Gender
The Gender Cluster in the interdisciplinary research network "Heterogeneity and Cohesion" (HUK) aims at networking researchers, lecturers and project members who are active in the field of women*, gender, feminist and queer research at the University of Graz.
For this purpose, regular cluster meetings and guest lectures with inter/national women researchers, but also joint events of gender researchers on site take place (see current dates below).
Several research groups, projects as well as the PhD program "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies" are also in close exchange with the Cluster Gender (HUK).
In order to increase the visibility of interdisciplinary gender studies as well as for the exchange and networking of researchers, lecturers and project members who are active in the field of women*, gender, feminist and queer research at the University of Graz, the Cluster Gender also provides an online platform.
Gender is a central criterion for structuring societies and ordering cultural systems. In contrast to the view that gender provides a clear natural basis for the ordering of culture, e.g. for the separation of production and reproduction, gender research in various disciplines has clarified that gender itself is a product of society and culture. Thus, gender is subject to historical change, shows great variance in cross-cultural comparison, and is connected in complex ways to other categories of social structuring and difference-making. In particular, gender serves as a marker of sociocultural power relations.
Gender research now takes place in almost all cultural, social, as well as natural and technical science disciplines. The study of gender is therefore a cross-cutting issue in many disciplines and research. The Cluster Gender in the research network "Heterogeneity and Cohesion" sees itself as a bundling and productive linking of such different disciplinary perspectives. Based on cultural theoretical approaches and theories of intersectionality, it is assumed that gender cannot always be understood as a primary category of difference, but always interacts with other social categories such as race, class, age, body or sexual desire. In addition - against the background of current queer studies - fluid, ambiguous and ambivalent identity configurations must be brought into view.
Dates:
Lunchtime Meetings
These meetings are open to ALL who are active in the field of Gender and Queer Studies at the University of Graz. Bring your own food and drinks!
April 20, 2023
June 15, 2023
November 16, 2023
18 January 2024
Symposium Gender@UniGraz
June 26, 2023
Contact persons:
Heidrun Zettelbauer: heidrun.zettelbauer(at)uni-graz.at
Rita Perintfalvi: rita.pertinfalvi(at)uni-graz.at
Susanne Korbel: susanne.korbel(at)uni-graz.at
Katharina Scharf: katharina.scharf(at)uni-graz.at
