2005
“Gender affairs 2005” - 3rd Women’s and Gender Studies
workshop / Gender Studies in German-speaking areas
Hamburg, 08-09 July 2005
Organizers:
Gemeinsame Kommission für Frauenstudien, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gender and Queer Studies (Joint Committee of Women’s Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Gender and Queer Studies) and Planungsbüro Gender (Gender Planning Office)
2004
2nd Gender Studies in German-speaking Areas Workshop (oder: 2nd Workshop
of Gender Studies in German speaking areas) – Development in Times of
University Restructuring Processes
Bremen, 02-03 July 2004
Organizers:
Zentrum für feministische Studien der Universität Bremen (ZFS; Centre
for feminist studies at the University of Bremen), Zentrum für interdisziplinäre
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der Universität Oldenburg (ZFG; Centre
for interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of
Oldenburg)
2003
1st Gender Studies in German-speaking Areas Workshop (oder: 1st Workshop
of Gender Studies in German speaking areas) – Experiences and Challenges
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 04-05 July 2003
Organizers:
Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin (ZtG)
The folloging interdisciplinary Gender Studies programmes were established
in Germany during the 1990s: In 1997 in Oldenburg and Berlin (Humboldt-University),
followed by Freiburg, Göttingen and Hamburg.
Six years after the first programme was established was the right time to
exchange experiences and to discuss goals and strategies in order to strengthen
the institutionalisation of Women’s and Gender Studies in higher education
in the German-speaking areas. In 2003 the Centre for transdisciplinary Gender
Studies was founded and, for this reason, representatives of all Gender Studies
institutions were invited who either had established a Gender Studies programme
or were planning to do so. Topics discussed were: conceptional issues (canon,
concept of gender), challenges of interdisciplinary and multimedia teaching,
educational goals and key qualifications as well as problems of institutionalisation.
Programm
Workshop results were published:
Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien an der Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin (ed.), 2004,
Geschlechterstudien im deutschsprachigen Raum: Studiengänge, Erfahrungen,
Herausforderungen,
Berlin: Trafo Verlag Weist, 182 S., ISBN 3-89626-385-4