Veranstaltungen des SFBs werden hier vorgestellt, auch Nachlesen und Fotostrecken von Veranstaltungen möglich
Die vollständige Aufzeichnung des Vortrags von Stefan Hirschauer, der am 15. Januar 2026 im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe „Distinguished Lecturer Series“ des iRTG des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1665 „Sexdiversity“ gehalten wurde, ist nun online verfügbar.
Im Oktober 2025 diskutierten mehr als 20 Jurist*innen aus aller Welt auf einer rechtsvergleichenden Tagung, die für den SFB „Sexdiversity“ an der Europa-Universität Flensburg organisiert wurde, wie unterschiedliche Rechtsordnungen genderdiverse Menschen anerkennen – darunter inter*, trans* und nichtbinäre Personen. Besonders deutlich wurde, dass bei den Kämpfen um Anerkennung die obersten Gerichtshöfe der verschiedenen Länder und auch die internationalen Menschenrechtssysteme eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
In this lecture, Daphna Joel challenges the long-held assumption of a sex binary in neuroscience and psychology. Drawing on her research, she demonstrates that most human brains are unique “mosaics” of features more common in either women or men. This finding suggests that sex alone explains very little about brain structure or behavior, calling for a reevaluation of how we study and understand sex and gender in the brain.
The lecture introduced central concepts in sex-based brain research and gendered neuroscience, with a focus on rethinking traditional binary models of the brain. Through vivid examples and data-driven insights, Professor Joel explored how unsupervised algorithms, anomaly detection, and brain architecture analyses can be used to challenge conventional perspectives and offer alternative interpretations of brain clustering methods. Participants were encouraged to reflect on how categories such as male and female are stereotypically constructed, applied, and questioned within both scientific and social frameworks.
The brain is increasingly conceived as an open biological system developing in mutual interchange with experiences (brain plasticity). Such embodying of the social contests the nature-nurture dichotomy as well as binary sex differences, and, instead, highlights the sex/gender development of brain-behaviour relations. In the transdisciplinary NeuroGenderings network, scholars from neurosciences, gender/queer and feminist science technology studies develop conceptual approaches to analyze the entangled biological, social, and cultural variables that constitute sexed/gendered brains whilst acknowledging their diversity.
The last installment of our Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) by Staffan Müller-Wille (Cambridge) on Sex and Gender in the History of the Life Sciences from 12. December 2024 is now available on YouTube.
The DLS is organized by the Integrated Research Training Group (iRTG) of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1665 “Sexdiversity”.
