Bourdieu-Lectures: Geschlecht – Herrschaft – Visualität
The lectures will be only in German.
Conference announcement and Call for Contributions and Call for Workshops
Bielefeld University is hosting the Bourdieu Lectures for the first time on November 19 and 20, 2025 in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. The Bourdieu Lectures are a new academic event format organized in close cooperation with the Fondation Bourdieu. The aim of the conference is to systematically analyze Pierre Bourdieu’s comprehensive work, to discuss its relevance for contemporary research and to stimulate current theoretical and methodological developments. The thematic focus of the first conference will be on the concept of gender domination, which will be discussed both from a theoretical perspective and in the context of empirical studies.
The conference program will include keynotes (with Andrea Maihofer, Tomke König and Franz Schultheis, among others), panels and workshops. The conference will give young researchers the opportunity to present their work and engage in an exchange of ideas. In addition, the accompanying exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld will open with thematically relevant photographs from Bourdieu’s ethnographic research in Algeria, offering visual insights into his methodological approach and focusing on Bourdieu’s visual sociology, among other things.
Bourdieu’s perspective on social gender relations has inspired intersectional gender research and contributed to empirical gender research through its connection to the perspective of power and inequality. The conference program includes contributions on the theoretical development of Bourdieu’s concepts such as symbolic violence, habitus and doxa as well as on the empirical analysis of gender-specific power structures.
More informations about the conference (including the program and informations about the speaker) you can finde here: https://www.fondationbourdieu.net/bourdieu-lectures
Invited are scholars at all career stages. Registration is free of charge via Eventbrite (please register for both days individually) .
If you have questions please write to: bourdieu-lectures@uni-bielefeld.de
We look forward to an exciting exchange at the Bourdieu-Lectures in Bielefeld!