Research Cooperations & Networks:

• In addition to the events and publications, the research network FACING_DRAG has emerged from many years of research on drag practices.
  

  The following researchers are involved:

  Aurélie Godet (Paris)

  Elaine Frantz Parsons (Kent State)

  Eric Lott (New York)

  Evelyn Annuß (Vienna/ Berlin)

  Jay Pather (Cape Town)

  Julia Ostwald (Linz)

  Karin Harrasser (Linz)

  Katrin Köppert (Leipzig)

  meLê Yamomo (Amsterdam)

  Nadia Davids (Cape Town)

  Nanna Heidenreich (Vienna)

  Nora Chipaumire (New York)

  Raz Weiner (Vienna)

  Silke Felber (Linz)

  Zimitri Erasmus (Johannesburg)

• Research Platform GAIN – Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities gain.univie.ac.at

Institutional & International Cooperation Partners:

• Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS), University of Cape Town
• Margherita von Brentano Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (MvBZ), Freie Universität Berlin
• Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (ZIFG), Technische Universität Berlin
• Lehrgebiet Queer Studies in Künsten und Wissenschaft, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
• Referat Genderforschung (RFG), Universität Wien
• Institut für Theater-, Film und Medienwissenschaft, Universität Wien

Important links at mdw:

• Administrative Department of Equality, Gender and Diversity (GGD)
• Forschungsförderung
• Structured PhD-Programs of mdw: Performing Matters: Manifold Temporalities
• Structured PhD-Programs of mdw: Music Matters. Knowings and Practices in Performing Arts
• Music and Minorities Research Center (MMRC)
• Artistic Research Center (ARC)
• Department for Music Sociology, esp. M. A. program “Music in Society”

Memberships & research societies:

• Austrian Society for Gender Studies ÖGGF
• German Society for Gender Studies
• German Society for Theatre Studies
• German Society for Media Studies & Working Group Gender/Queer Studies and Media Studies