Talks
Past Events
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Widerspruchsresponsives Recht: Suchformel gerechter NachhaltigkeitstransformationenPresentation as part of the conference Die Vielfalt des Rechts of the sociology of law section of the University of Marburg
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Contradictions in Narrow Definitions of Gender-Based Violence Against Men During Armed ConflictPhilile Langa’s presentation will focus on gender-based violence against men during armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960-present). Her research is about challenging and shifting the understanding of what gender-based violence during…
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The Entanglements of Race, Gender and Sexuality: South African Indian ContradictionsDurban South African Indian people exhibit heteronormative attitudes toward gender and sexuality. In this talk, Braedon Steven argues that the racialization of Durban South African Indians, shaped by British colonialism, is central to understanding these…
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Reading the Present with History. Reading the Past with AnthropologyThis talk focuses on an afro-diasporic community located in an Andalusian town (Southern Spain). It concerns a series of families whose identity is linked to the early modern slave trade, while Spanish mainstream society tends…
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Memory Politics as Reparations? Sharing Perspectives from Namibia and GermanyMemory Politics are often juxtaposed with material forms of reparation. With the intention of countering this simplification, we have invited Laidlaw Peringanda to give a lecture followed by a talk with a member of the…
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WOC GradNet Lecture #4: Labeling Theory in Language and Sexuality StudiesIn his talk Heiko Motschbacher seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the field of language and sexuality (Motschenbacher 2022). His goal is to use the sociological approach of labeling theory (Becker 1963) to inform…
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Literature as Colonial Loot? Provenance Stories 1910–2021Can literature – similar to stolen art – become colonial loot? The talk addresses the European appropriation of African literatures under colonialism and provides an insight into the research of literary provenance: from the recording…
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Faces of Enslavement: Contradictions, Contestations and ComplexitiesWithin the history of the Cape, the southern most tip of Africa, the period of Enslavement began in 1652 from the East and West of Africa, then from Bengal, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mauritius. The project…
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Positionswechsel – ein diachroner Blick auf den feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurs in DeutschlandPanel lecture as part of the international workshop Bioethics Controversies in the event series Zur Debatte at the University of Marburg.
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Democratic Impertinence? Feminist and Crip Perspectives on Democracy in Times of Crisis
Panel presentation at the ECPG (European Consortium on Politics and Gender) 2024.