QDFCT Lecture Series | “Digital Feminist Infrastructures: Affect, Art, Activism”

by Prof. Dr Carrie Smith (University of Alberta, Canada)

This lecture is part of the Lecture Series „New Insights to Gender and Trans-Gender Studies,“ organized by the Chair of General Sociology and the Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms and Cultural Transformations (QDFCT)  and kindly supported by the Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte der JLU.

Dr. Carrie Smith is Professor of German Studies and Chair of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. Her current research covers digital feminisms, performance art activism, and feminist media studies with a focus on the German-language context. She is author of two monographs—Awkward Politics:  Technologies of Popfeminist Activism (with Maria Stehle, 2016) and  Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (2013)—and co-editor of six peer-reviewed essay collections, most recently Indigenous and German Studies (with Renae Watchman and Markus Stock, 2019) and Digital  Feminisms (2016). She has served as co-managing editor of three international journals, currently, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic  Studies and co-leads the research group Digital Feminist Collective.

For registration, please email to Daniel.Heinz@sowi.uni-giessen.de. We are looking forward to your participation!

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

EXPLORATIVE WORKSHOP “DECOLONIAL METHODS, PERIPHERAL SELVES:

THE MIGRANT FIGURE BETWEEN (SOUTH)EAST EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL

SOUTH ENTANGLEMENTS”

10-11 July 2020

Venue: JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN

The Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms and Cultural Transformation invites scholars and cultural practitioners to participate in the Workshop „Decolonial Methods, Peripheral Selves: The Migrant Figure Between (South)East European and Global South Entanglements“  supported by: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Arbeitsgruppe Europe’s East, Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms and Cultural Transformation (QDFCT) and ‘Dialoguing Between the Posts’ international research network.

Deadline for proposals: 26th February 2020

Please download the Call for Proposals 

The QDFCT Network launches on the 7th May it’s Brown Bag Series for the Sommer Term 2019. Our associate Danijela Majstorović’s (the University of Banja Luka) presents „Space-taking Politics and Post-Socialist Affects: Articulating Direct Democracy on the European Periphery.“ As in the previous Brown Bag Series of QDFCT, we will be meeting again this semester to share and get feedback on our ongoing, unfinished projects/ideas in a rather comfortable and safe environment over lunch-time.

The QDFCT Network invited Bojana Kunst (JLU Gießen) and FLavia Meireles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) for the semester opening to present the lecture ‚Feminists and indigenous struggles in Brazil and artistic contexts‘. The lecture will take place on the 7th of May at 4 pm. in R.202, Alten Steinbacher Weg 44.

The lecture series “Queer and Feminist Approaches in the Study of Coloniality and Racism” organized by the Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms and Cultural Transformations (QDFCT) continues this semester with three more presentations. With the support of Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte of JLU and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Jeanette Ehrmann (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) will hold the second lecture of the series, „Die Haitianische Revolution – queer gelesen“ in E207, Philosophikum II, on the 23rd of January.

***The presentation will be in German***Die Haitianische Revolution (1791-1804) gilt als die historisch erste und einzige erfolgreiche Revolution versklavter Menschen. Weil sich diese Emanzipation den Kategorien kolonialer Wissensregime entzieht, ist sie bis heute eine Leerstelle in den unterschiedlichen Traditionen europäisch-nordamerikanischer Theoriebildung. Als wirkmächtiges Symbol der Befreiung von Kolonialismus und Rassismus ist die Revolution hingegen bis heute ein zentraler Bezugspunkt für emanzipatorische Theorien und Praktiken von Schwarzen Menschen und People of Color. Entlang der Black Radical Tradition wird der Vortrag die anhaltende Aktualität und Radikalität der Haitianischen Revolution als Modell dekolonialer und rassismuskritischer Emanzipation herausstellen. Gleichzeitig ermöglichen queere Aktualisierungen der Revolution im heutigen Haiti eine intersektionale Kritik und Erweiterung ihrer emanzipatorischen Versprechen.Jeanette Ehrmann ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen und Mitglied des QDFCT – Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms, and Cultural Transformations. Sie promovierte zum Thema „Tropen der Freiheit. Die Haitianische Revolution und die Dekolonisierung des Politischen“ und war Gastforscherin an der Université Paris-1-Panthéon Sorbonne, an der Université d’État d’Haïti und an der University of Oxford. Ihr aktuelles Projekt entwickelt eine postkolonial-feministische Demokratiekritik.

***The location of this event has been changed to E207, Phil II***

Program:

9:30 – 10:00 Arrival 

10:00 – 10:15: Greetings and Introduction by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez and Reimer Gronemeyer

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10:15 – 11:15: Keynote by Barbara Duden

Ivan Illich’s „No, thank you!“ to „Substantive life“ and the Management of „Ethics“

11:15 – 11:45:  Discussion

Chair: Reimer Gronemeyer

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11:45 – 13:00: Lunch break

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13:00 – 14:00: Reimer Gronemeyer & Michaela Fink

School Dropouts in Subsaharan Africa

14:00 – 14:30: Comments by Jonas Metzger & Faith Oloruntoba

Chair: Sebastian Garbe

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14:30 – 15:00: Coffee break

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15:00 – 15:30: Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez

Transversal Conviviality: Ethics & Political Practice

15:30 – 16:00: Comments by Marah Theuerl and Danijela Majstorović

Chair: Andreea Racleş

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16:00 – 16:30: Comments on the day by Rhoda Reddock

Chair: Çiçek Uygun

The Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms and Cultural Transformations is happy to announce the next conversation with our associate Katucha Bento (University of Leeds) on the 5th of Decembre at 4pm in Philosophikum II, Building E, R. 207

Katuchas background is rooted in the Black Movement in Brazil, school of samba and Black feminism. She did her BA in Sociology and Politics at the Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo with a partial grant from a project called Políticas da Cor (Politics of Colour) funded by Ford Foundation. She studied a MA in Sociology at the University of Barcelona where she also worked as researcher with Transgender Women in Spain analysing the public Heath Care during the transition. Her MA research was on the construction of white lesbian desire challenging paradigms of whiteness and the possibilities of activism in the LGBTQI community. Katucha is currently in a doctorate programme at the University of Leeds researching how Black Brazilian Women emotionally negotiate politics of “Othering” in the United Kingdom and a visiting researcher at Leeds Beckett University. Her areas of interests are emotional laden of diaspora, Black Feminisms, Decoloniality, Critical Race Studies, Critical Rhetorical Analysis and Education.