Category: Program Meeting

Our speakers this month are Dr. Paula-Irene Villa and Dr. Imke Schmincke, who will speak about Gender and Right Wing populism.   Dr. Paula-Irene Villais full professor and chair for Sociology and Gender Studies at LMU München. Her research focuses on the analysis of biopolitics, Cultural Studies, Care & Gender, and Science/Academia and Gender. She's published widely on gender/social theory, the sociology of embodiment, beautification and normalization, feminist body politics, and on German and European "anti-genderism" as part of new nationalist populism.

Dr. Imke Schmincke is Academic Councilor for Gender Studies at the Institute for Sociology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Her work focuses on feminist and critical social theory, research on the women's movement, body sociology, sociology of inequality, gender sociology, and urban and spatial research.

Drs. Villa and Schmincke will speak about why and how gender has become a “thing” in right-wing populism in Germany.

For more information about AAUPW or attending this month's event, please contact our club president at: info@aaupw.de

Our guest speakers for March will be the two co-founders of the Munich Feminist Project, a feminist non-profit theatre collective. Join us and hear what they have to say,  as well as what fellow members have been up to and catch up on club news. See you there!

For more information about AAUPW, please contact our club president at: info@aaupw.de

Please join us this week when we will have the pleasure of meeting Taylor Riley, who in the final phases of filing her dissertation at University of Bayreuth, will speak about LGBT and various issues from a global perspective. Drawing on some examples from her research in South Africa and on queer life more broadly, she will talk about the different ways we can think about gender and sexuality in and outside of the Western world. Finally, she will present some thoughts on the question of what comes after the struggle for equal rights like marriage equality, leaving some time for questions and discussion.

Ms. Riley received her masters in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics and her Bachelors in International Relations (minor: Gender Studies) from Richmond University. She is currently busy finishing up work on her Doctorate in Social Anthropology.