Film and Lecture Series

Institute of Cultural Studies at the

University of Oldenburg

November 2009 – January 2010

In the Year of Science, the Institute for Cultural Studies, in collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG), is placing a special focus on female academics.

Over the course of several evenings, feature, experimental and silent films will be screened, introduced and discussed, exploring the fascinating interplay between gender and science. At various venues across the city (the university, a cinema, a museum), films about various (historical) female researchers – such as the mathematician and pioneering programmer Ada Countess Lovelace (also known as Ada King), as well as films about female astronauts (in the silent film *Woman in the Moon*) or literary scholars (in the feature film *Heller Wahn*) – accompanied by a lecture on science and cultural policy.

Concept and organisation: Prof. Dr Barbara Paul and Kea Wienand, M.A., Institute for Cultural Studies, School III, University of Oldenburg,

in collaboration with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG) at the University of Oldenburg, the Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art and the Casablanca cinema.

Contact: wissenschaft.film@uol.de

Tel.: 0441/798-2304

The event’s film flyer in PDF format:

Flyer

You can find the event flyer in PDF format here:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Programme

5 November 2009, 6.00 pm

Opening remarks for the series of events: Anne Kosfeld (Chief Gender Equality Officer at the University of Oldenburg)

Public Research Colloquium: *Heller Wahn*, West Germany/France, 1982,

Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta

Venue: University of Oldenburg, Haarentor campus, Institute of Cultural Studies, Room A8 0-001

Introduction: Prof. Dr Barbara Paul (University of Oldenburg)

19 November 2009, 7.00 pm

Film screening: Conceiving Ada. Passionate Calculation, USA/France/West Germany, 1997, Concept and direction: Lynn Hershman Leeson

Venue: Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, Oldenburg

Introduction: Sabine Himmelsbach (Artistic Director, Edith-Ruß-Haus)

3 December 2009, 4.00 pm

Film screening: Woman in the Moon, Germany, 1929, Director: Fritz Lang, Screenplay: Thea von Harbou

with live piano accompaniment: Ursula Schmidt, Oldenburg

Venue: Casablanca Cinema, Johannisstraße 17, Oldenburg

Introduction: Prof. Dr Karin Bruns (University of Art and Design Linz)

Admission: €9, students: €4

21 January 2010, 6.00 pm

Event: Ten to the Power of Three. Ten Years of ZFG and a New School

Lecture: Prof. Dr Christina von Braun (Humboldt University of Berlin):

Women’s Studies – Female Academics – Gender Studies

Followed by drinks

University of Oldenburg, Haarentor campus, BIS Hall