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Dr. phil.

Ute Kalender

University of Fine Arts Hamburg

Christian Thiel/Deutscher Ethikrat

Focus of the Commitment in the German Ethics Council

  • Intersectional perspectives on digitalisation and artificial intelligence
  • Digital care work
  • Data colonialism
  • Reproductive technologies
  • Disability from a social perspective
  • Digitalisation and care

Professional Background

  • Since 2023 Visiting Professorship for Theory and History, University of Fine Arts Hamburg
  • 2022–2023 Visiting Professorship for Media, Algorithms and Society at the Department of Media Studies, University of Paderborn
  • 2020–2023 Research Associate at the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at Charité – University Medicine Berlin
  • 2020–2022 Employee at the BMBF project Digital Academy Care 4.0 at the “FrauenComputerZentrumBerlin”
  • 2019 Visiting Lecturer and teaching assignments at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies, Free University of Berlin, at the Transformation Studies Programme, European University Flensburg, at the University Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Klagenfurt and at the Institute for Media Studies / Centre for Gender Studies and Feminist Sciences, Philipps University of Marburg
  • 2015–2023: Head of qualitative research workshops at the Institute of Social Medicine, Charité – University Medicine Berlin
  • 2014–2018 Research Assistant at the Institute of Public Health and Institute of Social Medicine, Charité – University Medicine Berlin
  • 2010–2011 Postdoc at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Stockholm
  • 2010 Ernst Mach Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Graz
  • 2009–2010 Associated Postdoc at the DFG Research Trainig Group on Gender as a category of knowledge, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2009–2010 Research Assistant, Gender Studies / Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 2009 Research Fellow at BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics
  • 2006–2007 Research Assistant at the “Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft”, Berlin

Memberships

  • Since 2024 Member of the German Ethics Council
  • Member of the FrauenComputerZentrumBerlin
  • Member of the Big Data From the South initiative
  • Member of the efas – economy, feminism and science network
  • Member of the Open Digital Gender Studies working group at Gender Studies Association

Selected publications

  • Wiegmann, S.; Schilling, R.; Winter, M.; Ernst, M.; Wechsung, K.; Kalender, U.; Stöckigt, B.; Richter-Unruh, A.; Hiort, O.; Döhnert, U.; Marshall, L.; Rohayem, J.; Liesenkötter, K.-P.; Wabitsch, M.; Herrmann, G.; Ernst, G.; Roll, S.; Keil, T.; Neumann, U. (2024): Satisfaction with a new patient education program for children, adolescents, and young adults with differences of sex development (DSD) and their parents. PEC Innovation, 5, 100321. DOI: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2024.100321
  • Kalender, U.; Wiegmann, S.; Ernst, M.; Ihme, L.; Neumann, U.; Stöckigt, B. (2023): Who is sensitising whom? A participatory interview guide development as an awareness tool within a health care research project. Heliyon, 9 (6), e16778. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16778
  • Kalender, U. (2023): Cyborgs, Tryborgs, Techno-Ableismus. Perspektiven der feministischen Disability Studies auf künstlich-intelligente Gesundheitstechnologien. Open Gender Journal, 7, DOI: 10.17169/ogj.2023.212
  • Kalender, U. (2023): We’re all cyborgs now? Cripping the smart cyborg. In: Klipphahn-Karge, M.; Koster, A.-K.; Morais dos Santos Bruss, S. (ed.): Queer Reflections on AI. Uncertain Intelligences. London: Routledge, 75–87.
  • Shnayien, M.; Kalender, U.; Matzner, T. (2023): Protokoll 21. In: Tuschling, A.; Sudmann, A.; Dotzler, B.J. (ed.): ChatGPT und andere „Quatschmaschinen“. Gespräche mit Künstlicher Intelligenz. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 151–162.
  • Kalender, U. (2023): Queer-crip Perspektiven auf die Cyborg-Figur im Kontext von Künstlicher Intelligenz. In: Klipphahn-Karge, M.; Koster, A.-K.; Morais dos Santos Bruss, S. (ed.): Queere KI. Zum Coming-out smarter Maschinen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 103–118.
  • Kasten, A.; Bose, K. von; Kalender, U. (ed.) (2022): Feminismen in der Sozialen Arbeit. Debatten, Dis/Kontinuitäten, Interventionen. Weinheim: Juventa Verlag.
  • Kalender, U. (2022): Komplexe Verkörperung in digitalen Bildungsräumen. Eine queer-feministische Perspektive. In: Kasten, A.; Bose, K. von; Kalender, U. (ed.): Feminismen in der Sozialen Arbeit. Debatten, Dis/Kontinuitäten, Interventionen. Weinheim: Juventa Verlag, 153–170.
  • Ediger, G.; Kyere, A.; Kalender, U.; Mazzaferro, V. (2021): Reproduktionstechnologien. Queere Perspektiven und reproduktive Gerechtigkeit. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.