Cornelia Goethe Center in Frankfurt

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The Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies and Research into Gender Relations ( CGC ) was founded in 1997 in Frankfurt am Main . The CGC is an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research and study center of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 2000 it was named after Cornelia Goethe , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's sister . Researchers from different departments at Goethe University are organized in the CGC.

history

In 1997, four female professors at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main - the sociologist Ute Gerhard , the educationalist Brita Rang , the film scholar Heide Schlüpmann and the Americanist Susanne Opfermann - founded the interdisciplinary " Center for Women's Studies and Research into Gender Relations" . The aim of the center should be to treat gender issues as an overarching topic in the sciences. They were soon joined by professors from other disciplines, including the lawyer Ute Sacksofsky and the educationalist Barbara Friebertshäuser .

Three years after it was founded, the facility was officially renamed the Cornelia Goethe Centrum on the occasion of the 250th birthday of Cornelia Goethe (married locksmiths) . The then managing director Ute Gerhard justified this with the fact that the previous name had turned out to be "a bit awkward". The choice fell on Cornelia Goethe as the namesake, because she stood in the shadow of her brother Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The renaming would reflect the scientific anchoring of the center in the university named after it. The history of this sibling relationship shows a "social problem" that is not just a historical one. Rather, the analysis and processing of this problem would exemplarily describe the task and necessity of women's and gender research.

Under the motto 20 years of Frankfurt Gender Studies , the CGC celebrated its 20th anniversary with an exhibition on December 7, 2017 - Cornelia Goethe's birthday - which was opened with greetings from numerous international guests. The anniversary was also used in various media as an occasion for a discussion of gender studies in Frankfurt.

Ute Gerhard was the founding director of the center. The sociologist Helma Lutz has been the managing director of the center since 2015 .

Course offer

The CGC organizes various courses in the field of gender studies. Since 2015, a degree in Gender Studies has been offered as a Bachelor minor in cooperation with the Faculty of Social Sciences. In addition, an interdisciplinary certificate program is offered for master’s students at Goethe University, which shows special knowledge in the field of gender studies.

In addition, the CGC organizes a public series of lectures every semester , the Cornelia Goethe Colloquien . These are designed as a public discussion forum for interdisciplinary women's and gender studies. Feminisms of the global south , transgender studies, right-wing populism in the EU , masculinity , flight and intersectionality are just some of the topics that have been discussed in the colloquia to date.

Angela Davis visiting professor

Since the 2013/14 winter semester, the CGC has been organizing the Angela Davis visiting professorship for international gender and diversity studies every two years . The choice of name made it clear that the visiting professorship should not only stand for a primarily gender-oriented academic feminism, but should also consider categories such as class, race and sexuality equally. The eponymous sociologist and civil rights activist Angela Davis was the first professor to visit Goethe University in December 2013. Other holders of the visiting professorship were Chandra Mohanty in 2015 and Amina Mama in 2018. Ann Phoenix's guest stay in 2020 was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

GRADE Center Gender

In June 2017 the GRADE Center Gender, an organization within GRADE, the graduate school of the Goethe University Frankfurt, opened. The GRADE Center Gender serves to qualify and network young academics who conduct research in the field of gender studies. The center offers workshops , fireside chats and lectures. The content of the GRADE Center Gender is planned and implemented by the Cornelia Goethe Center.

Cornelia Goethe Prize

Since 2002, the Cornelia Goethe Center's sponsorship group has awarded the Cornelia Goethe Prize every two years for an outstanding dissertation or habilitation thesis , which is endowed with 2,000 euros. The prize is intended to honor outstanding scientific achievements that deal with the symbolic construction of masculinity and femininity or offer epistemological reflections and food for thought for women and gender studies. The award ceremony takes place on December 7th, Cornelia Goethe's birthday.

Prize winners:

  • 2002 Bärbel Tischleder: Body Trouble: Disembodiment, Whiteness and American Contemporary Cinema (dissertation)
  • 2003 Marianne Schmidbaur: From the 'Lazarus Cross' to 'Pflege aktuell' - Discourses of professionalisation in German nursing 1903–2000 (dissertation)
  • 2004 Kerima Kostka: In the interests of the child? Parental separation and custody models in Great Britain, the USA and Germany (dissertation)
  • 2005 Linda Maria Koldau : Women in the German musical culture of the early modern period. A manual (habilitation thesis)
  • 2006 Heiko Motschenbacher: Women and Men like different things? Doing gender as a strategy in advertising language (dissertation)
  • 2007 Birgit Spengler: Vision, Gender, and Power in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, 1860 - 1900 (dissertation)
  • 2008 Sarah Elsuni: Gender-based violence and human rights. A gender-theoretical investigation of the concepts of gender, equality and discrimination in the human rights system of the United Nations (dissertation)
  • 2009 Uta Schirmer: Shaping gender differently. Drag-King practices, gender relationships and realities (dissertation)
  • 2010 Tanja Scheiterbauer: The Islamist Women's Movement in Turkey from the Perspective of Movement Research (Dissertation)
  • 2011 Irini Siouti: From guest worker child to transmigrant. A biographical analysis of transmigration processes in the subsequent generation of Greek migrant workers (dissertation)
  • 2012 Astrid Lembke: Demonic Alliances. Configurations of the narrative of disturbed marriage marriage in Jewish narratives of the Middle Ages and the early modern period (doctoral thesis)
  • 2014 Julia König: Childhood - Sexuality - Childlike sexuality (dissertation)
  • 2016 Archana Krishnamurthy: Shame Makes Gender - Body Dialogues in South India (Dissertation)
  • 2018 Cara Röhner: Inequality and the Constitution - Proposal for a relational legal analysis (dissertation)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  15. ↑ Pictures of the anniversary event
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  19. ↑ Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz - Vita. In: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Bachelor of Arts Gender Studies (minor). In: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  21. ↑ BA minor subject Gender Studies. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
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  23. ↑ Certificate program - Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
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  28. ↑ Goethe University - "Masculinity of the World: Perspectives from the Global South". Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  29. ^ Copyright Verlag Dashöfer GmbH-all rights reserved: Lecture series of the Cornelia Goethe Center: “Flight and gender relations” | knowledge of equality. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Corona pandemic raises questions of inequality - News from the Goethe University Frankfurt. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
  31. ^ Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar: Angela Davis Visiting Professorship for Gender and Diversity Studies at the Cornelia Goethe Center of the University of Frankfurt am Main . In: Feminist Studies . tape 32 , no. 1 , May 1, 2014, ISSN  2365-9920 , p. 149-150 , doi : 10.1515 / fs-2014-0118 ( degruyter.com ).
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  36. ↑ New Germany editorial team: Mohanty takes on Angela Davis visiting professorship (new Germany). Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  37. ^ Angela Davis visiting professor for international gender and diversity studies. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
  38. ↑ ++ Postponed ++ Angela Davis Visiting Professorship. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
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  40. ^ Franziska Schubert: Run on gender research. (PDF) In: Frankfurter Rundschau. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt, June 23, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Current events. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
  42. ↑ GRADE Center Gender. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
  43. ↑ Sponsorship Association. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  44. ↑ Cornelia Goethe Prize for Gender Studies . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 19, 2002, p. 61 .
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  46. ↑ Eva-Maria Magel: Women had many tones. A Frankfurt study shows the female contribution to the music history of the early modern period . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 13, 2005, p. 48 .
  47. ↑ Brief messages . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 19, 2006, p. 46 .
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  49. ↑ 2016 Cornelia Goethe Prize awarded to Archana Krishnamurthy. In: Cornelia Goethe Centrum. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
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