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The dominant understanding of knowledge and education is that they are something good and desirable. Post- and decolonial perspectives show that education is not good per se. It is a product of powerful production processes that are part of a continuity of coloniality.

Die Texte vieler Philosophen, von Aristoteles über Hegel bis zu Heidegger und der zeitgenössischen Philosophie, sind geprägt von androzentrischen und sexistischen Implikationen. Das ‚Männliche‘ wird zum Ideal- oder Normalzustand erhoben, die ‚Frau‘ befindet sich in diesen Texten immer zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion.

The lecture addresses the urgent question of reshaping the present in the context of German colonial history. Mirrianne Mahn, of German-Cameroonian origin, has a split role - as a German woman who emphasizes the responsibility to come to terms with the colonial past, and as a descendant of victims of colonialism in Cameroon.

In der Biologie ist schon länger klar, dass es nicht nur zwei Ausprägungsformen des Genitaltrakts gibt, sondern dass sich Genitalien individuell unterschiedlich entwickeln.

Whether in German rap or in code noir: bastard children are everywhere. They occupy us with questions of origin, contamination and desire. Because every bastard child has a mother who gave birth to it. With the fathers, the situation is sometimes less clear.

As part of the international conference "On the (De)legitimization of Epistemic Authority", we cordially invite you to a reading with discussion

Mithu Sanyal: Identitti

followed by music by women from the 17th century, works by Isabella Leonarda and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, among others

It is often said that women become invisible in society after a certain age. However, ageing women have certainly become more visible in European cinema over the last two decades. But how do filmmakers from different parts of Europe negotiate the visibility of ageing women on screen?