Cooperations

This website lists the cooperations we have established over the years in the field of Gender Studies, such as conferences, networks, projects, and similar initiatives. 

 Consulting

Advising the Federal Chancellery

From September 2019 to January 2020, Boka En represented the Gender Studies Research Group in a total of three meetings on the topic of "gender-sensitive language use" in the Interministeriellen Arbeitsgruppe für Gleichbehandlung am Bundeskanzleramt (Kabinett der Bundesministerin für Frauen, Familien und Jugend).

The work resulted in a guide to gender-sensitive language, jointly authored by several experts, which was published by the Gleichbehandlungsanwaltschaft in 2021:

Publication 2021: Gleichbehandlungsanwaltschaft Österreich (Hg.), 2021: Geschlechtersensible Sprache – Dialog auf Augenhöhe. >> 210601_Leitfaden_geschl-Sprache_A5_BF.pdf <<

Geschlechtersensible Sprache – Dialog auf Augenhöhe

 

 

Research Group und Workshop: Sexuelle Gewalt im Ersten Weltkrieg 

Prof. Sabine Grenz is working in cooperation with the research group on the topic of “Sexual Violence in World War I.” 

>> Research Group <<

 Peer-reviewed Journals

From 2018 to 2022, Sabine Grenz was a member of the Editorial Board of the GENDER, Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft.

Since her time as Chair of the Gender Studies Association, she has been committed to the Open Gender Journal.

 

 Conferences

Shame-Shaming-Shamelessness

29. bis 30. November 2019 | Juridicum Wien, Top Floor, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Wien

International Conference by the Research Network "Gender and Agency"

 

10th European Feminist Research Conference: Difference, Diversity, Diffraction. Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions

12. bis 15. Sept. 2018 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany)

The focus of the 10th EFRC is twofold. The terms ”difference”, ”diversity” and ”diffraction” emphasize the interdisciplinarity of the broad feminist field of feminist research and refer to a topic central to Gender Studies: the social construction of difference and inequality on the one hand, and the recognition of marginalised experiences and subject positions on the other. In the face of growing right-wing populist movements, anti-feminist and anti-queer backlashes, forced migration, austerity and climate change, these concerns take on renewed relevance. ”Confronting hegemonies and dispossessions” is a call to interrogate and challenge the current global situation in which economic, cultural as well as knowledge hegemonies and social hierarchies create inequalities, unliveable environments and precarious lives.

In 2009 ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation was founded. Since then, ATGENDER has organised the triannual EFRC together with local partners. In the past year ATGENDER and the German Gender Studies Association (founded in 2010) have collaborated for the first time to organise the 10th EFRC – that simultaneously is the annual conference of both – in partnership with the local hosts, the Goettingen Centre for Gender Studies and the Diversity Research Institute at the University of Goettingen.

 

Feminist methodologies and the issue of interpretation

24. April 2018 | Institut für Bildungswissenschaft der Universität Wien, 2. Stock, Beratungseinheit.

A workshop in cooperation with the research focus “Gender and Transformation” of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the University of Gothenburg.

One important aspect of feminist methodologies for empirical studies is a discussion on power relations
between researchers and their participants. Starting from a perspective of research on marginalized positions the position of the researcher has been severely questioned by feminist researchers. The dangers of instrumentalizing participants have been similarly debated as problematics of speaking for them. Whereas some argued strongly for partiality with her (marginalised) participants (e.g. Mies) others questioned the concept of an 'innocent' position. Similarly, while some privileged marginalized perspectives (e.g. Harding), others preferred the situatedness of any (partial) perspective and, hence, knowledge production (e.g. Haraway). Both the term "experience" as well as the idea of giving marginalized groups a voice were scrutinized within this debate already beginning in the 1970ies and 1980ies. Up until today they have remained important reference points for gender research, even though for many power concepts shifted from a Marxist perspective to a poststructuralist and Foucaultian approach including the reproductive side ofpower leading to modern governmentality.

Whereas the debate has included all stages of the research process from initializing and introducing to data
gathering and interpretation and the publication process, this workshop on feminist methodologies is
devoted to explore possibilities and difficulties in analysis of qualitative empirical data from a feminist or
gender perspective.

 

 

 Finished Cooperations

Jury Gabriele Possaner Förderpreis

In 2017, Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz was a member of the preliminary jury for the Gabriele Possanner Sponsorship Award.

Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Geschlechterforschung – Erste gemeinsame internationale Konferenz der D-A-CH Fachgesellschaften für Geschlechterforschung/studien

28. bis 30. September 2017 | Universität zu Köln, Köln (Deutschland)

>> Conference website: FG-gender <<


Diversity-Netzwerktreffen vom 12.-14. September 2017 in Göttingen

>> Konferenzwebsite <<

 

2nd Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference

31. August bis 2. September 2017 | Sigmund-Freud-Universität, Wien (Austria)

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