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gender*bildet

Network unit for gender research and teaching

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The gender*bildet network office initiates, organises, networks and analyses. Its aim is to anchor gender and queer studies in teaching and  research and to support their deconstructive potential at all levels of  the university.

On our website you can find among other things informations about our offers, like the certificate gender-studies or our ASQs and the lecture series, as well as us as a network office.

News

Tag der Lehre 2025
Zukunftswerkstatt Gender Studies Zertifikat: Workshop zur Weiterentwicklung

27.05.2025
ab 12 Uhr
Ort wird noch bekannt gegeben (in Halle)

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Als Zusatzqualifikation stellt das Zertifikat Gender Studies seit nunmehr sieben Jahren eine wertvolle Ergänzung zum Fachstudium dar, indem es Studierenden die Möglichkeit bietet, sich vertieft mit Themen rund um Gender und Diversität auseinanderzusetzen und ihr diesbezügliches Wissen zu vertiefen. Das Programm vermittelt sowohl theoretisches als auch praxisrelevantes Wissen und fördert die kritische Reflexion gesellschaftlicher Machtstrukturen und Ungleichheiten.

Im Rahmen des Tages der Lehre laden wir Studierende und Lehrende des Zertifikatsprogramms sowie weitere Interessierte der Universität zu einem Workshop ein, um Wege zur Weiterentwicklung des Zertifikats zu erörtern. Ziel ist es, einen konstruktiven Dialog zu eröffnen und gemeinsam Ansätze zu erarbeiten, um das Zertifikatsprogramm inhaltlich und organisatorisch an die aktuellen Bedürfnisse und Herausforderungen der Studierenden und Lehrenden sowie an die sich wandelnde Wissenschaftslandschaft anzupassen.

Finanziert von der Europäischen Union.

eufonds.sachsen-anhalt.de

Kritisches Koloquium:
Vorträge zu feministischer Kunstgeschichte, Queer Studies und Postcolonial Studies

Every Wednesday
18:15 - 19:45
Lecture theatre II
Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 26/27
06114 Halle (Saale)

14.05.2025
Prof Dr Amalie Fößel (Essen):
‘Women and war in the Middle Ages’
Guest lecture as part of the lecture ‘Clever, educated, powerful. Women's roles in text and image in the Middle Ages’ by Prof. Dr Ute Engel and Prof. Dr Simone Schultz-Balluff

21.05.2025
Julia Meer (MK&G Hamburg)
‘Franzbrötchen and feminism -
the Graphics and Poster Collection of the MK&G’

04.06.2025
Dr Annette Müller-Spreitz (Bernburg)
‘Provenance research up close - Nazi looted property, colonial contexts and SBZ/DDR. Kuklturentzüge in museums in Saxony-Anhalt’

25.06.2025
Dr Kathrin Rottmann (Bochum) and Friederike Sigler (Bochum)
‘Art and the New Right: Aesthetic Multiplication Process’

Giovanni Maltese: Globale Geschichten und die Vergeschlechtlichung von Allgemeinbegriffen (Vortrag)

A lecture by the Faculty of Theology

Thursday, 15 May 2025, 6.15 - 7.45 pmFrancke Foundations, House 30, Lecture Hall IIFranckeplatz 1, 06110 Halle (Saale)
What are ‘global interdependencies’? Are they the same as inter- or transregional, transcontinental or planetary connections? Are they found, reconstructed or invented? Are they purely linguistic - and how do they relate to materiality? Drawing on Karen Barad's concept of the ‘agential cut’, the lecture attempts to conceptualise global entanglements on the basis of a consistent consideration of the researcher's epistemological interest and situatedness in the context of the question of the modalities in which privileged signifiers operate. These include discursive, material, epistemic and affective modalities, which are mutually interrelated and mutually constitutive.

The lecture will use the gendering of general terms as an example of this. Using case studies, it will show how terms such as ‘spirituality’, ‘mysticism’, ‘church’ and ‘Pentecostalism’ have been or are being gendered intersectionally in colonial and postcolonial contexts, thereby materialising gendered and racialised attributions in their discriminatory, devaluing and marginalising effects. Because the use of terms is a practice and as such is constitutively linked to bodies and material arrangements and acts intra-actively, contingencies become self-evident and supposedly natural orders that materially sediment as exclusion. As materially sedimented exclusions, they can both limit and enable agency.

Speaker: Prof. Dr Giovanni Maltese (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Call for Papers for the 14th State-wide Day of Gender Research

For the 14th time, gender researchers, project partners and interested parties will gather on 20 November 2025 for the state-wide Gender Research Day at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

The day is located at the intersection of gender, democracy and participation research and is dedicated to the question of how feminist perspectives can contribute to strengthening democratic structures and combating anti-democratic tendencies.

We would like to call for submissions - especially from academics, artists and designers in qualification phases - as well as network projects and initiatives and create a place for exchange and discussion and therefore call for submissions on the topic ‘Strengthening democracy. Feminist perspectives on gender, politics and society’.

Please send submissions by 1st of August 2025 to: info@kgc-sachsen-anhalt.de

We look forward to interesting submissions and an exciting exchange!

More information here:
Call of Papers_Dt_eng_2025.pdf (1.1 MB)  vom 15.05.2025

Sponsorship award for final and qualification theses with a gender focus

Together with the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, the Coordination Office for Gender Research & Equal Opportunities is once again awarding the sponsorship prize this year.

The prize serves to honour and make visible scientific and creative work with a gender perspective.

The following are eligible to apply:
Young scientists, artists and designers from all disciplines who have completed their work at a university in Saxony-Anhalt in the period from 01.04.2024 to 31.03.2025. As well as other scientific publications with a gender perspective by graduates of a university in Saxony-Anhalt.

Please send submissions by 31st of August 2025 to: frohberg@kgc-sachsen-anhalt.de

More information here:
Ausschreibung Genderforschungspreis_2025.pdf (172.6 KB)  vom 23.04.2025

Interdisciplinary course catalogue for the certificate GENDER STUDIES

The interdisciplinary course catalogue for the summer semester 2025 is online!

You can find a detailed list of the associated courses here.

Courses gender*bildet for the summer semester 2025

You can now find the current courses offered by gender*bildet under the ASQ and lecture series tab. In the summer semester 2025, we are again offering a selection of exciting seminars and the final colloquium, which is part of the certificate. You can find more detailed information and links to the courses at studip here.

Registration for the courses is possible from 14th of March 2025 at 12:00.

Queer voices wanted for study on queer language and voice characteristics

Important information at a glance:

Wanted: People who feel they belong to the LGBTQIA+ community, with (among other things) German as their first/native language

For what? Voice analysis and AI-supported language processing and anonymisation to protect against discrimination

Duration: approx. 20-30 minutes

Allowance for expenses: €10

Possible locations: University of Halle-Wittenberg, Max Planck Institute Leipzig, University of Magdeburg

Fancy taking part? Then please register here → https://umfrage.uni-halle.de/151145?lang=de

Details:

Who we are: This research project is being carried out by the University of Magdeburg in cooperation with the University of Halle-Wittenberg.  I am Selma (she/her), a student of speech science, and I am working on this project as part of my bachelor's thesis.

What it's about: We are investigating how Artificial Intelligence (AI) - in particular voice assistants such as Alexa or Siri - can recognise, process and anonymise voices of people from the LGBTQIA+ community. The purpose of voice anonymisation is to protect against identification algorithms and thus against queer-hostile violence and discrimination.
In addition, I, Selma, will acoustically analyse voice and speech characteristics of people who identify as gender nonconforming (e.g. non-binary, agender, genderfluid, genderqueer, bigender).   
For both, we need speech and voice material from people in the LGBTQIA+ community.

How it works: You read something aloud, describe pictures and we talk about food, hobbies or similar.

Fancy taking part? Then register using the QR code or the following link so that we can find a date: https://umfrage.uni-halle.de/151145?lang=de

Still questions or unsure? Just send me an email: selma.neubauer@student.uni-halle.de.

Thank you very much for your support!  I'm looking forward to working with you! 💜  
Best regards, Selma

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