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, Chief Gender Equality 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 Study to the Lecture Theatre. Female Scholars in Oldenburg Through the Ages’ is a tribute to the pioneers of academic careers: through personal artefacts, documents and texts, it highlights the extraordinary and impressive career paths that had to be fought for and often forged without female role models.
The exhibition profiles the pioneers of girls’ and women’s education in Oldenburg: Helene Lange and Bertha Ramsauer, as well as female academics from the former College of Education: Helene Ramsauer, Gertrud Siemann, Guntrud Heise; and from the University: Ilse Mayer-Kulenkampff, Barbara Fülgraff-Schmidtchen, Ingrid Köller, as well as the visiting professor and renowned student of Jaspers, Jeanne Hersch, and the Swedish scholar Rosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm, who campaigned for the university to be named after her father, the Nobel laureate Carl von Ossietzky.
Stops of the travelling exhibition at the University of Oldenburg:
- 30 October–11 November 2009: Foyer of the Lecture Theatre Centre, Haarentor Campus
- 1 May–31 August 2010: Level 1 of the University Library, Uhlhornsweg
- 24 September 2010: Long Night of Science on the Wechloy Campus
- 27 September 2010 – 4 March 2011: Ring-shaped gallery of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Wechloy campus
- 4 March 2011 – 8 March 2011: Library Hall, to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day