Room 2.82
Carl-Zeiß-Platz 3
07743 Jena
Areas of expertise
Since April 2021
Research Fellow (Post-Doc) at SFB Transregio 294: Structural Change in Property Ownership; Sub-project B06: Property Inequality in the Private Sphere. On the institutional and cultural (re)structuring of property arrangements in couple households (Institute of Sociology, FSU Jena; Directors: Prof. Dr Sylka Scholz, Prof. Dr Kathrin Leuze)
September 2019 to March 2021
Research Assistant in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts; externally funded project InTraHealth (funded by the Federal Ministry of Health): Improving access to healthcare for intersex and transgender people by reducing discrimination as a barrier to access on the part of healthcare providers
September 2019
Awarded a PhD (Dr. phil.) in Sociology from the University of Jena (FSU Jena) for a thesis entitled: “On the visual construction of trans gender. Orders of visibility in medicine, subculture and contemporary feature films”, with the distinction: summa cum laude
April 2019 to August 2019
Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena, specialising in qualitative methods and microsociology
July 2015 to Ocober 2015
Research visit to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as part of a DAAD scholarship
April 2013 to March 2019
Research assistant at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Jena (FSU Jena), specialising in film studies
March 2012 to December 2012
Research assistant in the Department of General and Theoretical Sociology at the University of Jena
October 2010 to February 2012
Student assistant in the Department of General and Theoretical Sociology at the University of Jena
April 2006 to February 2012
Master’s degree in Media Studies, Sociology and Psychology at the University of Jena and the University of Toronto
October 2005 to March 2006
Master’s degree in Media Studies and English Language and Literature at the University of Jena
The consequences of separation and divorce for property arrangements (academic research)
⇒ BASOZ 51 I Thursday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
An Introduction to the Documentary Method
⇒ BASOZ 32 I Thursday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Sociological perspectives on love, intimacy and relationships in a changing world
⇒ MASOZ 10, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4 I Thursday 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Emotions and social inequality
⇒ MASOZ 10, MASOZ 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4, GT 5, 5b, 5c | Thursday 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm, from 8 May 2025
An intersectional perspective on property in intimate relationships (seminar)
⇒ MASOZ 10, MASOZ 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4 | Monday 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
The dream of owning your own home. Home ownership in relationships (seminar)
Doing property – doing couple – doing gender. Property arrangements in couple relationships [in collaboration with Prof. Dr Sylka Scholz] (Seminar)
Concepts in Queer Studies (seminar)
Introduction to Film Theory and Analysis (Seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Perspectives in Film Sociology (seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Sociological Film Analysis: Transgenderism in Film [Co-taught with Prof. Dr Sylka Scholz] (Seminar offered as part of both the Sociology and Art History/Film Studies degree programmes)
Introduction to Film Theory (seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Sexy Cinema? Moving Images of Gender and Sexuality: A Gender-Oriented Introduction to Film Analysis (Seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Queer Theory [Co-taught with Dr Silke Martin] (Seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Film Analysis (seminar within the Art History/Film Studies degree programme)
Gender and Genre (seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Cinematic Representations of Physicality (seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Film Theory (seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Gender and Genre (seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Cinematic Representations of Physicality (seminar in the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Film Analysis (seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Film Analysis: On the Construction of Sexuality and Gender (Seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Film Analysis (seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Introduction to Film Theory (seminar within the Art History/Film Studies programme)
Monographs
Transgeschlechtlichkeit und Visualität. Sichtbarkeitsordnungen in Medizin, Subkultur und Spielfilm, Bielefeld: transcript, 2020.
Publishers
Trans* und Inter* Studien – Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, gem. mit Joris A. Gregor, Esto Mader, René_ Hornstein, Paulena Müller, Marie Grasmeier und Toni Schadow. Reihe: Forum Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Band 51. Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2021.
Bütow, Birgit; Guerrini, Flavia; Saalfeld, Robin & Vogler, Tanja (Hrsg.). (2025). Gender, Queerness und Soziale Arbeit – Neuere Debatten zu Zusammenhängen von Sexualität(en), Macht und Herrschaft (Special Issue). Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit, 7 (1).
Essays
Peters, Florian; Rinne, Jonathan; Saalfeld, Robin K.; Schmalz, Stefan; Stuart, Amelie; von der Weth, Lydia (2025): „Eigentumskonflikte: Eine Typologie“. In: Leuze, Kathrin; von Puttkamer, Joachim; Reiser, Marion; Scholz, Sylka (Hrsg.): Eigentumskonflikte. Konzeptionelle und empirische Perspektiven. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, p. 21-52.
[Open Access unter: https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/eigentumskonflikte-18979.htmlExternal link].
Saalfeld, Robin K.; Scholz, Sylka; Althaber, Agnieszka; Leuze, Kathrin (2025): "Über Geld wird nicht gestritten? Paarspezifische Eigentumsarrangements als Konfliktvermeidungsstrategie im Kohortenvergleich“. In: Leuze, Kathrin; von Puttkamer, Joachim; Reiser, Marion; Scholz, Sylka (Hrsg.): Eigentumskonflikte. Konzeptionelle und empirische Perspektiven. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, p. 87-119. [Open Access unter: https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/eigentumskonflikte-18979.htmlExternal link].
Peters, Florian; Rinne, Jonathan; Saalfeld, Robin K.; Schmalz, Stefan; Stuart, Amelie; von der Weth, Lydia (2025): "Empirische Forschung zu Eigentumskonflikten: Eine Zwischenbilanz“. In: Leuze, Kathrin; von Puttkamer, Joachim; Reiser, Marion; Scholz, Sylka (Hrsg.): Eigentumskonflikte. Konzeptionelle und empirische Perspektiven. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, p. 243-251.
[Open Access unter: https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/eigentumskonflikte-18979.htmlExternal link].
Saalfeld, Robin K. (2025). Zwischen Investitionsorientierung, finanzieller Sicherheit und Konsumkritik: Eine Typologie von Eigentumsarrangements in Paarbeziehungen. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2025-2021External link.
Bütow, Birgit; Guerrini, Flavia; Saalfeld, Robin & Vogler, Tanja (Hrsg.). (2025). Gender, Queerness und Soziale Arbeit – Neuere Debatten zu Zusammenhängen von Sexualität(en), Macht und Herrschaft. Historische Entwicklungen und Überblick. Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Soziale Arbeit, 7 (1), 3–17, https://doi.org/10.30424/OEJS2507003External link.
Bütow, Birgit; Guerrini, Flavia; Saalfeld, Robin & Vogler, Tanja (Hrsg.). (2025). Gender, Queerness and Social Work – Recent debates on the relationships between sexualities, power and domination. Historical developments and overview. Annual Review of Social Work and Social Pedagogy in Austria, 7 (1), 18–31, https://doi.org/10.30424/OEJS2507018External link.
Saalfeld, R. K. (2025). From Renters to Investors? Residential Property and the Asset Economy in German Couples’ Lives. Housing, Theory and Society, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2025.2464019External link.
Koppe, Uwe; Hamm, Jonas A.; Spurgat, Chris; Hahne, Alexander; Saalfeld, Robin K.; Garcia, Manuel Riccardo; Bremer, Viviane & Pöge, Kathleen. (2025). HIV Testing and PrEP Use Among Trans and/or Non‑binary Participants in the TASG Study, a Participatory Study in Germany. AIDS and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-025-04631-zExternal link.
Eigentumskonflikte – eine Typologie. gem. mit Florian Peters; Jonathan Rinne; Stefan Schmalz; Amelie Stuart und Lydia von der Weth, hg. v. Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio294 „Strukturwandel des Eigentums“ (Working Paper Nr. 5), 2024. Online abrufbar unter: https://sfb294-eigentum.de/media/filer_public/f9/08/f908691c-7aaa-424c-831b-71e7818ee46b/wp_05_fin.pdfExternal link
„‘Und dann ging alles seinen sozialistischen Gang‘. Paarbildung, Paarwelten und Umgang mit Eigentum in Ostdeutschland“, gem. mit Lena Mann. In: Kasten, Anna (Hrsg.): Feministische Postsozialismusforschung. Inter- und transdiziplinäre Zugänge (S. 181-198). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 2024.
„Wer das Geld hat, hat die Macht? Verhandlungen von Property Gaps in Paarwelten“, gem. mit Sylka Scholz. In: Villa Braslavsky, Paula-Irene (Hrsg.): Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bielefeld, 2023. Online abrufbar unter: https://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2022/article/view/1569/1751External link
„Transgressing the linguistic domain: The transformative power of images in Magnus Hirschfeld's sexological work” [64 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung /Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(2), Art. 13, 2023: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.2.3975External link.
„Transgeschlechtlichkeit und ihre visuellen Dimensionen“. In: Mader, E./Gregor, J./Saalfeld, R. et al. (Hrsg.): Trans* und Inter* Studien – Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum (S. 199-219). Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2021.
„Einleitung“, gem. mit Joris A. Gregor, Esto Mader, René_ Hornstein, Paulena Müller, Marie Grasmeier und Toni Schadow. In: Mader, E./Gregor, J./Saalfeld, R. et al. (Hrsg.): Trans* und Inter* Studien - Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum (p. 7-26). Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2021.
„Moderne Zweigeschlechtlichkeit und Ambiguität. Visualisierungen von Transgeschlechtlichkeit als mediale Ambiguitätsphänomene“, gem. mit Sylka Scholz. In: Groß, B./Krieger, V./Lüthy, M./Meyer-Fraatz, A. (Hrsg.): Ambige Verhältnisse. Uneindeutigkeit in Kunst, Politik und Alltag (S. 237-256). Bielefeld: transcript, 2021.
„Zur Ästhetik von Transgender Filmen. Von einem Cinema of Gender Role Change zum Transgender Cinema“. ffk – Journal des Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums (5), 2020, p. 17-33, https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13750External link.
„Gesundheit für alle?! Zum Zusammenhang von gesellschaftlicher Marginalisierung und dem psychischen Belastungsniveau von inter- und transgeschlechtlichen Menschen“. Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW (47), 2020, p. 45-50.
„InTraHealth - inter- und transgeschlechtliche Menschen in der Gesundheitsversorgung“. Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW (45), 2019, p. 18-19.
„Von Zwischengeschlechtlichkeit, Störungen der Geschlechtsidentität und Geschlechtsdysphorie: Versuch der Beschreibung einer Genealogie der Diagnose gender dysphoria“. In: Mader, Esto/ Schmechel, Cora/ Kawalska, Kim/ Steinweg, Alex (Hrsg.): Gegendiagnose II. Beiträge zur radikalen Kritik an Psychologie und Psychiatrie (p. 184-200). Münster: edition assemblage, 2019.
„Das Unsichtbare darstellbar machen. Kritik filmästhetischer Vermittlung von Transgeschlechtlichkeit am Beispiel von Tom Hoopers The Danish Girl“. In: Brunow, Dagmar/ Dickel, Simon (Hrsg.): Queer Cinema (p. 153-164). Mainz: Ventil Verlag, 2018.
„Ambivalente (Un-)Sichtbarkeiten von Transgeschlechtlichkeit im zeitgenössischen Erzählfilm“. In: Hoenes, Josch/ Koch, Michael_a (Hrsg.): Transfer und Interaktion: Wissenschaft und Aktivismus an den Grenzen heteronormativer Zweigeschlechtlichkeit (p. 265-289). Oldenburg: BIS Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 2017.
Media coverage
“Residential Property, Couples, and New Logics of Inequality in the Asset Economy – A Conversation with Lisa Adkins”. In: SFB/TRR 294 Podcast, 18.07.2023, online verfügbar unter: https://sfb294-eigentum.de/de/podcast/#residential-property-couples-and-new-logics-of-inequality-in-the-asset-economy-a-conversation-with-lisa-adkinsExternal link
Eigentumsungleichheit in Paarbeziehungen, Sylka Scholz und Robin K. Saalfeld im Radiointerview bei MDR Kultur, 2022.
Interview, geführt vom Gleichstellungsbüro der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena zum Thema „Geschlechtliche Vielfalt?!“, 2022, online verfügbar unter: https://www.uni-jena.de/110275/sprechen-wir-ueber-gendergerechtigkeit de.
„Transgeschlechtlichkeit und Visualität“. Podcastfolge. In: Thomasius Club, 07.07.2021, online verfügbar unter: https://www.thomasius-club.de/robin-saalfeld-transgeschlechtlichkeit-und-visualitaet/External link
Reviews
Rezension zu Angela Koch: Ir/Reversible Bilder. Zur Visualisierung und Medialisierung von sexueller Gewalt. Querelles-net: Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 17 (2), April 2016.
Rezension zu Joris A. Gregor: Constructing Intersex. Intergeschlechtlichkeit als soziale Kategorie. socialnet, Januar 2016.
Rezension zu Amy Shore: Suffrage and the Silver Screen. Reihe: Framing Film, Band 16. New York u.a. [Peter Lang] 2014. rezensionen:kommunikation:medien, April 2015.
Rezension zu Udo Rauchfleisch: Anne wird Tom - Klaus wird Lara. Transidentität, Transsexualität verstehen. socialnet, Februar 2014.
Conference Organisation
Organisation of the SFB workshop “Changes in Property and Gender Relations”, in collaboration with Kathrin Leuze, Sylka Scholz and Agnieszka Althaber, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 29 November 2024.
Organisation and delivery of the annual conference of the Women’s and Gender Studies Section of the German Sociological Association on the theme “Housing in Crises. Crises of Housing. Intersectional Perspectives on Key Issues of Everyday Life”, in collaboration with Helen Schwenken & Corinna Schmechel, University of Osnabrück, 16–17 November 2023.
Organisation and hosting of the autumn conference of the Social Inequality Section of the German Sociological Association on the theme “Inequalities in East and West Germany – Persistence or Change?”, in collaboration with Agnieszka Althaber, Kathrin Leuze, & Sylka Scholz, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 25–26 September 2023.
Organisation and coordination of the ad hoc group ‘What’s mine should be yours too?! Property in depolarised couple worlds’ as part of the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association, in collaboration with Sylka Scholz, Christine Wimbauer and Mona Motakef. Bielefeld University, 27 September 2022.
Organisation and delivery of the SFB methods workshop: Investigating property – research designs and initial field experiences in SFB/Transregio 294 Structural Change in Property, in collaboration with Sylka Scholz, Kathrin Leuze and Agnieszka Althaber, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 24–25 March 2022.
Organisation and hosting of the annual conference of the Inter*_Trans*_Science Network on the theme “All Bodies, or What?!”, in collaboration with Joris A. Gregor, Michaela Katzer & Toni Schadow, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 30 August–1 September 2019.
Organisation of the workshop “Everyday Life in Film – Everyday Life with Film”, in collaboration with Bernhard Groß, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, May 2018.
Organisation of the symposium “24 Hours of Art History & Film Studies. An Academic Happening”, in collaboration with the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 02/2014.
Lectures
September 2024 “Between Numbers and Narratives: Property Arrangements among Couples in the General Population”, co-authored with Agnieszka Althaber, Section Conference of the German Sociological Association, University of Osnabrück.
August 2024 “From Renters to Investors?: Residential Property and the Asset Economy in German Couples”. 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association, University of Porto.
November 2023 “The ‘Dream of Owning a Home’: Home Ownership in Couple Relationships in Germany”. Annual Conference of the Women’s and Gender Studies Section of the German Sociological Association, University of Osnabrück.
October 2023 “Conflicts over Property in Intimate Relationships”, co-authored with Sylka Scholz and Agnieszka Althaber, Annual Conference of SFB 294, University of Erfurt.
August 2023 “The Long Shadows of Reunification on Property Inequalities between Couples: An East-West German Comparison”, co-authored with Sylka Scholz, Autumn Conference of the Social Inequality Section of the German Sociological Association on the theme “Inequalities in East and West Germany – Persistence or Change?”, University of Jena.
June 2023 “What’s Mine Is Yours!? Property Arrangements Among German Couples”. RC session on “Experiences and Consciousness of Inequality” at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, University of Melbourne.
January 2023 “‘My wife still has a delusion of impoverishment’. Property, class and gender in East and West German couple households”. Joint lecture with Aaron Korn as part of the sociology colloquium “Couples sociologically. A qualitative and quantitative liaison”, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
November 2022 “‘And then everything took its socialist course’. Couple formation and couple worlds in East Germany”, co-authored with Lena Mann as part of the conference “Everyday worlds of women* in pOST-socialism”, Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences, Jena.
September 2022 “Whoever has the money has the power? Negotiating the property gap in couple worlds”, co-authored with Sylka Scholz as part of the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association, Bielefeld University.
March 2022 “Property inequality in couple relationships. Theoretical challenges in a methodologically integrative research project”, co-authored with Agnieszka Althaber at the conference “Mixed Methods in Social Structure Analysis: Integration Potential of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Approaches”, organised by the Section on “Social Inequality and Social Structure Analysis” and the Working Group on “Mixed Methods” of the German Sociological Association, Georg-August University of Göttingen.
March 2022 “Challenges in mixed-methods design. Conceptualising private property arrangements”, co-authored with Agnieszka Althaber as part of the methods workshop “Exploring property. Research designs and initial field experiences in the SFB/Transregio Structural Change of Property”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
October 2021 “Gender Sociology and Queer Studies”. Panel discussion at the annual conference of the “Women’s and Gender Studies” section of the German Sociological Association, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
October 2021 Presentation of the book “Trans* and Inter* Studies. Current Research Contributions from the German-speaking World”, together with Esto Mader and Paulena Müller as part of the 4th Conference of the Inter*_Trans*_Science Network [online lecture].
July 2021 “Transgender Identity and Visuality”. Online podcast discussion organised by the Thomasius Club Leipzig. https://www.thomasius-club.de/robin-saalfeld-transgeschlechtlichkeit-und-visualitaet/.
June 2021 “What’s up with property in intimate relationships?”, with Agnieszka Althaber as part of the SFB/TRR 294 colloquium: Structural Change in Property, [online lecture].
May 2021 “Property inequality in private life: On the institutional and cultural (re)structuring of property arrangements in couple households”, jointly with Kathrin Leuze as part of the Sociological Research Colloquium at the Institute of Sociology (AB Qualitative Methods), Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
September 2020 “YouTube diaries by transgender people as documentation of (gender) bodily modification processes”. Presentation at the event organised by the “Media and Communication Sociology” section at the Congress of the German Sociological Association [Online presentation].
May 2020 “Health for all?! (In)visible barriers in healthcare for inter* and trans* people”. Online lecture to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences; recording available at: https://wissensportal-lsbti.de/portfolio-item/dr-robin-k-saalfeld-gesundheit-fuer-alle/External link .
December 2019 “InTraHealth: On healthcare for intersex and transgender people”. Lecture as part of the conference on healthcare for gender-non-conforming people at the Waldschlösschen Academy near Göttingen.
October 2019 “On ‘Intersexuality’, Gender Identity Disorders and Gender Dysphoria”. Lecture given as part of the presentation of the book “Gegendiagnose II. Contributions to a Radical Critique of Psychology and Psychiatry” at Silverfuture Berlin.
August 2019 “The visual dimension of trans gender”. Lecture as part of the annual conference of the Inter_Trans_Science Network “All bodies, or what?!” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
July 2019 “On the Visuality of Transgenderism: Representations of the Body in Medicine, Subculture and Feature Films”. Lecture as part of the annual conference of the Professional Association for Gender Studies at the Fern-Universität Hagen.
July 2019 “Towards a competent approach to trans and intersex people at Friedrich Schiller University Jena”. Lecture as part of the research colloquium “Masculinity, Femininity, Diversity. Challenges for Gender Studies?” at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
May 2019 “On ‘Intersexuality’, Gender Identity Disorders and Gender Dysphoria”. Lecture as part of the presentation of the book “Gegendiagnose II. Contributions to a Radical Critique of Psychology and Psychiatry” at the Left Book Days Berlin.
March 2019 “On the Aesthetics of Transgender Films: Analyses and Implications”. Lecture as part of the 32nd Film and Television Studies Colloquium at the Konrad Wolf Film University Babelsberg.
September 2018 “Visual Representations of Trans*ness: Challenging the visual construction of the transgender body in medicine, activism and contemporary film”. Presentation as part of the panel ‘Queer Sites of Memory’ at the European Feminist Research Conference: Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions at the University of Göttingen.
February 2018 “Transgenderism in Film”. Lecture as part of a series of events organised by the university department ‘QueErfurt’, University of Erfurt.
March 2017 “‘I won’t disappear into the bog. The bog is in me.’ Making the invisible visible: Analyses of the politics of representation of trans gender in contemporary feature films”. Lecture as part of the 30th Film and Television Studies Colloquium at the University of Hamburg.
December 2016 “Queer Method(ologies): Analyses of the Phenomenon of Transgender Identity in Contemporary Narrative Film”. Lecture delivered as part of the 3rd Meeting of the Film Sociology Working Group, conference of the Media and Communication Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
November 2016 “‘How Lili Became a Real Girl’ – Invisibilities of Trans* and Inter* People in Film”. Lecture and workshop as part of the Hirschfeldtage Thüringen 2016.
September 2016 “The Ambivalence of Visibility: Transgenderism in Contemporary Narrative Film”. Lecture as part of the 2016 Annual Conference of the Society for Media Studies: “Critique!” at the Free University of Berlin.
June 2016 “Trans* Cinema at the Intersection of Queer and Heteronormativity”. Lecture as part of the Queer Cinema workshop at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
February 2016 “Politics of Visibility of the Transgender Body in New Queer Cinema”. Lecture as part of the 6th Annual Conference of the Association for Gender Studies ‘Materiality/ies and Gender’ at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Ocotber 2015 “We’re here, we’re queer, we’d like to say hello”. Lecture and workshop together with David Stiller as part of the Alternative Orientation Days in Jena.
February 2014 “Boys Do Cry”: On the performativity of transgressive gender. Transgender films in Old and New Queer Cinema. Lecture as part of the symposium “24 Hours of Art History & Film Studies. An Academic Happening” at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena.
May 2012 Organisation of the public discussion event ‘Diagnosing Difference. On the Sense and Nonsense of the Diagnosis “Gender Identity Disorder”’ as part of the IDAHOT* Jena festival, to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.