November 8, 2023
Salon Topic:
What We Talked and Debated About Intersectionality and Gender/Sex at the Forum (Frankfurt, Germany, October 2024)
Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA
Founder, President and Co-Director of Programs, Intersectionality Training Institute
Greta Bauer, PhD, MPH
Co-Director of Programs, Intersectionality Training Institute
Tonia Poteat, PhD
Professor, School of Nursing Co-Director of the Sexual and Gender Minority Health Program Duke University
Prof. Dr. Anelis Kaiser Trujillo
Gender Studies in STEM
University of Freiburg
L. Zachary DuBois
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Lu Ciccia
Faculty Member
UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Last fall, the Intersectionality Training Institute’s Co-Directors of Programs, Greta Bauer and Lisa Bowleg, independently received invitations to the 36th Ernst Strüngmann Forum. What’s the Forum you ask? Yeah, we asked the same question. The Forum is an independent scientific group that facilitates multidisciplinary discussion on themes (e.g., sex and gender) that demand diverse perspectives to expand and advance understanding of the themes. Think of the Forum as an intellectual retreat (with travel and lodging expenses paid)! where the group spends the entire week (October 8-13, 2023) discussing the assigned themes. Greta was invited to be the lead author on a background paper on how gender/sex inform intersectional understandings of operationalization and measurement. Lisa was invited to lead a background paper on how gender/sex inform intersectional understandings of structural inequalities on health. The Forum also invited many other top scholars in the field, including longtime Intersectionality Research Salon saloniste, Dr. Tonia Poteat.