gender studies

We would like to get into conversation with you! Together with experts from the faculties and central strategic projects as well as students, we will discuss opportunities and challenges in the field of internationalization and critically self-reflect the issue of racism, which we are also confronted with at FAU. ...

Professor Rentetzi gives a talk on the Nuclear Bunker as an Archive of the Future: On the Brink of Time as part of the Anthropology Lecture Series at the Chair of Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie mit Fokus Afrika, Universität Bayreuth. 30.4.2024 at 18:00-20:00.

We are excited about the invitation of STGS chair member Ralf Mitschke as a panellist for the screening of "Feminism WTF" followed by a discussion on April 11. The documentary “Feminism WTF” explores the question of how power and dependency relationships in society can be broken down. On April 11, 18:15 at the Experimentiertheater in Erlangen (admission free), presented by the Office for Gender and Diversity at FAU. Event language: German, English subtitles requested.

13. Dezember 2023, 12:00 – 13:00 Ort: Hörsaal H, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen und per Zoom   Maria Rentetzi as Speaker in a Lecture at the Department of Physics: Women in physics: you cannot be what you cannot see (followed by round table at 1:30 p.m.; see below) Abstract: tba ...

Were women written out of the history of science? Or was science history written from a masculine perspective, concerning  topics and sites explored? Did history of science ignore those roles that were predominantly feminine? This seminar offers an opportunity to address these questions by putting t...

'Certain things, such as ships, have long been gendered but these were thought of as exceptions to the general rule of neutrality: a thing is an "it," not a "she" or a "he." This eye-opening book shows how widespread the gendering of things actually is — and not just the things of everyday life but ...

By today’s standards, it is almost shocking to see how radium was handled in the US in the early 20th century. Its inward journey from the exclusionary space of the scientific laboratory to the intimacy of the bedroom highlights first and foremost how corporate priorities and the emerging nuclea...

A special workshop with two international experts on the issue of “Women and Science in Africa“ will be organized by Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), coordinated by Prof. Dr. Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Dr. Sofia Costa D’Aguiar (EELISA Executive Director). In this workshop, Dr....

International Summer School on Gender and Science   Coordinated by Maria Rentetzi (FAU) and Sofia Costa D'Aguiar (EELISA). According to the 2021 edition of the European Commission’s She Figures report––the main source of pan-European, comparable statistics on the state of gender equa...