The Final Report of the IRTG Diversity was submitted. You can read the public part here: IRTG Diversity Final Report - public part

 

In Queer Agency: A Transdisciplinary Conceptualization of Queer Femininities in Film and Activism in Montréal and Berlin, Charlotte Kaiser conducts a qualitative case study of queer women's self-perceptions and anti-normative practices in Quebec and Germany. She proposes to explore the phenomenon of queer agency, that is, the unpredictable effects that emerge from the complex relationship between normative ...

 

Sash, Mokassins und blumenförmiges Beadwork haben sich zu Symbolen für das indigene people der Metis in Kanada entwickelt. Sie werden mindestens seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert verwendet, um Metisness zu konstruieren und zu artikulieren. Durch ihre Bedeutung für die Produktion von kollektiver und kultureller Erinnerung bilden diese Artefakte eine der Grundlagen für die Resilienz der Metis gegenüber ...

 

Viktoria Sophie Lühr's dissertation has been published by Könighausen & Neumann. Her book "Kulturelle Diversität im Spannungsfeld zwischen Globalisierung und (Re-)Nationalisierung" explores the discourse on cultural diversity in a time of political and social transformation. Against the backdrop of increasing diverscultural openness and counter-movements that emphasized the protection and the unity ...

 

How do diversity and memory mutually shape one another? This volume of the IRTG Diversity series shows that a focus on memory introduces an important and contested temporal dimension to the politics, practices, and narratives of diversity. Exploring the various entanglements of historical projections and representations of and from the past with contemporary discourses on difference and inclusion, ...

 

The past few years in Canada have been marked by numerous events in the course of which Canadian Settlers were invited to reconsider their perspectives on, and practices toward the Indigenous population. Public schools are one of the main institutions directly invited to reflect on and challenge their own colonial legacy and ongoing colonial structures and practices. This project aims at better understanding ...

 

During the annual meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien / GKS) in Grainau, IRTG alumna Viktoria Lühr received the Prix d'Excellence du Gouvernement du Québec for her dissertation on "Kulturelle Diversität im Spannungsfeld zwischen Globalisierung und (Re-) Nationalisierung. Eine Analyse des soziopolitischen Diskurses in Frankreich, ...

 

For her research on “Doing Gender, Doing Jewishness: Hasidic Women within the Intimate, Private and Public Spheres”, IRTG Doctoral Candidate Valentina Gaddi received the Hadassah Brandeis 2022 Research Award. The price was awarded by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in February. The IRTG Diversity wholeheartedly congratulates Valentina Gaddi on this achievement! More Information: https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/programs/grants/re ...

 

La crise sanitaire provoquée par la Covid-19 a révélé et accentué d’importantes inégalités sociales liées à la classe, au genre et à la race, et ce notamment dans de nombreux pays occidentaux. Ces inégalités mettent à l’épreuve les modèles politiques démocratiques et libéraux et permettent aussi de reposer la question de la solidarité à de nouveaux frais. L’insoutenable aggravation des inégalités en ...

 

The following three podcasts *Historische Ereignisse, Zeitenwenden und Vielfalt der Temporalitäten (Frank Bösch, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam) *Transition Time on TV: Transing Genre in "Transparent" (Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) *Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (Robert McRuer, George Washington University) anticipate ...

 

In what ways are temporality and diversity normative constructs? What presuppositions about temporality underlie your discipline? Do they shape research and its findings? In what ways is diversity a temporal construct? How does diversity entail different time conceptions? How do different media forms shape sociocultural difference, experiences of time, and/or memory? How does the current pandemic ...

 

Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation und Beschränkungen, mit denen die Ausbreitung des Coronavirus verlangsamt werden sollen, werden digitale Lehrangebote für das kommende Semester in größerem Umfang an Universitäten eingesetzt werden müssen. Mit H/SOZ/KULT hat die Sprecherin des IRTG-Diversity, Ursula Lehmkuhl, auch über ihre Erfahrungen und Lehren mit digitalen Lösungen bei der Arbeit mit dem Graduiertenkolleg ...

 

On July 1, 2017, Canada celebrated the 150th anniversary of Confederation. The nation-wide festivities prompted ambiguous reactions and contradictory responses since they officially proclaimed to celebrate “what it means to be Canadian.” Drawing on the analytical perspectives of Diversity Studies, this fifth volume of the “Diversity / Diversité / Diversität” series explores the repercussions of “Canada ...

 

Translating Diversity, the fourth volume in the IRTG Diversity's publication series, invites the reader to participate in a discussion about how to conceptualize the mediation of difference in localities of diversity and transcultural spaces via the analytical lenses of ‘translation’ as a social practice. The contributions to the volume explore, discuss, and theorize ‘translation’ as a pre-institutionalized ...

 

The IRTG Diversity was established in April 2013 and its members have since cooperated in research on cultural and social diversity in Canada, Québec, and Europe. To document this research and to continue our exchanges with the broader academic public, we have now started a new publication series called “Diversity – Diversité – Diversität”. The first volume of the IRTG Diversity’s publication series, ...

 

The Midterm Review of our International Research Training Group by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has been completed and SSHRC will continue its funding through the remaining years of the project. Our IRTG exceeds expectations based on the initial goals of the project and SSHRC's evaluation criteria in the majority of evaluation categories! For more information on the IRTG Diversity: ...

 

Kulturelle Vielfalt in europäischen und nordamerikanischen Gesellschaften ist Thema des deutsch-kanadischen Graduiertenkollegs „Diversität“, das seit 2013 von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) finanziert wird. Mit ihrem Antrag auf Verlängerung des Programms waren nun Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftler der Universität Trier, der Universität des Saarlandes und der Université de Montréal (Québec) ...

 

If we were to describe the IRTG Diversity in one word, which word would it be? And what makes the IRTG Diversity special? Find out in our introductory video, produced in the summer of 2015. To learn more about the IRTG Diversity in general, see "About the IRTG" and "Research Program" on the left-hand side. To get in touch with us, go to http://irtg-diversity.com/index.php?page=contact (Film: ...