Veranstaltungen

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. […]

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 symposium seeks to explore the possibilities and contradictions surrounding AI. It brings together decolonial feminist perspectives and research on artificial intelligence and opens a space for critical reflection on living with and thinking about ethical futures in relation to AI.

In this presentation, I engage with the African body that lands on European beaches via the Mediterranean sea, dead by exhaustion from crossing the ocean or dead as a consequence of boarding a vessel, which has capsized because it was not equipped to carry the embodied subject identities of Africans leaving the continent to seek refuge on the European continent: the continent of the European coloniser who had usurped African land and people, kidnapped African labour starting in the fifteenth century whilst simultaneously exploiting and extracting raw materials to develop its wealth in an ailing, starving, and disease infested Europe.

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen der Tagung „Das geht zu weit!“ der Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor. Thematisch werden Sprachlich-kommunikative Strategien der Legitimierung und Delegitimierung von Protest in öffentlichen, medialen und politischen Diskursen behandelt.

The accessibility to health insurance-funded gender-affirming hormone therapy in Germany is of central importance to many trans* people for their health, safety, and life trajectories. However, the decision about whether they can take hormones through the regular care-system is not in their hands but rather depends on various actors and institutions in the medical, psychotherapeutic, and political sectors.

Der Vortrag findet im Rahmen des Panels „Migration Debates in Central Europe“ der ASN World Convention statt.

Gespräch in englischer Sprache. In White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt (2022) untersucht Ivan Kalmar die politischen und kulturellen Entwicklungen in Zentraleuropa, insbesondere die Entstehung illiberaler Bewegungen in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften wie Tschechien, Polen und Ungarn. Kalmar analysiert, wie historische Erfahrungen, Nationalismus und westliche […]