Research projects of Urmila Goel

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2011

• "Privileging the West - Constructing the German" (together with Kathleen Heft), Comparative Women's and Gender Studies in Europe, Antioch University, Berlin, 19.09.11.
• Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden, 07.-11.03.11
  • "Discourses on 'arranged marriages' in Germany - on the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity", Masters Gender Studies, 08.03.11
  • "On the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity - challenges for research", Public Seminar, 09.03.11
  • "The construction of the Indian woman in Germany - on the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity", Bachelor Gender Studies, 10.03.11

2010

• "Privileging the West - Constructing the German" (together with Kathleen Heft), Comparative Women's and Gender Studies in Europe, Antioch University, Berlin, 07.10.10.

2008

• "Of Asians and Indians in Germany - Some thoughts on racism and the interdependencies of power inequalities" (paper as pdf, presentation as pdf), International Workshop: Imagining 'Race' and Hegemony in (Inter)Asia, Seoul, 20.07.08. 
• "On the interdependence of power dimensions" (as pdf), Workshop: New Theories of Power, Slubice, 28.05.08.

2007

• "Representing the Other - Spaces of Belongingness in an Othering Society" together with Synnøve Bendixsen (as pdf), 14th Nordic Migration Researchers' Conference, University of Bergen, 14.11.07.
• "Indian religions in Germany - Their role for the children of the migrants" (as pdf),  Department of the History of Religions, University of Bergen, 10.10.07.
• "Using the internet in research - Methodological challenges" (as pdf), Seminar, Masterprogram i religionsvitskap, University of Bergen, 14.09.07.
• "Discourses on 'arranged marriages' in Germany - On the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity" (as pdf), FEMCIT- seminars: Intimacies, University of Bergen, 13.09.07.
• “The Indernet - An own space in a racist society“ (as pdf), IMER/Bergen Exploring Diversity –seminars, University of Bergen, 19.06.07.
• "Arranged marriages' - Dealing with racist and heteronormative discourses in Germany" (as pdf), Monday Seminar, CULCOM, University of Oslo, 16.04.07.

2006

• "Partying in a Sari - The dilemma of 'white' presence at 'Indian' dance parties in Germany" (as pdf), Conference: The Borderpolitics of Whiteness, Sydney, 13.12.06.
• "Shifting boundaries on the internet: Strategies of 'second generation Indians' in Germany" (as pdf), Malaysia and Singapore Society, 14th Colloquium, Boundaries and Shifting Sovereignities: Migration, Security Issues and Regional Cooperation, UNE, Armidale. 01.12.06.
• "Dealing with experiences of racism: The German internet portal Indernet" (as pdf), UTS: Transforming Cultures, Sydney, 15.11.06.
• "Classical, dance, bollywood and the Indernet - Cultural practices among 'Indians of the second generation' in Germany" (as pdf), CAPSTRANS workshop: Culture, identity and performance: Diaspora South Asians, University of Wollongong, 13.11.06.
• "Indians in Germany - The imagination of a community" (as pdf), Asia Centre, UNE, Armidale, 07.11.06.
• "The Indernet - Negotiating 'Indianness' in German" (as pdf), CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong, 19.10.06.
• 'Indianness' as refuge - Constructions of belongingness among 'migrants of the second generation" (Folien als pdf), Workshop Landscapes of Meaning, Trans/forming Cultures, University of Technology Sydney, 18.10.06.
• "The Indernet - Negotiating 'Indianness' in German" (as pdf), Internationalizing Internet Studies, Brisbane, 27.09.06.
• "Black or White or something else? - Subjective Attempts at Positioning" (as pdf), Black European Studies in Transnational Perspective, 2nd International interdisciplinary Conference, Berlin, 29.07.06
• "Critical Whiteness Studies - Relevance for the research project" (as pdf), Forschungskolloquium: Postcolonial Theory and Anthropology, Collegium Polonicum Slubice, 25.01.06.

2005

• "Continued significance of the national - The internet portal www.theinder.net" (as pdf), Conference: The Making of 'World Society': Transnational Practices and Global Patterns, Universität Bielefeld, 24.11.05.
• "The virtual second generation - On the negotiation of ethnicity in the internet" (as pdf), Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenhip, University of Bristol, 17.03.05
• "The virtual second generation - On the negotiation of ethnicity in the internet" (as pdf), Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 15.03.05
• "Queer India - Impressions from Lesbian Activism", SOAS, University of London, 14.03.05.