Events

Elisabeth Militz took part on the 25.02.2021 in the "Fokus Forschung – Gespräche über Naturwissenschaften". More information (German only) can be found on their website. 

M.A. Laura Perler
Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium BHK
«Human geographic research at GIUB»
(12.15 – 13.45, only via Zoom/Link, GIUB)

Organized by the units:
Social and cultural geography / Economic geography /  Critical Sustainibility Studies / Political Urbanism and Sustainable Spatial Development

Short presentations with discussions 

with Prof. Dr. Carolin Schurr, Geographical Institut 
(10.40, room A003, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1)

More information (in GERMAN)
 

Wednesday 15. May (18.15 - 19.45, main building room 201, in GERMAN)

Presentation of posdcasts from the mLab, made by students in our unit (Proseminar Social and Cultural Geography: Digital Geographies of the global/intimate)

When: Wednesday, 18.15 – 19.45 Uhr

Where: Hauptgebäude, room 201

Conception: Claudia Amsler, M.A.; Prof. Dr. Michèle Amacker; Prof. Dr. Patricia Purtschert

On Tuesday, 14th May, 11-12 o'clock: we will read a text to Black Geographies. Everybody, students included, are welcomed!
If you want to take part in this discussion, please inform Carolin Schurr (carolin.schurr@giub.unibe.ch).

We would like to invite all those interested in new social and cultural geographies, feminist geographies and gender studies, digitalisation and robotisation to the lecture of Prof. Heidi Nast (DePaul University Chicago) on May 10, 10:15-11.45am at the University of Bern (Mittelstrasse 43, room 220). This lecture draws on geopolitical economy and psychoanalytic theories of the maternal to explore why comparatively advantaged heterosexual men across the US and China began investing in life-sized, heteronormatively configured, and highly realistic silicone female sex dolls in the 1990s (US) and new millennium (China) with increasing attention paid to robotization. It will be followed by an Apero.

For the International Women's Day, 11. March at 12 o'clock, the unit Social and Cultural Geography invites you to a lunch with discussions about "Who cares @ GIUB?".

In collaboration with Karine Duplan from the University of Geneva, Elisabeth Militz (Unit Social- and Cultural Geogaphy) organizes the session “Bodies, Space and Difference in the Global Intimate” for the Human Geographies Symposium at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2018, which will take place on 30.11. and 01.12.18 at the University of Bern. The paper session will address, on the one hand, questions of sexualised and racialized body politics, and, on the other hand, the global war on terrorism and its affects and embodied experiences in intimate everyday lives.

You can find more general information on the 16th Swiss Geoscience Meeting here.

On Tuesday, 2. October, 10:15 - 12h, are we going to read this text: 
Mountz, Alison, and Jennifer Hyndman. ‘Feminist Approaches to the Global Intimate’. Women’s Studies Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (1 April 2006): 446–63.

Where: room 301 (GIUB)
For more information, please contact elisabeth.militz@giub.unibe.ch