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Sarah Speck is writing her PhD
thesis on the motherly ideal in SOS Children’s Villages. She asks
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whether the strongly »Western«-infl uenced concept of motherliness
»The working consensus is special, and the diff erent perspectives
of the disciplines have a productive and supportive eff ect on your
own work,« believes Sarah Speck. Falko Schnicke agrees: »The dis-
in the organization can be successfully transferred to other cultucussions are constructive and cooperative; their interdisciplinary
ral contexts. Or whether – as in Latin America, for example – it nature means that there is no direct competition between the
feels like a »colonial export«. How do SOS Children’s Village mo- graduates.« He is also enthusiastic about the mentoring. »The prothers
see themselves? Is there any resistance, and if so what forms fessors and tutors are easy to reach; they’re attentive and have a
does it take?
real interest in the subjects,« says Schnicke.
Falko Schnicke also is writing his dissertation. Using texts and He is currently examining texts and portraits of famous his-
portraits of famous 18th and 19th century historians, he is analystorians to back up his hypothesis on the »gendering and sexualing
the development of history as purely male academic domain. ization of the research process in the male-dominated discipline
Two subjects, two disciplines. What do they have in common? of history« in the 18th/19th century. Schnicke: »The portraits dem-
They are both being funded as part of the research training group
»Gender as a Category of Knowledge,«
which was launched at Humboldt-Univeronstrate
that only ›real men‹ are capable of proper science – at
sität in 2005.
Christina von Braun ist Kulturtheoretikerin. Christina von Braun is a cultural theorist.
As early as 1997 Prof. Christina von
Braun had co-founded the University’s
Die Filmemacherin und Autorin wurde 1944
in Rom geboren, wo ihr Vater Diplomat im
Vatikan war. Sie wuchs in Italien, Deutsch-
The fi lmmaker and author was born in 1944 in
Rome, where her father was a diplomat at the
Vatican. She grew up in Italy, Germany, Eng-
course in Gender Studies, which was deland, England und den USA auf. Über ihre Faland and the USA. Her book Stille Post tells
voted to the scientifi c analysis of the genemiliengeschichte erzählt ihr Buch »Stille about her family history. Von Braun has been
sis, relevance, history and practice of gender
diff erence. »Many excellent graduates
Post«. Von Braun lehrt seit 1994 am Institut
für Kulturwissenscha� der Humboldt-Universität
als Professorin für Kulturtheorie mit dem
teaching since 1994 at Humboldt-Universität’s
Department of Cultural Studies as Professor of
Cultural Theory, focusing on gender and his-
of the course wanted to subsequently do Schwerpunkt Geschlecht und Geschichte. Sie tory. She initiated and co-founded the Gender
their PhD in this fi eld. We had to create ist Initiatorin und Mitbegründerin des Studi- Studies course and the Jewish Studies Pro-
funding opportunities. There is enormous engangs »Gender Studies« sowie des 2009 gramme, which was launched in 2009. Her re-
innovation potential in gender studies,«
explains the founder and spokeswoman of
gegründeten »Kollegiums Jüdische Studien«.
Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Gender,
Medien, Religion und Moderne sowie die Säsearch
focuses on gender, the media, religion
and modernity as well as the secularization
and history of anti-Semitism. Since 2008, the
this research training group.
kularisierung und Geschichte des Antisemitis- cultural scientist has also been Vice President
It was clear to the cultural theorist that mus. Seit 2008 ist die Kulturwissenscha� lerin of the Goethe Institute. She is spokeswoman
this potential could only be fully exploited
in an interdisciplinary context. The re-
zudem Vizepräsidentin des Goethe-Instituts.
Sie ist Sprecherin des von ihr 2005 erfolgreich
aus der Taufe gehobenen Graduiertenkollegs
of the research training group »Gender as a
Category of Knowledge«, which was successfully
launched in 2005.
search group, whose approach is critical of
science, therefore opened up to all subjects.
»Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie«.
Every week, the graduates meet for a colloquium
to exchange results or form study
groups aimed at generating new ideas.
crbraun@culture.hu-berlin.de
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