International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) Opening

Jack Halberstam and many more

June 12 – 14, 2025#Performing Challenges #Opening #Symposium

We warmly invite you to the official opening of the ICGP on June 12 with Jack Halberstam (Columbia University). On June 13 and 14, an international symposium will take place, accompanying the campus festival, which will focus on the core areas of the ICGP: gender issues in the performative arts, political forms of performance, and performativity and queer theoretical approaches. We look forward to exchanging ideas with internationally renowned guests from the arts and sciences through lectures, artist talks, panel discussions, and screenings!

 

Students and colleagues at the mdw as well as everyone interested are welcome! There will also be an exclusive workshop for students in advance with Mbongeni Mthsali (University of Cape Town).

Opening keynote

Jack Halberstam

  • June 12, 6 p.m.
  • Haydn-Saal

Symposion

with Claudia Bosse, Elsa Dorlin, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Ulrike Hanstein, Ulrike Haß, Kat Köppert, Isabel Lorey, Mbongeni Mthsali, Tavia Nyong’o, Kathrin Peters and Ginan Seidl

  • June 13 & 14, 10 am–5 pm,
  • room: tba

Student workshop

with Mbongeni Mtshali

  • June 12, 12–4 p.m.,
  • large seminar room, IKM, seminar room
Location:

Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1,
1030 Wien

Registration:

In order to better estimate capacities, we kindly ask you to register.

ICGP@mdw.ac.at