Veranstaltungen

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.

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. […]

Entanglements of Science and Religion in making sense of Obstetric Violence: How 18th-century imperial religion perspectives on the black female shaped, and continue to shape healthcare practices towards black women in postcolonial South Africa. The research argues that the current lack of persistently decent obstetric […]

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. […]

What does care look like when harm cannot be undone? 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 […]

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.