Technology and digitalization are omnipresent: almost everyone uses smartphones and/or computers to surf the Internet, read, research, watch movies, listen to music, shop online and communicate via social media.

However, the digital technology required for this is by no means neutral. It tells us a lot about our ideas, about gender roles and cultural norms - if the right questions are asked. 

Which users do the often male developers imagine? Are they female or male, do they understand foreign languages? How do their answers influence the final product? Does the Internet liberate us from our bodies and thus allow creative reinvention? Or is it controlled by algorithms that spread traditional images without taking social developments into account? Are sex robots always sexist?

In the Gender Lectures, female researchers, artists and activists want to provide answers to the questions outlined here. 

Julia Stilke from the TU Braunschweig will open the series on November 5, 2020 at 4:40 pm with a lecture on "Shaping Gender Relationships - Feminist Technology Research as Analysis and Intervention". In the course of the lecture series, the double role of technology takes center stage: can we use it to question existing power and gender relations, or does it limit our options for action?

The lectures are open to all interested parties and take place online on the first Thursday of each month from 4:40 pm - 6:10 pm. They are part of the Digital Gender research project funded by the Saxon Ministry for Higher Education, Research, Culture and Tourism. The lecture languages are German and English.

Please register by email using the following address: . For more information on the individual lectures, please visit the event page: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/forschung/projekte/genderconceptgroup/digital-gender/genderlectures.