Second Opening of the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP)
December 10 - 12, 2025 | mdw-campus#Second Opening
Join us for the Second Opening of the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) at mdw, December 10–12! Following the successful launch of ICGP this summer, we are delighted to continue our discussions with new perspectives from across the research community.
The event focuses on dragging, racialization, and today’s political challenges in diverse geographical, historical, and performative contexts. The program includes Evelyn Annuß’s Inaugural Lecture on Dirty Dragging (Dec 10); an International Symposium featuring renowned scholars, performance artists, and filmmakers from around the world, as well as a book launch presenting the first ICGP publications (Dec 11); and an International Round Table on complicity and critique in academia paired with an Artistic Research Screening on Filmic Solidarities (Dec 12).
We look forward to welcoming nora chipaumire, Eitan Efrat, Sam Ehrentraut, Zimitri Erasmus, Isabel Frey, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Susanne Lettow, Eric Lott, Tatjana Nikolić, Clarissa Thieme & Raz Weiner.
For organizational purposes, please register at icgp@mdw.ac.at
Program Overview:
Wed, Dec 10, 2025
INAUGURAL LECTURE & RECEPTION
Fanny Hensel Hall, mdw Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
18:00 Welcome Address
Ulrike Sych (Rector, mdw)
Dominik Reisner (Federal Ministry Women, Science and Research)
Susanne Lettow (Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies, FU Berlin)
EVELYN ANNUß (CHAIR, ICGP)
DIRTY DRAGGING: ON GENDER, ‘RACE’, AND TRANSGRESSION
Food & Drinks at Banquet Hall
Thurs, Dec 11, 2025
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Fanny Hensel Hall, mdw Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:30 Eric Lott (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
Andy, Mick, and Marsha P.: The Political Economy of Glamour in Pop Art, Rock, and Queer Street Activism in the 1970s
12:00 Raz Weiner (Berlin/Vienna)
Being ‘my father’s son’: Embodiment, Movement, and the Failure to Name (Genocide)
Lunch Break
15:00 nora chipaumire (New York/Mutare)
#Punk and Afro Promo #1 King Lady
Film-Screenings & Artist Talk with Isabel Lewis (Tanzquartier Wien)
Coffee Break
16:30 Zimitri Erasmus (Wits University Johannesburg)
KEYNOTE: ARTICULATIONS OF ‘RACE’ AND GENDER
18:00 BOOK LAUNCH: FACING DRAG & DIRTY DRAGGING
with nora chipaumire, Sam Ehrentraut, Zimitri Erasmus, Eric Lott, Raz Weiner, and Evelyn Annuß
moderated by Philipp Hohmann (ICGP)
Fri, Dec 12, 2025
INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE & ARTISTIC RESEARCH SCREENING
ICGP, Seminar Room E0101 at IKM on mdw Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
14:00 Round Table: Facing the Authoritarian Drift Revisited: International Perspectives on Universities as Sites of Complicity and Critique
with Zimitri Erasmus, Sam Ehrentraut, Isabel Frey, Susanne Lettow, Eric Lott, Tatjana Nikolić, Raz Weiner and Evelyn Annuß
ARTISTIC RESEARCH SCREENING
Blickle Cinema at Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1
19:00 Artistic Research: Filmic Solidarities – Dialogues for a New Commons
Sirah Foighel Brutman & Eitan Efrat (Brussels)
Vents Violents (Two Letters to Chantal Akerman), 2024
Screening & Artist Talk with Clarissa Thieme (ARC/ICGP, mdw)
The Second Opening is organized by Evelyn Annuß, Philipp Hohmann, Teresa Kranawetter, Karo Spöring, Clarissa Thieme