Lecture series "Academia and In/Equality"
Summer term 2024
The course "Academia and In/Equality" addresses inequalities in science with a special focus on astronomy, geosciences and geography. The course is designed as a lecture series and consists of a combination of public lectures and exercise units. The lectures will be held partly in German and partly in English.
The exercise units are only accessible to students who have registered for the course via u:space within the registration period.
Public lectures - summer term 2024
The following lectures are open to the public and will be streamed online; for registration for online participation fill out the following form (link will be provided via e-mail).
- Mo, 18.3.2024, 15:00
Jarita Holbrook (University of Edinburgh, Cultural Astronomy, Identities & Inequalities, Cultural Heritage)
Title: How Astrophysicists Discriminate
Within the Vienna Astro Colloquium
To the abstract - !! New Room: Lecture Hall 3 / Hörsaal 3 (2A211, Ebene 2, UZA II)
Mo, 15.04.2024, 15:00
Mary Anne Holmes, Preisträgerin des neuen "Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion-Awards" der European Geosciences Union, Professor em. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title: Building a Path To Equity
Within the "Picture a Scientist" series of the Doctoral School VISESS
To stream & abstract - Mo, 22.04.2024, 15:00
Brigitte Bischof (LV-Leiterin, graduate physicist, freelance researcher (history of physics and women in science), lecturer in the field of gender studies in STEM, and diversity coordinator at the Faculty of Physics)
Title: Women scientists in Vienna in the first half of the 20th century, biographical sketches and general developments (Vortrag auf Deutsch!)
To the abstract - Mo, 06.05.2024, 15:00
Martina Erlemann (Freie Universität Berlin, Wissenschafts- und Geschlechtersoziologie in der Physik)
Title: Gender & Diversity in the Culture of Physics
To the abstract - DIENSTAG (!), 14.05.2024, 15:00
Sebastián Lehuedé (University of Cambridge, Governance of digital technologies, global social justice, geopolitics of digital rights)
Title: Coloniality and the Struggle for Autonomy in Chilean Astronomy
Within the "Big Picture" series of the Doctoral School VISESS
To the abstract - Mo, 03.06.2024, 15:00
Waltraud Schlögl (Abteilung für Organisationskultur und Gleichstellung, Universität Wien)
Title: STEM at the University of Vienna: Data and Analysis in the Context of Gendered Societal Expectations and Gender based Employment Segregation (Vortrag auf Deutsch!)
To the abstract - Mo, 10.06.2024, 15:00
Elisabeth Aufhauser (Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung der Universität Wien, Gendered Innovation, Feministische Geographie, Gleichstellungsorientierte Regionalentwicklung)
Title: GENDERed INNOVATION inSPACE: How feminist perspectives transformed research in Geography
To the abstract
General information
- Registration for the public online streaming of the lectures is possible for all interested parties - please register for the respective lecture using the registration form (registration starts in March).
- Students please note: Please register via u:space for credit transfer and proof of achievement as part of your studies (please note the registration period!) No registration is required to attend the public lectures (without proof of achievment); for online participation, please register with the respective lecture.
- Concept, organisation and course management: Brigitte Bischof
- An event of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy and the Department of Astrophysics in cooperation with the Gender Research Office, the Doctoral School VISESS and the Culture and Equality unit of the University of Vienna.