We would like to cordially invite you to our fireside chat with Umut Erel (Open University, UK).

To the fireside chats we invite personalities from academia or public life to talk in a small circle about their personal career, motivations, and academic practice. In addition, these meetings can be used for networking among each other.

The conversation will take place on Thursday, November 3, 2022, between 2:15 and 3:45 PM in room PEG 1.G 107 on Campus Westend and will be hosted by the GRADE Cente...

We are happy to announce the keynote Migrant Women Performing Citizenship to challenge Racism (November 4th, 09.30-10h) by Umut Erel.

This paper draws on a participatory arts-based research project with migrant women and girls, reflecting on the ways in which research can be  an act of citizenship that challenges racist exclusions. It argues that by working together with migrant mothers and young girls, as well as organisations that focus on the rights of migrant and Black and Minority Ethnic ...

We are happy to announce the keynote Als Juden auffallende Personen: Mein Weg von Berlin (Ost) nach Berlin (West) und jenseits der Mauer (November 4th, 9:30-10:00) by Cathy Gelbin.

The paper traces my German-American-Jewish path, from misfit East Berlin youth and young adult to a new life in 1980s West Berlin, where I was plunged into heated lesbian-feminist debates regarding women, Jews and the legacies of National Socialism. From there, I took my ultimate departure from Germany after briefly...

The lecture Transgressed: The State of Transgender Intimate Partner Violence in the US by Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz will be held online on Nov. 9, 2022, from 6 to 8 PM c.t.

Anyone interested in joining the event is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please see the program.

Transgressed: The State of Transgender Intimate Partner Violence in the US

Language: Englisch

Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly within r...