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CGC Gender Lunch Talk with Flick Adams and Fabienne Emmerich on July 20th

Dear GRADE Center Gender members, advanced undergraduates, doctoral students* and post-docs, We would like to cordially invite you to our Gender Lunch Talk “Turning up the Noise: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2021, #KillTheBill, and Crafting Feminist Futures” with Flick Adams and Fabienne Emmerich. Lunch Talk of the Cornelia Goethe Center Wednesday, July 20th, 2022, 12-14h Seminarhaus SH 1.107, Westend Campus The purpose of our talk is to collectively explore concrete abolition…

Cornelia Goethe Colloquium: „Bad Feelings in Contemporary American Fiction“ with Christine Vogt-William on 1.6.22

Der Vortrag Bad Feelings in Contemporary American Fiction von Christine Vogt-William findet am 01.06.2022 von 18 bis 20 Uhr c.t. im PEG-Gebäude am Campus Westend statt. Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen. Weitere Informationen können Sie dem Programmheft entnehmen. Bad Feelings in Contemporary American Fiction Vortragssprache: Englisch I consider the trope of “bad feelings”, set out in this lecture series, to explore the dynamics of shame in contemporary American women’s fiction.  Dorothy…

Laura Schwartz: Feminism and the Servant Problem. Public Lecture on 2.6.22

Laura Schwartz: Feminism and the Servant Problem. Class and Domestic Labour in the Women’s Suffrage Movement When? 2 June at 4 pm Where? Campus Westend, Seminarhaus 4.105 In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household ‘drudgery’ meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants? Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist…

Angela Davis Guestprofessor 2021: Ann Phoenix

In 2013, the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women’s Studies and the Study of Gender (CGC) established the Angela Davis Guest Professorship in International Gender and Diversity Studies. The Guest Professorship serves to promote international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the fields of Gender and Diversity Studies. The inauguration by its namesake, activist, public intellectual, and scholar Prof. Angela Davis, attracted considerable public attention both nationally and internationally…

Angela Davis Guest Professorship: Fireside Chat with Ann Phoenix on 13.07.2021

The fireside chat with this year’s Angela Davis Guest Professor Ann Phoenix takes place on July 13, 2021 from 6 to 8 pm. Registration for the meeting is necessary under the following link:  You can find out more about this year’s Guest Professor Ann Phoenix on our Website and in our Booklet . The fireside chat is aimed at (PhD) students of the GRADE Center Gender, interested persons from administration and management of Goethe University as well as activists of queer-feminist, anti-racist…

Angela Davis Guest Professorship: Lecture “The indispensability of Intersectionality” with Ann Phoenix on 15.07.2021

The second public lecture The indispensability of Intersectionality: Living through unexpected transformational conjunctions  by this year’s Angela Davis Guest Professor Ann Phoenix takes place on July 15, 2021 6 to 8 pm. Registration for the lecture is neccessary to participate Anyone interested is cordially invited. You can find more info on the guest professorship and this year’s program here. Public Lecture “The indispensability of Intersectionality: Living through…

Angela Davis Guest Professorship: Inaugural Lecture “The ties that divide us” with Ann Phoenix on 08.07.2021

The public inaugural lecture  The ties that divide us: Rethinking psychosocial positioning as local, national and global?  by this year’s Angela Davis Guest Professor  Ann Phoenix takes places on 08.07.2021, 18-20h. Registration is necessary for participation. Anyone interested is cordially invited. Inaugural lecture “The ties that divide us: Rethinking psychosocial positioning as local, national and global?” Program Ceremonial opening with greetings from Prof. Dr. Enrico…

Cornelia Goethe Colloquium: „On High Heels and Face-Veils: The Ambivalent Gendered Racialization of Muslims in the Netherlands“ with Annelies Moors on May 05, 2021

The lecture On High Heels and Face-Veils: The Ambivalent Gendered Racialization of Muslims in the Netherlands with Annelies Moors (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) will take place on May 05, 2021 von from 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm. To take part in the lecture via Zoom-Webinar you need to register through the following link:  Everybody who is interested is cordially invited. Further information can be found in the program booklet. On High Heels and Face-Veils: The Ambivalent Gendered Racialization…

Tribute to Dr. Malathi de Alwis

It is with the deepest sense of respect and grief that CGC expresses its condolences on the passing away of Dr. Malathi de Alwis (6th Oct 1963-21st Jan 2021). She is a world-renowned feminist anthropologist and feminist scholar activist who has contributed immensely to exploring and fighting militarism and ethnonationalism. Her work on the politicizing of motherhood has been constitutive of an adequate conception of gender relations in Sri Lanka and far beyond. Likewise, her studies on the…

Online Conference of the Trinational Research Project “Decent Care Work? Transnational Home Care Arrangements” from 6th to 8th April

The ageing of industrialized societies in combination with the absence of an adequate (welfare state) response is engendering an alarming deficit of care work. This, in turn, has paved the way for the commodification of care work, formerly a typical case of feminized, reproductive work, carried out informally and unpaid within the family. This conference examines if and how a sea change concerning the commodification and formalization of care work is gradually affecting the public understanding…

Cornelia Goethe Colloquium: „The Institutional Life of Intersectionality“ with Jennifer Nash now Online

The asynchronous lecture on The Institutional Life of Intersectionality by Jennifer Nash (Duke University, USA) took place on  March 2, 2021. You can watch the lecture here and on our YouTube-Channel.   The Institutional Life of Intersectionality Vortragssprache: Englisch This talk aspires to historicize the present moment, one where intersectionality is celebrated as “part of the gender studies canon,” (Baca Zinn 2012) “the most cutting-edge approach to the politics of gender, race…

Cornelia Goethe Colloquium: „Interrogating intersectional contestations: Should the privileged speak?“ now available online

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…

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