iRTG Distinguished Lecture Series
Next Event
13. February 2025 with Prof’in Sigrid Schmitz (Humboldt University Berlin)
Title: NeuroGenderings: Approaches for a Sex/Gender informed Brain Research
Thursday, 13. February 2025
16:00–18:00
IMGWF Lecture Hall (Hörsaal)
Königstr. 42, 23552 Lübeck
The event venue is not wheelchair accessible.
Abstract:
The brain is increasingly conceived as an open biological system developing in mutual interchange with experiences (brain plasticity). Such embodying of the social contests the nature-nurture dichotomy as well as binary sex differences, and, instead, highlights the sex/gender development of brain-behaviour relations. In the transdisciplinary NeuroGenderings network, scholars from neurosciences, gender/queer and feminist science technology studies develop conceptual approaches to analyze the entangled biological, social and cultural variables that constitute sexed/gendered brains whilst acknowledging their diversity. In this talk, I will outline the bio-socio-cultural approaches of NeuroGenderings, discuss their potentials for a sex/gender informed brain research, but also highlight the challenges, when it comes to specify, select, and negotiate the operationalized variables for empirical research.The brain is increasingly conceived as an open biological system developing in mutual interchange with experiences (brain plasticity). Such embodying of the social contests the nature-nurture dichotomy as well as binary sex differences, and, instead, highlights the sex/gender development of brain-behaviour relations. In the transdisciplinary NeuroGenderings network, scholars from neurosciences, gender/queer and feminist science technology studies develop conceptual approaches to analyze the entangled biological, social and cultural variables that constitute sexed/gendered brains whilst acknowledging their diversity. In this talk, I will outline the bio-socio-cultural approaches of NeuroGenderings, discuss their potentials for a sex/gender informed brain research, but also highlight the challenges, when it comes to specify, select, and negotiate the operationalized variables for empirical research.
Sigrid Schmitz, Dr. habil. currently chairs the project Gendering MINT didaktisch-digital at the Center for transdisciplinary Gender Studies of Humboldt University Berlin, where she develops Open Educational Resources to transfer knowledge about gender aspects into STEM disciplines. With a PhD and a venia legendi in biology her research in Feminist Science Technology Studies focuses on gender & brain, ontemporary neurocultures, body discourses, and feminist epistemologies. As founding member of the international NeuroGenderings network she edited Gendered NeuroCultures. Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Current Brains Discourses (Zaglossus: Vienna, 2014, together with Grit Höppner). She held, amongst others, professorships for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna and for Gender and Science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Online-attendance via Webex
Meeting-Link: https://uni-luebeck.webex.com/uni-luebeck/j.php?MTID=m2be1957540b3c8997d5cab4e0ff794f6
Upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series Events in 2025
February 13: Prof. Sigrid Schmitz, Professor for Gender Studies, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin
IMGWF, University of Lübeck
May 15: Prof. Anelis Kaiser Trujillo, Professor for Gender Studies in MINT at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Freiburg
CBBM, University of Lübeck
July 17: Prof. Stefan Hirschauer, Professor for Sociological Theory and Gender Studies, Mainz University
CBBM, University of Lübeck
October 17: Prof. Daphna Joel, Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
CBBM, University of Lübeck
Times: 16:00 - 18:00, hybrid event at Campus Lübeck and via Webex.
Past DLS Events:
12. December 2024
- Prof. Staffan Müller-Wille (Cambridge, UK): Sex and Gender in the History of the Life Sciences
- A full recording of the lecture can be found on our Science Blog: https://sfb1665blog.de/distinguished-lecture-with-staffan-muller-wille-is-now-available-on-youtube/
17. October 2024
- Prof. Melissa Hines (Cambridge): Early androgen exposure and human gender development
- A full recording of the lecture can be found on our Science Blog: https://sfb1665blog.de/distinguished-lecture-with-melissa-hines-is-now-available-on-youtube/

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- Stakeholder-Workshop 20. Nov. 2024
- Grand CRC Opening on June 5, 2024