Welcome to the Working Group for Cultural and Gender History!

The project deals with gender politics in local and global dimensions during the First World War. A particular focus is on the areas of social and wartime welfare and associated gender-specific rhetoric and practices. The project aims to analyze discourses on gender, war and violence, as well as their patterns and political functions. It focusses on processes of de- and restabilization of gender in wartime and their connection to discourses of (war) violence.

In terms of content, the project ranges from the investigation of explicitly politically positioned female actors (the peace movement, the female suffrage movement) to the analysis of explicitly anti-democratic war welfare policies under the leadership and participation of protagonists from the nationalist-German or Catholic-conservative milieu. Specific negotiations of gendered concepts of citizenship make up another important point of focus.

In spatial terms, the project addresses both global and regional contexts (the Habsburg monarchy and the German Empire). As both the first "global" and the first "total war", the First World War lends itself to research into how experiences of war and violence fundamentally affect the cultural constitution of societies and the role played by gender.

Meetings and workshops are held on an ongoing basis as part of the project. The ELF has also established an international research group "Violence - Vulnerability - Care. Gender Politics during the "Greater War" (1912-1923)"

• Elisabeth List Fellowship Programme for Gender Studies
• Senior Researcher (project leader): Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz)
• Incoming Senior Researcher: Ingrid Sharp (Leeds)
• Project Assistant: Viktoria Wind (Graz)
• Incoming Junior Fellow: Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett (Leeds)
• Funding body: University of Graz - Gender Equality
• Period: 2021-early 2024

Project staff

• Senior Researcher (project management)Prof^.in Dr.ⁱⁿ Heidrun Zettelbauer (University of Graz)

Heidrun Zettelbauer is Associate Professor of Modern/Modern History at the Institute of History at the University of Graz and heads the Department of Cultural and Gender History, which was newly established in 2020. Her research focuses on cultural-theoretical gender history, gender-sensitive nationalism, German nationalism and ethnic movements, gender history of the First World War, auto/biography, body history and theoretical museology.

• Incoming Senior Researcher:Prof^.in Dr^.in Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds)

Ingrid Sharp is Professor of German Cultural and Gender History at the University of Leeds in the UK. As an Incoming Senior Researcher, she is part of the Elisabeth List Fellowship Programme. Her research focuses on gender issues in the context of pacifism and war resistance as well as the history of female activism around the First World War.

• Junior Fellow:Mag^.a phil. Viktoria Wind, BA

Viktoria Wind is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for History at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on the field of new military history, pursued through the lens of gender history. The constructions of gender concepts in military contexts during the First World War and the interwar period are a particular focus of her work.

• Incoming Junior Fellow:Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett; MA BA

After graduating from the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett is a PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. She is an Incoming Junior Fellow in the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program. Her research focuses on German politics, political culture and protest.

Pursuing de/constructivist approaches, the dissertation project focuses on the processuality, instability and performance of gender constructions. The project focuses on socialist military concepts of masculinity during the First World War and the First Republic of Austria until 1934, examining the discursively negotiated dimensions of meaning, figures, imaginations and demarcations within military and proletarian 'defensive' concepts of masculinity in the k.(u.)k. Armee, the Volkswehr, the Bundesheer and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. The project also examines interactions between the identity constructions of soldiers, revolutionaries, republicans and the proletariat, as well as the subjectivities of social democrat and communist actors.

• Dissertation project/third-party funded project: ÖAW DOC scholarship
• Project leader: Viktoria Wind (Graz)
• Supervision: Heidrun Zettelbauer
• Project duration: October 2023 - October 2025

The project, funded by an ÖAW post-doctoral track fellowship and a Rachel Carson - Simone Veil Fellowship (RCC & PHE Munich), is a biographically-oriented environmental history study from a women's and gender history perspective. The central aim is to locate women and their biographies as actors in the history of environmental movements in Germany and Austria (ca. 1900-1992). This is a serious research desideratum in (particularly German-language) environmental history, which almost completely excludes women. The aim is not only to add women to what already exists, but also to rethink questions of environmental history from the perspective of modern women's and gender history.

The project seeks to reconstruct the collective biographical representation of female environmental activists with different social, economic and cultural backgrounds, based on the concept of "scope for action / spaces for action" as well as intersectionality. Discourses and issues central to environmental movements are discussed through the analytical lens of biographically-oriented case studies.

• Habilitation project
• Duration: -2027
• Collaborator: Katharina Scharf (project leader)

This research project examines series of letters that were written in the context of the National Socialist Reich Labour Service (RAD). The primary research objective is to find out how 'ordinary' labour service members dealt with mobilization and indoctrination in the RAD and what effects this 'education' had. The study complements current research into National Socialist rule by examining letter-writing in a central educational institution of the regime, a topic that has been little researched to date. Above all, the project provides important insights into the neglected perspectives of young adults in the RAD. It looks into their descriptions of life and their own position within National Socialist society. Specific areas of focus include their acceptance of roles assigned by the regime, their negotiations, and their struggles with social pressure. With the help of a software-supported qualitative content analysis and innovative recourse to cultural studies work, the project aims to acquire new insights into individual interpretations of National Socialism and education in the RAD.

• Doctoral scholarship awarded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
• Duration: until the beginning of 2024
• Staff: Gero Roedern (project leader)

Amy Millet is a doctoral student in history. Her work examines the intersection of gender history, national identity and food studies in 19th-century Austria. She is particularly interested in the ways women used daily culinary practices as pre-political obligations that cut across partisan lines to articulate their views of womanhood. Her research will make a unique contribution to Austrian food history by exploring dynamic social forces, including industrialization and urbanization, that altered consumption patterns and shaped notions of gender, class, nationality and ethnicity.

• Fullbright US-Student Award, University of Kansas
• Duration: 2021-End 2023
• Collaborators: Amy Millet (project leader), Heidrun Zettelbauer (supervision)

The project "Space - Gender - Politics. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Gendered Spaces" deals with the development of a gender-, queer- and body-sensitive theoretical framework for the interweaving of space and gender. Based on approaches from gender-critical cultural analysis, architectural theory and historical research, the focus is primarily on gender-specific codings and discursivizations of socio-cultural (built) spaces and, derived from this, practical-political limitations and empowerments in dealing with physical and socio-cultural spaces.

The project's theoretical framework serves as a starting point for work on an FWF project application which aims to secure third-party funding for interdisciplinary doctoral positions. At the same time, the project aims to improve research skills within doctoral training in the field of "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies" and to consolidate training structures for doctoral students in this field at the University of Graz. In addition, the project seems to establish cooperation with other Austrian universities and collaboration with gender researchers from the international community in the areas of space and gender.

• Elisabeth List Fellowship Program for Gender Studies
• Duration: October 2024-December 2025
• Staff members: Heidrun Zettelbauer (Project Manager), Maria Fritsche (Incoming Senior Fellow), Markus Wurzer (Local Senior Fellow), Antje Senarclens de Grancy (Local Senior Fellow), Katharina Scharf (Local Senior Fellow), Samuel Hofstadler (Local Junior Fellow)

Postwar Amateur Film Practices in a Transnational Perspective

Hanna Stein / Renée Winter / Heidrun Zettelbauer (eds.), Postwar Amateur Film Practices in a Transnational Perspective. zeitgeschichte Vol. 50 (2023) Issue 3. V&R unipress / Vienna University Press 2023.

Amateur film and amateur media practices have attracted increasing interest in recent decades in the context oft the visual turn. Questions of agency, participatory and political/ militant film practices, and of representations of "self" and "other" are of interest as well as the institutions and networks of amateur productions. This special issue of zeitgeschichte contributes to this field of research by examining international and transnational developments of amateur films in the period after the Second World War. The collected contributions analyse national specifics and regional shapings of practices as well as cultural constructions in amateur film and video, they trace transnational entanglements of amateur media and tackle cross-border amateur filmmaking and internationally and globally shared discursive references and uses of metaphors in video activism. The authors elaborate parallels to organizational structures in amateur film practices in specific sociopolotical and cultural contexts and discuss aspects of memory and the appropriation of hegemonic visual cultures in individual film practices.

Negotiations of gender and sexuality in visual cultures of the 1920s and 1930s

Christina Wieder / Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah / Heidrun Zettelbauer (eds.), Verhandlungen von Geschlecht und Sexualität in visuellen Kulturen der 1920er- und 1930er-Jahre. zeitgeschichte Jg. 50 (2023) Heft 1. University Press / V&R unipress 2023.

Visual media - illustrated magazines, photographs, posters or films - were not only an expression of the profound social, political and cultural upheavals and conflicts after the First World War, but also acted as their multipliers. As spaces for the negotiation of current debates and an indication of new social developments - particularly in relation to contemporary gender concepts and/or the thematization of sexual desire - they also created a field of experimentation for social, cultural and political movements and encounters. The contributions in this special issue deal with various visual media of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on commercial and artistic practices as well as the producers and consumers of visual culture. They examine the forms, modes of representation, motifs and figures that circulated in this context, as well as the spaces of production and reception and their emancipatory potential.

Pain

Heidrun Zettelbauer / Maria Fritsche / Bożena Chołuj (eds.), Pain. l'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft - European Journal for Feminist History, Vol. 33 (2022) Issue 2. Göttingen: V&R Unipress 2022.

Although pain is a historical constant, it is strongly shaped by culture and time. Gender orders influence what is perceived as painful and how pain is expressed, communicated and interpreted. The articles in this issue use case studies to illustrate the links between gender and pain. The topics covered range from self-inflicted pain in psychiatric contexts or self-injury in queer-feminist artistic practices to interpretations of birth pains by male physicians, the mourning rituals practiced by Greek women and a Jewish photographer's attempt to artistically capture the trauma of the Shoah. The focus of the essays is on 19th and 20th century Europe.

Visible women - invisible pasts. On the problem of street (re)naming in the context of Austrian women science pioneers

Lisa Rettl / Linda Erker (eds.), Visible women - invisible pasts. On the problems of street (re)namings in the context of Austrian women science pioneers. zeitgeschichte Vol. 48 (2021) H. 3. University Press / V&R unipress 2021.

Street (re)namings have been in vogue since the 2000s: personalities with links to National Socialism now appear politically unacceptable in public debates on remembrance. However, the question of how topographical designations reflect dominance relations and hegemonic memory discourses is also under discussion. However, the call for more gender equality and greater visibility of women in the public sphere in this context sometimes proves to be a paradoxical recipe against politically questionable honors in the course of current renaming practices: Quite a few female scientists who are honored today with street names as academic pioneers and trailblazers in their field were also politically active National Socialists. This booklet addresses this seemingly anachronistic practice of public politics of remembrance by linking perspectives on women's and gender history with biographical and academic research. Three female scientists after whom streets were recently named are presented: Mathilde Uhlirz, Lore Kutschera and Margret Dietrich.

Potato show cooking, illegal fighters and war. Women in National Socialist Salzburg

Katharina Scharf, Potato Show Cooking, Illegal Fighters and War . Women in National Socialist Salzburg. Salzburg: Anton Pustet Verlag 2021.

This book focuses on women from the city and province of Salzburg who were more or less enthusiastic about National Socialism. Assuming that there is no homogeneous group of "the" women and (therefore) that it is not possible to speak of women in National Socialism, the question naturally arises for the readership: Which women are the subject of this book? The focus is primarily on those who were committed to National Socialism in various forms, especially in party organizations, in the city and province or in the "Reichsgau" of Salzburg. Even before the "Anschluss" in 1938, many were active as "illegal fighters" for the NSDAP, which was banned in Austrofascist Austria. Before and after 1938, they dedicated themselves to a wide range of tasks in the NS Women's Association and the German Women's Organization, which made their power and powerlessness tangible. Their activities ranged from charitable fundraising to the teaching of "racial doctrine" in training courses. There was not, as is often assumed, one single image of women, but many different Nazi images of women, which did not necessarily correspond to women's everyday lives. The substantial question of how much influence and power National Socialist women had is a revealing aspect of everyday life for women under National Socialism. It is not a question of pinning women down to certain categories or roles - be it the "oppressed woman", the "mother", the woman as "victim" or the "perpetrator" or "denouncer". Instead, many facets are shown and the functioning of the system is explored. Several biographical insights reveal the role played by factors such as religion, age, profession, male "party comrades" or the women's husbands.

Alps between development and nature conservation. Tourism in Salzburg and Savoy 1860-1914

Katharina Scharf, Alps between development and nature conservation . Tourism in Salzburg and Savoy 1860-1914 (= Tourism: transcultural & transdisciplinary 12). Innsbruck: StudienVerlag 2021.

Tourism polarizes. It connects and divides. In many Alpine regions, tourism - with all its positive and negative effects - is omnipresent. The transformative power of tourism is clearly demonstrated by the example of Alpine regions such as Salzburg and Savoy, which are characterized by a tradition of tourism that goes back more than 200 years. Questions such as "Who owns the Alps?" and "Should they be preserved or developed?" were already causing a stir in the 19th century. A historical comparison of the tourism history of the two very different regions of Salzburg and Savoy reveals exciting similarities.

The aspects and questions of the relationships between tourism, infrastructures, ecology and nature conservation as well as center-periphery relationships and questions of gender history, which are equally focused on here, go beyond a conventional analysis and description of tourism history and contribute to a broader understanding of tourism-related developments.

European Regional History. An introduction

Martin Knoll / Katharina Scharf, European Regional History. An introduction (= utb 5642). Vienna: Böhlau 2021.

The terms "region" and "regional" are ubiquitous. What exactly constitutes a region, however, often remains unclear. This study book introduces basic terms and concepts relating to "region" in historical studies and outlines perspectives, methods and theories of European regional history.
The core of this introduction is an exploration of regional history topics and approaches: political history, microhistory, global and trans-territorial history, economic and social history, cultural history, environmental history, urban history, religious and confessional history, tourism history, migration history, the history of individual and group biographies, gender history, regional history in the school context.

1914/18 - revisited

Christa Hämmerle / Ingrid Sharp / Heidrun Zettelbauer (eds.),1914/18 - revisited. l'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft/European Journal for Feminist History, Vol. 29 (2018) H. 2. Göttingen: V&R Unipress 2018.

The volume deals with a critical review of national cultures of memory and history in the context of the centenary remembering the outbreak and the course of the First World War. Its starting point is the question in which way the broad activities in science, media and public focused on Women's and Gender History. Which topics and aspects did historians analyze and explore? Did increasing debates around 2014 also result in a significant diversification of insights into the gendered history of the war or do we have to state on the contrary a return of "male-centered master narratives" or a persistent orientation towards national paradigms - as gender historians forewarned already at the beginning of the memory boom. Could gender historians fruitfully intercede in debates in academia or popular history? Could they take the chance to shift perspectives within traditional narratives, which tend to discuss the situation of "women in wartime" solely as a "special chapter" of a seemingly "general", but in fact "male-centered" history of the war? Can we observe differences in transnational comparison? In order to answer such questions, the current issue of "L'Homme" assembles case studies on Germany and Austria, France/Great Britain, Italy, Portugal and Hungary - thereby focusing also on some European countries or regions, which by tendency stayed marginalized so far in research. Dealing with a broad range of different methodological approaches, the authors examine various shapes of remembrance: scientific writing, national and international conferences or workshops, exhibitions and (virtual) collections or online portals.
Contributions by Angelika Schaser, Alison S. Fell, Fátima Mariano and Helena da Silva, Judith Acsády, Zsolt Mészáros and Máté Zombory, Stefania Bartoloni, Benjamin Ziemann, Ingrid Sharp, Christa Hämmerle, Margaret R. Higonnet, Benno Gammerl, Maria Rösslhumer and Heidrun Zettelbauer.

Reflections on Camps - Space, Agency, Materiality

Antje Senarclens de Grancy / Heidrun Zettelbauer (eds.), Reflections on Camps - Space, Agency, Materiality. zeitgeschichte Vol. 45 (2018) H. 4. Vienna / Göttingen: University Press / V&R unipress 2019.

Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the center of current policies and societal debates. In the present volume, the authors explore camps as (cultural) spaces in a broad sense and deal with their complex dimensions as sites of the Modern. They examine camp spaces and their social configurations, physical/architectural qualities, symbolic functions as well as cultural representations in an intent to define the inscribed ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes of the phenomenon. Positioned within different disciplinary contexts (Contemporary History, Visual Studies, Architectural History, Refugee and Gender Studies), the assembled articles present a wide range of understandings and approaches to space, materiality and the relations between governance and agency. The contributors stress the entanglement of social structures, cultural discourse, institutionalization, individual perception and appropriation. They show how the issue of camps can serve as cross-sectional matter for researchers in different fields in Cultural Theory and Contemporary History. Contributions by Antje Senarclens de Grancy (Graz), Ulrike Krause (Osnabrück), Robert Jan van Pelt (Waterloo), Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz) and Annika Wienert (Warsaw).

Embodiments | Embodiment. Transdisciplinary analyses of gender and the body in history

Heidrun Zettelbauer / Stefan Benedik / Nina Kontschieder / Käthe Sonnleitner (eds.), Embodiments | Embodiment. Transdisciplinary Analyses of Gender and the Body in History. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2016.

The body can be regarded as a key analytical concept in recent women's and gender studies. Within feminist and gender theory, the preoccupation with the body has not only challenged established models (e.g. sex/gender) since the 1980s, but also anticipated central areas of discussion at an early stage, which were to be negotiated in the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies and history in general at the latest as part of the "cultural studies turn". The sometimes fierce and controversial debates of the 1990s ultimately enabled a sharpening of terms and concepts - but above all, they opened up a productive field of research for gender history, in which the focus is not only on historical body discourses, but also on processes of production, practice, affirmation and subversion of corporeality. The research concept of "embodiment", which links all the contributions in this anthology, refers to moments "of becoming a body insocial space" (Leslie Adelson), i.e. to those processes in which the body is intertwined with gender and other cultural categories of difference and is constantly produced performatively. In various case studies from the Middle Ages to the present day, gender historians and theorists explore the questions outlined above. With contributions by Heidrun Zettelbauer, Hanna Hacker, Kerstin Palm, Stefan Benedik, Libora Oates-Indruchova, Andrea Meissner, Nina Kogler, Andrea Moshövel, Josephine Hoegaerts, Stefan Hartmann, Susanne Leuenberger, Tanja Prokic, Marina Hilber, Willemijn Ruberg, Fatma Gökçen Beyinli and Angelika Baier.

Viktoria Wind, A "New Kind of Soldiering". The Social Democratic Construction of Military Masculinity in the Austrian Volkswehr (1918-1920). In: Hanna Stein / Renée Winter / Heirdun Zettelbauer (eds.), Postwar Amateur Film Practices in a Transnational Perspective. zeitgeschichte vol. 50 (2023) no. 3, pp. 417-437.

Katharina Scharf, Die Umweltbewegung in Österreich aus frauen- und geschlechterhistorischer Perspektive. A long-term history. In: Robert Groß / Ernst Langthaler (eds.), "Age of Extremes" or "Great Acceleration"? Environmental History of Austria in the 20th Century. zeitgeschichte Vol. 50 (2023) H. 2, pp. 237-260.

Katharina Scharf, "To the animals!". Animal and bird protection in the 19th century from a women's and gender history perspective. In: Friedrich Bouvier et al. (eds.), Environment - History - Graz. Historical Yearbook of the City of Graz 52 (2023), pp. 135-151.

Katharina Scharf, Environmental Women: Rachel Carson and Her Fellow Activists, in: DEP - Deportate, Esuli, Profughe 50, Venezia 2023, pp. 99-111.

Heidrun Zettelbauer, Gendered Conflict Zones. War welfare between patriotic-national gender concepts and state-military interests. In: Nicole-Melanie Goll / Werner Suppanz (eds.), Heimatfront. Graz und das Kronland Steiermark im Ersten Weltkrieg, Vienna/Cologne 2022, pp. 215-249.

Heidrun Zettelbauer / Lisbeth Matzer,Changierende Namensgebungen und präfigurierte Lesarten. Mathilde Uhlirz's biography as an irritation of urban memory politics . In: Lisa Rettl / Linda Erker (eds.), Visible Women - Invisible Pasts. On the problems of street (re)naming in the context of Austrian women science pioneers. zeitgeschichte Vol. 48 (2021) H. 3. University Press / V&R unipress 2021, pp. 307-333.

Katharina Scharf / Robert Groß / Martin Knoll, Where the Histories of the European Recovery Program (ERP)/Marshall Plan and European Tourism Mett. An Introduction. In: Robert Groß / Martin Knoll / Katharina Scharf (eds.), Transformative Recovery? The European Recovery Program (ERP)/Marshall Plan in European Tourism. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press 2020, pp. 7-32.

Heidrun Zettelbauer, Unwanted Desire and Processes of Self-Discipline. Autobiographical Representations of the Reichsarbeitsdienst Camps in the Diary of a Young Female National Socialist. In: Antje Senarclens de Grancy / Heidrun Zettelbauer (eds.), Reflections on Camps - Space, Agency, Materiality. zeitgeschichte Vol. 45 (2019) H. 4, pp. 537-574.

Heidrun Zettelbauer, Vergeschlechtlichte Erinnerungskulturen im Kontext von 1914/18. As part of the joint contribution by Christa Hämmerle, Heidrun Zettelbauer, Gabriella Hauch, Bożena Chołuj, Ingrid Bauer, Claudia Kraft, Intervention oder Integration? Years of remembrance and historical anniversaries - a gender-historical perspective. In: Regina Schulte / Xenia von Tippelskirch (eds.), Case - Portrait - Diagnosis. L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History, Issue 1 (2019), 30th vol., Göttingen 2019, pp. 109-128.

Viktoria Wind / Karin M. Schmidlechner, Women in Graz from 1918 to 1938. In: Friedrich Bouvier / Wolfram Dornik / Otto Hochreiter / Nikolaus Reisinger / Karin Schmidlechner (eds.): Graz 1918-1938 (= Historical Yearbook of the City of Graz 48). Graz: Leykam 2019, pp. 119-157.

Heidrun Zettelbauer, The fragile gender of the war heroine. Discursivations of female healing and wounding power in the First World War. In: Johanna Rolshoven / Toni Janosch Krause / Justin Winkler (eds.), Heroes. Representations of the Heroic in History, Literature and Everyday Life (= Edition Kulturwissenschaft 156). Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag 2018, pp. 91-126.

Viktoria Wind, "Brown" stains and how to become "clean" again. The "Persilscheine" of Ferdinand Weinhandl. In: Sabine Kaspar / Evelyn Knappitsch / Bernhard Thonhofer / Florian Ungerböck (eds.), Die Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz und der lange Schatten des Hakenkreuzes. Graz: Unipress 2017, pp. 27-42.

Heidrun Zettelbauer is a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journals L'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft (V&R) and zeitgeschichte (V&R, Vienna University Press). Information on the publication of individual thematic issues of other journals can be found under "Monographs, edited volumes, special issues" (see above).

L'Homme - European journal for feminist historiography

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Courses in WS2023/24

Courses in SoSe2024

Univ.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ Heidrun Zettelbauer supervises qualification and final theses (Bachelor's, Master's, Diploma theses and dissertations) in the following subject areas:

• Gender and queer theory
• Women's and gender history, queer history
• History of the body
• History as a historical cultural science, cultural history
• cultural theories
• Racisms and nationalisms, intersectionality
• Auto/biographical research
• Spaces
• Modern history, modern/recent history (19th and 20th centuries), contemporary history

Dr. Katharina^Scharf MA supervises bachelor theses in the following subject areas:

• Women's and gender history
• Environmental history and the ecology movement
• Travel, tourism, alpinism
• Mobilities and migrations

The prerequisite for taking on the supervision of a final or qualifying thesis is the previous completion of a course. Please note the requirements of your study plan.

This short guide serves as an orientation for students on the use of gender-equitable language for written work during their studies.

Guide as pdf

Further information can also be found here:

Linguistic equal treatment - Office of the Working Group for Equal Treatment Issues (uni-graz.at)

Coordination Office for Gender Studies and Gender Equality (uni-graz.at)

Here you will find examination information concerning the lecture courses "Introduction to the Theories and Methods of (Historical) Gender Studies", "Basic Problems of Historical Gender Studies" and "Cultural Theories. History as a historical cultural science".

Further information on examinations and other aspects of the degree course can be found under "Student Services".

Information on the memorial tour on 14.11.2023

Information on the project workshop on 08.05.2023

Podcast "History of Europe", episode 6: "European regional history, with Prof. Dr. Martin Knoll and Dr. Katharina Scharf" (22.09.2022)

Podcast of the Coordination Office for Gender Studies and Gender Equality "gender&mehr", episode 4: "War care with Heidrun Zettelbauer"

Podcast of the Universalmuseum Joanneum " Ladies First!", episode 3: "Heidrun Zettelbauer, historian"

Exhibition, April to July 2018, Pavelhaus/Pavlova Hiša, Laafeld.

The history of the First World War shows that the war can hardly be adequately accounted for without taking its gender-historical dimensions into account. It is important to subject interpretations reduced to military history to critical scrutiny, and thus enable fundamentally new historical insights. By focusing on gender relations in war, the entire complexity of wartime society and all its profound effects on the entire 20th century become clear - as if through a "burning glass". Based on materials from the exhibitions Women at War (2011) by the Friends of the Dolomites and Women at War (2014) by the Museum of Military History, the exhibition shows alternative approaches and often neglected content in relation to the phenomenon of the First World War. Curated by Heidrun Zettelbauer (University of Graz).

The exhibition was shown from March 7 to 31, 2019 at the Galerie Zwischenbilder in the Social Welfare Office of the City of Graz.

The intervention "Bitte umhängen!", conceived by Stefan Benedik and Heidrun Zettelbauer for the duration of the 2016 Austrian Contemporary History Day, forms the starting point for a critical gender-theoretical-artistic examination of Hans Gross as a discursive figure. The intervention embeds the bust of Hans Gross set up in the auditorium in the discursive context of his criminological publications, and at the same time points out that the reception of Gross at the University of Graz prolonged German nationalist traditions of thought for a considerable time. Passers-by were invited to reflect critically on memory landscapes in and around the university.

In the installation "The Speakers", historians from the University of Graz make voices about everyday life during the First World War audible. British artist Thor McIntyre has processed the countless Twitter voices on the subject in an installation on the Arab Spring. For the 2014 La Strada street art festival in Graz, he added a historical component: together with a team from the Institute of History at the University of Graz, he brought previously unheard voices on the First World War to life. The historians have filtered out what children, women and men had to say from letters, diaries, letters to the editor and club news of the time, voices which had previously received little attention.

The project was scientifically coordinated by Stefan Benedik. The stream "Women's voices from the First World War" was curated by Heidrun Zettelbauer .