Gender history

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Events in Innsbruck

Exhibition "Gender in Motion. Visual Histories of Sport" (June 17-24, 2026). Exhibition opening on June 17 at 3 pm in the AHH, 1st floor.

An exhibition by students of the University of Innsbruck under the direction of Levke Harders; in cooperation with the Innsbruck City Archives/City Museum, the Berlin Sports Museum, the Public Relations Office of the University of Innsbruck and the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck

Events with the participation of gender history

We cordially invite you to submit your proposals by May 15 for the 3rd Forum for Doctoral Candidates and Researchers in Austria and Neighboring Regions, titled Gender Orders in Transition. When and where: November 26–27, 2026, at the Center for Regional History in Brixen.

In the new lecture series *Gender and Coloniality* (every Tuesday from 12:00–1:30 p.m., Innrain 52d Room 5¾) in addition to lectures by Muriel González Athenas, we have invited speakers who offer expert insights and critical perspectives on colonial conditions; everyone is warmly invited to attend.

Statement by the Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF) on the relevance of gender studies for democratic research and society (in German)


Programme of the joint Research colloquium of the three historical institutes (winter semester 2025/26)

Third Mission

Podcast with Levke Harders on Gender History: "INNside Gender Studies" (in German). 

Levke Harders and Heike Krösche in the podcast "The history lesson: didactics in dialogue" about intersectionality.

Podcast with Levke Harders, Maximilian Pichl and Rebecca Moltmann about The Affective Dimension of State Borders. InterSpaces #4.

New publications

Levke Harders: Grenzinternalisierung durch Bürokratie. Zugehörigkeit und Verwaltung im ersten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts, in: WerkstattGeschichte 33 (2026) 93, 19-33.


Levke Harders: Historical Biographical Research, Version: 2.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte (2026)


Muriel González Athenas (2025): Europabilder dezentrieren, in: Maisha-Maureen Auma/Denise Bergold-Caldwell/Inka Greusin/Ilona Pache/Marianne Schmidbaur/Susanne Völker/Christine Vogt-William, Gender Studies Otherwise? Reflexionen und Praxen der Dekolonisierung. Revisited – Relektüren aus den Gender und Queer Studies, Wiesbaden 2025, 157-178.


Mareike Gebhardt, Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Levke Harders, Elissa Helms, Sabine Hess (2025): Border Internalisation as a Gendered Process. A Conversation among Feminist Scholars, in: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 8 (1).

New publication series

"Interdisciplinary gender research", edited by Levke Harders and Gundula Ludwig

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