We at the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association on the topic of ‘Transitions’
The teaching area ‘Sociology of Gender Relations’ looks forward to seeing new and familiar faces, sociological exchange in various formats and, last but not least, the party at the DGS Congress in Duisburg.
At the youth sociology section event ‘Youth Transformation/Youth Transformations,’ Anike Krämer will present initial theoretical considerations on the legitimisation of gender knowledge among religious young people and discuss the relationship between gender, ‘doing religion’ and youth from a sociological perspective. In addition, she has initiated the ad hoc group ‘Between Pathologisation and Empowerment: Youth, Gender and Health in Social Transitions’ with Julia Wustmann and Anne Rauber. The ad hoc group deals with the ambivalences between autonomy, stigma and recognition in the field of youth health.
As the first spokesperson for the Women's and Gender Studies Section, Mona Motakef is organising the event ‘Paradoxical Simultaneities – Gender Relations in Transitions’ together with Nina Hossain, Tina Spies and Lena Weber and, together with the section council, is inviting members to the general meeting. At the DGS general meeting, she and Miriam Trübner will give the laudatory speech for the René König Textbook Prize. In addition, she contributes her thoughts to the ad hoc group ‘Starting and expanding a family in the context of (medically) assisted reproduction,’ led by Heike Trappe, Anne-Kristin Kuhnt, and Tabea Naujoks, together with Julia Teschlade and Christine Wimbauer. Under the title ‘LGBTQ+ families between legal inequalities, normalisation and struggles for recognition’, they discuss key findings from their new monograph ‘On the way to normality? LGBTQ+ families and their struggle for recognition’. Mona Motakef is looking forward to the meeting of the section spokespersons and the DGS Council.
Last but not least, doctoral candidate Sarrah Bock will present her dissertation project on the topic ‘Age(ing) across generations – migrant workers from North Africa and their descendants in the context of the 1960s recruitment agreements in the Federal Republic of Germany’ at the poster exhibition.