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Life after Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Is Influencing the Midterms and Cultural Politics in America and Germany am 7. November 2022

Life after Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Is Influencing the Midterms and Cultural Politics in America and Germany am 7. November 2022 mit besonderer Gastrednerin Michaela Dudley

The ZMI will host a lecture event titled Life after Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Is Influencing the Midterms and Cultural Politics in America and Germany. We welcome Dr. Michaela Dudley as guest speaker who will provide us with a primer on "White Rage and Black Humor" in her talk Life after Pro-Choice: Mid-Terms, the Supreme Court and the Futility of American Politics.

Prof. Dr. Greta Olson and Laura Borchert will speak about the aftermath of the court ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Orgaization (2022) and its effects on the Midterm elections. The event will be held in person and will be recored. We warmly invite you to participate in the subsequent question-and-answer session. The presentations will be in English, but German questions are strongly encouraged. The event is an extension of Olson's lecture Woman / Feminisms / Queer / Trans and Nonbinary / Race / Nation / Ability – Decolonizing Knowledge, Introducing Diversity Studies and Inclusion and will take place on 7 November 2022, on the eve of the U.S. Midterms, from 4 to 6 PM s.t. in the Aula of the Hauptgebäude (Ludwigstr. 23, 35390).


Michaela Dudley is a Berlin-based progressive woman with Afro-American roots.  Born in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty,” she experienced Jim Crow segregation in her early childhood. The 61-year-old publicist, cabaret artist, queerfeminist and jurist epitomizes intersectionality. Indeed, both in her professional and her private spheres. She’s the authoress of the German-language book Race Relations: Essays über Rassismus (2022) – a volume of essays addressing racism and displaying her lyrical artistry and her expertise as a connoisseur of American political history. Recently in Berlin, she met with the iconic activist Angela Davis and described the encounter in the gay rights magazine Siegessäule. Additionally, her unsparingly frank columns in the German daily newspapers taz and Tagesspiegel and her satirical television commentaries in Kulturzeit (3Sat) have made her revered and feared.