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 | 27/10/2022Eine neomaterialistische Perspektive auf Geschlechter in Bewegung
EN: A new materialist perspective on gender in transition, Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Bielefeld University | 19/09/2022Doing Gender Transitions from a New Materialist Perspective
European Feminist Research Conference, University Milano-Bicocca | 16/06/2022Becoming 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 | 13/06/2022Übergangsforschung 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] | 20/09/2021Gender Transitions as a Sociotechnical Issue
Conference Track Science and Technology. 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona [online] | 01/09/2021Gender 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] | 21/07/2021Towards fugitive subjectivities. Trans as a non-linear and deterritorialising movement
Conference „Creative Bodies – Creative Minds“, University of Graz [online] | 21/05/2021TALKS 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 | 16/02/2024Researching the Role of Emotions in Gender Transitions
Higher Seminar, Centre for Gender Studie, Karlstad University, Sweden | 02/11/2022Researching 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 | 26/05/2022Gender 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 | 01/10/2021Ein 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 | 26-28/05/2022Doing 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 | 15/03/2022POSTER & 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 | 12/2021Doing Gender Transitions
International conference „Doing Transitions in the Life Course”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 02/2020Queere Identitätskritik und positive Differenz
International conference “Categories in Flux”, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | 10/2019other 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 Nova12/2023 | 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 Deutschland10/2020 | Panel Discussion
LGBT+ in Organizations | Innoversity Festival
05/2019 | Lecture
Self-Organization in Journalism
Magenta School of Heroes Deutsche Telekom04/2016 | 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 Medienmacher06/2013 | Interview