Symposium Gender Studies meets Jîneolojî III

Dear Sir or Madam,

We are pleased to invite you to our conference “Gender-Studies meets Jineolojî – Health and a collective good life – feminist, decolonial and Jineolojî-approaches”.

22.09.2023 |11 – 7 pm
Campus Westend der Goethe Universität Frankfurt Main, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt, Raum IG 411

The conference is a cooperation event of Cornelia Goethe Center for Women Studies – Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer and Kurd-Akad.

Please register by 18.09.2023 at info@kurd-akad.com.

Kind regards

Executive board

Since the corona pandemic, it has once again become clear that disease and health are intertwined with structures of social inequality along gender, class, race, disability, age, heteronormativity etc.

As early as the 1970s, resistance arose in many areas of society against a gender-assigning, normative/normalising medicine that understands and actively constructs bourgeois, healthy young men as the norm and women as deficient beings.

Feminist groups are also currently discussing the preconditions of mental health; social movements are also calling for feminist-intersectional approaches in debates on health, prevention and forms of treatment, which relate being ill to gendering, heteronormation, disability, racialisation and impoverishment. The correlations between health and social inequality will also be discussed.

The conference aims to present, analyse and discuss current issues at the intersections of health, gender relations and democratisation from a feminist and Jineolojî perspective.

The symposium is inter- and transdisciplinary. Social and cultural sciences as well as historical, philosophical and activist or practice-related gender-analytical, feminist and Jineolojî perspectives on the topics will be brought into conversation with each other.

Programme

Welcome
Dersim Dağdeviren, physician, Co-Chair of the Network of Kurdish Academics

Prof. Dr. Bettina Kleiner, Executive Director of the Cornelia Goethe Center Goethe-University Frankfurt M. and Dr. Tanja Scheiterbauer, political science/Goethe University Frankfurt M.

Introduction
Dr. Mechthild Exo, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer und Vertretungsprofessorin Dr. Christine Löw, Justus Liebig University Gießen

Panel I
Linking histories and presences: resistances to colonisation

Elif Kaya, member of Jineolojî Center Brussels, Belgium
Health: patriarchal exploitation of women’s history, bodies and knowledge

Cornelia Ullrich, freelance author Frankfurt a.M.
History of feminist women’s health centres

Zuena Orego and Esther Kabati, Women in Exile, Berlin
The Campaign for Health Care for All without Discrimination by Women in Exile

Moderation: Dr. Muriel González Athenas, University of Innsbruck

Panel II
Creating projects of the new and alternatives for intersectional-feminist non-violent health: Emancipatory horizons for embodiments/embodiment, knowledge and a good life for all

Dr. med. Anna O’Neill, physician and member of the Jineolojî Isles Committee, Schottland
Health crises and our paths towards health revolution

Dr. Ayse Dayi, Founder & Director of Orca Dreams: Platform for Mindful Living
From Feminist Clinics to Women’s Healing Circles: Women’s Reproductive & Holistic Health from 70s to today

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Dennert, University of Applied Sciences, Dortmund
Thinking ahead in health promotion

Moderation: Münevver Azizoglu Bazan, University of Bremen

Final discussion with all participants

Moderation: Dr. Mechthild Exo, Dr. Muriel González Athenas, Prof. Dr. Christine Löw

Closing filmscreening: »Audre Lorde – Die Berliner Jahre. 1984-1992« (R: D. Schultz DE 2011, 70 Min.) – A film by Dagmar Schultz