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Gender @ Goethe Now

Symposium Gender Studies
Format: 
Symposium
Language: 
Deutsch und Englisch
On-site event
26 February, 2026 - 9:45am to 27 February, 2026 - 3:00pm
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 

Campus Westend 

IG-Farbenhaus Nebengebäude 1.741a 

Gender @ Goethe NOW brings together everyone who works in and with gender studies at Goethe University.

Representatives from the fields of education, literature, history, law, mathematics education, sociology, human geography, German studies, English studies, political science, and medicine present their research and engage in conversation.

We discuss the role gender studies play in various academic disciplines and critically assess their relevance as well as the challenges they face.

Anyone interested in gender studies at Goethe University—students, doctoral candidates, postdocs, professors, and everyone else—is welcome to attend!

Food and drinks will be provided.

 

Programme: 

Thursday, 26 February 2026

Beginning: 9:45 a.m.

Opening speech: Bettina Kleiner, Heidi Lucja Liedke, Rose Vogel 

Panel 1 - Literature studies (10-11:30 a.m.)

Heidi Lucja Liedke and Beniamin Kłaniecki: "Re-orientating gender: Two perspectives from (English) literary and cultural studies" 

Frederike Middelhoff and Iris Schäfer: "Gender Studies @ GU Germanistik: „Transdisziplinäre, intersektionale und historische Perspektiven auf Geschlecht und/in Literatur“

Response: Nina Heise 

Coffee break: 15 minutes

Panel 2 - Education (11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) 

Bettina Kleiner and Barbara Rendtorff: "Das Unbehagen der Erziehungswissenschaften mit der Geschlechterforschung" 

Sophia Schorr: "Un/Ordentliche Zeiten: Queere Theorie in der Erziehungswissenschaft" 

Response: Raphael Bak 

Lunch break: until 2:30 p.m. 

Panel 3 - Subject didactics  (2:30 to 3:30 p.m.) 

Rose Vogel: "Entwicklungslinien in der Genderforschung in den MIN(T)-Fachdidaktiken" 

Jules Bündgens-Kosten: "Geschlecht und Geschlechtsmodalität in der Fachdidaktik Englisch" 

Response: Viktoria Möller 

Discussion break: 25 minutes

Panel 4 - Medicine (4:00 to 5:00 p.m.) 

Jana Romy Friedrich: "Warum Geschlecht in der Krebsforschung eine Rolle spielt - Erkenntnisse aus der Darmkrebsforschung" 

Lena Seegers: "Gendern in der Herzmedizin - warum der Herzinfarkt bei Frauen tödlicher verläuft" 

Response: Angela Brieger

 

Friday, 27 February 2026

Panel 5 - American studies (10:00 to 11:00 a.m.) 

Cameron Seglias: "Gender jenseits von Identität" 

Magda Majewska: "Sentimentalismus, Privatheit, Öffentlichkeit: Gender in der amerikanistischen Literaturwissenschaft" 

Response: Marlon Lieber 

Coffee break: 15 minutes

Panel 6 - History of pre-modernity (11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.) 

Sita Steckel: "Von Frauenklöstern bis Kreuzritter-Memes: Aktuelle Mittelalterforschung und Geschlechtergeschichte"

Xenia von Tippelskirch: "TBA" 

Response: Veronika Duma 

Lunch break: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

Panel 7 - Law/Sociology (1:30–2:30 p.m.) 

Katharina Hoppe: "Feministische Theorie als Gesellschaftstheorie" 

Magdo Chuchracka: "The impact of anti-gender mobilizations on gender studies. What comes next?" 

Response: Viona Hartmann 

 

Conference Closing and ideas for follow-up projects

End of conference: 3 p.m. at the latest 

 

Host: 
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Equal Opportunities Office of Goethe University
In cooperation with: 
Cornelia Goethe Center
Concept: 
Bettina Kleiner, Heidi Lucja Liedke, Rose Vogel
Coordination: 
Carolin Haša

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