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

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 transitions8. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung „Ambivalente Un_Sichtbarkeiten“ [online] | 20/09/2021

Gender Transitions as a Sociotechnical Issue

Conference Track Science and Technology. 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona [online] | 01/09/2021

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

Geschlechtliche Transformationsprozesse als materiell-diskursive Assemblages

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
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 Verhandlung 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 & 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

Deuts chlandfunk 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

Louka Maju Goetzke