Topics:

Intersectional Positionalities & Vulnerabilities, Personal & Professional Limits, (Self-)Reflection & Empowerment – within academic contexts

Description and Content: 

The prospect of working in social sciences is a thrilling endeavor and fulfills many young researchers with excitement and anticipation. The deeper they get involved in academic structures and their realities the more they learn about the politics at play: As any other professional setting, academia is imbued by power relations which also entails potential transgressions and abuse of power. It is therefore valuable – especially for early-career researchers – to reflect upon intersectional power dynamics, (their) different positionalities based on social dimensions such as gender, race and class (amongst others) and the way they unfold in academic contexts.

In this workshop we will do so by not only opening a space for (self-)reflection and exchange, touching upon topics such as vulnerability, personal and professional limits a.o. – but also proposing meaningful insights into how to mutually empower each other in order to consciously navigate academic spaces.