Upcoming events of the Cornelia Goethe Center
Workshop GRADE Center Gender
29 May, 2026 - 2:00pm
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, Seminarhaus (SH) SH 0.106

Gender Identity and Trans as Research Categories

Genealogy, Criticism, Alternatives

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.

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Talk GRADE Center Gender
2 June, 2026 - 12:00pm

Navigating Academia as a Woman* - A Lunch Talk with Elizabeth Loentz

We invite PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from the GRADE Center Gender and others to join an informal lunch meeting with Elizabeth Loentz, Ph.D. In this relaxed setting, she will share her experiences navigating the academic system as a woman as well as the first person in her family to study. This meeting offers the opportunity to get insights into the challenges of academia, but also to connect with other researchers. It is aimed primarily at Early Career Researchers as well as anyone interested in the topic.

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Talk CGC General
2 June, 2026 - 6:15pm
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, Casino (Cas) Casino 1.801 (Renate von Metzler-Salon) 

Affect and Emotion in Bertha Pappenheim's Activism

The Bertha Pappenheim Lecture on Gender and Judaism deals with topics of Jewish history, culture, and religion against the background of gender and sexuality. In the inaugural lecture, Elizabeth Loentz, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA, will introduce the life and work of Bertha Pappenheim and pay special attention to the role of affect and emotion in her activism.

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Talk, Book launch Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
10 June, 2026 - 6:15pm
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
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Philosophy and Racism

Debates and Controversies

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Book launch CGC General
15 June, 2026 - 6:00pm
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, Casino (Cas) Room 1.811

Doing Feminist Research? Politics and Projection in Research on Menstruation and Abortion

book presentation and conversation

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Symposium CGC General
18 June, 2026 - 10:00am
Exhibition Hall Alte Schmelze, Gutleutstraße 294, Frankfurt am Main

Always and forever: Strategies and Perspectives on Care

Always and Forever – Strategies and Perspectives on Care is devoted to the highly political topic of care and advocates for equality, exchange, and community. The exhibition at Alte Schmelze on the Milchsack site presents artistic positions from various disciplines. In this context, the concept of care is understood beyond the themes of caregiving, motherhood, and the role of women.

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Book launch CGC General
23 June, 2026 - 6:00pm

Book Presentation: Decolonizing Bodies

Poster Buchvorstellung Monica J. Sanchez Flores Decolonizing Bodies
A Radical Relational Approach to Racial Healing and Worlding Shared Humanity

Dr. Mónica J. Sánchez-Flores presents her book Decolonizing Bodies, in which she examines processes of racialization through a decolonial and radical relational lens, exploring questions of embodied racism, structural inequalities, and global interconnectedness shaped by colonial legacies.

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Talk Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
24 June, 2026 - 6:15pm
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
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Sexual Liberation in Feminist Thought

Contacts, Conflicts, and Contexts

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Talk Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
8 July, 2026 - 6:15pm
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
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The Struggle for Memory - Encounters with Knowledge

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