Workshops

Ethnographic researchers can find themselves confronted with a deceptively simple question: What am I doing here? In the field, researchers regularly encounter moments of uncertainty, ethical tension, and contradiction, particularly when working from feminist and intersectional perspectives that foreground questions of power, positionality, and responsibility. […]

This collaborative workshop will engage in a close reading and critical analysis of primary source documents (in English translation) from 4 key moments in post-World War II German history: an excerpt of a transcript from a focus group discussion among working-class women held in 1950 in Frankfurt/Main, in which themes of Nazi sexual politics and the tenacious persistence of antidisability animus and “eugenic” propaganda are evident; excerpts from the testimony of coercive sterilization survivors and a historian advocating on their behalf at a session of the Bundestag in 1987; politicians’ cross-party motion of 2011 calling for a federal memorial to the victims of the Nazi “euthanasia” murders; and AfD and CDU campaign posters expressing opposition to inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools. […]

During a study trip to Argentina, Helen Stephan was particularly interested in how life for trans* people differs when there is a depathologized access to gender-affirming healthcare. In this personal research report, Helen Stephan would like to discuss some of her experiences with the integration into academic practices at the University of Buenos Aires, inspiring ethnographic situations, and the possibility of future collaborations.

Radikalisierung ist klassenbezogen und rassifiziert. Am Beispiel der Grauen Wölfe erkundet die Veranstaltung, wie Männlichkeitsvorstellungen in diasporischen Lebensrealitäten politisiert werden. Im Fokus stehen die Verflechtungen von Männlichkeitspolitiken, rechtsautoritären Radikalisierungsmustern, rassifizierenden Strukturen und Präventionsansätzen.

Wir erleben erneut eine intensive autoritäre, rechtsextremistische Radikalisierung. Sie weist männlichkeitsideologische Dimensionen auf, durch die autoritäre und faschistische Männerbilder normalisiert oder sogar als Ideale propagiert werden. In dieser Veranstaltung gibt Markus Theunert theoretische wie praktische Impulse zu den Einflussfaktoren männlichkeitsideologischer Radikalisierung: Woran lässt sie sich erkennen? Und vor allem: Wie kann sie verhindert werden?

On the night of December 2–3, 1984, a leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal released over forty tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas, exposing more than half a million people to one of the deadliest industrial disasters in […]