[News] Einladung Int. Lecture in Cultural Geography Bonn/ Online

[Anna Schliehe]

Liebe Liste,

gerne möchte ich auf eine Lecture von Kath Browne (University College Dublin) am 25.11.2026 um 17.15 Uhr im Hörsaal des Geographischen Instituts der Universität Bonn hinweisen. Die Lecture mit dem Titel „Who Wins?: Spatialising Polarisations in ‘Anti-Gender’ Times” findet auf Englisch statt und es ist für institutsexterne Personen auch möglich mit vorheriger Anmeldung via Zoom teilzunehmen.

Abstract:
Despite the plethora of recent engagements with ‘anti-gender’ and heteroactivism, there is often little geographical engagement beyond the scale of the trans/national. This lecture brings two seemingly incompatible studies into conversations with each other: RESIST explores anti-gender mobilisations and feminist/queer resistances to these across Europe using interviews and focus groups focusing on the Irish case study; Beyond Opposition interviewed 161 people who are opposed to, or have concerns about, socio legal changes including same sex marriage, gender recognition and abortion in Ireland, Great Britain and Canada. These studies show that the creation of controversies are core to driving divisions through polarising into oppositional binaries that can negatively affect all sides in differential ways. These can drive resistances that reiterate binaries that reinforce polarisations. Looking beyond ‘winning the argument/fight/debate’, requires an understanding everyday spaces to address social polarisations.

Zoom-Anmeldung: https://eveeno.com/216975300

Die Einladung darf gerne weitergeleitet werden.

Viele Grüße,
Anna Schliehe (she/her)