Academic Talks

Conference Papers

How do gender transitions unfold? A new materialist ethnography. Temporalities in the life course
International Conference “Relational Perspectives on the Life Course“, Goethe-University Frankfurt | 11/05/2023

“If you are a woman through and through, you’re not supposed to be happy about being seen as a man”
Or: What emotions and feelings do in gender transitions
Nordic Trans Studies Network Conference “From Transgender Rage to Trans Joy. Trans Studies through Affective Lens”, Tampere University, Finland | 24/02/2023

“Why would I change my body if I'm not suffering?”
The Role of Distress and Desire in Gender Transitions
G22 National Conference for Gender Studies (Sweden), Karlstad University, Sweden | 27/10/2022

Doing Gender Transitions: Eine neomaterialistische Perspektive auf Geschlechter in Bewegung
EN: A new materialist perspective on gender in transition, Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Bielefeld University | 19/09/2022

Doing Gender Transitions from a new materialist perspective
European Feminist Research Conference, University Milano-Bicocca | 16/06/2022

Becoming what you ought to have always been:
Nature/culture boundary-making in gender transitions
Mid-term Conference des ESA RN 33 (Women’s and Gender Studies), University Milano-Bicocca | 13/06/2022

Übergangsforschung als Grenzziehungspraktiken anhand einer Studie zu Gendertransitionen
EN: Transition research as boundary-drawing practices based on a study on gender transitions, 28. DGfE Kongress ENT | GRENZ | UNGEN, 13-16 März 2022, University Bremen [online] | 15/03/2022

„Und dann konnte ich mich zum ersten Mal selbst so sehen.“ – Zur Rolle von Un_sichtbarkeiten in Gendertransitionen
EN: “And then I could see myself like this for the first time.” – On the role of invisibilities in gender transitions, 8. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung „Ambivalente Un_Sichtbarkeiten“ [online] | 20/09/2021

Gender Transitions as a Sociotechnical Issue: A New Materialist Approach
Conference Track Science and Technology. 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona [online] | 01/09/2021

Crossing Boundaries: Gender Transitions as more-than-human-assemblages
Int. Conference “Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders”, CHAM Centre for the Humanities Lissabon [online] | 21/07/2021

Towards fugitive subjectivities. Trans as a non-linear and deterritorialising movement
Conference „Creative Bodies – Creative Minds“, University of Graz [online] | 21/05/2021

Talks by Invitation | Guest Lectures

(Trans)Geschlechtlichkeit als Empfindung – eine neomaterialistische Perspektive auf Geschlechtsidentität
EN: Trans as a feeling – a new materialist perspective on gender identity, Workshop “Kritische Sexualforschung” at the Institute for Social Research Frankfurt/Main | 16/02/2024

Researching the Role of Emotions in Gender Transitions
Higher Seminar, Centre for Gender Studie, Karlstad University, Sweden | 02/11/2022

Researching Gender and Gender Transitions with a New Materialist Perspective
Research Seminar, Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender, University of Brighton, UK | 22/09/2022

Gendertransitionen: Geschlechtliche Transformationsprozesse als materiell-diskursive Assemblage
EN: Gender transitions: Gender/sex transformation processes as a material-discursive assemblage, 7. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG), University of Graz | 26/05/2022

Gender Transitions in Transformation: How do gender transitions emerge?
A situated study with trans(itioning) subjects in Germany
Symposium "Gender in Transformation Processes: Central and Southeast European Perspectives", University of Graz, Austria, University of Zadar and the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Split, Croatia | online | 01/10/2021

Ein Recht auf mein Geschlecht: Über und gegen die Pathologisierung von Trans*-Personen
EN: A right to my gender: Challenging the pathologisation of trans* people, University of Freiburg | 07/2017

Organised Panels

Zum Status von Materialität und materiellen Kulturen. Posthumane und neomaterialistische Perspektiven
EN: On the status of materiality and material cultures. Posthuman and neomaterialist perspectives, 7. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KWG), University of Graz | 26-28/05/2022

Doing Transitions: Herstellung und Verhandlun von Grenzen und Zugehörigkeiten an Übergängen
EN: Doing Transitions: Producing and Negotiating Boundaries and Belongings in Transitions, 28. DGfE Kongress ENT | GRENZ | UNGEN, 13-16 März 2022, University of Bremen | 15/03/2022

Poster and Video Presentations

How Do Gender Transitions Unfold? (Digital Poster ︎ Video Recording)
Moving Trans History Forward Conference, University of Victoria, Canada | 04/2023

Doing Gender Transitions in neomaterialistischer Perspektivierung
Staying with the trouble. 25 Jahre Forschungsschwerpunkt Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in Hessen | 12/2021

Doing Gender Transitions
International conference „Doing Transitions in the Life Course”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 02/2020

Queere Identitätskritik und positive Differenz
International conference “Categories in Flux”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 10/2019

Other Talks | Media Engagement

04/2024 | Lecture
Love & Politics
tt30 spring conference think tank 30: the young think tank of the Club of Rome, Brussels (online)

29/04/23 | Interview
Unisex-Toiletten: Klos für alle - eigentlich ist es ganz einfach
Deutschlandfunk Nova

12/2023 | Podcast Guest
Academic research as and on trans
Podcast trans sein by Gen Eickers and Sophie Rauscher
Wer darf überhaupt zu "trans sein" forschen? Wer wird dabei wie ernst genommen? Und, Achtung: Es geht auch darum, ob es überhaupt cis Personen gibt.

04/2022 | Podcast Guest
Temporalities of Transition Desires
Queer Lit Podcast by Lena Mattheis

12/2020 | Podcast Guest
Neoliberal Promises, Individualism, Normalcy and Transformation
Podcast Rote Brause, Neues Deutschland

10/2020 | Panel Discussion
LGBT+ in Organizations | Innoversity Festival

05/2019 | Lecture
Self-Organization in Journalism
Magenta School of Heroes Deutsche Telekom

04/2016 | Lecture
Rethinking Print and Online Journalism: Posters in Public Spaces
Unit Festival Berlin

02/2016 | Panel Discussion
The Future of Journalism: Zukunftsstimmen – Welche Geschichten schreibt Journalismus 2030?
Konferenzwoche Leuphana University Lüneburg

09/2014 | Panel Discussion
Panel guest with Hans Werner Kilz
Bildung und Medien – talent! Junge Medienmacher

06/2013 | Interview
Unkonventionell und frisch – Innovative Ideen junger Medienmacher
Deutschlandfunk

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