Thursday, 19 May
In the context of the Annual LAGEN Conference
10.00 – 10.30
OPENING OF THE LAGEN CONFERENCE
PROF. DR. ALMUT HÖFERT, History, Director ZFG Oldenburg
PROF. DR. ANDREA BÜHRMANN, Social Sciences, Director of the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute, Spokesperson LAGEN
DR. SABINE JOHANNSEN, Secretary of State MWK Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, video welcoming address
10.30 – 12.30
KNOWLEDGE, POWER, CRISIS, AND THE PANDEMIC
Science Communication for a Response-able Culture of Objectivity
DR. SMILLO EBELING, Feminist Science Research, Technical University of Braunschweig Braunschweig (Germany) und DR.-ING CORINNA BATH, Gender and Technology Studies, Berlin (Germany)
Science Communication for a Response-able Culture of Objectivity
DR. SMILLO EBELING, Feminist Science Research, Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) and DR.-ING. CORINNA BATH, Gender and Technology Studies, Berlin
The Pandemic and Gender in African Contexts
AMINA HERSI, Head of Gender Rights and Justice, Oxfam International (Kenya)
Gender Medicine - Without Alternative Into Crisis Mode?
DR. ANGELIKA VOSS, Human Biology, Frauen- und MädchenGesundheitsZentrum Region Hannover e.V. (Germany)
12.30 – 13.30
MITGLIEDSVERSAMMLUNG LAGEN
13:30-14:30
LUNCH BREAK @MENSA
14.30 – 15.00
LAGEN WORKING GROUPS
15.00 – 15.30
OPENING OF THE ZFG CONFERENCE
PROF. DR. ANNETT THIELE, Vice President for Early Career Researchers, Equal Opportunities and Diversity, CvO University of Oldenburg
PROF. DR. ALMUT HÖFERT, History, Director, ZFG Oldenburg
DR. SABINE JOHANNSEN, Secretary of State MWK Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, video welcoming address
15.30 – 15.45
CONCEPTUAL REMARKS: 21 YEARS AFTER...
DR. LYDIA POTTS, Migration and Gender Studies, ZFG Oldenburg
DR. SYLVIA PRITSCH, Cultural and Gender Studies, ZFG Oldenburg
15.45 – 19.15
OPENING PRESENTATIONS:
PANEL 1: GLOBAL/ LOCAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON GENDER STUDIES
15.45 – 17.15
Paradox of Institutionalisation: Women’s Studies Centres in India
PROF. DR. SAMITA SEN, Global and Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies: Possibility and Risk as Seen from a South African Perspective.
PROF. DR. DESIREE LEWIS, Literary Studies, University of the Western Cape (South Africa)
17.15 – 17.45
COFFEE & TEA BREAK
17.45 – 19.15
The Politics of Disruption: Gender in the 21st Century
PROF. DR. GABRIELE GRIFFIN, Gender Studies, Uppsala University (Sweden), online
The Political Ethos of Cohabitation – On Community and Belonging, Violence and Borders
PROF. DR. SABINE HARK, Sociology, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
Friday, 20 May
9.00 – 11.00
PANEL 2: SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS AS THREATS LIMITATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES I
The Status of Gender and Women’s Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) after the Arab Spring
PROF. DR. FATIMA SADIQI, Linguistics and Gender Studies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (Morocco)
A 50-years History of Women’s Studies in India
PROF. DR. PAULA BANERJEE, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta (India)
Challenges Affecting Women in Central and Eastern Europe
DR. KINGA LOHMANN, Gender Equality, KARAT Coalition (Poland), TBC
PANEL 3: (UN-)GENDERING, DECOLONIZING, QUEERING I
Is Current Theorising on Same-sex Sexuality Relevant to the African Context?
PROF. DR. THABO MSIBI, Educational Science, University of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa), TBC
Postcolonial Feminist Science and Technology Studies
PROF. DR. SIGRID SCHMITZ, Science and Technology Studies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin (Germany)
Activism – Some Postcolonial Queer-feminist Dilemmas
PROF. DR. DEBOLINA DUTTA, Feminist Jurisprudence, O.P. Jindal Global University (India)
11.30 – 13.30
PANEL 4: SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS AS THREATS, LIMITATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES II
The Position of Gender Studies at Tribhuvan University and the Interjection of Gender Discourses in Academia
PROF. PUSPA GHIMIRE and PROF. NEERA SHRESTHA, Economics and Women’s Studies, Tribhuvan University (Nepal)
War Against Women – Inside the ‘Emirate’
DR. ORZALA NEMAT, Political Ethnography/ Development Studies, Director Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit AREU, Kabul (Afghanistan)/ SOAS London (England)
Panel 5: (UN-)GENDERING, DECOLONIZING, QUEERING II
Queering Bodies/Images? In Between Media, Cultures, Species
PROF. DR. KERSTIN BRANDES, Art and Visual Culture, University of Bremen (Germany)
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine and Resistance
PROF. DR. KARMA CHAVEZ, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, University of Texas (USA), online
How to Decolonise Music(ology) Between Modernism and the Popular
PROF. DR. CORNELIA BARTSCH, Gender and Technology Studies, Technical University of Dortmund (Germany)
13.30 – 14.00
LUNCH BREAK @MENSA
14.00 – 15.30
PANEL 6: CONFLICTS, GENDER POLITICS, ACTIVISMS
Sudanese Female Activists: Diversity within a Globalised Milieu
PROF. DR. BALGHIS BADRI, Social Anthropology, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman (Sudan)
Gender Activism and Studies in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Libya
HALA BUGAIGHIS, Gender Activism and Studies, Jusoor Center for Studies and Development (Libya)
Gender’s Crooked Path: Feminism Confronts Russian Patriarchy
PROF. DR. ELENA ZDRAVOMYSLOVA, Sociology and Gender Studies, European University at St. Petersburg (Russia), TBC
PANEL 7: IDENTITY IN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Precarious Recognition - LGBTIQ-Families in Germany Between Trends of Legal Equality, Heteronormativity and Social Inequality
PROF. DR. MONA MOTAKEF, Sociology of Gender Relations, Technichal University of Dortmund (Germany)
Muslim Women’s Religious Concepts of Self in Pedagogical Fields
DR. MELTEM KULAÇATAN, Social Pedagogy and Migration Studies, CvO University of Oldenburg
Ukraine and East/West Sexual Geopolitics
PROF. DR. RANDI GRESSGÅRD, Gender Research, University of Bergen (Norway)
15.30 – 16.00
COFFE & TEA BREAK
16.00 – 18.30
ROUNDTABLE: INTER-/ TRANSDISCIPLINARITY – INTER-/TRANSNATIONALITY IN GENDER STUDIES
PROF. DR. BALGHIS BADRI, Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity, Peace, and Rights, Ahfad University for Women Omdurman (Sudan)
PROF. DR. PAULA BANERJEE, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta (India)
Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies (TraGS)
DR. ANTKE ENGEL, Philosophy, Distance-Learning University Hagen/ Institute for Queer Theory (iQt), Berlin (Germany)
DR. SARAH FARAQ, Asian and Oriental Studies, Universität Zürich (Switzerland)
Promoting Gender Equality and Diversity through Shared Knowledge Production (PRO GED)
PROF. DR. SHEILA MEINTJES, Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
TraGS
DR. LYDIA POTTS, Migration and Gender Studies, CvO University of Oldenburg (Germany)
TraGS
GHIWA SAYEGH, Gender Research, University of Paris VIII (France), TBC
Kohl Journal (Beirut, Lebanon)
Saturday, 21 May
9.00 – 10.30
PANEL 8: SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS AS THREATS, LIMITATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES III
(Re)Positioning Black African Women’s Voices in Gender Studies: Lessons from South Africa
SAMIERA ZAFAR, Social Justice Education, University of Toronto (Canada)
‘All has failed so far, so where to next?’: Feminists Theorising and Engaging the State for Gender Equality and Gender Justice in South Africa 1992 to 2022
PROF. DR. SHEILA MEINTJES, Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
PANEL 9: POTENTIAL AND TRANSFORMATION OF CONCEPTS
Mostly Different, Hardly Ever Familiar: Early Modern History and Some of its Uses for Gender Theory
DR. MONIKA MOMMERTZ, History, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Queer_ing Pedagogy: Un_Learning/ Un_Teaching in a Plurilocal Project
DR. ANTKE ENGEL, Philosophy, Distance-Learning University Hagen/ Institute for Queer Theory (iQt), Berlin (Germany)
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 13.30
CLOSING PRESENTATIONS
PANEL 10: GENDER – POLITICS – KNOWLEDGE: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
The Feminist Canon? - Decolonising the Mind
PROF. DR. BABLI MOITRA SARAF, English & Multimedia and Mass Communication, Indraprastha College for Women (India), TBC
The Politics of Sexual Difference in Contemporary Islamic Thought
PROF. DR. BETTINA DENNERLEIN, Gender Studies und Islamic Studies, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Feminist Imaginations
PROF. DR. PUMLA DINEO GQOLA, Literature & Women and Gender Studies, Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), TBC
FINAL DISCUSSION & SNACK LUNCH