Research Platform Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI)
Website: http://www.uibk.ac.at/geschlechterforschung/
The Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI) and the affiliated research platform researches, theorizes and deconstructs gender and gender relations in a trans- and interdisciplinary perspective. The CGI and the Research Platform deepen the cooperation of scientists and lecturers in the field of Women´s*, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies regionally, nationally and transnationally. In addition, they seeks to enhance the links to international research, strengthen Women´s*, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies through cooperations with non-university actors and organisations and to disseminate research findings to the public, politics and society in order to contribute to the reduction of intersectional inequalities.
Head
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gundula Ludwig (RP Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck)
Deputy Head
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Levke Harders (RP Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck and Department of History and European Ethnology)
Coordinator
Mag. Julia Tschuggnall, BA (RP Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck)
Research
The Center Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck and the associated research platform are inter- and transdisciplinary in their approach and committed to a diversity of theories and methods.
Research Objectives
- to consolidate Women´s, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies at the University of Innsbruck by intensifying networks and inter- and transdisciplinary cooperations,
- to enhance the links to international research,
- to strengthen Women´s, Gender, Feminist and Queer Studies through cooperations with non-university actors and organisations,
- and to disseminate research findings to the public, politics and society in order to contribute to the reduction of intersectional inequalities.
Research Areas
- Body – Health – Normativity
- Subjectivity – Power – Narration
- Socio-economic and Political Transformation
Research Networks and Groups
- Research center Medical Humanities
- Workgroup Care: Relations, Rights & Policies
- Research group Theorizing the body: Body, Discourse, Materiality
- Research group Auto_Biography – De_Reconstruction
- Research group Language and Gender
- Research group Interpersonal Violence and Gender
- Innsbruck Doctoral College Gender and Gender Relations in Transformation: Spaces - Relations - Representations
In our Video we introduce the CGI, the individual research groups and their research focus.
Affiliated Organisational Units
University of Innsbruck
Interfacility OU
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Business and Management
Faculty of Economics and Statistics
Faculty of Educational Sciences
Faculty of Philosophy and History
- Department of History and Ethnology
- Department of Ancient History and Ancient Oriental Studies
- Department of Contemporary History
- Department of Music
- Department of Philosophy
- Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies
Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture
- Department of American Studies
- Department of English
- Department of German Studies
- Department of Language and Literature
- Department of Romance Studies
- Department of Translation Studies
- Research Department Brenner-Archiv
Faculty of Law
- Department of Civil Law
- Department of Labour and Social Law, Residential and Real Estate Law and Legal Informatics
- Department of Legal Theory and Future of Law
Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Faculty of Teacher Education
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Special facilities
Medical University of Innsbruck
- Coordination Center for Equality, Affirmative Action for Women and Diversity
- GE für Gender Medizin & Diversität