This course was taught in German in winter semester 2021 at the University of Vienna. Content In this seminar, students explore how anti-discriminatory teaching and learning can be facilitated and linked to digital empowerment. They gain an understanding of why it is important to consciously ask how to reach as many learners as possible. This […]
Author: Elisabeth Guenther
JustPLAY. Digital Games for future topics
This series of webinars was held in German as part of a continious education training for teachers. Description only in German. Seminar- und Vortragsreihe zu Games, organisiert von Fares Kayali und Elisabeth Günther. Games können mehr, als ihr Ruf manchmal verrät. Über Games lassen sich komplexe und schwere Themen vermitteln. Durch Spielen und die Auseinandersetzung […]
Gender and Technology (Panel discussion 2): What to do about gender, race and class in robots and AI?
This is the second event in a two-part series that engages with the relationship between gender and technology. This event addresses gender, race and class in the area of robotics, automation and artificial intelligence. Robots and automation may appear ostensibly as pure technical developments. However, reports have shown that gendered as well as racialised stereotypes […]
Gender and Technology (Panel discussion 1): Gender and AI, Implications for diversity and equality at work
This is the first event in a two-part series that engages with the relationship between gender and technology. This event explores the relationship between gender and artificial intelligence. Fast advances in artificial intelligence have, on the one hand, been welcomed as they signify one of the most transformational advances in technology that extends the human-machine […]
Digital media and diversity
This course was taught in German at University of Vienna, in summer term 2021. Content The seminar focuses on the role of technology in relation to education, inclusion and diversity. In the seminar, technologies are critically and constructively questioned in terms of their potentials of empowerment and in terms of risks of potential new barriers […]
Habitus sensible approach to gender and diversity
This course was taught in German at the University of Vienna (in summer term 2021). Content Students explore the concept of habitus sensibility. They advance their understanding of why it is important to consciously ask how to reach as many learners as possible. This includes reflecting on somatized notions and becoming aware of possible, unconscious […]
Introduction to Gender Studies for International Business and Economics
This interactive lecture was taught in English at the University of Klagenfurt in 2021S and 2022S Content Basic concepts of gender studies within the area of work and organisation. Amongst others: gender vs. sex gendered organisation intersectionality decolonial approaches heteronormativity and queer studies men and masculinities Learning goals By the end of the course, students […]
The gendered impact of Covid-19 pandemic on work and employment
The Covid19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-crisis economic and social inequalities, which have important implications for gender equality in all domains of life. In general terms, the pandemic poses risks to widening the gender gap in areas like accumulation of human capital, economic empowerment, agency and voice. At work, these challenges are multilayered given the life-changing […]
Equitable and Sustainable Futures for Women
The Gender in Management SIG and the Leadership and Leadership Development SIG are pleased to invite you to attend the “Women and Leadership: Equitable and Sustainable Futures for Women in Leadership” event. This is the final session of the two-webinar series on Women and Leadership. Despite the wealth of research and reports about the ways […]
Ethics of care in times of crisis
The unprecedented disruption created by the ongoing pandemic has had a transformational impact on our personal, professional and working lives. At present, we are living and working under unfamiliar and, in many cases, even more precarious conditions. Amidst the challenges of coping and adapting to the present changes, heightened insecurities and uncertainties are met with […]