Ecofeminism, Women’s Rights and the Natural World

2022-02-162022-02-21 by angie, posted in Educator

Institut für Kunstwissenschaften, Kunstpädagogik und Kunstvermittlung, Kunsttheorie

Patriarchal capitalism works to colonize women and nature. Ecofeminism is a strategy sparked by women to unite worldwide to protect each other and the environment from violence and exploitation.

We will examine society’s relationship to nature and women, reading a variety of texts from various disciplines. Our goal is not only to understand the destructive mechanisms that face women and the natural world, but to also develop approaches that can lead to a new inclusive humanism that can slow or reverse the death of planet Earth and the death of women which is rapidly moving forward in the name of “progress”.

We will also look at artists who are working with feminism and ecology in mind, to better comprehend how ecofeminist concerns can be incorporated into artistic production.

Teaching at the University of Applied Arts Vienna:

Gender Studies: Ecofeminism, Women’s Rights and the Natural World, (Seminar), SS 2022

Gender Studies: Sex versus Gender: An Analysis (Seminar), SS 2021

Gender Studies: War on Women? Causes, Manifestations, Effects, and the Art World (Seminar), WS 2019-20

Gender Studies: Phallocentrism and the Secrets of the Patriarchy (Seminar), WS 2018-19

Gender Studies: The Inclusive Museum: Gender and Diaspora in Theory and Practice (Seminar); 2016-17

Gender Studies: Critical Whiteness, Masculinity Studies and die neuen Paradigmen (Seminar); 2016-17

Gender Studies: Politische Theorie als Kunsttheorie (Seminar); 2015-16

Gender Studies: Zur Theorie des Weiblichen: reale und fiktive Gesellschaftskonstruktionen (Proseminar); 2015

Gender Studies: Das Ende der Männer und der Aufstieg der Frauen im Wandel der Zeit /The End of Men and The Rise of Women (Seminar), 2013-14

Kulturgeschichte des Wohnens (Proseminar), 2006

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2006

Gender Studies: Power Frauen der Aufklärung (Seminar), 2005-06

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2005-06

Kulturgeschichte des Wohnens (Proseminar), 2005

Kolloquium (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2005

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2005

Kulturgeschichte des Wohnens (Proseminar), 2004

Kolloquium (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2004

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2004

Kolloquium (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2003-04

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2003-04

Perspektiv/Wechsel: Wechselwirkungen zwischen Malerein und Fotografie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Proseminar), 2003-04

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2003

Kulturgeschichte des Wohnens (Proseminar), 2003

Privatissimum (for Ph.D. students, together with Prof. Dr. Manfred Wagner), 2002-03

Teaching at Staffordshire University at the Werbe Akademie Vienna:

Research Report (Seminar), 2013

Design Project Report (Seminar), 2012-13

Research Report (Seminar), 2012-13

others

Schule für Dichtung/Vienna Poetry School: Writing Instructor in the “Virtual Academy”. Writing seminars “Memory and City” (with Sabine Scholl), 2003 and “European Love Letter” (with Christian Ide Hintze and Gertraud Marinelli-König), 2000 and 2001

Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies Vienna: Editor and Proofreader for specialized texts in English in semiotics, cultural studies and related fields for the journals Semiotische Berichte and S – European Journal for Semiotic Studies (1997 – 2002)

University of Innsbruck, Department of Educational Sciences: Guest Lecturer in Art History (African art and the influence of Europe on its development, as well as the connection between African and African-American art) for upper level and graduate seminars of Dr. Manfred Aschaber (1997 – 2000)

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Lecturer and Expert, Curatorial Tour through the DENKRAUM DEUTSCHLAND 2021_feminin in the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (October 2021). See

Participatory Assistance, intertwining hi/stories Arts Education Festival, Vienna (August 2017)

Lecture: “A New Look At An Old Theme”, Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe conference, session “Social Justice and Human Rights in Afroeurope”. University of Tampere, Finland (July 2017)

Panelist, “Ist das Neue noch ein Kriterium in der Kunst ... ”, a podium discussion with Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and Tom Waibel, Depot Vienna (March 2017)

Panelist, “Critical From Within. Strategien in der Universität: Wie sich bewegen in der Universität?”, a podium discussion organized by Teo K with Andreas Novy, Elisabeth Schäfer and Rahel Sophia Süß, Depot Vienna (November 2016)

B(l)ack to the Future. European Citizens of African Descent, symposium and panel discussion, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue Vienna (February 2016)

Facilitated the participation of Angela Davis at, and attended, the International Conference 2015 “Women fighting back: international and legal perspectives”, organized by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights, and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, London South Bank University (November 2015)

TOA Tech Open Air (interdisciplinary technology and art festival), Berlin (July 2015)

“What is the Future of Childbirth?”, Birth to Birth Talks with Dr. Michel Odent (organized by birth rights activist and doula Camalo Gaskin), Berlin (July 2015)

Lecture and Walking Tour: “Niemals vergessen to Café Demel: Vienna in All Its Aspects”, in cooperation with Masaryk University Brno for students of the University of Toronto Summer Programme in Central Europe (May 2015)

Lecture and Walking Tour: “Vienna as You Never Knew It”, in cooperation with Masaryk University Brno for students of the University of Toronto Summer Programme in Central Europe (June 2014)

“Seminar on Highly Skilled Migrant Women Integration to the Labour Market: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses”, Expat Center Vienna (October 2013)

Lecture and Walking Tour: “Vienna: People and Places”, in cooperation with Masaryk University Brno for students of the University of Toronto Summer Programme in Central Europe (July 2013)

Translator at the conference “Doing Memory: Art, Research and the Politics of Memory and History”, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (June 2013)

Co-Organizer “20 Jahre Schule für Dichtung” (classes, symposium, gala), Vienna (May – June 2012)

Co-Organizer, 8th European Association of Creative Writing Programmes Symposium, Vienna (May – June 2012)

Lecture: “Towards a Definition of Knowledge Art”, Lindisfarne Fellows Annual Meeting (a conference on post-religious spirituality), Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, New Lebanon, New York (October 2011)

Lecture: “Urban Safari: From Quarks to Cakes – A Slightly Different Walking Tour of Vienna with Renée Gadsden” as part of the conference Quarkonium Production: Probing QCD at the LHC, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (April 2011)

“Fundamentals of Poetry” (a European Association of Creative Writing Programmes project) initiatory conference, Madrid (February 2011)

12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Technical University Vienna. Lecture: “Vienna: Maps and Magic” (February 2010)

Auslandskulturtagung 2009. “Grenzen-los?: Zwanzig Jahre nach Ende des kalten Krieges. Wie 'grenzen-los' soll österreichische Auslandskultur sein?” Künstlerhaus, Vienna (September 2009)

Project assistance, guest professorship Alice Schwarzer (invited by Prof. Manfred Wagner) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (April – May 2009)

Symposium “Kunst. Landschaft. Architektur.” Raumimpuls, Waidhofen/Ybbs. Lecture: “Some green pieces: Thoughts on the Work of Robert Zahornicky” (October 2008)

Panel discussion, “1/4 Herzschlag. Stimmen von außen”, 11. Wiener Vierteltour: Herzschlag Heimat, Bockkeller, Vienna (November 2007)

Symposium “Literature in Interaction”, speaker in the section “Literature off the Page. Literature and Performance, Art, Music, Film”, Bookworld Prague – International Book Fair (May 2007)

Conference “Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies”, organized by the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Sciences, Vienna. Chair of the session “Cultural Change” in the section “Social Reproduction and Cultural Innovation. From a Semiotic Point of View” (December 2005)

Lecture: “Power Women of the Enlightenment”, at the symposium “Language, Literature and Semiotics. Round Table and Symposium im Memoriam Ferruccio Rossi-Landi 20 Years after his Death”, session “Gender & Minority Discourses”. Institute of Philosophy, University ELTE, Budapest (December 2005)

Initiator and Organizer of the 1st (and until today, only) Graduate Student Symposium “Seelenkrieg / Soul War”, University of Applied Arts Vienna (November 2005)

Panel discussion “Wien im Rückblick: StadtforscherInnen erinnern sich an Wien 1945-2005” (Vienna in Retrospect: City Researchers Remember Vienna 1945-2005), together with Friedrich Achleitner, Dieter Schrage und Jan Tabor, Wiener Vorlesung discussion series, Vienna (February 2005)

Physics at LHC Conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Lecture: “Vienna Time after Time: Building and Culture through the Centuries” (July 2004)

8th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, “Signs of the World. Interculturality and Globalization” University of Lyon, France. Chair of the session “Socio-semioses” in the section “Issues in Socio-Semiotics” (July 2004)

International symposium “Brancusiana 2004”, Targu-Jiu, Romania (February 2004)

10th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Technical University Vienna. Lecture: “The City Through Other Eyes: A Cultural and Architectural Examination of Vienna” (February 2004)

Conference “The Unifying Aspects of Culture”, organized by the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Sciences, Vienna. Chair of the session “Non-verbal Signs” in the section “Signs, Texts, Cultures. Conviviality from a Semiotic Point of View” (November 2003)

International transdisciplinary symposium “Signs of Power, Power of Signs” of the Institute of Socio-Semiotic Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Chair of the session “Film and Media” (September 2003)

International transdisciplinary symposium “Signs of Power, Power of Signs” of the Institute of Socio-Semiotic Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Lecture “Vaccaro in War and Peace” (September 2003)

International Guest Lecture Series “Wiener Semiotische Konversationen” (Vienna Semiotic Conversations) & 25th Seminar from “Semiotik des Rechts” (Semiotics of Law), Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies Vienna. Lecture: “Visuelle Referenzen: Tony Vaccaro und seine Zeit” (Visual References: Tony Vaccaro and His Time) (October 2002)

International conference “ITech Women: Meeting Tomorrow”, organized by the Office of Women’s Affairs of the City of Vienna. Chair of the session “It’s up to you” (October 2001)

Writing workshop “Sport & Poesie”, led by Wolfgang Bauer for the schüle für dichtung/Vienna Poetry School, St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria (January – February 2001)

Seminar “Kulturforschung – Kulturwissenschaft – Kulturtheorie” (Cultural Research – Cultural Science – Cultural Theory), organized by the Association of Viennese Adult Education Centers and the Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies Vienna. Lecture: “Voodoo – Cross-Kulturelle Transformationen” (Voodoo – Cross-cultural Transformations), November 2000