phil C.

Langer

,

Sebastian

Winter

(Hg.)

Politische Sozialisation in völkischen Jugendbünden. Sozialpsychologische Studien zum Erlebnisangebot von Freibund und Deutscher Gildenschaft

Franziska

Haug

Arbeit als literarisches Verfahren der Produktion von Geschlecht. Queerer Materialismus bei Thomas Brasch, Gisela Elsner, Elfriede Jelinek, Ronald M. Schernikau und im Pop

Titelcover 'Denken ist Graben'

Frederike

Middelhoff

,

Martina

Wernli

(Hg.)

Denken ist Graben. Zum Werk Rahel Levin Varnhagens

Buchcover 'Gender Studies Otherwise?'

Maisha-Maureen

Auma

,

Denise

Bergold-Caldwell

,

Inka

Greusing

,

Ilona

Pache

,

Marianne

Schmidbaur

,

Susanne

Völker

,

Christine

Vogt-William

(Hg.)

Gender Studies Otherwise? Reflexionen und Praxen der Dekolonisierung