Call for participation: international workshop “Intersectionality as Key Concept for Research on Diversity”

The international workshop addresses current debates relating to the epistemological status of intersectionality as well as its potentials and limitations for individual disciplines and for interdisciplinary research. Throughout the day, particular attention is paid to the potentials and hurdles of the concept of intersectionality as an interdisciplinary analytical tool. Questions to be discussed from both the perspectives of academic and political practice are:

Does the concept represent a theory, a heuristic or a methodology? Who 'owns' the concept? Who can work with it and how? What insights can be gained by addressing religious, cultural and linguistic diversity with the concept of intersectionality? Can the concept also be applied beyond the Euro-American horizon of experience and what adaptations might be necessary?

If you wish to attend the workshop, please register via the registration form on the website of Cornelia Goethe Center. Registration ends on 1 October 2024.

Call for presentations: research workshop “How to use Intersectionality in Empirical Research”

The Cornelia Goethe Center and GRADE Center Gender invite Early Career Researchers to present their ongoing research in the workshop “How to use Intersectionality in Empirical Research” with Kathy Davis, Ann Phoenix and Helma Lutz. The research workshop focuses on discussing the potentials and difficulties of using the concept of intersectionality in research based on concrete experiences from ongoing research projects. The aim is to discuss how intersectionality as a concept is or could be applied (better) in specific research projects in a constructive and collaborative atmosphere.

The research workshop is divided into three parts:
- First, the internationally renowned intersectionality researchers Kathy Davis, Ann Phoenix and Helma Lutz will talk about how they use intersectionality as concept in their current research projects.
- Second, participants have the opportunity to present and discuss their research projects with the three renowned scholars and the other participants. The focus of the presentation and discussion is on how the use of the concept of intersectionality could be further developed in the respective projects.
- Third, we will collect the key insights from the presentations and discuss the transferability to other disciplines and research projects.
Up to three Early Career Researcher can present their current research projects.

If you wish to present your research project, please send an abstract of your research project and the key question(s) you would like to discuss in the workshop until 9 September 2024 to Anmeldung_CGCentrum@soz.uni-frankfurt.de. We can pay an expense allowance of EUR 250 to those presenting their ongoing research in the research workshop. If you are employed by Goethe-University, different modalities might apply.

There are reserved spaces for members of GRADE Center Gender and ECRs of the Profile Area ’Universality & Diversity’.