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Fireside Chat with Janet Conway on 14.7.22

Dear GRADE Center Gender members, advanced undergraduates, doctoral students* and post-docs, We would like to cordially invite you to our fireside chat with Janet Conway (Brock University, Canada). 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, 14th July, 2022…

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…

GRADE Center Gender: Workshop „Domestic Ethics“ on 3.6.22

GRADE Center Gender Workshop “Domestic Ethics” on 03.06.2022 at 13-16 o´clock. Abstract: The workshop adressess the contradictions that arise from our social organization of care work and the outsourcing of specific labours. Laura Schwartz has studied the relation between activists of the first women’s movement in Britain and their servants; she shows how militant maids and their mistresses allied in the feminist struggle, but also clashed over competing class interests. Dinah…

Gender Lunch Talk on 20.7.22

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…

Current Projects of Members at the GRADE Center Gender

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…

Events

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Cornelia Goethe Colloquium: „Zum ambivalenten Gefühl der Scham“ mit Veronika Magyar-Haas
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18:15 to 20:00
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6,
Frankfurt am Main,
Hessen,
Deutschland
06-07-22

Der Vortrag Zum ambivalenten Gefühl der Scham. Ungleichheitstheoretische Zugänge von Veronika Magyar-Haas findet am 06.07.2022 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.

Zum ambivalenten Gefühl der Scham. Ungleichheitstheoretische Zugänge

Scham, insb. im Sinne von ‹sozialer Klassenscham›, wird in den letzten Jahren in mehreren Biographien von ‹sozialen Auf...
18:15 to 20:00
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6,
Frankfurt am Main,
Hessen,
Deutschland
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14
Jul
Kamingespräch mit Janet Conway/ Fireside chat with Jane Conway
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18:15 to 19:15
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6,
Frankfurt am Main,
Hessen,
Deutschland
14-07-22

Kamingespräch mit Janet Conway (Brock University, Kanada) am Donnerstag, den 14.7.22

Zu den Kamingesprächen laden wir Persönlichkeiten aus der Wissenschaft oder dem öffentlichen Leben ein um in kleinem Kreis über ihren persönlichen Werdegang, ihre Motivationen und die akademische Praxis zu sprechen. Darüber hinaus können diese Treffen zur weiteren Vernetzung untereinander genutzt werden. Diese Veranstaltung richtet sich an Mitglieder des GRADE Centers Gender, fortgeschrittene Studierende...
18:15 to 19:15
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6,
Frankfurt am Main,
Hessen,
Deutschland
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Laura Schwartz: Feminism and the Servant Problem. Public Lecture on 2.6.22

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: 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…

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Ayse-Gül Altinay: Doing Feminism and Gender Studies in Dark Times, 6.6.2018, Cornelia Goethe Center lecture series, summer 2018, „Feminisms from the Global South“.

Statement of Support for Ayse Gül Altınay

On May 23, 2019, Ayse Gül Altınay , Sabanci University in Istanbul, was sentenced to 25 months in prison for ‘willingly and knowingly supporting a terrorist organisation as a non-member’. This is because she signed the statement “We will not be a party to this crime” in support of colleagues, democracy and academic freedom. Ayse is a cultural anthropologist, Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Centre and editorial board member of the European Journal of Women’s Studies. She is a very…

Research Projects

Research Projects

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…

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