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Workshop “Embodied Methods”

On 14 and 15 January, the international workshop “Embodied methods: Revisiting archives and ethnography to understand gendered lived experiences” will take place at the BGHS. Participants will empirically explore innovative approaches to archival research and ethnography through decolonial, critical, and affective perspectives in three different laboratories. We will also discuss how to critically and creatively rethink traditional and well-established methods rooted in the Western canon. For this event, we are honored to host international researchers Dr. Paulina Ultreras (CIESAS-Occidente, Mexico), Dr. Jennie Gamlin (University College London, UK) and Prof. Dr. Francis Seeck (TH Nürnberg, Germany). Each of them will facilitate a laboratory, archival work, critical ethnography, and affective ethnography, respectively. The event will start with an open round table discussion where the visiting academics will reflect on the workshop’s topic. Following a small break, doctoral researchers will present their work and have the opportunity to discuss their materials in an interdisciplinary group. The participants represent a wide range of disciplines, including social work, literature studies, sports education, history, sociology and gender studies.

The workshop is organized by the BGHS members Itxaso Garcia and Raisa Ferrer, as well as Maren Lange and Sophie Halcour from the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG) in collaboration with the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS). You find the programme here.