Univ.-Ass. Vivian Buchholz, MA

Vita

Teaching

Sexual/sexualised violence in pedagogical contexts , BA Educational Science, Department of Educational Science, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, summer semester 2025

Introduction to feminist standpoint epistemology, BA Gender Studies and Feminist Sciences and MA Political Science, Centre for Gender Studies and Feminist Futurology, Phillips University Marburg, summer semester 2025

The concept of the subject in dialectical educational theory, MA EZW, Educational Sciences with a focus on historical educational research, University of Münster, WS 2024/25

Critique of positivism in educational theory: On the relationship between the empirical turn and postmodernism, Master of Education, Educational Sciences with a focus on historical educational research, University of Münster, summer semester 2024

Sexualised violence in pedagogical contexts - A reflection on the gendered generational relationship in the history of education, combiBA Educational Sciences, General Educational Sciences/ Theory of Education, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, SoSe 2024

Identity politics, political correctness, cancel culture: a new form of social analysis?, with Prof. Dr Rita Casale, MA Educational Sciences, General Educational Sciences/ Theory of Education, University of Wuppertal, WS 2021/22

Publications

Translation from English: Nilsen, Randi Dyblie (2024): Constructions of children and (de)institutionalisation in the context of the Norwegian kindergarten. In: Casale, Rita et. al (eds.): (De)Institutionalisation of education and upbringing. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, pp. 145-168. URL.

Buchholz, Vivian (2024): Intersectional Challenges to Social Cohesion: The Reciprocal Drive to Specify Research Terms. In: Namer, Yudit et al. (eds.): Intersectional Challenges to Cohesion? On Marginalisation in an Inclusive Society. Frankfurt/ Main: Campus, pp. 199-219. URL.

Buchholz, Vivian (2024): Review of: Marie Frühauf (2021): The desire for diversity.Diversity sensitivity in socio-educational relationships. Bielefeld: transcript. In: Jahrbuch erziehungswissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung, 20/2024, pp. 281-288. DOI: 10.3224/84743028.20.

Buchholz, Vivian (2023): Review of: Anna Hartmann (ed.)/ Tove Soiland (2022): Sexual Difference. Feminist-psychoanalytical perspectives on the present. Münster: Unrast Verlag. In: GENDER - Journal for Gender, Culture and Society, 3/2023, pp. 151-153. DOI: 10.3224/gender.v15i3.11.

Windheuser, Jeannette/ Buchholz, Vivian (2023): Concept and list of sources and literature:The significance of sexual pedagogical ideas for the structural facilitation of sexualised violence in the Protestant church. In collaboration with Beatrice Kollinger. Online publication, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. DOI: 10.18452/27014.

Windheuser, Jeannette/ Buchholz, Vivian (2023): Reappraisal and science. In: Zeitzeichen, 6/2023, pp. 12-14. URL.

Buchholz, Vivian (2022): Review of: Marina Chernivsky/ Friederike Lorenz-Sinai (2022): Die Shoah in Bildung und Erziehung heute: Weitergaben und Wirkungen in Gegenwartsverhältnissen. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich. Published on the publisher's website as part of the Read & Feed programme. URL.

Lectures

The educational theoretical potential of Sandra Harding's feminist standpoint theory, 30th Congress of the DGfE: Fractions, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 22-25 March 2026.

Sandra Harding's feminist standpoint theory between dialectical educational theory and identity politics, 8th Conference of the Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF): know - savoir - sapere - know(-ledges), Basel, 09/09/2025.

Bildungserfahrung im Medium der geschichts- und erziehungswissenschaftlichen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der 1970er-1990er Jahre, Kolloquium Bildungsphilosophie und Bildungsgeschichte an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, 30.10.2025. | 16. Forum junger Bildungshistoriker:innen, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, 07.09.2025 | Forum on Philosophy of Education and Training, Essen, 26.07.2025 | Gender History Day, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 05.05.2025.

Working group leader and panel discussion at Long Evening of Educational Sciences, University of Wuppertal, 9 July 2025.

Merle Stöver: Intersectional alliances against Israel - #MeToo unless you're a Jew. Lecture moderation in the series The self-righteous among the nations - Reactions to 7 October. Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research on Anti-Semitism (IIA) Trier. Funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Rhineland-Palatinate State Centre for Political Education. Digital, 05/09/2024. URL.

Sexualised violence in gender and generational relations: research using the example of sexual education ideas in the Protestant church and the relationality of different actors in the social assumption of responsibility for sexualised violence. Lecture and workshop with Beatrice Kollinger at the 16th symposium Trauma Network Mental Health: Trauma and power. Dresden, 08.12.2023.

Contradictions on the path from situated knowledge to strong objectivity: Sandra Harding's feminist standpoint theory. Round table contribution. Interdisciplinary conference Research on and with gender. Gender research in graduation and qualification phases.gender*educates - Network Centre for Gender Research and Teaching, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 01.12.2023.

On the challenge of researching sexual violence in the context of reappraisal using the example of the Protestant Church. Poster presentation with Jeannette Windheuser. DGfE Autumn Conference 2023: Dealing with sexualised violence in the German Society for Educational Sciences. Consequences, desiderata and prospects. Erkner, 10 - 11 November 2023.

English simultaneous translation of the workshop Diversity in the view of feminist psychoanalysis (Dr Marie Frühauf) as part of the colloquium Educational Sciences with a focus on gender and diversity, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 15/09/2023.

Die Bedeutung sexualpädagogischer Vorstellungen für die strukturelle Begünstigung sexualisierter Gewalt im Raum der evangelischen Kirche, public presentation at the end of the project with Jeannette Windheuser and Beatrice Kollinger, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 31.07.2023.

Knowledge, Subject and Truth in Sandra Harding's Paradigm of Strong Objectivity, Interdisciplinary colloquium for (post)doctoral students in postcolonial and gender studies, Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies (CePoG), University of Trier, 07.07.2023.

Widersprüche auf dem Weg vom situierten Wissen zur starken Objektivität: Sandra Harding's feminist standpoint theory, Gender history study day der AG Geschlechtergeschichte, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 26 June 2023.

English simultaneous translation of the symposium Sexual education - quo vadis?, organised by Prof. Dr. Rita Casale, Dr. Anna Hartmann and Prof. Dr. Jeannette Windheuser, Bergische Universität Wuppertal/ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 05-06 May 2023.

Gender relations in anarchist pedagogy from 1850 to 1939, Gender history study day der AG Geschlechtergeschichte, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 25 November 2022.

Von sozialer Verortung zum politischen Standpunkt: Die feministische Epistemologie Sandra Hardings im Spannungsfeld von Moderne und Postmoderne, Colloquium on Philosophy and History of Education at the University of Wuppertal, 3 February 2022.

Memberships

German Society for Educational Sciences (DGfE )

• Section for General Educational Sciences
• Section Women's and Gender Studies in Educational Sciences (board member since 03/2025)

European Educational Research Association (EERA)

Working Group for Historical Women's and Gender Studies (AKHFG)

Center for Gender Studies Innsbruck Research Platform (CGI)

Doctoral programme Gender and gender relations in transformation

Mentor in the funding programme her.culis - her cultural interdisciplinary studies for female Bachelor students at the University of Wuppertal (funded by the DFG Research Training Group 2696 Transformations of Science and Technology since 1800)