Rethinking Feminisms. Past, Present, Future Vortragsreihe „Kunst – Forschung – Geschlecht“, Wintersemester 2023/24 — Collection Art, Architecture, Design

Feminism is not a singular concept - and never has been: there is not just one feminism, but a multitude of divergent theoretical and practical approaches. Even today, what is meant by feminism is contested and disputed. This is evident in the negotiation of which genealogies enter into feminist struggles against the backdrop of different political and sociocultural backgrounds.
How can new concepts of earlier texts and practices of feminist movements be discovered, or older concepts be made (differently) productive? How do feminist theories relate to different forms of structural inequality, which alliances, crossings, and contradictions exist?

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: Maria Bussmann, Edith Futscher, Barbara Graf, Nanna Heidenreich, Anita Hosseini, Stefanie Kitzberger, Doris Löffler, Kristina Pia Hofer, Anna Spohn, Julia Sprenger, Jenni Tischer, Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva

Wintersemester

Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2023 | 18h | Hörsaal 1 (OKPF, EG)
Jenni Tischer
Einführung in das Jahresthema „Rethinking Feminisms. Past, Present, Future“

Mittwoch, 8. November 2023 | 18h | Hörsaal 1 (OKPF, EG)
Lena Joos
„What is Feminism?“ Interventionen, Debatten und Visionen an internationalen Frauenkonferenzen 1975-1985
Wie sähe ein Feminismus aus, der die Lebensrealitäten aller berücksichtigt? Der Blick auf die Kritik von «Third World Women» während der UN-Dekade der Frau zeigt, wie Visionen von globalen Feminismen kreiert wurden, die transnationale feministische Politik präg(t)en.

Mittwoch, 22. November 2023 | 18h | Hörsaal 1 (OKPF, EG)
Niloofar Rasooli
Weeds against the Walls: Frames of Feminist Resilience in Iran
Walls—the canvas of resistance, weaving the pain, manifesting the fight. This lecture, like weeds, grows from and against the walls, sharing the words of feminism in Iran, outlining radical disbelief in the apartheid of walls.

Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2023 | 18h | via ZOOM (ask for the Link at gleichstellung@uni-ak.ac.at)
Paridhi Gupta
The Visualities of Feminism: Images and Interconnections in Contemporary Protests in India
The lecture illuminates the connections between re-occurring imageries in different women’s movements in India through the metaphor of chains of oppression, to understand the complex histories of feminism and the power of shared vocabularies.

Mittwoch, 10. Jänner 2024 | 18h | Hörsaal 1 (OKPF, EG)
Pınar Sarıgöl
Heteronormative Performances and Contemporary Political Transformations: Gendered Bodies between Changes and Continuities
This presentation draws attention to the nexus between gendered bodies and successful political transformation through the convergence of religious conservatism and neoliberalism in contemporary politics around the world in general and post-2002 Turkey in particular.

Mittwoch, 24. Jänner 2024 | 18h | Hörsaal 1 (OKPF, EG) | Prüfung