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Dr. Anike Krämer

Portrait Anike Krämer

Research Focus

My research interest is in the concrete form of the construction of gender in (family) contexts and how this - within current relations of power and domination - affects individuals. From a sociological tradition of knowledge, I am particularly interested in the interrelationships between society and the individual.

Publikationen

Presentations

(invited*, lectured**)

2024** The Binary of sex and gender as Common Sense? Transformations and Continuities, lecture at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association. Tension, Trust and Transformation, University of Porto, Portugal
2023** Change of the Common Sense? Parents of intersex children and their view on the Binary, lecture at the International Conference on Order(s) of Difference in Childhood and Education, Goethe- Universität Frankfurt
2022* "Congratulations it is ... baby!" -dealing with intersex before and after birth , After Work Lecture - Department of Midwifery, University of Health, Bochum (digital).
2022** Gender-sensitive education digital (with Darleen Zereike), QUA-LIS NRW Workshop-Conference on gender-sensitive education in teacher training in NRW
2022* Gender and sexuality as aspects of pedagogical work, symposium "Gender and queerness in child and youth work", FH Münster/City of Münster (digital)
2022** Emancipation processes of parents of intersex children, lecture at the congress of the German Society for Educational Science (digital)
2021* Consequences of medical treatment of intersex people, webinar series of Soziale Medizin Ruhr (digital)
2020* The dividing line of gender perception - limits of bodily self-determination, lecture series "Körper - Grenzen - Kulte", Faculty of Theology, Ruhr University Bochum (digital)
2020** Inter* in NRW - History, Developments and Voids (with Şefik_a Gümüş), presentation at the Digital Symposium "Geschlossene Akten - Offene Wunden? Blank spaces and research questions of LGBTI* history in North Rhine-Westphalia."
2020* Workshop About? To? or With?- The Relationship between Research and Intersex, University of Paderborn, Institute for Educational Science
2020* Lecture Intersex in the Context of Education - An Introduction, University of Paderborn, Institute of Educational Science
2019** Parents of intersex children and the (in)certainty of bisexuality, lecture at the 3rd section congress on the sociology of knowledge, University Koblenz-Landau
The Medicalization of Everyday Life (with Anne Rauber), lecture at the opening of the Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2018* Methods workshop The role of the researcher and research ethics - methodological considerations, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar, Faculty of Nursing Sciences
2018* The medical habitus and Intersex. Experiences of parents, Université de Montréal.
2018* The medical habitus and Intersex. Experiences of parents, Université du Quebéc à Montréal.
2018* Intersex and human rights, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Amnesty International University Group.
2018* Two, three, many genders? Intersex in discourse, lecture series of the Essen College for Gender Studies
2017** Intersex In NRW. Between pathologization, normalization and self-determination, lecture at the Equality Conference, University of Erfurt.
2017* Versorgungssituation intergeschlechtlicher Kinder in NRW. A sociological perspective, Pediatric Annual Conference AGPD and DGKED, Freiburg.
2017** Psychosocial needs of parents of intersex children, presentation at the conference "Queer and feminist perspectives for psychology II", University of Cologne
*2017 Intersex in the context of counseling. Processes - Structures - Needs, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, AStA.
2017* Researching Intersex: A critical examination of research perspectives, Aktive Fachschaft Soziologie, University of Marburg.
2016** Intersexuality in NRW. Gender in the field of tension between medicalization, normalization and self-determination (with Katja Sabisch), presentation at the annual conference Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, University of Duisburg-Essen
2016** "What should I tell him? " The concealing/revealing strategies of parents of intersex children, presentation at the 8th European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) Conference, TU Dortmund University.
2016** Between concealing and revealing intersexed bodies: parental strategies (with Limor Danon Meoded), paper presented at the Israeli Sociological Society Conference, Tel Aviv University
2015** Between concealing andrevealing intersexed bodies: parental strategies (with Limor Danon Meoded), presentation at the 2nd Annual Conference EuroPSI, Vienna.
2015** Intersex* families: possibilities and challenges, presentation at the conference "Queer and feminist perspectives for psychology I", Ruhr-University Bochum

Prizes & Scholarships

2025 mobility grant of the Research Academy Ruhr for a research stay at the Stockholm University
2023 Prize of the Network Qualitative Family Research for the best qualification thesis
2021 Second Prize of the German Study Award (Social Sciences Section), Körber Foundation
2021 Wilhelm-Hollenberg Prize, Society of Friends of the Ruhr-University Bochum
2018 Travel grant of the funding program PR.INT (Research School, RUB) for a research stay at the Département de sociologie, Université du Quebéc à Montréal (Supervisor: Prof. Janik Bastien-Charlebois)
10/2013 - 10/2014 German scholarship of the Köhler Foundation

Transfer

2025 TV Interview WDR aktuell: Few daycare centers, climate crisis, wars: Why we no longer want children 17.07.2025.

2025 Podcast Aha! Zehn Minuten Alltags-Wissen (2025): Not necessarily male or female - what is intersex? 27.03.2025.

2024 TV Interview Lokalzeit Dortmund: Studio discussion on the topic "No class trip because of sexual identity" 06.02.2024.

2024 Explanatory videos as part of the digital learning platform "Schule - Geschlecht - Einfach digital" at Paderborn University.

Podcast Time for Gender - Host on topics such as "Gender History reloaded" with Dr. Muriel González Athenas, "Topic: Flight" with Alva Träbert, "Topic: Gaydar" with Sarah Oberkrome " or "Topic: Pill" with Anne Rauber.

2022 Panel discussion "Growing up beyond binarity" together with Frauke Arndt-Kunimoto, Charlotte Ariane Krumbholz. Sunday Club Berlin.

2022 Interview Deutsche Presseagentur: Dieckmann, Ricarda (2022): When the child is intersex. Published among others in: Westfalen-Blatt.de, Süddeutsche.de, , Bunte.de, Queer.de, DNN online (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten), HAZ.de (Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung), LVZ online (Leipziger Volkszeitung), LN-online (Lübecker Nachrichten), Ostsee-Zeitung.de, noz.de (Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung), rnz.de (Rhein-Nekar-Zeitung), shz.de (Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag), svz.de (Schweriner Volkszeitung), fitforfun.de and others.

2021 Podcast Körber Foundation - Making Society Better (2021): Anike Krämer explores what it does to parents when their child is inter*. 02.12.2021.

2021 Guest commentary Frankfurter Rundschau: Krämer, Anike (2021): Accepting otherness. Frankfurter Rundschau 25.10.2021.

2021 Interview Frankfurter Rundschau: Ahnefeld, Anna-Katharina (2021): Princess Charming: A trash format kicks off a small "revolution." fr.de 29.07.2021.

2021 Podcast Center for Gender Studies Paderborn: Time for Gender (2021): Inter* as caesura: On the everyday experience of parents of intersex children. 24.04.2021.

2021 Radio interview Deutschlandfunk Nova (2021): Update "No more gender-altering surgeries for children allowed. 26.03.2021.

2018 Interview CNN: Schmidt, Nadine; Fox, Kara (2018): Germany's third gender law is celebrated like a revolution. CNN Health. 29.12.2018.

2018 Radiotalk WDR5: leonardo (2018): Gender-neutral education. 11.04.2018.

2017 Radio interview WDR 5: Brauer, Jana (2017): Intersexuality in NRW. WDR5 leonardo. 10.04.2018.

2017 Radio interview WDR 5: Brauer, Jana (2017): Intersexuality in NRW. WDR5 Westblick. 06.12.2017.