Gender Research Forum - Academic Equal Opportunity Officer

Since 2001, the Academic Equal Opportunity Officers have been organizing interdisciplinary lectures, conferences, and excursions closely related to gender studies, collectively referred to as the Gender Research Forum. Through this initiative, they want to offer female researchers interdisciplinary opportunities to exchange ideas about gender research, to network, and to present their own projects. A wide variety of topics — from matriarchal theories of male friendship in the Middle Ages to the gender differences in behavioral problems in elementary school — have been presented through numerous lectures since the forum first started.

Forum events take place during the semester and are open to all interested parties.

Would you like to organize a gender-related event?

Possible forum events include guest lectures, short events, workshops, debates, discussions, conferences, and panel discussions. While most of our lecturers to date have been presented in German, we are fully supportive of events and topics in English. Researchers can also form a team to propose an event together. We would be more than happy to talk to you about support opportunities and to review proposals for lectures, as well as to hear your suggestions and ideas for the organization of the Gender Research Forum. Please do not hesitate to send a short email to the Academic Equal Opportunity Office.

Past Events

This list of all past forum events recounts lecture topics in the language in which they were presented:

Ringvorlesung 2021 „Sprache.Macht.Geschlecht. Wie bestimmen Geschlecht und Gender das soziale Miteinander, die sprachliche Interaktion und das private wie berufliche Leben – und umgekehrt?“
Helma Sick "Ein Mann ist keine Altersvorsorge" (2019)(3.9 MB, 3 pages)(3.9 MB, 3 Seiten)
Prof. Dr. Renata Szczepaniak „Diskriminierung mit der Schrift? – Schriftlicher Niederschlag der Genderstereotype in der Frühen Neuzeit“ (2019)
Claire E. Scott „Is #Metoo sexy?“ (2018)
Genderjahr 2016: Ringvorlesung
PD Dr. Torsten Voß „Über das eine Geschlecht wissen wir alles …“ (2015)
Kooperation Forum Genderforschung und dem Internationalen Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia „Schnittstellen: Textil – Mode – Kunst – Gender“ (2014)
Workshop Genderforschung (Sommer 2013)
Literatur- und medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium „Eine Frau geht wo: Weibliches Flanieren in Literatur und Film“ (2013)
Elisabeth Bronfen „Gendering the Civil War: Reimagination des Krieges in Hollywood” (2012)
Netzwerk der Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragten: Tagung zu Unterschieden in der Frauen- und Männergesundheit (2012)
Sabine Gruber „Stillbach oder die Sehnsucht“ (2011)
Bettina Schmitz „Der dritte Feminismus und der Liebreiz der Männer“ (2008)
Stefan Lauterbacher „Schmerz eine Plage der Frau?“ (2007)
Tagung zur Genderforschung „Strukturierung von Wissen und die symbolische Ordnung der Geschlechter“ (2003)