Workshop "Where do we stand? Feminist research in authoritarian times"
11. Sep
In the workshop, we will reflect on the challenges of feminist research in authoritarian times using the example of specific empirical research projects. We will draw on the history of feminist methodology(ies) and current debates, and dare to reactualise feminist research paradigms.
- Date: Thursday, 11.9.2025
- Time: 10.00 to 17.00
- Location: Leuphana University Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, Zentralgebäude, C40.256, 21335 Lüneburg
- Registration: by 1.9.2025 by e-mail to miriam.gutekunst@leuphana.de
- Format: One week before the event, short working papers of the speakers will be sent to everyone for reading.
We live in a time characterized by polarization, right-wing culture wars and authoritarian forces. Constant pressure to position ourselves and the danger of our own research being instrumentalized, hostility towards science and funding cuts as well as anti-feminist and racist violence characterize the everyday lives of many colleagues in gender studies and other research areas that are critical of power. What effects do these threatening developments have on our research practice and our self-conceptions? What forces of resistance are forming? What does it mean to do ‘feminist’ research today? What is the relationship between science and politics? And who is actually ‘we’?
In the workshop, we will reflect on the challenges of feminist research in authoritarian times using the example of specific empirical research projects. We will draw on the history of feminist methodology(ies) and current debates, and dare to reactualise feminist research paradigms.
In cooperation with AK Care & Reproduction of the Center for Critical Studies (CCS), the Gender and Diversity Research Network at Leuphana University and the Commission Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology (DGEKW).