Registration via u:rise

No prior knowledge needed for participation, and students and staff of all levels are welcome. There will be snacks and drinks!

After the workshop, participants are cordially invited to join for the presentation of Gleeson's book, organized by Referat Genderforschung, which will take place 19:00 at Seminarraum 7, Kolingasse 14-16.

This talk and workshop series organized by the Vienna Doctoral School ofPhilosophy provides insights into recent developments in trans*philosophizing.

This workshop will showcase the key arguments made by Juliana Gleeson's new book Hermaphrodite Logic (published June 2025):1) That intersex advocacy followed on rapidly from intersex people meeting one (on and offline) another in the early 1990s.
2) That this new intersex movement developed in conjunction with feminist research, offering a moment of self-consciousness that was spoken to by intersex advocacy's rhetoric, and wit ("90s edgy").
3) That their protests from 1996 to the present served as a revelation, which challenged professional authority (specifically claims to clinical "management"), and objectivity, and rewrote the history of sex (in ways still being processed today).

Along the way, participants will be challenged in turn, with regards to "intersex" being a topic that requires continual introduction. Gallows humour guaranteed.

Juliana Gleeson is a writer and reader raised in west London, who now lives in east Berlin. Her first edited collection was the pioneering anthology Transgender Marxism (2021), which she oversaw with Elle O'Rourke. Well noted for her love of two word titles, her first book Hermaphrodite Logic  was published this summer - addressing the history and style of the intersex movement. She's currently writing three follow-ups: a co-written philosophical manuscript Dyke Dialectics, a collection of dialogues about sex hormones, and a brief book on femininity's substance.

Please save the date for the two next events of Trans*Formations this fall: 

"Einführung in trans Philosophie" - Talk & Workshop mit Gen Eickers und Sigmond Richli, 18.11., 16:45-19:00, HS 3A im Rahmen der Trans*Awareness Week 2025 (auf Deutsch).

"Trans*Modernität, Trans*Kolonialität?" - Workshop mit Jonah I. Garde,
11.12. 16:45-18:18, HS 3A (auf Deutsch).