You are cordially invited to join the panel discussion:
"Feminist Struggles for Scholarly Work | Feministische Kämpfe um Wissenschaftliche Arbeit" [English subtitles optional]

Date: Thursday, 20 May 2021, 16:00-18:30

Registration:
The talk is going to take place entirely online via Zoom., öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster Please send an informal mail to anmeldung.oeggf2021(at)jku.at. You will receive an invitation link to the Zoom-meeting.

This event creates a space for exploring together with the audience where we actually want to go in terms of decent work in academia and what indications Gender Studies provide to reach that goal. To this end, the topic of labour struggle will be examined from feminist perspectives and different dimensions in order to learn from Gender Studies for the current struggles for scholarly work in academic institutions.
The speakers will focus (1) on the situation at Austrian universities and familiarize the audience with the structural and cultural conditions within which struggles for equality and for gender research take place in Austria. (2) the question will be explored, which kind of gender research is possible at all in a neoliberal academic system and what conditions would have to be created so that currently marginalized or excluded ideas and representatives within Gender Studies can take place. (3) taking a historical view of feminist labour struggles and their (success) stories shall inspire current struggles for scholarly work and generate impulses for new collective strategies and activism.

Speakers:

1. Angelika Striedinger (Karl-Renner-Institut Wien): Conditions of feminist and gender equality efforts at Austrian universities: frames, resources, institutional continuities.
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2. Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen): Building the anti-racist democratic university: the role of Gender Studies.
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3. Maria Tamboukou (University of East London): Sewing, fighting and writing: women workers’ contribution to the political and cultural formations of modernity.
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If you have any questions concerning the panel discussion, please contact the organizers:

• Bianca Prietl: Institute of Sociology, Department of Sociology with a Focus on Innovation and Digitalization (Johannes Kepler University Linz) and ÖGGF, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster board member | bianca.prietl(at)jku.at 
• Waltraud Ernst: Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies (Johannes Kepler University Linz) | waltraud.ernst(at)jku.at