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Lecture by Aigner-Rollett guest professor Prof. Mag. Dr. Ilse Bartosch on 15.12.2020, physics didactician at the Didactics Center for Natural Sciences & Mathematics in the summer semester 2020, University of Graz

Ilse Bartosch completed her teacher training in physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna and worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics at a Viennese secondary school. Her dissertation (University of Klagenfurt) - which was awarded the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize - deals with the development of female gender identity and the studying of physics. In her diverse research, lecturing and teaching activities (University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt, University of Teacher Education Upper Austria), the examination of the impact of the category of gender in its interdependence with other social categories in the field of mathematics and science education is a central aspect. She has worked at the Universities of Klagenfurt and Vienna and at the Universities of Teacher Education in Vienna and Linz as a physics didactician in teacher training. She was awarded the Käthe Leichter Prize in 2014 for outstanding achievements in women's and gender studies.

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Lecture by Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II as part of the Gender Equality Day on June 12, 2019 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Coordination Center for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities.

Dr. Ronald L. Jackson II is immediate past president of the National Communication Association, professor of communication, former Dean of the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (UC), and an internationally renowned identity scholar and sought after speaker.

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Lecture by Associate Professor Johanna Hofbauer on May 7, 2018 on the occasion of the award ceremony for three academic departments at the University of Graz for outstanding promotion of young researchers, entry opportunities and career opportunities in terms of gender equality at our university.

In my presentation, I will address the changed environment for (feminist) gender equality work at universities as a result of the university reforms. I will contrast the expected advantages of managerialization with the new and ongoing problems. Top-down management and quantitative indicators and key figures were intended to increase the ability to achieve gender equality goals. It was expected that the comprehensive measurement of the university would help to make decisions more objective; that the disclosure of quantitative ratios in reports would highlight the need for action on gender equality policy and effectively support gender equality work. Meanwhile, the impression arises that universities are more concerned with their external image and their bureaucratic reporting obligations than with changing the status quo. In this lecture, I will present this paradoxical development and discuss the dangers of the depoliticization of equality, which can be traced back to recent surveying activities at universities.

Johanna Hofbauer is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and a member of the Economics of Inequality Research Institute at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Main research interests: Organization-based gender inequality and structural change in work. Publication 2018: Measured spaces, tense relationships. Entrepreneurial University and Gender Dynamics, Suhrkamp Verlag, edited with Sabine Hark.

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Two lectures on 15.1.2018 on the occasion of the awarding of certificates to the graduates of the career program

Lecture by Dr. Lena Weber/University of Paderborn: Excellence and gender in the entrepreneurial university 
For some years now, the science system in European countries has been undergoing a huge process of change towards the new model of the "entrepreneurial university". Academic excellence is being redefined and the link to gender constructions is being broken. On the one hand, the understanding of 'excellence' is increasingly based on measurable, objective and seemingly gender-neutral criteria such as publication rates, third-party funding and citation indices. On the other hand, in Germany the discourse on excellence and the new management policies has been linked to concepts of gender equality, according to which the selection of the "best minds" can only be achieved with equal opportunities and family friendliness. Using empirical examples from several countries, the lecture will explore the questions of what the prerequisites are for a career in today's academic system from a gender perspective and for linking new university governance with gender equality policy.

Lecture by Dr. Kristina Binner/University of Linz and Susanne Kink-Hampersberger, MA./University of Graz: 
Equal and yet unequal? Excellence and care in the context of everyday work and life of Austrian postdoctoral researchers
The conditions for working and living in academia have become increasingly difficult in recent years, especially for postdoctoral researchers. The dynamics of de-securitization combined with high performance requirements and controls (keyword: excellence) affect them in a biographically precarious phase in which non-academic care issues can also become relevant. This lecture will show that clear gender-equal consequences can be seen in the everyday academic lives of those affected.

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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Sibylle Bauriedl (Aigner-Rollett Professor in the summer semester of 2017) as part of the event "Awards in accordance with the incentive system for the advancement of women" on April 4, 2017

Since industrialization, human interventions in the ecosystem have been so massive that they have left geological traces. The geological age of the Anthropocene has just been proclaimed. Or is it an Androcene? Industrialization is characterized by resource-intensive commodity production and mass consumption, but also by a hierarchically structured global and gendered division of labour. The lecture will examine the structural and discursive connections between these two aspects and discuss gender justice as a central criterion of climate justice. Current findings on the significance of gender relations in international climate policy, the transformation of energy supply and climate research will be presented.

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Lecture by Dr. Emily Ngubia Kessé (Humboldt University Berlin) as part of the event "Awarding certificates to graduates of the career program" on 5 December 2016

Racism is the order of the day for students of color at German-speaking universities and permeates all levels of the educational process - from daycare to university. Ideas of normality and power relations are structurally closely interwoven in academia and at university: This affects knowledge production itself as well as actions and structures in research, teaching and studies. The practice of racism is not dependent on good or bad feelings or intentions towards Black people and People of Color by white people. Racism is a system that continuously places whiteness at the center and constructs blackness as the inferior other. Emily Ngubia Kessé shows how racist normality is created and maintained in higher education.

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Lecture by Prof. Hande Birkalan-Gedik as part of the event "Anreiz-System" on June 7, 2016

Since the ground-breaking study of Raewyn Connell, a plurality of masculinity studies has burgeoned in the field of men`s studies. In the last three decades, the abundance in this area also included studies on masculinities and fatherhood, mostly focusing on different fathers and fathering practices. Rarely, however, fatherhood and masculinities were considered from the angle of religion, in our case, Islam. I will present parts of my ethnographic research I conducted in 2014-2015 (funded by TUBITAK 2219 Program) in Rhein-Main Region in Germany. I mainly rely upon and extract data from my research, where I have worked with fathers with a migration history from Turkey. I aim to establishing an idea of fatherhood in relation to the manly habitus, which is characterized by a number of social divisions or inclusions and exclusions, all of which are widely framed in a framework of intersectionality. Considered as such, Islam and the representation of "migrant man" and "migrant masculinity" will be important aspects of this presentation. I will evaluate concepts such as "migrant", "muslim" and "man" and will show new perspectives on religion, particularly on Islam, since a great deal of my informants also embodied a religious habitus of their own in their fatherhood practices.

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Lecture by Dr. Ricarda Drüeke as part of the AUFFRISCHUNG:GENDERTHEORIEN series on April 14, 2016

Ricarda Drüeke, postdoc at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg, shows how feminist movements and feminist forms of protest have used a variety of media since the beginning of the women's movement. The internet and the social web have given rise to further forms and platforms for political activism. For example, the hashtag #aufschrei was used on Twitter to address sexual harassment and violence, thus initiating a broad media debate about feminist protest articulations on the internet. The hashtag #ausnahmslos (without exception) is also currently making feminist protest articulations visible, thereby adding feminist positions to the debate about the sexual assaults in Cologne. At the same time, numerous counter-reactions show how controversial issues relating to feminism and gender relations are. Feminist and gender-political positions and their protagonists are delegitimized and attacked on the social web in particular. Using the example of anti-sexist hashtags such as #aufschrei and #ausnahmslos, current forms of feminist protest articulations and their opportunities for empowerment will be shown, while at the same time debates on anti-feminist social media platforms and websites will be used to illustrate the ambivalences of the internet: as an inherited space with anti-feminist attacks on the one hand, but on the other hand also providing niches in which new forms of communication can be established and social relations can be reflected and reinterpreted.

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Lecture by Kathrin A. N. Jarz M.A. BA. as part of the TO BE PUBLISHED series on 18.4.2016

Sexual reproduction and childbirth are scientific, technological, rationalized and economic processes in postmodern society. The (pregnant) body is the central prerequisite for scientific and medical access, it is the interface of modern techniques of reproduction, the place where decisions are made about the life and death of "impaired" unborn children and a pathologized object in medicine.

Kathrin A. N. Jarz is a graduate of the Master's degree program in Gender Studies at the University of Graz, feminist politics officer at the ÖH/Uni Graz and freelance editor of "Die Woche".

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Lecture by Dr. Angela Wroblewski (IHS Vienna) on 22.6.2015

In her lecture “AKTUELLER DISKURS IM UNIVERSITÄREN MENTORING an der Schnittstelle zwischen Nachwuchsförderung und Strukturveränderung” , sociologist Angela Wroblewski, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, looked at international experiences with the implementation of mentoring. In this context, various currently discussed approaches such as sponsorship (Sylvia Ann Hewlett) and the bifocal approach (Jennifer de Vries) were presented and the potential of mentoring programs for change at an organizational level was examined. 

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Lecture by Prof. Sara Louise Muhr (Copenhagen) on March 13, 2015

Copenhagen Business School

Leadership is a colorful construct. Metaphors help to understand this construct by allowing us to approach it without having to know the "objective reality" as such. The lecture will shed light on the use of military metaphors in the context of leadership and masculinity. It discusses the consequences associated with an idealizing and unreflected use of this metaphor - both for leadership research and for leadership practice.

Prof. Sara Louise^Muhr, PhD, Professor at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School and Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor was a guest at the Institute for Human Resource Policy in the summer semester 2015.

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Lecture Dr. Marina Hughson (Blagojevic), Belgrade (March 20, 2014)

University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Dr. Marina Hughson(Blagojević) is a sociologist and gender expert who has been a university professor at the University of Belgrade and a visiting professor in various countries. Most recently she worked at the Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade, and is currently the current Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor for Women's and Gender Studies here at the University of Graz, based at the Faculty of Humanities, at the Center for Southeast European Studies in the summer semester 2014.

This lecture is based on the eponymous title of the recently published book "Rethinking Transnational Men: Beyond, Between and Within the Nations" (ed. By Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojevic and Kathrine Harrison, Routledge, 2013).

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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Julia Nentwich, St. Gallen (January 29, 2013), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Men in female professions often experience an "identity dissonance" in their everyday work (Warin, 2005). They are perceived as inappropriate, if not dangerous, in the context of the nursery because of their gender, but are at the same time highly desirable nowadays, as they can take on the male role model function that is so often perceived as lacking.

How do men deal with these controversial attributions? Prof. Nentwich explores this question in her lecture using a discourse-psychological analysis of problem-centered interviews with trained male toddler carers. The interviews were conducted as part of the research project "Doll's houses, building corners and forest days: (Un)doing gender in crèches". The project examines gender arrangements in Swiss-German crèches using qualitative interviews, video-assisted ethnographic observation and a photographic spatial analysis.

Visiting professor Julia Nentwich is an assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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Lecture by Prof. Ilse Hartmann-Tews, Cologne (June 13, 2012), German Sport University Cologne

The phenomenon of age(ing) is subject to social change: more and more people are getting older and have to make an effort to stay healthy and mobile in old age. To what extent is this process shaped by the gender order? Is ageing different for women than for men? What significance does sporting activity have in this context? The lecture explored these questions on the basis of theoretical considerations and empirical findings.

Ilse Hartmann-Tews is a university lecturer at the Institute for Sports Sociology at the DSHS Cologne and head of the Gender Studies Department.

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Lecture Prof. Louise Morley, Sussex (January 30, 2012), Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research, CHEER, University of Sussex, UK

Quality assurance is a hegemonic discourse, yet it is applied partially and selectively to certain aspects of higher education. Higher education today is characterized by a mixture of hyper-modernization via the development of global, entrepreneurial, corporate, commercialised universities and speeded up public intellectuals on the move. This is often underpinned by the archaism of poor quality employment and learning environments, globalized gender inequalities and elitist patterns of participation.

Change has been rapid and extreme. Counter hegemonic advocates did not necessarily predict the scale of neo-liberal and austerity driven change in higher education. Traditionalists did not foresee the industrialization, massification and introduction of a mixed economy in higher education. The academic imaginary has tended to be harnessed to crititque, rather than to engage in futurology. Desire, as well as loss, needs to be considered. Questions about the desired morphology of the (quality) university of the future seem to be eclipsed by pressing concerns in the present.

Louise Morley is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) at the University of Sussex in England.

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Lecture Prof. Ethel Brooks, New Jersey, USA (December 1, 2011), Department of Women`s and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Ethel Brooks is Associate Professor at the Department of Women`s and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

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Lecture Univ.- Doz. DDr. Silvia Stoller, Vienna (May 9, 2011), Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna

The classics of philosophical gender studies are getting on in years. Even the publication of Judith Butler's "Unbehagen der Geschlechter" was 20 years ago. What does this historicization of gender studies mean? Based on this question, this lecture deals with the three main representatives of philosophical gender studies in the 20th century: Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler. This temporal distance enables a liberated perspective on feminist theory formation and can initiate a productive re-evaluation: Beauvoir's existential-theoretical approach, Irigaray's difference-theoretical approach and Butler's construction-theoretical approach are not only not mutually exclusive, they have also lost none of their topicality.

Visiting Professor Silvia Stoller is a philosopher and university lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on: Feminist philosophy, gender studies, phenomenology and philosophical anthropology (pain, love, old age, laughter).

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Lecture Prof. Dr. Antje Lann Hornscheidt, Berlin (November 29, 2010)

Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

Language is not a neutral, passive medium with which social realities are objectively depicted. Instead, language, understood here as linguistic action, actively creates different perspectives and concepts of reality depending on the choice of words.

Even if the discriminatory effect of language is often limited to swear words in the public perception, linguistic discrimination actually occurs in various ways far more frequently than it initially appears. While some terms are racist at a certain point in time in every use, others only become racist through the context and the way they are used. The lecture contributes to highlighting unconscious or subconscious or well-intentioned racism in everyday language practices with concrete examples in order to raise awareness of how and through what racism is linguistically re_produced - and what alternatives there are. In terms of a trans- or interdependence approach, racism and sexism must always be considered together; analyses of racism are an important part of gender studies.

Prof. Dr. Antje Lann Hornscheidt has been Professor of Gender Studies and Language Analysis at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, since 2006^. She was previously Professor of Swedish Language at Södertörn University of Applied Sciences in Örebro, Uppsala, Lund and Graz.

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Lecture PD Dr. Michael Meuser, Dortmund (May 18, 2009), Institute of Sociology, Technical University of Dortmund

The lecture deals with the question of how the gender order is inscribed in the gendered body. The somatic cultures of gender difference are explained in three dimensions: 1. the cultural shaping and disciplining of the body, 2. the body as a signifier through which collective identities are symbolized, 3. the body as an agent of a pre-theoretical appropriation and practical knowledge of the social world, by means of which fundamental gender structural and ordering principles are acquired and incorporated.

Professor Michael Meuser has been teaching at the Technical University of Dortmund since 2007.

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Lecture Dr. Gabriele Sorgo, Vienna (March 16, 2009), Institute for Educational Sciences, University of Graz and Innsbruck, Institute for Cultural History, University of Vienna

In her lecture, Gabriele Sorgo draws a historical-anthropological sketch of the emergence of shopping as a gender-specific activity. To this end, she digs into the cellar of the hallowed concept of "production" in order to reveal the myths of femininity that continue to underpin it as the foundations of commodity culture.

Gabriele Sorgo teaches educational anthropology at the Departments of Educational Science at the Universities of Graz and Innsbruck and cultural history at the University of Vienna.

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Lecture Prof. DDr. Christina Schachtner, Klagenfurt (January 19, 2009), Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

This lecture deals with the significance of knowledge in contemporary society in general and with "cyber knowledge" in particular and links this analysis with the gender discourse.

Christine Schachtner is a university professor of media studies and head of the Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Department of New Media - Technology - Culture at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

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Lecture Dr. Sabine Hark, Cologne (November 17, 2008), Institute for Comparative Educational and Social Research, University of Cologne

In her lecture, Sabine Hark talks about gender studies as feminism that has become academic and raises the question of the social organization of gender studies as a science and its potential for social change.

Dr.phil. Sabine Hark, graduate sociologist, is currently deputy professor for gender research at the Institute for Comparative Educational and Social Research at the University of Cologne.

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Lecture Dr. Sigrid Schmitz (January 25, 2008), Institute for Computer Science and Society/Competence Forum (gin), University of Freiburg

Natural science has established... With this justification, gender differences in behavior, abilities and attitudes are still attributed to biological causes. The causes of these differences are said to lie in genes, hormones or the brain. Our behavior as a woman or a man has developed in evolution and is still predetermined by biology.

The approaches of gender studies offer the opportunity to critically question these seemingly unassailable arguments and to break down the alleged unambiguousness of gender differences. Using examples from brain research, evolutionary research and hormone research, ^Dr.^Schmitz would like to convey some of the methods of gender studies, which can then be used to analyze texts from popular science and natural science itself.

Sigrid Schmitz has been working on gender aspects in brain research at the Institute for Computer Science and Society at the University of Freiburg since October 1999. She has been a university lecturer on the "Mediatization of the Natural Sciences and Gender Research" since October 2002.

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Lecture Dr. Alexandra Strohmaier, MA (December 17, 2007), Institute for German Studies, University of Graz

With reference to positions of Foucaultian discourse theory and postcolonial (gender) theory, the lecture is dedicated to the colonial Africa discourse - autobiographies, diaries, settlement novels, colonial (war) novels by German-speaking women authors around 1900. On the one hand, the (not only discursive) practices through which German women participated in the project of colonialism are shown, on the other hand, the ambivalences and contradictions are outlined, as they sometimes resulted from the ambivalent position of white women in the colonial context as the "inferior" sex of the "superior" race" (Frances Gouda) and were also reflected in the discursive constructions of the body, the forms of its sexualization and racialization.

Alexandra Strohmaier has been a lecturer in modern German literature at the Institute of German Studies since 2003 and is also a lecturer in the interfaculty teaching program for women's and gender studies at the University of Graz.

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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Roswith Roth, Graz (November 19, 2007), Institute of Psychology, University of Graz

Even more than men in Japan, women are experiencing the balancing act between tradition and rapid progress, between a traditional way of life and a reality subject to technological pressure to perform. Since the mid-1980s, the Japan Discourse (Nihonjinron) has been discussing the internationalization of Japan and criticizing the dark sides of the Japanese economy and society.

Roswith Roth was head of the Coordination Office for Women's Studies and the Advancement of Women from 1993 - 1999, head of the Working Group for Equal Treatment Issues from 1994 - 2006, head of the University Women's Working Group from 2003 - 2006, head of the Working Group for Health Psychology and Gender Studies at the Institute of Psychology, University of Graz since 2000.

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Lecture by Dr. Gabriele Dietze, Berlin (25 June 2007), Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor in the summer semester 2007

Under the heading "Critical Occidentalism", the lecture deals with the construction of a new "Occidentalism" on the "Oriental Other". This "xenophobia" works with gender images such as the "oriental patriarchy" and the imagined lack of freedom of the Muslim woman. In this context, gender will be considered as an interdependent category with ethnicity/"race", class/class, sexuality and religion/locality.

Gabriele Dietze has been a research assistant at the Institute for English and American Studies since 1999 and then a visiting professor for cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Aigner-Rollett visiting professor in Graz. Since 1997 she has also taught in the field of women's and gender studies.

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Lecture Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch, Graz (June 18, 2007), Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology, University of Graz

The lecture thematizes and discusses different approaches to the "life of others", ways and positions, which all promise to overcome the crisis of human science around power, subjectivity and representation. Dialogue, reflection, feminist anthropology and ethnopsychoanalysis. The focus is also on the question of the role played by the gender of researchers and those being researched.

Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch has been a professor at the Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Graz since 1996 and a visiting professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Vienna.

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Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Antje Hornscheidt , Berlin (June 4, 2007), Humboldt University Berlin

In this lecture, the main lines of public and academic discussion on the topic of "language and gender" will be traced and commented on with regard to the underlying normal concepts of language, discrimination and gender. Prof. Hornscheidt presents the results of studies and the current state of research with regard to concrete and structured proposals for language change in German-speaking countries^. Based on this, she develops theses on the extent to which language, speakers, reality and discrimination are connected.

Antje Hornscheidt has been Professor of Gender Studies and Scandinavian Linguistics at Humboldt University Berlin since 2006. She was previously Professor of Swedish Language at Södertörn University in Stockholm and visiting professor in Örebro and Graz.

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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Fischer, Graz (May 21, 2007), Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies, University of Graz

In order to make gender research in a specialist field understandable to a wider circle and other disciplines, a typical example is presented here. The speaker is the initiator of the international and interdisciplinary research project "The Bible and Women. An exegetical and cultural-historical encyclopedia." It comprises 20 volumes in four languages and is edited by Ms. Fischer together with Mercedes Navarro; Sevilla, Adriana Valerio; Naples and Jorunn Okland; Oslau. The project is committed to the research approach of "cultural studies".

Irmtraud Fischer was full professor for "Old Testament and Theological Women's Studies" at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Bonn from 1997 to 2004, since 2004 she has been professor for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the Catholic Faculty of Theology at the University of Graz.

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Lecture by Dr. Heidrun Zettelbauer, Graz (April 16, 2007), Institute of Contemporary History, University of Graz

On the one hand, the lecture will examine the theoretical interweaving of gender and nation in the context of current debates in gender studies. On the other hand, the outlined concepts will be shown "at work" and - using the example of the German national-ethnic milieu of the Habsburg monarchy - those offers of identity creation that were explicitly aimed at mobilizing women and girls will be analysed.

Heidrun Zettelbauer holds a Hertha Firnberg position at the Institute of History - Contemporary History at the University of Graz and has been a university lecturer at the University of Graz since 1998.

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Lecture MMag. Dr. Gabriele Michalitsch, Vienna (January 16, 2007), Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor in WS 2006/07

Neoliberalism refers to a comprehensive concept of social order and development based on economic self-regulation by the market.

In this lecture, Gabriele Michalitsch discusses the gender implications of the theoretical background of neoliberalism. She also gives examples of the gender-specific effects of neoliberal practices.

Gabriele Michalitsch studied political science and economics in Vienna; she then completed a post-graduate degree in political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

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Lecture by Dr. Brita Neuhold, Vienna (January 23, 2003), Aigner-Rollett Visiting Professor in WS 2000/01

In her lecture, Brita Neuhold gives an insight into the connections between state, politics, law and gender order. She will also examine in detail how the gender order is embedded in institutions, whether and which political framework conditions apply, or whether it is actually always just about power...

Brita Neuhold taught at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and at the Faculty of Law in Graz.

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