From the study to the lecture theatre
"Only when the institutional memory of the university takes up the material and immaterial legacy of its female researchers, inscribes it again and again in the practices of remembrance and keeps it alive through critical discourse, can the young female academics teaching today actually be shown role models who are visible and remain visible."
Anne G. Kosfeld, Central Equal Opportunities Officer
From the study to the lecture theatre
From the study to the lecture theatre
Oldenburg women scientists through the ages
The historical-biographical travelling exhibition "From the Scholar's Room to the Lecture Hall. Oldenburg women scientists through the ages" is a tribute to the pioneers of academic careers: Personal objects, documents and texts are used to visualise unusual and impressive career paths that had to be fought for and often shaped without female role models.
It portrays the pioneers of girls' and women's education in Oldenburg: Helene Lange and Bertha Ramsauer, as well as female academics from the former teacher training college: Helene Ramsauer, Gertrud Siemann, Guntrud Heise and the university: Ilse Mayer-Kulenkampff, Barbara Fülgraff-Schmidtchen, Ingrid Köller as well as the visiting professor and famous Jaspers student Jeanne Hersch and the Swede Rosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm, who campaigned for the university to be named after her father, the Nobel Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky.
Stations of the travelling exhibition at the University of Oldenburg:
- 30.10.-11.11.2009: foyer of the lecture theatre centre, Haarentor campus
- 01 May - 31 August 2010: Level 1 of the University Library, Uhlhornsweg
- 24/09/2010: Long Night of Science on the Wechloy campus
- 27.09.2010 - 04.03.2011: Ring level of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Wechloy campus
- 04.03.2011 - 08.03.2011: Library hall, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day