Overview from 2001
Overview from 2001
Open-topic workshop of the Women's and Gender Studies Section of the Society for Music Research, 11-13 September 2020
Registration until 10 September, 6 pm, on the homepage
Conference on 27 - 29 March: "Politics of Reproduction - Politics of Reproduction"
In March 2017, the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Einrichtungen für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in Niedersachsen (LAGEN) is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference in the field of gender studies in the tenth year of its existence. Under the heading "Politics of Reproduction", the conference will address central issues of women's and gender studies, namely the production and reproduction of gender and social gender relations. Following a broad understanding of reproduction, the six panels "Biographies", "Care", "People and Machines", "Spaces", "Worldviews" and "Knowledge and Institutions" will look at various aspects of this re_production of social gender relations in their contested and contradictory nature - each from an interdisciplinary perspective.
27 to 29 March 2017, Pavillon Cultural Centre, Lister Meile 4, Hanover
The registration form and further information can be found on the LAGEN homepage.
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Conference on 25 and 26 January 2017: "Backwardness and danger. Gender policies in the migration society"
Not only since the Cologne discourse event has there been an emotionally charged debate in the public, media, political and academic spheres about the danger and threat posed by the supposed backwardness and dangerousness of those who are considered Others in the migration society. The nature and bodies of these others are focussed on in these discourses, creating a basis for the increasing legitimisation of surveillance and punishment of these others.
Against this background, the Centre for Migration, Eduction and Cultural Studies (CMC), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG) and the Migration - Gender - Politics (MGP) working group at the University of Oldenburg are jointly organising a conference on "Backwardness and Danger. Gender Politics in the Migration Society".
The conference will take place on 25 and 26 January 2017 at the PFL in Oldenburg and will focus on European and "Western" practices of gender political assertion, visualisation and highlighting of the danger and backwardness of others, as well as the consequences of these practices in different spaces.
We will explore this thematic context with lectures by the following renowned and internationally renowned academics: Prof. Dr Manuela Bojadžijev, Prof. Dr María do Mar Castro Varela, Prof. Dr Sabine Hess, Prof. Dr Juliane Karakayali, Prof. Dr Meltem Kulaçatan, Dr Lydia Potts, Dr Paul Scheibelhofer, Prof. Dr Helen Schwenken, Prof. Dr Marc Thielen and Prof. Dr Vassilis Tsianos.
The interdisciplinary conference is aimed at academics, but also at educational policy makers, educational professionals, students and an interested public who (want to) deal with the complex of topics relating to the discursive production of the Other in relation to gender policies in the migration society.
The aim of the conference is to contribute to a theoretically and empirically sound analysis and thematisation of these discourses and processes, to reflect on them and to discuss alternatives.
Please register at
The conference fee is 30 euros; participation is free for students of the University of Oldenburg.
Trans* film and lecture series
In co-operation with the ZFG, the FemRef and the AStA of the University of Oldenburg, the Gender Studies student body is organising a film and lecture series on the topic of trans* at Cine k.
The aim is to make films accessible to students and interested parties in order to give them the opportunity to engage with the topic of trans*. For this purpose, 4 films will be shown, the latter accompanied by a short lecture by Lou Kordts.
When selecting the films, particular attention was paid to the fact that trans* people were involved in the making or shooting process and that there is a sensitivity with regard to the representation of trans* realities of life.
Further information can be found at Cine k.
International conference "Queering Migration Studies"
QUEERING MIGRATION STUDIES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2nd Conference of the Network Gender and Migration@Lower Saxony
FRIDAY, 28 - SATURDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2016 CARL VON OSSIETZKY UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG
The conference focusses on the structuring of migration processes and regimes through heteronormative ideas of identity, sexuality and family. It examines the construction of the migrating subject as heterosexual and clearly gendered as male or female, as well as the specific conditions of flight and migration for people who do not conform to these norms (LGBTIQ). Linked to this are specific processes of national (re-)definitions and the production of social stratifications on the basis of inclusion and exclusion processes regarding gender and sexuality, between legality and illegality. Under what conditions are migrants either understood as a threat to national integrity or placed at the service of Western constructions of liberalism? What does this mean for the self-image of migrants?
At the interface of queer studies, gender studies and migration research, the conference offers an interdisciplinary forum for exchange between the members of the 'Gender and Migration@Niedersachsen' network as well as with national and international experts, activists and practitioners.
Further information and registration at: Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG): www.uni-oldenburg.de/zfg/ and LAGEN: www.nds-lagen.de/forschung/migration-und-gender/
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Invitation QUEERING MIGRATION STUDIES - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2nd Conference of the Research Network Gender and Migration @ Lower Saxony
FRIDAY 28 - SATURDAY 29/10/2016 CARL VON OSSIETZKY UNIVERSITY OLDENBURG
The conference explores how migration processes are structured by heteronormative concepts of identity, sexuality and family. How are migrating subjects constructed as heterosexual and defined as definitively either male or female? And what are the specific conditions of flight and migration for persons who do not conform to these normative constructions?
These questions are linked to processes of national definition and social stratification on the basis of inclusion/exclusion via sex and gender, legality and illegality. What are the conditions that lead to the understanding of migrants as being either a threat to national integrity or as their being instrumentalised in order to confirm the self-perception of the West as liberal? And what does this mean for migrants' concepts of the self?
At the intersection of Queer Studies, Gender Studies and Migration Studies, the conferences offers an interdisciplinary forum for exchange between members of the network "Gender and Migration@Niedersachsen" and to national and international experts in the field as well as to activists and practitioners.
International Conference: Migrations of Knowledge. Potentials and Limits of Knowledge Production and Critique in Europe and Africa, 3-6 December 2014
The conference addresses current conditions and modes of academic knowledge production in order to revisit the ethical, political and social visions of research and higher education articulated in the second half of the 20th century at European and African universities. Researchers will scrutinize the academic discourses on the geopolitics of knowledge, gender and ethnicity, critical dialogues between the social, cultural and engineering sciences as well as the differences of and interactions between epistemologies in the Global North and the Global South.
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Workshop trans* at the university
Invitation to a one-day workshop trans* at the university for all trans* people at universities in Lower Saxony
Friday 21 November from 12 to 6 pm, University of Oldenburg, Room A01 0-005
The lifestyles and experiences of trans* people are still barely known and imaginable for many.
This also repeatedly leads to situations at the university in which the needs of trans
trans* people are not recognised, in which trans* people feel uncomfortable or are treated in a discriminatory manner.
Some of the problems are organisational and could perhaps be changed pragmatically without much effort, but some need to be addressed in greater depth.
This one-day workshop at the University of Oldenburg will focus on these and other issues. It should be a space to exchange experiences as trans* people at the university. A space to think about, express and develop wishes and utopias for a trans*-friendly university.
What do you want from your university? From your personal perspective, as a trans* person with many different facets.
What would a well-designed university look like for you?
What should it include as a matter of course?
Have you noticed any obstacles at your university that make it difficult for trans* people?
The results of the workshop will be passed on to the University of Oldenburg in order to make concrete changes at the university. Other universities in Lower Saxony will also be informed about the change measures developed.
The workshop will be led by René_ Hornstein, a politically active trans* person from the University of Osnabrück.
Members of other universities in Lower Saxony who would like to take part in the workshop are cordially invited.
If travel costs and possibly accommodation costs are incurred, we ask you to first clarify to what extent these can be applied for at your own university or the ASTA. If this is not possible, please contact us.
If you would like to take part, please send an email by 14 November to
There is no participation fee for the workshop.
It is funded by the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg.
Conference of the State Working Group of Institutions for Women's and Gender Studies in Lower Saxony (LAGEN)
Current perspectives and developments in gender research in Lower Saxony
Conference of the State Working Group of Institutions for Women's and Gender Studies in Lower Saxony (LAGEN)
19 October 2013, University of Oldenburg (ZFG)
Contact: zfg@uol.de
Queer as ...
Questioning Representations of "African" Sexualities
Queer as ...
Questioning Representations of "African" Sexualities
Series of Events in October and November 2013
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
22 October - 27 November 2013
Oldenburg. "Queer as ... Questioning Representations of 'African' Sexualities" is the motto of a diverse programme of workshops, films and lectures in English being offered by researchers from the University of Oldenburg in co-operation with Cine K in October and November. The organisers are lecturers from Gender Studies, the European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) degree programme, the Institute of English and American Studies and the Institute of Art and Visual Culture.
Flyer/Poster
International and interdisciplinary symposium on Richard Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde"
Wagner - Gender - Myths,
organised by the Institute of Music at the Carl von Ossietzy University of Oldenburg in co-operation with the Oldenburg State Theatre, 15-17 November 2013, Exerzierhalle Oldenburg.
Further information on the programme and registration can be found in the attached materials, which are also intended for distribution and display.
"Gender competence"
Exhibition and panel discussion 04 July 2008, 14.00 - 18.00, Room A01-0-008 
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2nd Annual Conference of the German Academic Association for Gender Studies Migrations, Migrations & Transformations from a Gender Studies Perspective
3-4 February 2012, Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg (ZFG)
Call for Papers
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Abstracts
1st Gender Research Day
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The Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies has set itself the task of promoting research in the field of gender and queer studies. Our aim is to offer researchers a forum for exchange and networking. Researchers from the fields of cultural studies, art and media, music, education, psychology, archaeology, economics and law presented their projects in the field of gender and queer studies.
25.11.2011, CvO University of Oldenburg Programme
1st Interdisciplinary Lower Saxony Doctoral Candidates' Day Gender Studies
12 November 2010, 11.00 - 18.00, University of Music and Drama, Hanover
Workshop for teachers - The new history competition organised by the Federal President
The workshop is a cooperative event of the Oldenburg State Library, the Oldenburg City Archive, the Institute of History and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg and the Lower Saxony State Commissioner for the Federal President's History Competition.
23.08.2010, 15.00 - 18.00, Oldenburg State Library, Pferdemarkt 15, 26121 Oldenburg
"Representations of gender in the age of modern wars"
A workshop organised by the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg and the Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art as part of the exhibition "My War. Participation in Times of War." in co-operation with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bremen, supported by the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg. 19.06.2010, 13.00 - 20.00, Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art and University of Oldenburg (A5 0-056)
Flyer
"Does criminal law have a gender?"
Organisers:
Dr. Christine Künzel and Prof. Dr. Gaby Temme, Section Gender Perspectives of the GiwK in co-operation with the GiwK (Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre wissenschaftiche Kriminologie e. V.)
Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg
Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bremen
Date: 12 and 13 June 2009
Location: University of Oldenburg, Library Hall
Symposium for young researchers "Evidence and ambivalence of the men's suit"
Symposium of the research project "Power, Modernity and Masculinity" Date: 7 May 2009 (2 p.m.) to 9 May 2009 (3 p.m.), Location: University of Oldenburg
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Symposium Anecdote, Biography, Canon. On historiography in the fine arts at the University of Bern in collaboration with the Swiss Literary Archives
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The interdisciplinary and international symposium focussed on the role of the individual personality of artists, musicians and writers for the reappraisal of the history of art, music and literature on the one hand, and for the popular communication of art, music and literature on the other. At the centre were questions of recent critical biographical research on biographical histories, on changing anthropological, gender-relevant, ideological, didactic, ethical foundations and functions of biographical writing.
19-21 March 2009, Swiss National Library, Bern, Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchatel
Gendering Disability - Disability and Gender in Theory and Practice
Organisers: Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg,
Dr. Jutta Jacob, Dr. Eske Wollrad University of Bremen, AG Disability Studies in Germany,
Swantje Köbsell 22. and 23. 01. 2009, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory
A symposium for Silke Wenk
10 January 2009, 10.00 - 19.00, University of Oldenburg, A 11, Alte Aula
Inter-University Gender Days 2008 "Gender in Teaching and Research"
Event organised by the cooperation network "Gender Studies in the North-West Region "
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From 25 to 27 November 2008, the Gender Days took place for the third time at the University of Oldenburg and for the fourth time at the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wielhelmshaven (FH OOW).
Today, gender knowledge is an important part of the professional skills of university graduates. The aim of the Gender Days is therefore to make the diversity of gender issues in teaching, research and practice visible. A variety of events are offered within the regular lectures and seminars.
The university libraries in Emden and Wilhelmshaven hosted the exhibitions "Technology in a Corset" and "Women and Technology - Opportunities for the Future".
25.11-27.11.2008, CvO University of Oldenburg
Symposium Rock-breaker, bridge-builder, trailblazer. The composer Ethel Smyth at the Detmold University of Music
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To mark the 150th anniversary of Ethel Smyth's birth, a four-day symposium and festival with several concerts took place in Detmold. Scholars from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Austria and Germany analysed Ethel Smyth's life and work and placed it in the context of her time. The focus was not only on important insights into the work of Ethel Smyth, but above all on new findings about a time of revolutionary changes in gender history and the role of music within these developments. The contributions to the symposium have now been published: Rock-breaker, bridge-builder, trailblazer. The composer Ethel Smyth. Rock Blaster, Bridge Builder, Road Paver: The Composer Ethel Smyth, ed. by Cornelia Bartsch, Rebecca Grothjahn and Melanie Unseld. Munich: Allitera Verlag 2010.
6-9 September 2008, Detmold University of Music
3rd Oldenburg Symposium on Gender Mainstreaming and Schools - Impulses for the Theory and Practice of Gender Relations
Inter-University Gender Days 2007 "Gender in Teaching and Research"
Event organised by the cooperation network "Gender Studies in the North-West Region " A variety of events (symposium, exhibitions, courses, lectures) were offered at the study locations of the University of Applied Sciences FH OOW and at the University of Oldenburg. 27 to 29 November 2007 Programme
Conference Migration, Islam and Masculinities: Transforming Emigration and Immigration Societies
April 12 - 14, 2007, University of Oldenburg
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2nd Oldenburg Symposium on Ethnic Diversities, Gender and School . Gender relations in theory and school practice
Tuesday 6 March 2007, 9.30 - 17.00, University of Oldenburg, Library Hall Uhlhornsweg <link zfg/docs/genderundschule2.pdf _blank> Programme</link>
Symposium on gender studies and the natural and technical sciences: uncanny encounters?
An event of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oldenburg (ZFG)/Prof. Dr. Smilla Ebeling and the Centre for Feminist Studies/Women's Studies - Gender Studies (ZFS)/Prof. Dr. Ines Weller
sponsored by the VW Foundation Thursday 22 February 2007 at the University of Bremen, Administration Building (VWG), 2nd floor, Room 2060
Friday 23 February 2007 at the University of Oldenburg Room A5-0-055 <link zfg/docs/symposium22.-23.2.07.pdf> Programme</link>
Studying with children: A challenge for universities and a location factor . Data - Questions - Perspectives
An event of the research project "Studying with children" Friday 2 February 2007, 10 am - 6 pm, University of Oldenburg, Uhlhornsweg Library <link zfg/docs/studierenmitkind.pdf> Programme</link> Materials for the lectures and workshops: <link zfg/docs/meiergraewe.pdf _blank> Opening lecture</link>
<link zfg/docs/schmalzpegel.pdf _blank> University of Oldenburg (students)</link>
<link zfg/docs/muellerangelika.pdf _blank> University of Oldenburg (employees)</link>
<link zfg/docs/reinhardt.pdf _blank> Hochschule Bremen I</link>
<link zfg/docs/annamueller.pdf _blank> Hochschule Bremen II
</link> <link zfg/docs/flyer%20hawk%20kinder.pdf _blank> Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences</link>
<link zfg/docs/nina%20abedini.pdf _blank> University of Duisburg-Essen (students)</link>
<link zfg/docs/claudia%20kippschull.pdf _blank> University of Duisburg-Essen (employees)</link>
<link zfg/docs/jennykurz.pdf _blank> University of Berlin</link>
<link zfg/docs/karolineiber.pdf _blank> University of Vienna</link>
Inter-university Gender Days 2006 "Gender in teaching and research"
Event organised by the cooperation network "Gender Studies in the North-West Region" More information:
In 2006, the Gender Days were held for the first time across universities at the FH OOW and the University of Oldenburg. Workshops on "Gender in the university" and "Gender in the natural sciences" were held at the University of Oldenburg. At the FH OOW, gender topics were introduced into regular courses with tandem teaching and a new form of teaching was trialled.
Programme
International Scientific Congress Re-Visioning the Future: Perspectives in Gender Studies Re-Visioning Future: Perspectives in Gender Studies
1st Oldenburg Symposium Gender and School. Gender relations in theory and school practice
Tuesday, 7 March 2006, 9.30 - 17.30, CvO University of Oldenburg, BIS-Saal <link zfg/docs/flyergenderschule.pdf> Programme</link>
Disability and gender symposium - perspectives in theory and practice
Monday, 12 December 2005, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., University of Oldenburg, BIS-Saal <link zfg/docs/Flyer.pdf> Programme</link>
Expert discussion "Forden statt Fördern" - Is there a threat of a paradigm shift in child and youth welfare under the impact of Hartz IV?
Event of the Cooperation Network Gender Research Northwest Region and the Gender Institute Hamburg-Steinkimmen-Oldenburg Thursday, 29 June 2005, 4 - 7 p.m., Senate Meeting Room of the University of Oldenburg
<link zfg/docs/Fachgespraech.pdf> Programme</link>
Inter-University Gender Days 2005 "Gender in Teaching"
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From 31 May to 2 June 2005, Gender Days were held for the first time at the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven.
The aim of the Gender Days was to encourage as many lecturers as possible to develop gender-specific subject and cross-sectional issues in teaching. At the same time, the aim was to raise awareness of gender-relevant dimensions.
31 May to 02 June 2005
Symposium Gender Studies in the Natural and Technical Sciences. Strategies for institutionalisation.
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Following the institutionalisation of women's and gender studies at German-speaking universities, primarily in the cultural and social sciences, gender studies in the natural and technical sciences is now also becoming more visible. There are now a number of activities and projects in research and teaching in this field at universities in German-speaking countries. However, these are hardly networked, so that an inventory, networking and strategy development appears to be urgently required.
Following an initial stocktaking and exchange of experiences at the conference Gender Studies and Natural Sciences - An Inventory of Initiatives and Activities at Universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the University of Hamburg in June 2004, this symposium will focus on the development of strategies for the institutionalisation of gender studies in the natural and technical sciences. For example, it is to be discussed how the current restructuring of the study system into Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes can be used. The existing approaches to strategy development are to be bundled thematically and discussed and differentiated in working groups with a view to their implementation. In this sense, the approaches from the Hamburg conference in June 2004 can be taken up and further developed at the symposium. This also applies to networking, which is to be stabilised by the symposium.
18 - 20 February 2005, Senatssitzungssaal University of Oldenburg <link zfg/docs/symposiumnaturtechnik.pdf> Programme</link>
Gender perspective
Kick-off event of the cooperation network "Gender Studies in the Northwest Region" Friday, 19 November 2004, 3 - 5 pm, BIS-Saal
<link zfg/docs/Perspektive_Flyer.pdf> Programme</link>
Conference Boys' Work. Dialogue between practice and science
Thursday, 18 November 2004, 9.30 am - 5.30 pm, BIS Hall <link zfg/docs/fLYER.pdf> Programme</link>
Study day at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial "Women in the concentration camp"
Friday, 12 November 2004, 08.00 - 19.00 Flyer
Conference Von "Trunkenbolden" und anderen Männern im Rausch. Addiction and masculinities in theory and practice
Organisers: Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG)
CvO Universität Oldenburg/Dr. Jutta Jacob
Bremer Institut für Drogenforschung, Universität Bremen/ PD Dr. Heino Stöver Mon 20 September 2004, 1 - 7 pm, Tue 21.9.2004, 9 am - 4 pm, BIS Saal <link zfg/docs/FLYERneu.pdf _blank> Programme</link>
Conference report
Conference Gender Studies in German-speaking Countries - Further Development in Times of University Restructuring
Organisers: Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's's and Gender Studies (ZFG) at the University of Oldenburg, Centre for Feminist Studies, University of Bremen
Fri.-Sat. 2 and 3 July 2004, University of Bremen
Workshop Doctoral Funding and Gender. Results of an empirical study and implications for practice
Final workshop of the research project "Doctoral funding and gender" 19 January 2004, 10.15 a.m. - 5 p.m., BIS-Saal <link zfg/docs/Promofoe.pdf _blank> Programme</link> <link zfg/docs/Text_Promofoe_Workshop.pdf _blank> Documentation of the workshop</link>
Workshop of the project Gender Constructions and Violence
Workshop in English with guests from Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Portugal, Great Britain, USA and Germany. 11-13 December 2003 <link zfg/docs/postertextgesamt.pdf> Further information</link> <link zfg/docs/Presse_WS03.pdf _blank> Conference report</link>
Symposium Day for Young Researchers. Pathways to a doctorate in women's and gender studies
25 November 2003, 14.30 -18 h, BIS-Saal <link zfg/docs/nachwuchstag.pdf> Pr</link>ogramm
MannSuchtMännlichkeit symposium: Theoretical and practical approach to the connection between masculinities, drug use and addiction development
Workshop Empirical approaches to dealing with heteronormativity
10.01.2003 - 11.01.2003 Programme <link zfg/docs/heteron.pdf _blank> Conference report</link>
Workshop Negotiating Power, Contesting Violence, and Assessing Perspectives for Transcultural Approaches: Gender and Nation State in Muslim Societies
12.12.2002 - 15.12.2002 Programme
Programme <link zfg/docs/Koferenzbericht%20Negotiating%20power.pdf> Conference report</link>
Study day at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial on the subject of women in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
31.10.2002 Programme Programme
Symposium From other circumstances to the mechanisation of reproduction Reproductive medicine and genetic engineering from a women's perspective
05 June 2002 14.00 - 18.00 Programme
International Conference "Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies"
28.06.2001 - 01.07.2001 Abstracts Programme Conference reports, German Conference reports, English Info