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After establishing the new complementary studies programme on intersectionality and diversity competences in the winter semester of 2019, Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt now offers the next round of lectures on the topic. Starting in November 2020, the lectures will take place every Thursday until the middle of February 2020.

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The intersection between gender, racial, class, etc. inequality is a central concern not only of gender studies, but of life in general at a time of globalization, mass migration and in increasingly heterogeneous and diverse societies. This is why the African Multiple Cluster of Excellence’s Principal Investigator Prof. Susan Arndt established a complementary studies programme named “Intersektionalitätsstudien und Diversity-Kompetenzen“ at the University of Bayreuth. Organized in cooperation with GeQuInDI (network of Gender, Queer, Intersectionality and Diversity Studies at UBT) and with the support of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, the unique programme was successfully launched in the winter semester 2019/20. In addition to the introductory course, a new more in-depth lecture series will be added to the curriculum in the current semester (winter semester 2020/21).

Lecture series on the vast topic of intersectionality

Every Thursday at 6 p.m. students will be given lectures by experts of the field of intersectionality. The topics range from a historic overview of intersectionality to ageism, feminism among others. Due to current pandemic restrictions the lectures will be held via Zoom. For more details check: www.intersectionality.uni-bayreuth.de  (sg)

The lectures and their topics:  

• 12.11.20: 'Silencing the Abuser: Marriage and Death in African Women's Writing' by Prof. Dr. Dianne Shober (Biola University)
• 19.11.20: 'South Africa’s Literary History – Living Footprints' by Prof. Dr. Dianne Shober (Biola University)
• 26.11.20: 'Introduction to Postcolonial Studies' by Prof. Dr. Santiago Fernández (University of Alcalá)
• 03.12.20: 'Intersections of Class, Gender and Race in the Postcolonial Bildungsroman' by Prof. Dr. Santiago Fernández (University of Alcalá)
• 10.12.20: 'Prolongation or Queer Recesses of the Heart' by Dr. S. N. Nyeck (Emory School of Law)
• 17.12.20: 'Intersectional Readings of Twinned Bodies and Spaces in Contemporary Anglophone Canadian Literature' by Dr. Christine Vogt-William (Bayreuth University)
• 07.01.21: Intersectionality in Diaspora' by Shirin Assa (Bayreuth University)
• 14.01.21: 'Exclusions, Unite! Why It Is Crucial to Think Inclusion with an Intersectional Lens' by Dr. Katharina Fink (Bayreuth University)
• 21.01.21: 'Medieval Europe and the Challenge of (religious) Diversity' by Prof. Dr. Kristin Skottki (Bayreuth University)
• 28.01.21: 'Are you disabled? - Understanding 'Disability' and Ableism' by Dr. Mario Faust-Scalisi (Berlin, Germany)
• 04.02.21: 'Childism: A Minor Dimension of Major Significance' by Dr. Tanu Biswas (Bayreuth University)
• 18.02.21: 'Who Needs Feminism? Who Needs Intersectionality?' by Prof. Dr. Maisha Auma (University for Applied Sciences, Magdeburg- Stendal)