Overview

Following an examination of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) and her analysis of the connections between anti-Semitism, fascism, and patriarchal gender orders, this lecture explores contemporary processes of fascistization as manifested in Trump's “War on Woke.”

This workshop aims to help students improve their academic writing through the principles of creative writing. In particular, creative writing can help manage two unwieldy and often overlooked components of the scholarly paper: the first-person subject and narrative or story. The workshop aims to hone several structural and stylistic skills so that participants can feel more confident in their ability to write well.

This workshop focuses on the prerequisites and consequences of different understandings of trans in social science research. The aim is to explore how research on trans can go beyond individualized mismatch or (non-)identification with an assigned gender.

Sophie Bauer, recipient of the Cornelia Goethe Prize 2025, will present her book “'Das Natürlichste, was eine Frau haben kann‘ – Eine Soziologie der Menstrualität" (Campus, 2025). This will be followed by a panel discussion on the question of scientific positionality and the challenges of feminist science communication.