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Lecture Series
The Lecture Series of the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futurology is an annual interdisciplinary lecture series held each summer semester. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines explore selected topics in gender research, from theoretical concepts to pressing sociopolitical questions. Through talks, discussions, and workshops, the series fosters lively exchange between students, researchers, and the wider public.
Many past lectures are available as podcasts.
Ringvorlesung 2026: Anti/Feminism & Nationalism
When: Thursdays, 18:00–20:00
Where: Lecture Hall 107 (+1/0070), Ketzerbach 63, 35037 Marburg, and online via BigBlueButton
Registration: To receive the access code for the online room, please send an email with your full name and institutional affiliation to rvl2026-anmeldung@uni-marburg.de.
The organisers reserve the right to refuse entry or remove from the event any persons affiliated with far-right parties or organisations, or who have previously made anti-feminist, racist, nationalist, antisemitic, or otherwise dehumanising statements.
Programme
| Date | Talk |
| 16.04. | Introduction: Anti/Feminism & Nationalism – State of research & open questions — Team GenDem |
| 23.04. | Between Anti-Feminism and Nationalism: Gender, Bodies, and God in German-Speaking Evangelicalism — Jessica Albrecht, Madlen Geidel |
| 30.04. | Is Homonationalism (still) a useful category of analysis? — Adriano Habed |
| Break of two weeks | |
| 21.05. | Counter-Mapping as Method: Locating and Relating the (Semi-) Peripheral Self — Manuela Boatcă |
| 28.05. | Sex, Nation, Other: Queering the Boundaries of Nationalist Politics — Koen Slootmaeckers |
| Break of one week | |
| 11.06. | Reproducing Life, Reproducing the Nation: Social Reproduction, Abortion and Nationalism in Poland — Magdalena Grabowska |
| 18.06. | Anti-Gender Politics as Authoritarian Governance: The Case of Türkiye — Tutku Ayhan |
| 25.06. | GENDER LECTURE: The Entanglements of Feminism and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa — Nadje Al-Ali |
| 02.07. | The Historicity of Feminist Concepts: Women's Politics in Galicia around 1900 — Dietlind Hüchtker |
| 09.07. | Yeke Yeke Yeke! Women's Mobilisations and New Notions of Nationalism in Kurdistan — Isabel Käser |
| 16.07. | Towards a gendered theory of nationalism & anti/feminism? — Team GenDem |
Past Lecture Series
- 2025: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Gender Research
- 2024: "Politics of Gender" as a Social and Educational Challenge
- 2023: De- and Reconstructing LGBTIQ* Politics in a Postcolonial World