Anti-Gender und Digitale Autoritarismen

Anti-Gender und Digitale Autoritarismen
Die Vortragsreihe befasst sich im Studienjahr 2025/26 mit geschlechterfeindlicher Politik in Kunst, Kultur und Gesellschaft im digitalen Raum. Sie gibt Einblicke, wie reaktionäre Akteure Konzepte von Gleichheit, Gerechtigkeit und sexuellen/reproduktiven Rechten bedrängen, insbesondere in und durch digitale Medien. Darüber hinaus werden künstlerische Praktiken und gesellschaftliche Allianzen beleuchtet, die diese Mediennarrative stören und Gegennarrative zu den antiliberalen, autoritären, diskriminierenden, rassistischen und extremistischen Ideologien generieren.

Anmeldung
Die Vorträge sind für alle interessierten Personen öffentlich zugänglich. Studierende können die Vortragsreihe als Lehrveranstaltung belegen. Online Anmeldung bis zum 16. März 2026: LINK

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Anti-gender and digital authoritarianism
In the academic year 2025/26, the lecture series looks at anti-gender politics and policies in art, culture and society in the digital realm. The series asks how reactionary actors dismantle concepts of equality, justice, and sexual/reproductive rights, especially in and through digital media. Furthermore, it wants to highlight artistic practices and societal alliances that disrupt these media narratives, and generate counter-narratives to the anti-liberal, authoritarian, discriminatory, racist and extremist ideologies.

Registration
The lectures are publicly accessible to all interested parties. Students can take the lecture series as a course via online registration. Register by March 16, 2026: LINK

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Termine

18. März 2026 

Leo Fischer: Tradwives und Alpha-Males
Rechte Genderdiskurse auf TikTok und Instagram
Traditionelle Geschlechterrollen erleben eine Konjunktur in Sozialen Medien. Während „Tradwives“, traditionelle Ehefrauen, in weißen Kleidern das Glück im Winkel zelebrieren, predigen Männlichkeits-Coaches Härte, Durchsetzungskraft und Verachtung von Schwäche. Beide Szenen haben überwiegend kommerzielle Interessen, die Grenze zu autoritären Weltbildern ist aber fließend. Rechte Social-Media-Strateg*innen haben das erkannt – und nutzen Gender-Diskurse, um ihre eigene Agenda voranzutreiben.
Auditorium


25. März 2026
Ann-Kathrin Rothermel & Valentina Nerino: Twisting Radicality – Limiting Resistance
Assessing anti-gender discourses through the lens of radicality and mainstreaming
Feminism’s call for radical change is increasingly countered by far-right and anti-gender actors who label it as dangerously radical while casting themselves as rebellious defenders of “ordinary people”. Drawing on findings from our projects, this lecture examines how this dual strategy operates across digital communication and beyond, and highlights emerging transfeminist counterstrategies.
Auditorium

15. April 2026, 18 Uhr
Sofia Bempeza: Anti-Gender Narratives Beyond Borders and Dissident Responses in Greece
Reactionary, authoritarian, and anti-gender ideologies and the queer-feminist struggles in Greece
The lecture highlights current anti-gender politics including reactionary discourses, alt-right strategies, and multiple (institutional) actors that seek to undermine societal and legal progress for intersectional feminism and the LGBTQ+ movement. In this vein, it draws attention on the anti-gender arguments and the imports of the white (male) supremacy ideology in the Greek context and strikes out the collective struggles for defending women's and LGBTQ+ rights.
Auditorium

13. Mai 2026, 18 Uhr
Celina Beck und Emma Lakkala: Re/writing Femininity
Tradwives, Visual Aesthetics of Class, and Politics of Remembrance
Turning to two key tradwives, we study how raced, classed and gendered visuals encode reactionary ideals of labor and femininity, woven into neoliberal logics of choice and freedom. Which material conditions enable these, and how might we contest them through scientific/artistic practice in an era marked by right-wing revival and the commodification of the self, liberation and feminist politics?
Auditorium

27. Mai 2026, 18 Uhr
Anna T.: Hilda Handcuffs – Queer slangs and Algospea
An overview of queer slangs, code-mixing, and algospeak as ways minorities empower their communities, communicate more safely, and envision better futures.
This lecture offers an overview of queer slangs and their role in community-forming and belonging. It seeks to showcase one of the ways creativity and playfulness can, (through language as an open-source bottom-up tool) bypass authorities, provide a humorous respite from everyday violence, and even offer glimpses of alternative world-making.
Auditorium

03. Juni 2026, 18 Uhr
Rückblick und Konversatorium
Hörsaal 1


10. Juni 2026, 18 Uhr
Prüfung
Seminarraum 7