Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is Professor of Media Studies and Gender Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She studied philosophy and German literature at the University of Zurich and the Freie Universität zu Berlin. Before joining the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, she taught at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin from 1996 to 2004. She is co-founder and was editor of the journal Die Philosophin. Forum für feminstische Theorie und Philosophie from 1990 to 2004. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley (2007), visiting professor at the Centre d’études du vivant, Université Paris VII – Diderot (2010), senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) Weimar (2013), and Max Kade Professor at Columbia University (2012 and 2017). She is also an external affiliate of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on topics in critical, feminist and queer theory, media philosophy and epistemology, temporality and media aesthetics, media anthropology and theories of play, as well as Jewish philosophy.

In cooperation with the ICI Berlin she has organized several international conferences: ‘Situiertes Wissen und regionale Epistemologie/Savoirs situés et épistémologie régionale’, 24-26 February 2011 (concept and organization Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Christoph Holzhey), ‘Unentrinnbares, Unzerstörbares? Symposium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstags von Itta Shedletzky’, 21-22 March 2013 (concept and organization Bettina Banasch and Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky), ‘Conatus und Lebensnot, Konzepte des Überlebens’, 15-17 January 2015 (concept and organization Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Anna Tuschling).