ZiF Research Group
Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights
October 2020 – July 2021
Convenors: Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld, GER), Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER), Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER)
Events
16 - 18 March 2020 | ZiF Research Group Workshop Kick-off meeting Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld, GER), Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER), Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER) |
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7 - 9 October 2020 | Opening Conference Mapping Women's and Gender Rights as a Globally Contested Arena Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld, GER), Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER), Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER) |
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15 October 2020 | Internal Workshop Contested Religions – Religions as Contestations of Rights |
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22 October 2020 | Internal Workshop Contestations of Equality and the Reconfiguration of Inequalities in the Gendered Division of Labour: Continuities and Changes at Local and Global Level |
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29 October 2020 | Internal Workshop Citizenship as Analytical Lens and a Mobilizing Tool for Contestations: Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Rights |
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8 December 2020 | Public Event at the ZiF - Lecture Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights in Morocco: A Reading from the 'Center' Fatima Sadiqi (Morocco) |
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14 - 15 January 2021 | Internal Workshop Whose Rights, and Which Rights? Cultural Resources, Historical Resources and Notions of Equality Principles in Diverse Contexts |
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28 January 2021 | Public Event at the ZiF - Lecture Gendering Social Citizenship: The Embodied Politics of 'Insistent Presence' Christopher-Rasheem McMillan (Iowa City, USA) |
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11 February 2021 | Internal Workshop Religious Notions of Equality and Justice versus Secular Rights Cultures: Focus on Feminist Religious Approaches |
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4 March 2021 | Internal Workshop How are Equality Principles Translated into Practice? Gender Equality in the Field of Labour |
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23 March 2021 | Book Presentation Pre-Conference Book Presentation "Right-Wing Populism and Gender. European Perspectives and Beyond", Transcript Verlag 2020 Gabriele Dietze (Berlin, GER) und Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER), Birgit Sauer (Wien, AUT) |
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24 - 26 March 2021 | Mid-term Conference Framing Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld, GER), Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER), Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER) |
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20 May 2021 | Online Roundtable Attacks on 'Gender': Experiences from Diverse Contexts Andrea Petö (Vienna, AUT), Brenda Kombo (Bloemfontein, RSA), Birgit Sauer (Vienna, AUT), Shirin Zubair (PAK), Livia de Souza Lima (Bielefeld, GER) |
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20 - 21 May 2021 | Internal Workshop Worldwide Attacks on 'Gender' and Building Solidarities |
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27 May 2021 | Internal Workshop Religion and Feminism - Interreligious Perspectives on Contestations from Within |
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24 June 2021 | Book Presentation "Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities. Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective", Routledge 2021 Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER) and Angelika Poferl (Dortmund, GER) |
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28 June 2021 | Internal Workshop Struggles for Redistribution, Recognition and Representation in the Fields of the Division of Labour, Reproductive Rights and Citizenship |
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22 - 23 July 2021 | Satellite Workshop Radical Democracy and the Representation of Gender Rights Karsten Schubert (Freiburg, GER) und Lívia de Souza Lima (Bielefeld, GER) |
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24 November 2021 | Forschungs-Kolloquium: Transkulturelle Geschlechterforschung Gender-Differentiated Productive Subjectivities: Reinscribing Gender in Place through Social Reproduction in Space Ania Plomien (London, GBR), Gregory Schwartz (Bristol, GBR) |
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15 December 2021 | Forschungs-Kolloquium: Transkulturelle Geschlechterforschung Shari‘a und Gesetzgebung in Palästina, 2012-2018 Irene Schneider (Göttingen, GER) |
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19 January 2022 | Forschungs-Kolloquium: Transkulturelle Geschlechterforschung Law as a Gender Gatekeeper: The Regulations of Trans Rights in Brazil and Germany Ligia Fabris (Rio de Janeiro, BRA) |
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8 March 2022, 17:00 | Film Screening at the Lichtwerk (with the online presence of the director) “GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA” Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska Macedonia, 2019 |
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9 March 2022, 18:00 | Book Presentation Global Contestations of Gender Rights, Transcript Verlag 2022 Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld, GER), Julia Roth (Bielefeld, GER), Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld, GER) (eds.) |
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10 - 12 March 2022 | Closing Conference Conflicts over Women’s and Gender Rights: Ambivalences and Contradictions Alexandra Scheele (Bielefeld), Julia Roth (Bielefeld), Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld) |
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27 April 2022, 19:00 | Public Event at the ZiF - Reading and Discussion Die Revolution hat ein weibliches Gesicht - Der Fall Belarus Olga Shparaga (Minsk, BLR), (Berlin, GER) |
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