Women’s Representatives

• Quality assurance in appointment procedures
• Voting right in department councils
• Enforcement of target agreements for gender equality
• Consulting regarding career and problems
• Consulting concerning matters of sexual harassment
• Consultation of new female professors
• Establishing gender specific courses and research projects
• Establishing and Controlling of Mentor Programs for young female scientists
• Support of the development and continues improving of the FAU Family Service

Deputy women’s representative of the faculty:

The faculty’s women’s representative is supported by the deputy women’s representatives of the departments and an advisor.

The women’s representatives are working towards the equality of women and men. They are contact persons for women scientists, female teachers and students of the Faculty and are committed to their concerns. The aim is to increase the proportion of women at all levels of science.

Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures

Prof. Dr. Corinna Reinhardt (on parental leave)
Dr. Cleophea Ferrari
Anna Schneider

Department of English, American, and Romance Studies

Ruth Hoffmann
PD Dr. Karin Höpker

Department of Didactics

Dr. Katja Feigenspan (Akad.ORätin)
PD Dr. Christel Meier (Akad. ORat)

Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies

Dr. Sabine Lang

Department of German and Comparative Studies

PD Dr. Aura Heydenreich (Akad. ORat)
Dr. Karin Rädle

Department of History

Helen Wagner (M.A.)
Dr. Cornelia Scherer

Department of Islamic-Religious Studies

Dr. Eva Kepplinger
Imane El Guennouni

Department of Media Studies and Art History

Dr. Sarah Lynch
Prof. Dr. Bettina Brandl-Risi

Department of Education

Axel Gruhlke
Stephanie Leupert

Department of Psychology

Christine Heinisch (Ph.D.)
Dr. Stephanie Böhme

Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Christianna Bunt (M.A.) (on parental leave)
Dr. Larissa Pfaller

Department of Sport Science

Verena Hartung
Dr. Sabine Mayer

School of Theology

PD Dr. Nicole Grochowina
Dr. Nadine Hamilton

Further women’s representatives of FAU

The target agreements include the following supporting programs:

• ARIADNEphil Mentoring Program to support young female scientists
• Grants for Participation in Conferences
• Funding for Guest Lectures
• Gender Mainstreaming in Selection Processes

For further information please contact: phil-fb@fau.de

Sexual harassment will not be tolerated at FAU. With the guideline for the prevention and handling of cases of discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the University Hospital Erlangen (UKER), which came into force on June 1, 2021, the university is taking a stand and sending a clear signal for an active approach to discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment.
For more information on contact and counseling points at FAU and on the possibility of a complaint procedure, please visit the pages of the Office for Equality and Diversity

The Office for Equality and Diversity, together with the Women’s Representative of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology supports guest lectures by high-profile female academics from Germany and abroad as a measure of the target agreements. The interdisciplinary lectures are not only rewarding from a scientific point of view, the outstanding careers of the female guest lecturers are also intended to serve as inspiration for an academic career for female students and staff.

The Women’s Representatives of the Faculty is inviting together with the IZGDD and the Institute of Art History anyone interested to the Role Models Guest Lecture Series in the upcoming semester. On four Mondays in the winter semester, distinguished female academics will be guests at FAU and give lectures on various intriguing topics.

• On 7 November, Yü-Yen Li from the Freie Universität Berlin will open the series with her lecture on “Body and Concentration in Musical Performance”.
• On 5 December, Anja Zimmermann (CV in German) from the University of Oldenburg will lecture on the topics of art, feminism and theory in the spirit of the sentence “I finally had to allow myself to have completely different questions”.
• On 16 January, Lisa Gaupp from the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien” will be our guest and talk about “Politics(s) of Global Arts: Cultural Diversity in Curatorial Practice”.
• On 23 January, the lecture by Shao-Lan Hertel of the Tsinghua University Art Museum on “Script:Image:Text:Body. On the Somaesthetics of Chinese Brush-and-ink Art in Theory and Practice” (Abstract in German) will conclude the series.

The lectures will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 1.016 in the Kollegienhaus in Erlangen and will also be transmitted via Zoom. You can enter the Zoom room with this link. The lectures will be held in German.
Further information on the lectures will be announced here soon.

 

Gender and diversity research are cross-sectional topics in every academic subject culture; their consideration and integration into teaching is considered a quality feature and is explicitly recommended by the German Research Foundation. (DFG 2022, p. 15)

In order to promote a gender- and diversity-sensitive teaching and learning culture at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, the departments are requested to offer courses that cover gender-specific topics as part of the target agreements 2018-2022, which aim at increasing the proportion of women in academia.

In the following you will find an overview of the gender-related courses offered in the summer term of 2022. A cross-faculty overview is provided by the IZGDD.

Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures

• „Der Häretiker und die Frauen“, Chair of Classical Philology
• „Queer sexualities and identities in Southeast Asia“, Professorship of Cultural and Social Anthropology
• „Gender, Fashion and the Body in cross-cultural perspectives“, Professorship of Cultural and Social Anthropology
• „Unequal outcomes: The effect of gender on health and health decision-making“, Professorship of Cultural and Social Anthropology
• „Frauen der Republikzeit“, Chair of Sinology with focus on the intellectual and cultural history of China

Department of English/American and Romance Studies

• Gender, Class and Consumerism in British Literature and Culture“, Chair of English Studies, especially Literature and Cultural Studies
• „Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Literature“, Chair of English Studies, especially Literature and Cultural Studies
• „Making the Beast with two Backs: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Literature“, Chair of English Studies, especially Literature and Cultural Studies
• „(Neo-)Slave Narratives“, Chair of American Studies, especially North American Literature and Cultural Studies

Department of Didactics

• „Zentrale / Ausgewählte Fragestellungen für Grundschule: Geschlechtersensibles historisches Lernen in der Grundschule“, Chair for Didactics of History
• „Demokratische Grundwertebildung im Deutschunterricht – Theorie, Empirie, Praxis“, Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature
• „Ethische Bildung im Deutschunterricht“, Chair of Didactics of German Language and Literature
• „Museumspädagogik in Theorie und Praxis – eine Kooperation mit dem Neuen Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg“, Chair for Art Education
• „Gendersensibler Mathematikunterricht in der Sekundarstufe“, Chair for Didactics of Mathematics
• „Freiheit-Gleichheit-Gerechtigkeit: theologische und pädagogische Perspektiven wert-voller Bildung (Menschenrechte)“, Chair of Religious Education and Didactics of Protestant Religious Education

Department of German and Comparative Literature

• „Erec und Iwein“, Chair of Older German Literature
• „Schriftstellerinnen in der deutschsprachigen Nachkriegsliteratur“, Chair of Modern German Literature with Historical Focus
• „Diversität und LGBTQIA+ in der aktuellen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur“, Junior professorship for modern German literature with focus on children’s and youth literature
• „Arctic heroines: Polardiskurs und weibliche Autorschaft“, Professorship of Comparative Literature with focus on Northern European Literatures/Scandinavian Studies
• „Frühe Feministinnen: Skandinavische Wege in die Emanzipation“, Professorship of Comparative Literature with focus on Northern European Literatures/Scandinavian Studies

Department of History

• „Die „neue Frau“ und der „neue Mensch“ in der Zwischenkriegszeit im Westen und in der Sowjetunion: Geschlechterrollen und -bilder zwischen Medizin, Kultur und Alltag“, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History with focus on the history of Eastern Europe
• Königinnen und Königinnentum im frühmittelalterlichen Europa, Chair of Medieval History
• Reformation und Geschlecht. Der Kampf um die Geschlechterordnung im 16. Jahrhundert, Chair of Early Modern History
• Frauenleben im frühen Griechenland, Chair of Ancient History
• „Gender und der Kalte Krieg in der SU und im Ostblock“, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History with focus on the history of Eastern Europe
• Gender und Intersektionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit, Chair of Early Modern History
• Quellenlektüre: Schreiben über Königinnen im Frühmittelalter, Lehrstuhl für Geschichte des Mittelalters, Chair of Medieval History

Department of Islamic-Religious Studies

• „Islamische Gemeinden in Deutschland: Die Darstellung muslimischer Frauen in den deutschsprachigen Medien“, Chair of Islamic-Religious Studies with Practical Focus
• „Der Mensch und seine Rechte im Islam“, Chair of Islamic-Religious Studies with Practical Focus

Department of Media Studies and Art History

• „Kostüm, Maske und Geschlecht in der Kunst seit der Frühen Neuzeit“, Institute of Art History

Department of Education

• „Diskriminierungssensible und diversitätsbewusste Unterrichtsmaterialien im SU“, Institute of Primary Education Research
• „Aktuelle Probleme auf dem Gebiet von Diversity Education und in der internationalen Bildungsforschung“ , Chair of Education with focus on diversity education and international education research
• „Pädagogik und Geschlecht“, Chair of Education with focus on Media Education
• „Diversity und Einstellungen“, Institute of Primary Education Research

Department of Psychology

• „Diversität in der Grundschule – Neue Geschlechterrollen“, Chair of Educational Psychology and Excellence Research

Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

• „Care Work und Geschlecht“, Institute of Sociology
• „Diskurs(analyse) – gender – Kritik“, Institute of Sociology
• „Frauen in der Kunst“, Institute of Sociology
• „Who cares? Quantitative Forschung zu Erwerbstätigkeit und Familie“, Institute of Sociology
• „The Gender of Things: How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered“, Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies
• „Data + Feminism: Approaching datafication from intersectional perspectives (DataFeminism)“, Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies

Department of Sport Science

• „Zirkuskünste 1“ und „Zirkuskünste 2“, Chair of Sports Science with focus on Health Promotion/Public Health/Social Sciences of Sport

• The Office for Gender and Diversity supports the work of the women’s representatives at FAU: https://www.gender-und-diversity.fau.de/
• Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Gender Differenz Diversität (IZGDD): https://www.izgdd.fau.de/
• The Family Service coordinates various offers of assistance for students, staff and their family members at Friedrich-Alexander-University and the university hospital: https://www.familienservice.fau.de/
• Equal opportunities officer for non-academic staff: Christian Müller-Thomas (https://www.fau.de/universitaet/leitung-und-gremien/gremien-und-beauftragte/beauftragte/gleichstellungsbeauftragter/)