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Feminismus Symposium. f******* – Towards New Perspectives on Feminism

Friday, Feb 1, 2013 – Sunday, Feb 3, 2013

Symposium, Panel discussion
Event on site

three-day symposium

In the media landscape the battle over a new, renewed, reborn, or doomed feminism seems more ferocious than ever. Frontlines run between aspiration and conscience, historicity and critique, prejudice and fear, complains and anger. The project f******* aims to analyse and discuss present and future battlefields on an interdisciplinary basis from different perspectives. The program consists of a three-day symposium, an exhibition, a concert and a newspaper campaign.


A project of Espace Surplus (Berlin) together with Goldsmiths University London in cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)


The complete symposium is documented in a DVD-set and available at n.b.k.

Friday, February 1, New Perspectives on Feminism

18:30 Uhr – Begrüßung und Einführung

Marius Babias (n.b.k. Direktor), Christina Schildmann (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin), Bettina Springer/Barbara Krijanovsky (Espace Surplus, Berlin) und Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths University London)


6.45 pm – Feminism, Politics and Precarious Economics

Discussion with Claudia Gather (prof. Sociology, Berlin School of Economics and Law), Hanna Rosin (writer, journalist, Washington D.C.; Author The End of Men: And the Rise of Women) and Deborah Ruggieri (cultural scientist, Gender AG Attac, Berlin), moderated by Angela McRobbie (Prof. Communications, Goldsmiths University London; author Top Girls: (Un)Doing Feminism)

With an artistic comment by Kirsten Palz (artist, Berlin)


Saturday, February 2, The Gender Politics of the Art Market

4.30 pm – Feminism and Maternity

Discussion with Lisa Baraitser (Director Department Psychosocial Studies and MaMSIE, Birkbeck University London), Mareen Linnartz (Journalist, Editor Nido. Wir sind eine Familie, München) and Claudia Voigt (Journalist, Hamburg; Co-Author Die Unmöglichen: Mütter, die Karriere machen), moderated by Bettina Springer (Espace Surplus, Berlin)


6.30 pm – The Gender Politics of the Art Market

Discussion with Katharina Grosse (artist, Prof. Painting, Art Academy Düsseldorf), Marian López Fernández-Cao (president Association Women in the Visual Arts (MAV), Madrid) and Philomene Magers (Sprüth Magers gallery, Berlin/London), moderated by Julia Voss (journalist, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Berlin)


Sunday, February 3, Feminism and New Masculinities

4.30 pm – Cross-Cultural Feminism

Discussion with Esma Çakır-Ceylan (Lawyer, Bundesverband der Migrantinnen e.V., Neuss) and Kübra Gümüsay (Journalist, Blogger, taz-Columnist, Berlin), moderated by Ayşe Güleç (Diplomatic social worker, art mediator, Head of documenta 12 Advisory Board, Kassel)


6.30 pm – Feminism and New Masculinities

Discussion with Dissens e.V. (Berlin), Ann Phoenix (Prof. of Children and Learning, University of London) and Mark Simpson (journalist, author, Darlington; originator of metrosexual), moderated by Regina Frey (genderbüro, Berlin)


Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein wird gefördert durch die LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin