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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…

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…

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…

Gender studies are indispensable for analyzing and tackling current problems. In loose succession, experts from the Cornelia Goethe Center take a position on this page regarding the challenges posed by the Corona pandemic.

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…

The Early Career Researchers at the GRADE Center Gender come from a variety of disciplines and focus on a wide range of topics. To get an impression of the scope of the research conducted in connection with GRADE Center Gender, a selection of the current projects by members of the GRADE Center Gender can be found here. If you are a member of GRADE Center Gender (or are interested in becoming one), it is still possible to present your qualification thesis (Master Thesis, Dissertation…

The following exhibition is only available in German From 30 October to 1 December 2019, the exhibition ”’Have the courage to try something new!” – Women fighting for rights and justice’ was shown in the Lobby of the PEG on Campus Westend. 21 portraits were presented of historical female activists who fought for democracy and equality. Now the exhibition is finished, the exhibits have been removed. But there is still something to see. Not in the foyer of the PEG…

The program for the summer semester of 2020 is now available here: Due to the Corona crisis, the program will initially only be available in digital form. Some of the dates indicated in the program can be postponed at short notice, carried out as video conferences or cancelled. Please inform yourself about time, place and format before the event starts. In addition, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that our digitally available semester programme will be continuously updated and…