Übersicht

In this talk, I argue that consent has been asked to do too much in contemporary sexual ethics. While consent is legally important and morally significant, I suggest that treating it—especially in the familiar “consent as permission” model—as the central concept for understanding sexual violence and sexual ethics distorts the phenomena it is meant to explain.

Die Istanbul-Konvention definiert „Gewalt gegen Frauen*“ als eine Form der Menschenrechtsverletzung und der Diskriminierung. Ihre Umsetzung ist eine verbindliche Aufgabe für alle staatlichen Ebenen – Bund, Länder und Kommunen.

This workshop explores how Afghan women activists use social media platforms, particularly X, to construct narratives of resistance in response to the Taliban’s gender apartheid regime following August 2021. The workshop aims to examine the role of digital spaces in fostering transnational solidarity, political visibility, and resistance, while also critically engaging with narratives of abandonment and geopolitical indifference. The workshop will allow for reflections on how Afghan women position themselves as political actors within global feminist and transnational networks.

Was bedeutet es, im 21. Jahrhundert politisch und schriftstellerisch tätig zu sein? Welche Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten gehen damit einher? Wie leistet man künstlerisch(en) Widerstand, wenn das gesamte Land sich immer mehr zu einer rechtsextremen Ideologie bekennt, während Freund*innen und Kolleg*innen in anderen Ländern in Kriegen versinken? Dramatiker*in, Essayist*in, Romanautor*in und Kurator*in Sasha Marianna Salzmann liest Auszüge aus einem aktuell entstehenden Werk und spricht von der Idee hinter dem Festival Utopia Osteuropa und den Radikalen Jüdischen Kulturtagen. Es geht um Fragen nach Zusammenhalt und Zerrissenheit, nach der politischen Bedeutung von Freundschaft und Allianz. Wie aktiv bleiben in scheinbar hoffnungslosen Zeiten?

Der Kolonialismus und seine anhaltenden Konflikte haben Traumata sowie materielle und immaterielle Wunden in den Ökosystemen und sozialen Ökologien verursacht. Der Vortrag zielt darauf ab, ökofeministische und künstlerische Praktiken des Widerstandes, des Erinnerns und des Archivierens als wirksame ästhetische Formen in den Vordergrund zu rücken, die dem Vergessen widerstehen und sowohl politische Teilhabe als auch historische und kulturelle Anerkennung einfordern.

At the heart of the current capitalist polycrisis lies the crisis of care and, more broadly, of reproductive labor.

In an age of polycrisis, the invocation to embody “hope,” in spite of it all, might seem like a ridiculous proposal. Imperatives to be “hopeful” about the future often signal or produce complicity with the status quo and its structuring violence, speaking as though social progress is an inevitable and natural part of history. For those of us whose futures have never been guaranteed, it is tempting to reject hope and embrace its seeming opposite: cynicism, hopelessness, or despair. Yet these refusals, too, have their problems; namely, they risk foreclosing forms of political dissidence and experimentation through complacency and resignation about the seemingly-inevitable. This talk analyzes both of these orientations toward and against the future, and suggests that each falls short because of a shared presupposition that hope and refusal must be mutually-exclusive and oppositional political affects.

This workshop aims at a critical perspective of the dominant understanding of care not just within the medical institutions, but also other institutions of care and how this understanding affects interpersonal relationships that shapes the reality of people with disability and chronic illness.
Participants will dive into deeper complexities of different care givers and care infrastructures inquiring how the lack of justice isn't a matter of an event or a situation but gets translated into an inevitable systemic limitation ending up becoming the norm.