11th Annual Conference of the FG Gender Studies and Spring School

"Decolonizing Gender Studies" 06. to 09. April 2022 (University of Kassel)

im Vorfeld findet die 20. Arbeitstagung der Konferenz der Einrichtungen für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien im deutschsprachigen Raum (KEG) statt vom 05. bis 06. April 2022

The Spring School "Decolonizing Gender Studies" aims to create a space for dialogue and engages post- and decolonial, feminist, queer and anti-racist perspectives, practices and visions. The Spring School focuses on current debates on postcoloniality and decolonization, intersectional feminism, transnational solidarity, and participatory Gender Studies, and addresses the challenges and paradoxes of decolonization in the field of Gender Studies in Germany.

The Spring School aims to discuss current debates and questions on decolonization from a Gender Studies perspective, as well as to stimulate (new) feminist visions and interventions of collective decolonizing strategies. The goal is to deprivilege, unlearn and dismantle colonial, Eurocentric, racist and heteronormative hierarchies and exclusions.

(Inter)national scholars, artists and activists are invited to engage in dialogue. The program consists of 'Intervention-Webinars', sessions, Dialogue Table discussions as well as Open Space spaces for exchange. The program also includes a screening of "Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights" (Nevline Nnaji, 2014), a walking tour of the city (Kassel Postcolonial), and a reading on "Identitti" by Mithu Sanyal.

Attending the Spring School "Decolonizing Gender Studies"

Join the Interventions of the Annual Conference and Spring School "Decolonizing Gender Studies"!

Opening Intervention: Margo Okazawa-Rey: "A Feminist Vision of Genuine Security and a Culture of Life: Global-North Feminist Responsibilities and Ethical Solidarity"

Intervention: Xochitl Leyva Solano (CIESAS Sureste, Chiapas, México): "El crucero anticapitalista, antipatriarcal y anticolonial: en tiempos de muerte”

Intervention: Pumla Dineo Gqola (Alice Amathole, Eastern Cape South Africa): “Decolonising Gender Studies, Confronting Intellectual Apartheid”

Intervention: Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic): “Hacer genealogía de la experiencia: un punto de vista feminista descolonial”

The 20th working conference of the department of women and gender studies in the german speaking area (KEG) will be held completly in german.

Nach der KEG Tagung im letzten Jahr, die aufgrund der Pandemiesituation als Zoom-Veranstaltung stattfinden musste, freuen wir uns sehr auf eine Konferenz in Präsenz vom 05.-06. April 2022 an der Universität Kassel.

Die 20. Arbeitstagung der Konferenz der Einrichtungen für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien im deutschsprachigen Raum (KEG) nimmt hochschulpolitische, disziplinäre und kommunikationsbasierte Entwicklungen und Fragestellungen als auch gesamtgesellschaftliche Anliegen und Debatten in den Blick. Wichtiges Grundanliegen der KEG ist der qualifizierte Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen den institutionalisierten Einrichtungen im deutschsprachigen Raum wie auch der Dialog mit außeruniversitären Projekten zu feministischen, gendergerecht(er)en, geschlechtervielfältig(er)en, intersektional(er)en Fragen. Der Erfahrungsaustausch in themenspezifischen Arbeitsgruppen soll zur diagnostischen Sicht auf Potentiale und Herausforderungen der Hochschul- und Universitätsentwicklungen verhelfen und dazu beitragen, Formen und Strategien der Institutionalisierung der Gender Studies zu reflektieren und weiter voranzutreiben.

    How to find us

    Event location:
    University of Kassel - Campus Center
    Moritzstraße 18
    34127 Kassel

    Stations:
    "Holländischer Platz - University"
    Tramway line 1, 5; Regio-Tram RT1, RT4

    "Katzensprung"
    Tramway lines 3,6 and 7

    The Spring School will take place in attendence

    The Spring School "Decolonizing Gender Studies" follows the Corona Guidelines of the University of Kassel. You can view them here. The Spring School team will also update this page regularly. 

    For the implementation of events, this currently means (Status 13.01.2022):

    Events: now only with 2G!

    • 2G Plus for other events: In future, the 2G Plus rule (previously 2G) will apply to other indoor events (over 10 people) that are not part of the teaching process, such as conferences, lecture events and educational courses. Even with the 2G Plus rule, the distance and hygiene rules must be observed, the wearing of medical masks is obligatory and attention must be paid to a good ventilation situation.
    • Triple vaccinated ("boostered") persons do not need an additional test in the 2G Plus scheme.

    Funding of the Spring School "Decolonizing Gender Studies"

    Local organizing team

    Contact

    For questions about the Spring School 2022 "Decolonizing Gender Stuides" please contact:

    decolonizing-genderstudies[at]uni-kassel[dot]de