Innsbruck Gender Lectures
Insights into the world of gender studies!
The Innsbruck Gender Lectures focus on controversial and current issues in gender studies - and are open to anyone interested in social and gender-critical perspectives. This series of events at the University of Innsbruck brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to reflect and discuss together. And best of all: the lectures are recorded and broadcast on Radio FREIRAD and published in the Innsbruck Gender Lectures podcast so that you can listen to the exciting content from the comfort of your own home. Join us and be inspired by new perspectives!
The Innsbruck Gender Lectures are a series of events organised by the CGI - Centre Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck.
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Is that all? Practices, solidarities and worlds thought feminist-utopian.
Innsbrucker Gender Lectures 2024/25
Why does parenthood need a gender? Interdisciplinary feminist perspectives on the private as a public matter
Innsbrucker Gender Lectures 2023/24

"Gender & Digitisation": Digital Transformations from the Perspective of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Innsbrucker Gender Lectures 2022/23

Short videos "Gender & Digitisation"
Short videos and illustrations in cooperation with the Institute for Theory and Future of Law - funded by the Förderkreis 1669 - the Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies is producing short videos on this year's Innsbruck Gender Lectures.

Past Innsbrucker Gender Lectures
- 87. Innsbruck Gender Lecture with Sophie Lewis and Friederike Beier
13.03.2025, 18:00, Hörsaal 5, GEIWI, Innrain 52e and ONLINE
Imagine otherwise: Rethinking and reinventing care.
Panel discussion with Sophie Lewis, independent researcher and Friederike Beier, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Moderation: Laura Volgger, Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Innsbruck - 84. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture with Tatjana Takševa (22 May 2024)
18:00 Uhr, Hörsaal 5, GEIWI, Innrain 52e
Tracing the Maternal through a Transnational Feminist Perspective - Tatjana Takševa, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
Comment: Sandra Tausel, PhD Candidate & University Assistant, Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
Moderation: Flavia Guerrini, Department for Educational Science, University of Innsbruck - 83. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture with Mona Motakef (16. April 2024)
18:00 Uhr, Hörsaal 7, GEIWI, Innrain 52e
„Queering the family?“ Parenthood and family beyond heteronormativity and bisexuality - Mona Motakef, TU Dortmund
Comment: Paul Scheibelhofer, Departement of Educational Science, University of Innsbruck
Moderation: Christine Baur LL.M, Deputy Chairwoman of the University Council, University of Innsbruck - 67. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture mit Jin Haritaworn (12. Oktober 2021)
Von Corona-Rassismus zu Abolitionismus: Queere Präfigurationen jenseits des racial Kapitalismus - Jin Haritaworn, York University Toronto/Kanada
Kommentar: Vanessa E. Thompson, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder
Moderation: Gundula Ludwig, CGI- Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck - 66. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture mit Brigitte Bargetz (06. Juli 2021)
Das Persönliche = politisch = männlich? Affektive Ökonomien der Aufmerksamkeit - Brigitte Bargetz, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Kommentar: Verena Sperk, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck
Moderation: Paul Scheibelhofer, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck - 65. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture mit Claudia Opitz Belakhal (15. Juni 2021)
Feminismus, Geschlechterdebatten und die Zukunft der Geschlechtergeschichte - Claudia Opitz Belakhal, Department Geschichte, Universität Basel
Kommentar: Kordula Schnegg, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, Universität Innsbruck
Moderation: Maria Heidegger, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Innsbruck - 64. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture mit Elisabeth Sandler (23. März 2021)
LGBTQ+ Inklusion an Universitäten: Zeugnisse und Empfehlungen aus der „Out at Cambridge“ Studie - Elisabeth Sandler, Department of Sociology & lgbtQ+@cam Initiative, University of Cambridge
Kommentar: Karoline Irschara, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck
Moderation: Claudia Posch, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck - 63. Innsbrucker Gender Lecture mit Michelle Cottier (26. Januar 2021)
Elternschaft im Recht jenseits von Heterosexualität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit als Norm - Michelle Cottier, Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Genf
Kommentar: Michael Ganner, Institut für Zivilrecht, Universität Innsbruck
Moderation: Caroline Voithofer, Institut für Zivilrecht, Universität Innsbruck

Archive of the Innsbrucker Gender Lectures
The Innsbruck Gender Lectures have been running since 2009 and most of them have been recorded. You can listen to them in the archive.