ICGP-Newsletter Juni 2025 (English version below)
International Research Center Gender and Performativity at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Liebe Interessierte, dear all,

die Vorfreude ist groß, in nur einer Woche findet die Eröffnung des ICGP statt!
In diesem Juni-Newsletter möchten wir noch einmal an unser Eröffnungssymposium erinnern und ganz herzlich einladen.

Alle Informationen zum Programm finden sich auf unserer Internetseite oder auf dem angehängten Flyer.

Wir freuen uns darauf, gemeinsam zu diskutieren und zu feiern!

Das ICGP ist auch auf Social Media vertreten und freut sich über Follower:

• Instagram: @icgp_mdw

ICGP-Opening
Performing Challenges
12.-14.06.2025

Donnerstag, 12. Juni, Joseph Haydn-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)

18.00
Welcome Address/Introduction
Ulrike Sych (Rector, mdw), Sylvia Mieszkowski (GAIN, Uni Vienna), Hanna Meißner (ZIFG, TU Berlin), Evelyn Annuß (ICGP, mdw)

Opening Keynote: Jack Halberstam (NYC)
Dereliction: On Feminist Violence

Food and Drinks @Future Art Lab, Terrace

Freitag, 13.Juni, Neuer Konzertsaal (Rennweg 8)

10.00    Mbongeni Mtshali (Cape Town)
                Black Queer Futures

11.00    Claudia Bosse (Vienna)
                 in conversation with Chris Standfest (Vienna)

13.30    Ulrike Hanstein (Linz)
                Revisiting HOMOMETER (1973)

14.30    Keynote: Tavia Nyong’o (Yale)
                Black Apocalypse: Acceleration, Anxiety, and the Ends of the “World”

Future Art Lab

16.30    J-N-N (Screening)
                Ginan Seidl (Berlin/Vienna)
                 followed by a conversation with Clarissa Thieme (Berlin/Vienna)

17.30    Campus Festival

Samstag, 14. Juni, Fanny Hensel-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)

10.00    Ulrike Haß (Berlin)
               On the Timeliness of Boy-Girl Figures. Florentina Holzinger & Co.

11.00    crazinisT artisT aka Va-Bene Elikim Fiatsi (Kumasi)
                in conversation with Sandra Umathum (Vienna)

12.30    Keynote: Elsa Dorlin (Toulouse): tba.

14.00    Facing the Authoritarian Drift: (Art) Universities as Sites of Critique?

Podium: Sophia Bempeza (Vienna), Isabell Lorey (Cologne), Katrin Köppert (Berlin/Leipzig),  Kathrin Peters (Berlin)

Round Table: Jack Halberstam, Mbongeni Mtshali, Tavia Nyong’o, Hanna Meißner

            Vienna Gay Pride

Zur besseren Einschätzung der Kapazitäten bitten wir um Anmeldung unter: ICGP@mdw.ac.at

ICGP-Newsletter May 2025 (English version)

Dear all,

In just one week, we will be opening the ICGP - we are very excited! This June Newsletter serves as a final reminder of and invitation to our opening symposium.

For detailed information on our program, please visit our website or see the flyer attached.

We are looking forward to discuss and to celebrate with you!

You can also find the ICGP on social media now – follow us on:

•    Instagram: @icgp_mdw

ICGP-Opening
Performing Challenges
June 12-14, 2025

Thursday, June 12, Joseph Haydn-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)

6 pm
Welcome Address/Introduction
Ulrike Sych (Rector, mdw), Sylvia Mieszkowski (GAIN, Uni Vienna), Hanna Meißner (ZIFG, TU Berlin), Evelyn Annuß (ICGP, mdw)

Opening Keynote: Jack Halberstam (NYC)
Dereliction: On Feminist Violence

Food and Drinks @Future Art Lab, Terrace

Friday, June 13, Neuer Konzertsaal (Rennweg 8)

10 am.   Mbongeni Mtshali (Cape Town)
                Black Queer Futures

11 am    Claudia Bosse (Vienna)
                 in conversation with Chris Standfest (Vienna)

1.30 pm  Ulrike Hanstein (Linz)
                Revisiting HOMOMETER (1973)

2.30 pm    Keynote: Tavia Nyong’o (Yale)
                Black Apocalypse: Acceleration, Anxiety, and the Ends of the “World”

Future Art Lab

4.30 pm   J-N-N (Screening)
                Ginan Seidl (Berlin/Vienna)
                 followed by a conversation with Clarissa Thieme (Berlin/Vienna)

5.30 pm   Campus Festival

Saturday, June 14, Fanny Hensel-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)

10 am   Ulrike Haß (Berlin)
               On the Timeliness of Boy-Girl Figures. Florentina Holzinger & Co.

11 am    crazinisT artisT aka Va-Bene Elikim Fiatsi (Kumasi)
                in conversation with Sandra Umathum (Vienna)

12.30 pm Keynote: Elsa Dorlin (Toulouse): tba.

2.00 pm  Facing the Authoritarian Drift: (Art) Universities as Sites of Critique?

Podium: Sophia Bempeza (Vienna), Isabell Lorey (Cologne), Katrin Köppert (Berlin/Leipzig),  Kathrin Peters (Berlin)

Round Table: Jack Halberstam, Mbongeni Mtshali, Tavia Nyong’o, Hanna Meißner

            Vienna Gay Pride

For organizational purposes, please register: ICGP@mdw.ac.at

ICGP – International Research Center Gender and Performativity

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (mdw)
IKM – Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1 (E0108), A-1030 Wien

Kyra Schmied, Philipp Hohmann, Evelyn Annuß und Thari Jungen
mdw.ac.at/ikm/gender-studies