Events / Program: Emma Goldman Fellowship

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Abolitionism and the Possibility of Radical Futures? From a Politics of Fear and Exclusion to One of Care	Mon, 28.10.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Teresa Degenhardt Ayşe Çağlar	Abolitionism and the Possibility of Radical Futures? From a Politics of Fear and Exclusion to One of Care Mon, 28.10.2024 Speakers: Teresa Degenhardt Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows Colloquium addressed current societal struggles around migration, border control, and the rise of populist politics. Teresa Degenhardt explored the concept of abolitionism, asking whether a future beyond the nation-state and its criminal justice and border infrastructures is possible. Read more
Abolitionism and the Possibility of Radical Futures? From a Politics of Fear and Exclusion to One of Care Mon, 28.10.2024 Speakers: Teresa Degenhardt Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This Fellows Colloquium addressed current societal struggles around migration, border control, and the rise of populist politics. Teresa Degenhardt explored the concept of abolitionism, asking whether a future beyond the nation-state and its criminal justice and border infrastructures is possible. Read more
	Relational Accountability as Research Ethics in a Nordic-Saami (Green) Colonial Context	Mon, 27.05.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Eva Maria Fjellheim Ayşe Çağlar	Relational Accountability as Research Ethics in a Nordic-Saami (Green) Colonial Context Mon, 27.05.2024 Speakers: Eva Maria Fjellheim Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This colloquium explored ‘green colonialism’ as an analytical term to understand how Saami lands in Norway are being sacrificed in the name of the so-called ‘green energy transition’. This talk focused on the ethical dilemmas encountered while working in a context characterized by (green) colonial harm and fatigue. Read more
Relational Accountability as Research Ethics in a Nordic-Saami (Green) Colonial Context Mon, 27.05.2024 Speakers: Eva Maria Fjellheim Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This colloquium explored ‘green colonialism’ as an analytical term to understand how Saami lands in Norway are being sacrificed in the name of the so-called ‘green energy transition’. This talk focused on the ethical dilemmas encountered while working in a context characterized by (green) colonial harm and fatigue. Read more
	Emma Goldman Awards 2023	Fri, 08.09.2023	Other	Mieke Verloo Misha GlennyStefanie Claudine Boulila, Susan Zimmermann	Emma Goldman Awards 2023 Fri, 08.09.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Misha GlennyStefanie Claudine Boulila, Susan Zimmermann Series: Other The FLAX Foundation awards the Emma Goldman Awards and Emma Goldman Snowball Awards to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe since 2020. Read more

	Elusive Transformations	Wed, 14.06.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup	Elusive Transformations Wed, 14.06.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup Series: Seminars and Colloquia Toni Haastrup critically scrutinized the EU’s claims to feminist actorship by introducing the analytical concept of “Feminist Power Europe.” In employing FPE as a lens, she examined whether the EU can adopt an FFP and if such an approach upholds the transformative potential of feminism. She demonstrated that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics, which continues to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment with prevailing hierarchies as a result of colonialism and racism. Read more
Elusive Transformations Wed, 14.06.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup Series: Seminars and Colloquia Toni Haastrup critically scrutinized the EU’s claims to feminist actorship by introducing the analytical concept of “Feminist Power Europe.” In employing FPE as a lens, she examined whether the EU can adopt an FFP and if such an approach upholds the transformative potential of feminism. She demonstrated that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics, which continues to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment with prevailing hierarchies as a result of colonialism and racism. Read more
	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next?	Mon, 06.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
	Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies	Mon, 12.09.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Anelis Kaiser Trujillo Clemena Antonova	Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies Mon, 12.09.2022 Speakers: Anelis Kaiser Trujillo Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, Anelis Kaiser Trujillo aimed to present and discuss how sex/gender is categorized, treated, measured and discovered in (f)MRI studies, i.e., in studies that look at how women and men differ in structure and function of the brain. Central to her research is a transdisciplinary background in neuroscience and gender studies. While in neuroscience gender is a hard variable, in gender studies it is a social phenomenon, a result and a facet of human action and social structures––in short: a social construct. Kaiser Trujillo’s aim is to bridge the divide between these two epistemologically different approaches. Read more
Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies Mon, 12.09.2022 Speakers: Anelis Kaiser Trujillo Clemena Antonova Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this talk, Anelis Kaiser Trujillo aimed to present and discuss how sex/gender is categorized, treated, measured and discovered in (f)MRI studies, i.e., in studies that look at how women and men differ in structure and function of the brain. Central to her research is a transdisciplinary background in neuroscience and gender studies. While in neuroscience gender is a hard variable, in gender studies it is a social phenomenon, a result and a facet of human action and social structures––in short: a social construct. Kaiser Trujillo’s aim is to bridge the divide between these two epistemologically different approaches. Read more
	Emma Goldman Awards 2022	Tue, 06.09.2022	Other	Misha GlennySara Garbagnoli, Asli Vatansever	Emma Goldman Awards 2022 Tue, 06.09.2022 Speakers: Misha GlennySara Garbagnoli, Asli Vatansever Series: Other The IWM is proud to have hosted the 2022 Emma Goldman Awards ceremony, awarded since 2020 by the FLAX Foundation. These awards are given to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The FLAX Foundation issues two types of awards: the Emma Goldman Awards and the Emma Goldman Snowball Awards for earlier-career researchers, nominated by the Emma Goldman awardees. Read more
Emma Goldman Awards 2022 Tue, 06.09.2022 Speakers: Misha GlennySara Garbagnoli, Asli Vatansever Series: Other The IWM is proud to have hosted the 2022 Emma Goldman Awards ceremony, awarded since 2020 by the FLAX Foundation. These awards are given to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The FLAX Foundation issues two types of awards: the Emma Goldman Awards and the Emma Goldman Snowball Awards for earlier-career researchers, nominated by the Emma Goldman awardees. Read more
	Transforming Care: Connecting Normative and Political Problems in the Analysis of Care	Mon, 25.04.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Rossella Ciccia	Transforming Care: Connecting Normative and Political Problems in the Analysis of Care Mon, 25.04.2022 Speakers: Rossella Ciccia Series: Seminars and Colloquia The covid-19 crisis has exposed the limitations of current approaches to care, but political reforms struggle to gain momentum and fundamental changes to care systems are hampered by long-term structural conditions, disinvestment and political fragmentation. This lecture argues that to transform the social organization of care we need to rethink care from a multiple inequality perspective that links the needs and rights of those providing and receiving care. Read more
Transforming Care: Connecting Normative and Political Problems in the Analysis of Care Mon, 25.04.2022 Speakers: Rossella Ciccia Series: Seminars and Colloquia The covid-19 crisis has exposed the limitations of current approaches to care, but political reforms struggle to gain momentum and fundamental changes to care systems are hampered by long-term structural conditions, disinvestment and political fragmentation. This lecture argues that to transform the social organization of care we need to rethink care from a multiple inequality perspective that links the needs and rights of those providing and receiving care. Read more
	Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation	Mon, 11.04.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Merav Amir Mieke Verloo	Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation Mon, 11.04.2022 Speakers: Merav Amir Mieke Verloo Series: Seminars and Colloquia To the external onlooker, a puzzling predicament plagues Israeli politics. While the majority of Jewish-Israelis state that they support reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians abiding by the two-state solution, this public still has been repeatedly electing leaders who oppose reaching such an agreement for over two decades to date. Most often, this apparent anomaly is explained through the disillusion of Jewish-Israelis from the peace process, which has swayed the Israeli electoral power towards nationalistic hardliners. However, a more fundamental change has occurred in this period, rendering the question of the position of the Jewish-Israeli electorate towards peace obsolete. Accordingly, Jewish-Israelis are increasingly becoming ignorant regarding the causes fueling regional hostilities: that Israel maintains an occupation, and that Israel is holding millions of Palestinians as occupied subjects under a military rule. This talk explored the political technologies and discursive strategies through which this ignorance has been induced, and how the politico-spatiality of the occupied Palestinian territory has so successfully been eradicated from the collective Israeli consciousness. Through this analysis Merav Amir demonstrated that this epistemic reshaping has not only reconfigured the geography of the Israeli polity for this public, but has also warped the region’s political time, and disrupted the State’s own political trajectory, as it bestows the (presumed) future eventuality onto the present. Read more
Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation Mon, 11.04.2022 Speakers: Merav Amir Mieke Verloo Series: Seminars and Colloquia To the external onlooker, a puzzling predicament plagues Israeli politics. While the majority of Jewish-Israelis state that they support reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians abiding by the two-state solution, this public still has been repeatedly electing leaders who oppose reaching such an agreement for over two decades to date. Most often, this apparent anomaly is explained through the disillusion of Jewish-Israelis from the peace process, which has swayed the Israeli electoral power towards nationalistic hardliners. However, a more fundamental change has occurred in this period, rendering the question of the position of the Jewish-Israeli electorate towards peace obsolete. Accordingly, Jewish-Israelis are increasingly becoming ignorant regarding the causes fueling regional hostilities: that Israel maintains an occupation, and that Israel is holding millions of Palestinians as occupied subjects under a military rule. This talk explored the political technologies and discursive strategies through which this ignorance has been induced, and how the politico-spatiality of the occupied Palestinian territory has so successfully been eradicated from the collective Israeli consciousness. Through this analysis Merav Amir demonstrated that this epistemic reshaping has not only reconfigured the geography of the Israeli polity for this public, but has also warped the region’s political time, and disrupted the State’s own political trajectory, as it bestows the (presumed) future eventuality onto the present. Read more
	Emma Goldman Awards Ceremony	Sun, 19.09.2021	Other		Emma Goldman Awards Ceremony Sun, 19.09.2021 Speakers: Series: Other The IWM is proud to host the second Emma Goldman Awards ceremony, awarded since 2020 by the FLAX Foundation. These awards are given to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. After a welcome by Ivan Vejvoda, acting rector of the IWM, the programme starts with two speeches. Agata Lisiak, former junior Fellow at the IWM and professor at Bard College Berlin, will talk on “Recalcitrant: Emma Goldman, Rosa Luxemburg, and the politics of waywardness”. She is followed by a keynote Speech by professor Akwugo Emejulu, one of the inaugural Emma Goldman awardees, on “The Lonely Activist”. The award ceremony is twofold, starting with presenting the seven 2020 Emma Goldman Snowball awardees, who had no earlier chance for a celebration due to COVID restrictions, and the seven new 2021 Emma Goldman awardees. Read more
Emma Goldman Awards Ceremony Sun, 19.09.2021 Speakers: Series: Other The IWM is proud to host the second Emma Goldman Awards ceremony, awarded since 2020 by the FLAX Foundation. These awards are given to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. After a welcome by Ivan Vejvoda, acting rector of the IWM, the programme starts with two speeches. Agata Lisiak, former junior Fellow at the IWM and professor at Bard College Berlin, will talk on “Recalcitrant: Emma Goldman, Rosa Luxemburg, and the politics of waywardness”. She is followed by a keynote Speech by professor Akwugo Emejulu, one of the inaugural Emma Goldman awardees, on “The Lonely Activist”. The award ceremony is twofold, starting with presenting the seven 2020 Emma Goldman Snowball awardees, who had no earlier chance for a celebration due to COVID restrictions, and the seven new 2021 Emma Goldman awardees. Read more