09.04.2026 Lecture Series, Summer Semester 2026 "Anti/Feminism & Nationalism"

Hybrid Lecture Series for the Summer Semester 2026 at the University of Marburg

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During the summer semester of 2026, the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futures Research (ZGS), in collaboration with the LOEWE Research Focus GenDem, will host a lecture series on the topic “Mobilizing Gendered Nations: Anti/Feminism and Nationalism, 1900–2026” at the University of Marburg.

The lecture series is an interdisciplinary series of lectures held annually during the summer semester. Experts from various disciplines explore selected topics in gender studies – ranging from theoretical concepts to practical sociopolitical issues.

When? Thursdays, 6–8 pm 

Where? Lecture Hall 107 (+1/0070), Ketzerbach 63, 35037 Marburg as well as online: Meeting Link (BigBlueButton) 

Registration: To receive the access code for the virtual space, you must register for the event. To do so, please send an email to , including your first and last name and your institutional affiliation.

The organizers reserve the right to exercise their right to admit or exclude persons and to deny admission to or remove from the event any individuals who belong to far-right parties or organizations, are associated with the far-right scene, or have previously made anti-feminist, racist, nationalist, anti-Semitic, or other inhuman remarks.

Event Dates: 

16.04.2026 Introduction: Anti/Feminism & Nationalism  Team GenDem
23.04.2026 Between Anti-Feminism and Nationalism: Gender, Bodies, and God in
German-Speaking Evangelicalism
Jessica Albrecht / Madlen Geidel, Nürnberg
30.04.2026 Is Homonationalism (still) a useful category of analysis? Adriano Habed, Utrecht
21.05.2026 Counter-Mapping as Method: Locating and Relating the (Semi-) Peripheral Self Manuela Boatcă, Freiburg
28.05.2026 Sex, Nation, Other: Queering the Boundaries of Nationalist Politics Koen Slootmaeckers, London
11.06.2026 Reproducing Life, Reproducing the Nation: Social Reproduction Abortion and Nationalism in Poland Magdalena Grabowska, Warschau
18.06.2026 Anti-Gender Politics as Authoritarian Governance: The Case of Türkiye Tutku Ayhan, Barcelona
25.06.2026 GENDER LECTURE: The Entanglements of Feminism and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa Nadje Al Ali, Providence
02.07.2026 The Historicity of Feminist Concepts: Women’s Politics in Galicia around 1900 Dietlind Hüchtker, Wien
09.07.2026 Yeke Yeke Yeke! Women’s Mobilisations and New Notions of Nationalism in Kurdistan Isabel Käser, Bern
16.07.2026 Option for students to take an exam for the lecture series  Seminar Leads

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