Overview

The workshop invites the movers to engage with their creative selves, connecting with elements of nature and moving with polyrhythmic and experimental music from the global south. In the second part of the session, we will connect each participant’s artistic practice with their research through guided exercises that emphasize imagination and performative writing.

This talk, after reviewing the often-underexplored role of gender in researching illiberalism, discusses two case studies of how inhabitants of a village in Hungary, at the bank of the largest, ‘sweet water’ lake in Europe, Lake Balaton, resisted replacing a forest with a fuel station and resistance to the illiberal transformation of higher education. The cases illustrate that when neoliberal forces hijack the narratives of progress and modernity, local networks can work as a site of resistance if they ally.

This workshop aims to critically examine ableism as a systemic form of discrimination against people with “disabilities,” with a specific focus on research in the humanities and social sciences. The goal is to consider how discriminatory structures can be addressed and broken down in these research settings and how this can also be implemented in teaching and writing at the university.

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.”

Based on an ongoing research project on conspiracy theories, the lecture ties in with this rediscovery of the first studies on authoritarianism from a feminist perspective and explores the possibilities and limitations of their usefulness for a gender-theory-informed understanding of current authoritarian tendencies.

The workshop provides (prospective) discourse researchers with an orientation in the field of discourse research. In addition, participants develop strategies for relating the object of analysis to the discourse-theoretical perspective and for developing a concrete analytical approach for their own project.