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The talk is organized by Prof. Bettina Kleiner and Prof. Christiane Thompson in the context of the international conference "On the (de)legitimization of epistemic authority”. The conference is not open to the public but you are cordially invited to attend this public keynote.

It is often said that women become invisible in society after a certain age. However, ageing women have certainly become more visible in European cinema over the last two decades. But how do filmmakers from different parts of Europe negotiate the visibility of ageing women on screen?

Am 16.11 fand die erste Lesung des sogenannte Selbstbestimmungsgesetzes im Deutschen Bundestag statt, dessen Inkrafttreten für den 1.11.2024 geplant ist. Das Gesetz soll das bisherige Transsexuellengesetz (TSG) ablösen, das vom Bundesverfassungsgericht in mehreren Entscheidungen für verfassungswidrig erklärt wurde.

Age has always been a factor of great sensitivity in the careers of screen actors. In 1957, Edgar Morin wrote that beauty and youth are the inseparable requirements of film stars.

In spite of their peripheral situatedness and scarce(er) resources, 21st century European small national cinemas are overrepresented as far as the moving image-based, narrative fictional articulation of the ageing, childless, or infertile woman, fighting an ecological(ly) inspired ‘war’, is concerned.

Das 25jährige Jubiläum des CGC wurde mit einem Gespräch mit ehemaligen, aktuellen und künftigen Akteur*innen des CGC über Geschlecht, Geschlechterverhältnisse, Identität und Werden begangen. Zwei künstlerisch-performative Beiträge schlugen einen Bogen von den Anfängen der deutschen Geschlechterforschung unter Magnus Hirschfeld und den Bartdamen des 19. Jahrhunderts zu den feintönigen Verästelungen queerer Stimmen der Gegenwart.

In recent years, several European films released in movie theaters have cast middle-aged stars in order to portray characters of an older age: relevant examples that come to mind are Alex Lutz playing a washed-up pop singer in Guy (Alex Lutz, 2018), Tilda Swinton embodying her character’s mother in The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022