Lecture series “Gender and Neuroscience”

Women talk a lot, men don’t. Women don’t have good spatial reasoning, men do. Women are emotional, men are rational. There are two clearly distinguishable genders and clear differences between them that can be proven scientifically, e.g. with the help of neuroscientific studies of the brain – right? Whether this gender binary and differences between the sexes, often perceived as natural, are really so unambiguous, what research on biological gender differences can and cannot say, and what other perspectives there are on gender within the natural sciences – these and similar questions will be addressed in the lecture series. All researchers, students and interested parties are welcome!

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Palm (HU Berlin)

„Sex/Gender studies in biology – the critical view of sex/gender within the life sciences“

17.06.2021

2 p.m.

online 

Abstract: 

Gender studies is primarily characterized by a plethora of studies in the humanities and social sciences on Gender relations. Less well known is the critical sex/gender research within biology that has been taking place since the 1970s, which has been researching the biological foundations of sex/gender, sexuality and sex/gender difference. The lecture presents this biological research on gender with examples and explains the theoretical self-understanding of this research.

Registration via mail.

Follow ups:

29.09.2021 3 p.m. (online)

Dr. Mercedes Küffner (University of Freiburg): „Sex & Gender as biological Variables (SABV) – selected foundations“

01.12.2021 2 p.m. (online)

Dr. Hannah Fitsch (HU Berlin/Goethe-University Frankfurt/M.: „What Leibniz has to do with binary (sex/gender) categories in neuroscience. Mathematical logic in the methods of computational neurosciences“