Ist eine deutsch-argentinische Soziologin. Hochschulassistentin und Privatdozentin an der Universität Hannover. Ab SS 2008 vertritt sie die Professur am Institut für Soziologie an der LMU München. Ihre Schwerpunkte sind Gender Studies, soziologische Theorien (Poststrukturalismus, Subjektivierung/Vergesellschaftung, Mikrosoziologien, Ungleichheitssoziologie), Körpersoziologie, Kultursoziologie/ Cultural Studies, Elternschaft). Sie tanzt und unterrichtet selbst argentinischen Tango und versucht deren Geschlechterkonstruktionen auch theoretisch zu fassen.
Marta Savigliano
Marta Elena Savigliano holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and a Licenciatura in Anthropology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is an Argentine political theorist and anthropologist interested in the politics of culture: the transnational traffic of cultural goods, workers, ideologies and affects under global capitalism.
She is the author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion (Westview, 1995), translated into Turkish, Slovene and Japanese, which received the Congress of Research on Dance Award for Outstanding Book 1993-1996. Her second book Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North South Translation (Wesleyan U.P., 2003) addresses feminization and fatal-ness as recurrent tropes associated to artistic and scholarly representations of Latin America and, in particular, of Argentina.
Angora Matta was first conceived as a libretto for a thriller-opera of tangos. As an interdisciplinary and multi-art project of international collaboration, Angora Matta was developed with composer Ramon Pelinski, choreographer Susan Rose, and animation director Miguel Angel Nanni. A first experimental presentation of the complete work took place in the Teatro Presidente Alvear of Buenos Aires in November 2002 as a US-Argentine co-production involving 30 artists on stage.
The active participation of artists and intellectuals in reproducing or challenging historical and contemporary colonial world orders is consistently discussed in her work. Savigliano has been invited to lecture at universities in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Helsinki, Hamburg, Taipei, Hawai’i, San Jose-Costa Rica, Buenos Aires, New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and other institutions in the United States.
Savigliano taught at UC Riverside’s Dance department from 1992 to 1998, and at UCLA’s department of World Arts and Cultures from 1998 to 2006. She is currently Full Professor at the University of California, Riverside, in Dance History and Theory; Director of the Center for Body, Dance and Performance Studies, and founder of GLOSAS, an international center for Global South Advanced Studies located in Buenos Aires.
Ute Walter
Erziehungswissenschaftlerin und Tangotänzerin. Ute Walter tanzt und unterrichtet seid vielen Jahren Argentinischen Tango. Sie ist Initiatorin des Internationalen Queertango Festivals in Hamburg, welches von internationaler Bedeutung ist. Regelmäßig ist sie Gast auf nationalen und internationalen Ereignissen. In Kooperation mit Marga Nagel hat sie ein neues Konzept entwickelt, Tango jenseits traditioneller Geschlechterzuschreibungen zu unterrichten.
Esma Ozge Talas
Istanbul. BA in Cultural Studies an der Sabancı Universität, MA in Soziologie an der Middle East Technical University Istanbul. Schwerpunkte sind – social anthropology, cultural studies, anthropology of the middle east. Interessen: performative arts, modern dance und tango argentino.
Kerstin Lange
Universität Leipzig
Rona Torenz
Humboldt Universität Berlin
Gender Studies/ Philosophie
Mirjam Hirsch
studies Gender Studies and Modern History at Humboldt University of Berlin and Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Special current interests: Argentine tango in theory and practice, transnational feminism, social movements, Latin America, post colonial and critical whiteness theories, autonomous lerning, feminist theories and strategies of emancipation.
Sandrix Hettmann
Humboldt Universität Berlin
Gender Studies
Marlene Pfau
studiert Gender Studies und Lateinamerikanistik an der Humboldt und der Freien Universität Berlin. Spezielle Interessen sind derzeit Gender im Kontext fotografischer Inszenierungen, verschiedene Blicksysteme, Psychoanalyse, Hysterie.
