Vortragsreihe Kunst – Forschung – Geschlecht

Flight, Migration and Gender Dynamics

Flight, Migration and Gender Dynamics
The lecture series for the academic year 2024/25, titled Flight, Migration, and Gender Dynamics, explores the intricate interplay between gender and sexuality within the context of flight and migration. Marginalized perspectives, such as gender-specific reasons for flight and migration as well as persecution based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, but also power-political backgrounds will be addressed in the lecture series.

Registration
The lectures are publicly accessible to all interested parties. Students can take the lecture series as a course. From February 3, 2025, to March 16, 2025, via online registration: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025S/S05237/.

Summer semester

05.03.2025 - 18 Uhr
Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, EG / Ground floor, 1030 Wien
Nanna Heidenreich: Thinking Migration. An Introduction
Migration has to be understood as a movement that challenges representation

26.03.2025 - 18 Uhr
Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, EG / Ground floor, 1030 Wien
Rose-Anne Gush: Unsettling Aesthetics
Art, Gender, Migration and the Unevenness of Global Capitalist Modernity
The lecture explores the history and concept of ‘global art’ through its indexing of migration and crisis. Focussing on the work of Suzanne Cesaire and others, it examines how art is mediated by and resists the violences at play in geographies of dispossession, and the reproductive abstract logics of gender and ‘race’.

07.05.2025 - 18 Uhr
Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, EG / Ground floor, 1030 Wien
Fazil Moradi: Autobiographies of Political Modernity
Hospitality as Resistance
This lecture reflects on the enduring memories of political violence, mass destruction, forced displacement, and incalculable losses that continue to shape our personal, planetary and political narratives. It explores how as autobiographical examples, these haunting memories are tangled with the freedom to narrate and challenge hegemonic knowledge and meaning. In this context, the focus turns to the epistemological revolution embodied by movements like Women, Life, Freedom in Rojava and Iran, which stand as historic acts of resistance against the systematic destruction of ways of knowing, living and listening or epistemicide in the twenty-first century.

21.05.2025 - 18 Uhr
Hörsaal 1 / Lecture hall 1, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, EG / Ground floor, 1010 Wien
Anna Polze: Listening with an Accent
Politiken der Hörbarbeit in der Dokumentation von Pushbacks
Geschlechtsspezifische Setzungen finden im Bereich von Flucht und Migration nicht nur im Diskurs um „Betroffene“ statt. Der Raum für Fürsprache und das Feld des Aktivismus sind ebenso von gegenderten Rollenzuweisungen durchzogen. Diesem Spannungsfeld geht der Vortrag am Beispiel forensischer Rekonstruktion von Pushbacks an den EU-Außengrenzen nach.

04.06.2025 - 18 Uhr
Hörsaal 1 / Lecture hall 1, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, EG / Ground floor, 1010 Wien
Shefali Banerji: By Diaspora, off the Page
Migration, Gender, Poetry Performance in the UK
This lecture examines anglophone poetry performance of women and gender minorities of Caribbean and South Asian heritage in the UK, delving into the politics of gendered migration while questioning whose stories/poetries get recorded and remembered.

Lecture

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