Dr. Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University, USA, in winter semester 2006/2007 guest professor at the University of Oldenburg
Maria-Goeppert-Mayer-Programme for International Gender Research
A programme of the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany
The Maria-Goeppert-Mayer-Programme for International Gender Research offers funds for a guest professorship, which should be considered primarily as a teaching professorship. The guest professorship can be located in all areas of science and humanities, especially welcome is a focus on those disciplines which are particularly deficient in the area of women’s and gender studies.
The programme pursues the goals:
Strengtheninging the curriculum in relation to gender studies/gender research. Applications should therefore put forth the importance of the teaching curriculum for the respective university as well as the anchoring and integration of the curriculum at the university, in the departments and the institutes. It is particularly important that the guest professor will be integrated in discussions with colleagues, e.g. by way of internal colloquiums and public events, etc.
Integration of standards for international women’s and gender studies and research in Lower Saxony by foreign researchers or by German researchers (or researchers from German-speaking countries) who have proven themselves internationally, who have international research and teaching experiences and who work at the highest standard of international research.
Promotion of the young generation: we address professors as well as the new generation of researchers.
Interdisciplinary approaches will be particularly well received. We are also interested in a contiuniation of the international contacts made during the Maria-Goeppert-Mayer-Programme.
The ministry will base the distribution of guest professorships, as well as funds for lectureships, on the recommendations of a scientific advisory board.
Name of the programme
In honor of Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), this programme is named after the Nobel Prize winner for physics from Goettingen. She studied mathematics and physics at the University of Goettingen and took her doctor’s degree at Max Born. At the beginning of the 30’s, she settled in the USA with her husband Joe Mayer, a chemist. In 1963, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure. Aside from her scientific work, Maria Goeppert Mayer supported Jewish female colleagues who had emigrated to the USA. She called for peaceful usage of nuclear energy and encouraged young women to embark upon science.
Coordination and Contact
The programme is coordinated by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony Person of contact: Claudia Idel Referat 22A Leibnizufer 9 D-30169 Hannover Tel: +49 (0)511 120-2557 Fax: +49 (0)511 120-99-2557
