Living through unexpected transformational conjunctions
The 2020s constitute a period of global turmoil in which attempts to ‚build back better‘ will have to start from the recognition that it marked a period of unexpected transformational conjunctions.
This seminar series first examines how intersectionality is theorised, how it is situated within and across countries and how understanding of it shifts over time. It then engages with ways in which intersectionality is employed in research and practice. Each session in the seminar series will involve a presentation, group work and practical tasks.
The fireside conversation is aimed at (PhD) students of the GRADE Centre Gender, interested parties from the administration and management of Goethe University as well as activists of queer-feminist, anti-racist initiatives. The discussion will be moderated by Marianne Schmidbaur and Vanessa Eileen Thompson.
This seminar series first examines how intersectionality is theorised, how it is situated within and across countries and how understanding of it shifts over time. It then engages with ways in which intersectionality is employed in research and practice. Each session in the seminar series will involve a presentation, group work and practical tasks.
This seminar series first examines how intersectionality is theorised, how it is situated within and across countries and how understanding of it shifts over time. It then engages with ways in which intersectionality is employed in research and practice. Each session in the seminar series will involve a presentation, group work and practical tasks.
Rethinking psychosocial positioning as local, national and global?
This inaugural lecture explores the ways in which social ties are necessarily intersectional. Far from being reason for pessimism, the lecture concludes that recognition of divisions provides productive space to rethink psychosocial and intersectional divisions and ties in hopeful ways.
This seminar series first examines how intersectionality is theorised, how it is situated within and across countries and how understanding of it shifts over time. It then engages with ways in which intersectionality is employed in research and practice. Each session in the seminar series will involve a presentation, group work and practical tasks.
The journey behind the film 'The Witches of Gambaga' is discussed to highlight the dilemmas and challenges that arise when the interests of ”film production” and ”feminist strategy” embodied in two differently situated African feminist producers are brought together.
The journey behind the film 'The Witches of Gambaga' is discussed to highlight the dilemmas and challenges that arise when the interests of ”film production” and ”feminist strategy” embodied in two differently situated African feminist producers are brought together.
Regimes of power are sustained by regimes of knowledge. Drawing on the example of the journal Feminist Africa we will discuss the challenges of articulating and strengthening independent knowledge for African contexts.
This seminar addresses core theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues in crafting transnational/postcolonial/anti-racist feminist praxis. It focuses specifically on colonial legacies, feminist anti-capitalist critique, counterhegemonic struggles, and emancipatory knowledge production.
This seminar addresses core theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues in crafting transnational/postcolonial/anti-racist feminist praxis. It focuses specifically on colonial legacies, feminist anti-capitalist critique, counterhegemonic struggles, and emancipatory knowledge production.
This seminar addresses core theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues in crafting transnational/postcolonial/anti-racist feminist praxis. It focuses specifically on colonial legacies, feminist anti-capitalist critique, counterhegemonic struggles, and emancipatory knowledge production.
