Events
Events
2023
- Workshop "To be (dis)continued. New Perspectives on the Entanglements of Gender, Sexuality, and Jewishness". Together with the research group "Gender/Queer and Jewish Studies" (Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg) we will co-host a workshop for early career researchers on the multifaceted entanglements of Gender, Sexualities, and Jewishness in June 20-23, 2023. Check out the Call for Paper (deadline: May 31st, 2022).
2021
- Conference: Exhibitionism. Sexuality at the Museum, 9.-11. Dec 202.
Organized together with the Kinsey Institute (Indiana University, Bloomington), the Wilzig Erotic Art Museum (WEAM, Miami), this international three-day online conference brought together professionals from a diverse array of practices and disciplines from all around the world to explore, learn, connect, and share their experiences about this important topic.
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Workshop: Gender/Queer and Jewish Studies. Approaching an interdisciplinary field of research. 28.09.2021. Workshop of the research group Gender/Queer and Jewish Studies at the Selma Stern Centre. Based on the observation that there is a lack of feminist and gender- and queer-theoretical approaches within Jewish Studies, the research group would like to deal with gender and critical heteronormativity research within Jewish Studies and thus support efforts to think together these disciplines, which have so far often been considered separately from each other. Further information can be found here.
- Workshop: Taking Museum Engagement on Histories of Sexuality and Gender Online, 22. July 2021.This knowledge exchange workshop brought together curators, museum educators, and academics currently developing digital public engagement work around histories of gender and sexuality in order to discuss and reflect on what are the hurdles and what we can gain from conducting this work online. Jointly organised by Hannes Hacke from the Research Center and Dr Ina Linge, co-director of the Sexual Knowledge Unit at the university of Exeter.
2020
- Premiere: SUBJEKTRÄUME, a documentary about the subcultural place of Pelze Multimedia (1981-1996), celebrated its world premiere on November 20th, 2020 at the 37th Kassel Documentary and Video Fest (November 17-22, 2020).
- Workshop: "Exhibitionism: Sexuality at the museum" October, 14-23 2020 together with WEAM, Miami Beach and the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Part of the project “Naomi Wilzig Collection”.
2019
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Exhibition: “The Eroticism of Things. Collections on the History of Sexuality” December 2, 2019–March 30, 2020 at WEAM, Miami Beach, USA. Curated by the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality together with the Werkbund Archive – Museum of Things in Cooperation with WEAM und the Kinsey Institute. Part of the project “Naomi Wilzig Collection”.
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Conference: Jewish and Queer Interactions in Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel (1870–1960), 14–16 November 2019, Humboldt-University of Berlin in cooperation with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Closing conference of the project “Jewish Presence in Weimar Gay and Lesbian Culture and the German-Jewish Contribution to the Emergence of Gay Culture in Palestine/Israel, 1933–1960”.
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Lecture: Jews, Sexual Rights, and the Right. Public lecture by Robert Tobin at Schwules Museum, Berlin as part of the conference “Jewish and Queer Interactions in Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel (1870–1960),” 15 November 2019.
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Conference: Queering Memory. Archives – Arts – Audiences, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 27 June–29 June 2019. Hosted by Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft in partnership with Forschungsstelle Kulturgeschichte der Sexualität, FFBIZ, Initiative Queer Nations, Lili-Elbe-Archiv, Schwules Museum, and Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv.
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Participation in the group exhibition “In-visible Realness: Berlin 50 Years After Stonewall” at Galerie PS 120 in Berlin, 20 June–19 July 2019. The Research Centre for the Cultural History of Sexuality shows selected objects from the “Naomi Wilzig Art Collection”.
- Knowledge exchange workshop “Sexuality at the museum: educational concepts” in collabortation with the Sexual Knowledge Unit, University of Exeter and with the support of the lab.Bode at the Bode Museum, 17/18 January 2019.
2018
- The eroticism of data: Alfred C. Kinsey, Sampling, & cultural representations. Guest lecture by Judith A. Allen (Indiana University, Bloomington) on 28 June 2018. An event accompanying the exhibition “The Eroticism of Things. Collections on the History of Sexuality” at Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge.
- Things that attract. Erotic objects from the perspective of current theories on 'object agency'. Guest lecture by Claudia Breger (Columbia University, New York) on 24 May 2018. An event accompanying the exhibition "The Eroticism of Things. Collections on the History of Sexuality" at Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge.
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Exhibition “The Eroticism of Things. Collections on the history of sexuality” at Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, 03.05.–01.10.2018. A joint exhibition with the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge in honor of Magnus Hirschfeld’s 150th birthday in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute and the World Erotic Art Museum.
- Workshop “Queer Marxism”, organized by Mari Jarris (Princeton University) and Benedikt Wolf, 26.–27.1.2018, Humboldt University, Berlin with the support of the International Strategy Office (HU Berlin), the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies und the Department of Comparative Literature of Princeton University.
2017
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Exhibition: Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) at the World Erotic Art Museum, Miami Beach, USA opend on 3 December 2017. An exhibition curated in the context of the project “Naomi Wilzig collection” on the history of the German sexual scientist and his institute for Sexual Science.
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Exhibition: “Faszination Sex. Der Theoretiker und Aktivist Martin Dannecker”, curated by Patsy l'Amour laLove, 2.11.2017–28.2.2018, Schwules Museum* Berlin, organized with support by the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality.
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International conference at Humboldt University, Berlin: A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany. 20–22 July 2017 in the context of the HERA project Cruising the 1970s.
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Film screening at cinema Arsenal
Photos of the event
Conference report by Heiner Schulze (p. 67–71) - Transgender and Care. Guest lecture by the transgender activist Jessica Lynn followed by a discussion with Niki Trauthwein (Lili-Elbe-Archiv), in the context of the Queer Lectures series at TAZ-Café on 13 June 2017. Organized together with Queer Nations e.V. und the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG).
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2016
- Protected Beauty. An exhibition at the World Erotic Art Museum from 27 November 2016 to 1 March 2017. Curated by the World Erotic Art Museum and the Kinsey Institute. Supported by Indiana University and Humboldt University of Berlin.
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- Berlinale, Queer Academy Film Summit 2016, 17 February 2016, Plenary Re-imagining the Queer Archive with Dr. Nanna Heidenreich (Institut für Medienforschung, HBK Braunschweig; Arsenal Berlin, Forum Expanded, Berlin), Dr. Dagmar Brunow (Institute for Film Studies, Linnaeus University, Vaxjö, Schweden), Cheryl Dunye (Filmemacherin, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University, Liberia/San Francisco), Prof. Martin Koerber (Archiv der Deutschen Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin), Prof. Dr. Andreas Krass (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Alice Royer (Outfest Los Angeles; American Archive for Television and Film, University of California, Los Angeles).
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Video of the plenary
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2015
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amori et dolori sacrum - “Dedicated to Love and Pain”. An event in honour of the 80th anniversary of the death of Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) and in memory of the art collector Naomi Wilzig (1934–2015).
The event will be conducted in cooperation with the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation on the 14th of May in the senate hall of the Humboldt University Berlin (Unter den Linden 6). It will be followed by the opening of the exhibition “From the Musem of the Passions – The Collections of Magnus Hirschfeld (Berlin, 1919–1933) and Naomi Wilzig (Miami, 2005–2015) on the Cultural History of Sexuality” in the Pergamon Atrium of the HU Berlin
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ACT UP - Making History. Film and talk conducted in English on the 6th May 2015, 6–9pm, at the Humboldt University Berlin, Dorotheenstrasse 24, Room 1.101. A showing of the Oscar nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague” (USA 2012) will be followed by a discussion between Peter Staley (protagonist of the film) with Corinna Gekeler on the significance of the documentation and archivisation of (hi)stories related to AIDs. The discussion will be moderated by Paul Schulz.
The event is organised with the kind support of the USA embassy in Berlin.
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Recording - Presenting the History of Sexuality. Workshop on Exhibiting Collections Relating to the Cultural History of Sexuality. Thursday, the 18th of February 2015 at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
Workshop Programme
Report and Photos from the Workshop - Perversion and Love in Postwar Psychoanalysis. Or: Why we should Reread Robert Stoller. Lecture given by Prof. Dr. Dagmar Herzog on Wednesday the 11th March 2015 at the ICI in Berlin. The talk was organized in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) and the Institute for Queer Theory.
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Flyer
2013
- Securing – Preserving – Research. The legacy of Berlin's Sexological Tradition. An conference of specialists from sexological archives on May 6th 2013, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin Institut für Sexualwissenschaften by the Nazis.
Conference Programme
Poster of the Conference
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Conference Report (Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld)
Interview with Andreas Kraß
2012
- Inaugural event of the Hirschfeld-Lectures series in cooperation with the Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld on November 16th 2012 at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin: Lecture by Professor Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York) on the question of “Paradoxes of Sexual Liberalisation”.
Press (Tagesspiegel 19.11.2012)
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