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3 Gesellschaft, Bevölkerung, Soziales
| Demkratie(theorie), Zivilgesellschaft, Bürgerrechte, Cyber-Rights / Lebensformen / Sexualität, Liebe / Freizeit, Sport, Tourismus, Konsum / Zukunft / Emanzipationsbewegungen, Neue Soziale Bewegungen (NSB) / Frauenbewegung / Männerbewegung / Alternative Bewegung / Bewegung anderer Gruppen, Randgruppen / Flüchtlingsbewegung, Ausländische BürgerInnenbewegung / Kapitalismus und Gesundheit / Medizin / Gesundheitsbewegung / Sozialeinrichtungen, Sozialarbeit, Sozialhilfe / Religion, Kirche / Atheismus, Humanismus / Rassismus, AusländerInnenfeindlichkeit / Antisemitismus / Nationalismus
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| Systematik: | ID-Archiv EATC id-e-32151 |
| | Status: | Changed | | Checked: | 03-03-02 04:14:06 PM |
| | Adresse: | Central Offices ifu - International Women's University new address: Warmbüchenstr. 15 D-30159 Hanover Germany postmaster@ifu-hannover.de +49-511-126-1213 |
| | Selbstdarstellung: | | Although a decidedly international project,. the emergence of ifu has its clear roots in a nationally-specific historical process of implementing women's and gender studies within German academia. The idea can be traced back to the work of the first Lower Saxony Commission on Women's Research. Members of the commission included feminist scholars and women in the academy such as Regina Becker-Schmidt, Bärbel Clemens, Carol Hagemann-White, Erika Hickel, Freia Hoffmann, Margrit Kennedy, Gudrun Axeli Knapp, Marianne Kriszio, Carola Lipp, Sigrid Metz-Göckel, Ayla Neusel, Heide Rosenbaum, Ingeborg Wender and Anja Wolde. The report of the commission, published in 1994, recommended to the then Minister of Science, Helga Schuchardt, that a women's university be set up. This recommendation was taken up by the second Lower Saxony Commisson on Women's Research and specified by defining five so-called research perspectives: INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION, BODY, WATER; and CITY. When the commission's report was presented to the public in January 1997, Science Minister Helga Schuchardt agreed to support the project. This marked the beginning of the ifu. The project's conceptual phase began in the summer of 1997 with the call to set up the supporting society. The founding members included numerous well-known personalities in politics, science and the media. The conceptual phase culminated in the founding of the International Women's University (ifu) as a non-profit-making GmbH (ltd.) in March 1999. The two founding dates - that of the supporting society and that of ifu gGmbH - signal the beginning and end of a highly inventive, productive and successful period during which the ifu concept took on an increasingly concrete form. The period from April 1999 on has been devoted to implementing the concept. Various world conferences held over the past few years such as the UN conference in Rio de Janeiro (1992), the UN Women's Conference in Bejing (1994) and Habitat II in Istanbul (1996) have addressed issues crucial to the future of humankind. Such issues have also been crucial to scientific and technical areas of women's research during the last years. Given this background, the International Women's University has the following aims: to provide the chance for female researchers (both, senior and young) to present their special contributions in the six project areas of the International Women's University; to encourage cooperative interdisciplinary teaching and research of established and young academic women in these topics, in order to harness their innovative capacity; to open up a permanent network to academic women on a worldwide level which would strengthen the existing academic structures and enrich the contents of their disciplines; to combine the added value of international cooperation with the innovative effects of paradigm changing approaches of women’s research; to interweave the theories, concepts, and strategies used by artists and scientists. All in all, the concept of the ifu comprises "five Is" as guiding principles: the INTERDEPENDENCE and INTERACTION of science and society INTERDISCIPLINARITY the INTEGRATION of science and other social practices including the arts the IMPLEMENTATION of women's studies and gender studies as well as an INTERNATIONAL and INTERCULTURAL scope. Institutional and legal set-up ifu was originally founded as the registered society "Internationale Frauenuniversität e.V." in July 1997. On March 31rst 1999, the Federal State of Lower Saxony and the International Women's University Assocation jointly founded the International Women's University GmbH as a private company. Prof. Dr. Aylâ Neusel is now president of ifu and at the same time its scientific director. Dr. Carsten Carstensen, head of the finance department at the Volkswagen Foundation, assumes the position of business director as a sideline obligation. Former Minister of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony, Helga Schuchardt and Prof. Dr. Liselotte Glage, Vice-president of the University of Hanover, are seconded from the ifu Association to the company's supervisory board, as are Martina Wethkamp, section head in the Lower Saxony Finance Ministry, and Dr. Uwe Reinhardt, Undersecretary in the Ministry for Science and Culture of the Federal State of Lower Saxony. Other members of the ifu supervisory board are Prof. Dr. Marlis Dürkop, Hamburg, and Prof. Dr. Manfred Stassen, in charge of Expo 2000 for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Board of Trustees According to stipulations in the shareholders agreement of ifu Ltd., a board of trustees is to be constituted and composed of international personalities from the scientific, economic, political and social sectors. 14 members have been appointed by the supervisory board of ifu for the year 2000. It is their task to advise ifu on academic matters, to accompany and evaluate the implementation of the ifu project and help ensure its sustainability after the year 2000. 29 July and 7 October 2000 have been set apart for the board to convene in Hanover this year. The members are: Dr. Sang Chang, President of Ewha Womans University, Seoul Catherine David, Head curator of the National Museums, Director of Documenta X Kassel, Paris Dr. Ursula Engelen-Kefer, Deputy chairperson of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, Berlin Aruna Gnanadason, Coordinator of the Justice, Peace and Creation Team, Programme Executive Women's Desk World Council of Churches, Geneva Heidrun Merk, Minister for Women, Labour and Social Affairs of the state of Lower-Saxony, Hanover Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, Chancellor of the Cape Technikon, Member of Parliament, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New York Inge Sandstedt , President of the Federation of German Women Entrepreneurs (Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen e.V.), Bremen Prof. Dr. habil. Dagmar Schipanski, Minister of Science, Research and Art of the state of Thuringia, Erfurt Alice Schwarzer, Essayist, publisher and editor in-chief of the magazine EMMA, Founder and head of the Feminist archive and documentation centre "FrauenMedia Turm", Cologne Jadwiga S. Sebrechts, Ph.D., President of the Women's College Coalition, Washington, D.C. Prof. Komlavi Seddoh, Director of the Division of Higher Education, UNESCO, Paris Dr. Vandana Shiva, Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Recipient of the Tight Livelihood Award, Alternative Nobel Prize. New Delhi Jane Zhang, Director of the Bureau for Gender Equality, International Labour Office (ILO), Geneva |
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