archive / documentation

Here you can find an overview of former events and activities by the Institute for Queer Theory - documented in form of a schedule supplemented by links to detailed documentations of certain projects.

summer 2008

panel-discussion, including inputs

Feminism – government's mission? economic factor? insurrection?

foto: Jörg Lipskoch / I shot

Who are the actors in feminist politics today? Did feminism turn into a field of official politics, defined by president's election campaigns, federal administration, global economic strategising, and academic career management? Does it make any sense at all to combine the terms feminism and insurrection today? And secondly: How does feminist practice deal with the fact that gender relations are no longer understood as structured exclusively by the category of gender, but by various processes of social differentiation like education, post/colonialism, economic globalization, racism, heteronormativity? The idea of a simple binary of male versus female is widely challenged. How is this insight taken up by feminisms? Is queer feminism a promising answer to these questions?

Friday Aug 08, 2008, 17.00 - 20.30
Radialsystem V, Holzmarktstr. 33, Berlin-Ostbahnhof

with

María do Mar Castro Varela (Berlin)
Marina Grzinic (Ljubliana, Slovenia)
Rosa Reitsamer (Vienna, Austria)
Tiina Rosenberg (Lund, Sweden)
Chris Straayer (New York, U.S.)
Tim Stüttgen aka Timi Mei Monigatti (Berlin)

> Abstracts "Feminism - government's mission? economic factor? insurrection?"

moderated by
Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory, Berlin)

The event is part of the festival
Femmes 'R' Us. Feminismus in Pop – Musik – Kunst – Film heute
curated by Ina Wudtke and Christine Lang
www.femmes-breaks.com

foto: Jörg Lipskoch / I shot

winter 2007/2008

october 2007

multimedia-performance

Mourning Derrida

by
Janice Perry

On the occasion of the death of the philosopher Jacques Derrida in 2004 U.S.-American comedian and performance artist Janice Perry performed Derrida, alone in her apartment in Frankfurt for three days, imitating his movements and gestures, in an attempt to embody some of his theories of Deconstruction.
 Documentation of this performance lead to an edited video montage of the documentary film "Derrida," shown simultaneously with an original video and supplemented by an artist talk/live performance.
 With this work-in-progress, Perry gives an introductory overview of Derrida's philosophy for beginners, and reminds those who know him of the layered complexity of his work. Mourning Derrida both mourns the death of Derrida and deconstructs deconstruction itself

Thursday Oct 25, 2007, 20.00, at ICI/Kulturlabor, Christinenstr. 18/19. In English.

Organized in co-operation with Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin)

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december 2007

workshop

Perform: Economy, Sexuality, Gender

Organized by Stefanie v. Schnurbein (HU Berlin, Nordeuropa Institut) und
Renate Lorenz / Volker Woltersdorff (FU Berlin, SFB Kulturen des Performativen),
Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory). In German.

07./08.12.2007, im ICI/Kulturlabor, Christinenstr. 18/19.

summer 2007

series of events

Sexual Politics, Human Rights, and Representation

in cooperation with Susanne Krasman (Institute for Criminology, University of Hamburg)
Chris Regn (galerie broll / bildwechsel) and Stefanie Bentrup, Wiebke Frieß, Do. Gerbig, Claudia Jachnik, Janna Joke Janssen, Janina Johannsen, Melani Klaric´, Karin Kröll.

may 2007

talk (in english)
Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secualar Time
Judith Butler (UC Berkeley, California)
Friday 18-05-2007, 6.30 pm University of Hamburg
Main Building, Lecture Hall A, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
Hamburg Dammtor

Certain secular conceptions of history and of what is meant by a “progressive” position within contemporary politics rely on a conception of freedom that is understood to emerge through time, and which is temporally progressive in its structure. I want to suggest that this link between freedom and temporal progress is sometimes invoked precisely as a rationale and instrument for certain practices of coercion. This presents those of us who have conventionally understood ourselves as advocating a progressive sexual politics in a rather serious bind. I would ask us to consider the ways in which sexual politics has become bound up with state coercion and state-induced forms of abjection, with immigration politics, with anti-islamic racism, and even with torture.

fotos: christiane stephan

>Judith Butler interviewed by Nina Schulz

workshop (in german)
Queer Sexual Politics and the Human Rights Discourse
19-05-2007, 10.30am - 8pm

exhibition and workshop
Behauptungen ausstellen :: Haltungen einnehmen :: Strike a pose!
16-05 to 30-05-2007, Kirchenallee 25, Hamburg-City
curated by Chris Regn / Galerie Helga Broll (www.galerie-broll.com)

with art work by Marianne Wex and Stefanie Bentrup, Monika Dillier, Ines Doujak, durbahn, Karin Erni, Wiebke Frieß, Janna Joke Janssen, Janina Johannsen, KAP (www.lodypop.ch), Melani Klaric´, Karin Kröll, Muda Mathis, Jenni Ramme, Chris Regn, Christina Schäfer, Fender Schrade, Yam, Sus Zwick, and from the „Collection Helga Broll“

workshop
doing queer art / doing art queerly
27 to 29-04-2007

Sexual Politics, Human Rights, and Representation

is funded by: Frauenfoerderung University of Hamburg, Gemeinsame Kommission Frauenstudien/Frauenforschung, and private donors.

and took place in co-operation with: Umdenken. Politisches Bildungswerk,
Heinrich-Boell-Foundation Hamburg e.V. (www.umdenken-boell.de)

winter 2006/2007

project (ongoing)

Queer and the Human Rights Discourse
- a sceptical rapprochement focussing transgender and intersex politics

in cooperation with AG 1-0-1 intersex (Berlin), AG Queer Studies (University of Hamburg) and Geschlechtermultiplikator_innen (Bremen)

january 2007

talk / dialogue (in german)
Bis hierhin und nicht weiter? Intersex- und Transgenderbewegung im Dialog
Jannik Franzen, InsAKrominga, moderator: Ulrike Klöppel
Wednesday 10-01-2007, 7pm
Von-Melle-Park 6, Lecture Hall F, University of Hamburg
lecture series "Jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen"

december 2006

talk (in english)
'The Subject' and the Politics of Philosophy in Feminist Theory
Tuija Pulkkinen (philosopher and professor for Women's Studies
University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Friday 01-12-2006, 7pm
Von-Melle-Park 6, Lecture Hall F, University of Hamburg
lecture series "Jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen"

The theme of "the subject" has kept its central place in feminist theory for a while, and it shows no signs of disappearing. In multiple meanings, contexts and contents the term "subject" has appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in the exchange of texts. This paper explores these multiple meanings through an analysis of the politics of philosophy at play in Adriana Cavarero’s recent book, For More than One Voice, which is contrasted to the politics played by Judith Butler in her work on the subject. I suggest that tricky politics are performed by these two contemporary thinkers. I would observe that, paradoxically, Butler, who incessantly talks of "the subject", plays the politics of erasing the notion of "the human subject" in philosophy, whereas Cavarero, who fervently denounces the notion, is taking part in the politics of the return of the Subject to philosophy.

winter semester 2006/2007

Seminar, Gender Studies, University of Hamburg
Transgender und Intersexualität. Politische Allianzen und Kontroversen
Ulrike Klöppel (Psychology, Medical History, Charité Berlin)
Ulrike Hennecke (Cultural Studies)

Seminar, Gender Studies, University of Hamburg
Queere Theorie, aktivistische Bewegungen und der Menschenrechtsdiskurs
Antke Engel (Philosophy, Institute for Queer Theory)

november 2006

talk / vortrag (in german)
Visualisierungsstrategien:
Potenziale und Konfliktfelder von Intersex und Transgender
Ulrike Hennecke and Ulrike Klöppel
Wednesday 01-11-2006, 7pm
Von-Melle-Park 6, Lecture Hall F, University of Hamburg
lecture series "Jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen"

visual representation

workshop
How sexy is queer cinema?
Skadi Loist / Mel Pritchard / Antke Engel
Friday 20-10-06., 15.00-17.30 pm
Filmhaus Hamburg, Friedensallee 7
in cooperation with Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg (lsf)

2006

opening

april 2006

lecture
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism
Lisa Duggan (NYU, New York)
Wednesday 12-04-2006, 7pm University of Hamburg
Main Building, Lecture Hall B, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1

reception & party
Angel's Delight: troubling queer
Thursday 13-04-2006, Prinzenbar (St. Pauli)

> Doku "opening"