Body, voice and gender in teaching - successful dealing with stereotypes and power dynamics (C/F)

Dates and work units: 12 WU

• self-pased learning period 26.09.–09.10.2025 (4 WU)
• Fr, 10.10.2025, 9:00–17:00 o'clock, in person, Waldweg 26, R3.119 (8 WU)

Registration:
Please register until Fr, 12.09.2025.
Later registrations may not be taken into account.
This workshop is organized and financed by the project LInK and is therefore free of charge for you.


Content:
How do unspoken expectations affect our appearance in front of an audience when teaching? What roles are ascribed to us - and how can we shape them creatively and confidently? This seminar invites you to question common ideas about presence, the movement of body and voice in space, authority and communication in everyday university life and the classroom. Together we will explore how different experiences and perspectives affect our own appearance before an audience and how we can deal productively with traditional images and unspoken norms and status roles between professors and students. Through practical exercises, feedback and open exchange, we will develop individual strategies to strengthen our own resources and break with routines. For all those who want to expand their teaching and stage skills and promote a discrimination-sensitive approach in the university context!


Learning objectives:
Participants...

• understand micropolitics and gender in auditorium- and classroom teaching;
• are able to play with status expectations between professors and students;
• are able to take strategic decisions over your own presence;
• have learned tricks for using body and voice;
• have used empathy as a resource;
• have faced challenges in front of an audience calmly and apply all that to the teaching context.;

Venue
Göttingen, Waldweg 26, Room 3.117/119

Methods and appraoches:
Reflection, group work, role play, reading, exercises in self-study phase

Course language: english

Facilitator:
Bettina Wülfingen: is trainer and professor since over 15 years, skilled in improv theatre and certified mediator. Decisive for this training is that she knows the cultures in natural sciences as well as those in the humanities: with a diploma in Biology, a PhD in Public Health and being a private docent at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Instute for Cultural History and Theory, she held professorships at different universities and was fellow at Harvard University. She also held many organizational positions at the different boards such as diversity officer, member of hiring committees for professorships or representative of the mid-level researchers. This means she knows well all the different status situations and typical power games at the university and its institutions. She loves to teach their rules in order to help you play or break with them.