Dr. phil. Birgit Stammberger
Research
SFB 1665
S06: "S06: “Bringing Gender into Science – and Back!” Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives on Sex Development
PI (together with Prof. Dr. Heiko Stoff) in Project S06 of the CRC 1665 „Sexdiversity – Determinants, meanings and implications of sex diversity in sociocultural, medical and biological landscapes“
Link: www.sfb1665.uni-luebeck.de/forschung/s-projekte/s06
Two-Culture Freud. On the Genealogy of Antipodal Knowledge Formations
The project 'Two-Culture Freud' deals with disputes and debates surrounding Freud's psychoanalysis in the second half of the 20th century. The focus is less on the history of the reception of the genius thinker than on the emergence of different, competing epistemologies of science. With the 'two-culture Freud', methodological and epistemological considerations are brought into play, which should open up new perspectives on the classical binary reading of attack and defence and the resulting historiographical Freud-centrism.
Member of the DFG Research Network: Monstrous Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Staging of Monstrous Figures, Bodies, and Orders in Contemporary Theater and Related Arts (TR 2119/1-1), Director: Dr. Ekaterina Trachsel, Justus Liebig University Giessen
The MONSTROUS MATTERS network views theater as a unique research space in which the monstrous is not only depicted but can also be explored—through its staging, embodiment, and immediate perception—as a phenomenon of encounter. For nothing is monstrous in and of itself—it is only through encounter that something is perceived and labeled as monstrous: people make monsters.
During the three-year funding period, the network will bring together German-speaking and European scholars with key figures in Monster Studies—a field primarily established in the U.S.—for the first time. The goal is to initiate an interdisciplinary research network that links theater studies with cultural studies, social sciences, media studies, philosophy, law, and gender studies, among other disciplines. A particular focus of the network is on the performing arts and theater, which have received little attention within Monster Studies to date. The deliberate integration of these arts as a central point of access significantly expands the field of research and enables close interdisciplinary collaboration. Through the three-year network activities of MONSTROUS MATTERS, the foundation will be laid for the establishment of a European Center for Monster Studies, which is intended to continue beyond the funding period and be established as a long-term, interdisciplinary research hub.
Information flyer for the MONSTER SYMPOSIUM: October 30, 2026, through November 1, 2026
