Gender Lunch at HUM

Gender Lunch is a recurring event that brings together researchers from across the University of Copenhagen for an informal lunch with an academic twist. Every month, a different faculty acts as host, creating a rotating setting where diverse academic traditions and perspectives on gender can meet.

The aim of Gender Lunch is to provide space for interdisciplinary conversations about gender and diversity – both as research fields and as lived experiences in academia. Over a shared meal, one or more researchers introduce a current theme, ongoing research, an article, a project, or teaching practice in the field. This serves as a starting point for discussion and exchange of perspectives.

The event is open to all faculty with an interest in gender research and related topics.

Participation is free, but registration is required ahead of each lunch, send an email to: koordinationen_koen@hum.ku.dk.
Please bring your own lunch. Coffee and cake will be provided by the Coordination for Gender Research.

Gender Lunch Presentations

This time we look forward to contributions from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

• Amaru Ibarra Olguin, PhD fellow, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
  
  Turning Away, Opening Up: Shame and Queer Belonging in Contemporary Latinx Feminist Art
  This talk explores how shame shapes racialized and gendered embodiment in contemporary Latinxfeminist art. Focusing on the photographic self-portraits of Chicana artist Laura Aguilar, AmaruIbarra Olguin examines how the inward gesture of shame can open toward new forms of decolonialrelationality, belonging, and aesthetic experimentation.

• Marika Cifor, visiting professor from the Information School at the University of Washington
  
  The Treatment Underground: Queer Information Activism, Access, and Survival in the Treatment Underground
  Marika Cifor's book in progress traces HIV/AIDS buyer's clubs of the late 1980s–90s as early sites of queer data activism, where grassroots networks used databases, bulletin boards, and phone treesto circulate treatment knowledge and challenge biomedical authority. Drawing on feminist STS and critical information studies, the talk asks what these "alternative epistemologies" — and theirtwenty-first century descendants addressing hepatitis C, COVID-19, and beyond — reveal abouthow crisis, care, and information resistance are always already entangled.