Popularisation and Provocation - Gender Studies In and Outside of Academia
Anniversary Colloquium to Mark the Tenth Year of Cooperation Between the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Studies) and the IZfG
11 November 2024 | Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Studies)
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Katrin Horn, Prof. Dr. Annelie Ramsbrock and Dr. habil. Heide Volkening (all from Greifswald)
Programme
1.30 pm Admission
2.00 pm Welcome and opening of the exhibition "IZfG x Wiko: Posters from ten years" and speech by the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Studies)
3.00 pm Popularisation and provocation. Gender studies in dialogue - a roundtable
5.00 p.m. Address from the Ministry of Justice, Gender Equality and Consumer Protection MV
5.10 pm Reception and exhibition
6.00 pm Reading and discussion: Thomas Meinecke reads Odenwald
Information on the Roundtable and Reading:
Popularisation and Provocation. Gender Studies in Dialogue - A Roundtable
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Annelie Ramsbrock (Chair of Modern History, Greifswald)
Participants and Statements:
Prof. Dr. Katrin Horn (Anglophone Gender Studies, Greifswald)
Prof. Dr. Konstanze Marx (German Language and Literature, Greifswald)
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Stracke (Internal Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald)
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Gender studies are popular. They have established themselves not only as a subject but also as an interdisciplinary approach, finding relevance in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine. The content, methods, and findings of gender studies are widely disseminated and popularised beyond academic discourse, influencing social and artistic processes as well as political and medical practices. They serve as significant references for recommended actions in research and science. However, research into gender studies frequently faces considerable social and political opposition. The colloquium aims to examine and discuss the relationship between popularisation and provocation from an interdisciplinary gender studies perspective.
Reading and Discussion: Thomas Meinecke reads "Odenwald"
Presenting and discussion: Dr. habil. Heide Volkening (German Literature Studies, Greifswald)
Since the 1980s, and especially since the publication of his novel Tomboy (2000), themes and theories of gender studies have served as significant points of reference and quotation material in Thomas Meinecke's novels. This also applies to Odenwald , as the announcement of the novel, published in October 2024, promises: "In Odenwald, the writer-actor Meinecke and his main characters weave the red threads of an extensive investigation into deconstructivist-feminist discourse: Paul Preciado's speech to psychoanalysts in Paris is amalgamated with medieval texts that are interesting from a gender-linguistic perspective. The much-discussed return of the body, of the material, and of materialism is negotiated - also in the private lives of the characters. And the concert music of the 20th century sounds out above it all – that is what this novel owes to Adorno." Thomas Meinecke will read from his novel and discuss how gender studies, the German forest, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and literature intersect.
Further information on the novel can be found at
www.suhrkamp.de/buch/thomas-meinecke-odenwald-t-9783518431917