Workshop of Graduiertenkolleg Authority and Trust (GKAT) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
July 10-11, 2026
Workshop “Gender, Authority, and Trust,” Graduiertenkolleg Authority and Trust (GKAT) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
Heidelberg, July 10-11, 2026
Location: Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg
In recent decades, research on authority and trust in the US has seen a considerable increase across various disciplines. However, in comparison, there has been much less scholarship on aspects of gender since Anette Baier dedicated her influential 1994 collection of essays Moral Prejudices on trust (and related issues) to her “women students, past, present, and future.” This workshop addresses this lacuna, both from a theoretical perspective, and in the light of current cultural, social, and political developments in the US, and of (once again) contested definitions of gender(ed) identities, practices, performances, and ethics.
Program and registration: https://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/de/forschung/konferenzen