Rogers Brubaker: "Gender Identity: The Career of a Category"

IWM Lectures in Human Sciences 2025

I: 21 October | II: 23 October | III: 28 October 2025, 18:30, Sky Lounge, 1090 Wien

Part II moderated by Ana Mijić

Rogers Brubaker is a professor of sociology at UCLA, where he holds the UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written widely on social theory, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, populism, and digital hyperconnectivity. Brubaker is the author of eight books, including, most recently, Grounds for Difference (Harvard University Press, 2015), Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities (Princeton University Press, 2016), and Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents (Polity, 2022).

I. Rethinking Gender Identity (More information)

Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 18:30, Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien

Moderated by: Ayşe Çağlar, IWM Permanent Fellow

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II. A Quiet Revolution (More information)

Thursday, 23 October 2025, 18:30, Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien

Moderated by: Ana Mijić, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna

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III. A Decade of Contestation (More information)

Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 18:30, Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien

IWM Rector Misha Glenny will introduce the lecture and moderate the subsequent discussion.

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An IWM lecture series in cooperation with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology, and the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna.

Funded by the City of Vienna – Department of Cultural Affairs

 

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