Lena Wittenfeld

Academic work experience:

• since 09/ 2023 Research assistant in the Working Group on Political Theory and the History of Ideas (Prof. Dr. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen), Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.
• 09/ 2022 - 04/ 2023 Student assistant at the Equal Opportunities Office of the University of Osnabrück
• 03/ 2021 - 03/ 2023 Student assistant at the Gender Studies Research Unit of the University of Osnabrück

Academic career:

• 10/ 2020 - 03/ 2023 Master's degree at the University of Osnabrück (M.A. Political Science: Demokratisches Regieren und Zivilgesellschaft/Democratic Governance and Civil Society), Master's thesis topic: Feminist Foreign Policy, Sovereignty and Genderedness: Rethinking the Concept of the Sovereign State.
• Bachelor's Degree at the University of Osnabrück (B.A. Social Sciences: Major Political Sciences)
• Bachelor's Degree at the University of Osnabrück (B.A.: English & German Studies)

Publications:

• 2023 “Below its potential – Navigating the complexity of Feminist Foreign Policy", Polis Paper, no. 23 (https://polis180.org/polisblog/2023/10/10/polis-paper-n-24-below-its-potential-navigating-the-complexity-of-feminist-foreign-policy/) co-authored with Sophie Domres
• 2023 "Feminist Foreign Policy's Potentials and Obstacles to Critically Re-Imagine Nuclear Disarmament", contribution to the anthology 'Expanding Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament' of the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (here: https://www3.uu.se/digitalAssets/1076/c_1076590-l_3-k_202312-amcexpandingperspectivesfinal.pdf)
• 2023/2024 "Feminist Foreign Policy and Human Rights: The Role of Sovereignty and its Restraining Implications', MenschenRechtsMagazin of the University of Potsdam (in review).
• 2024 "The Potential of Feminist Foreign Policy to Break Binary Gender Constructions in International Relations" (working title), feministische Studien, issue 2/2024: Diverse Geschlechtlichkeiten (planned)

Presentations:

• 03/ 2024 The Epistemological Violence of Feminism(s) and the Engagement with its Inherently Biased Situatedness accepted for the spring conference of the Section for Political Theory and the History of Ideas (DVPW) Political Theory after Eurocentrism. Resources of Non-Western Thought in Contemporary Political Challenges, Rostock (Germany).
• 11/ 2023 "Germany's Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Through a Critical Feminist Epistemological Lens" presented at the international conference Knowledge Production and Human Rights, Fulda (Germany)
• 10/ 2023 "Feminist Foreign Policy - a New Variable in Peace and Conflict Studies?!" presented at the anniversary symposium Science for Peace of the journal Wissenschaft und Frieden, Bonn (Germany)
• 09/ 2023 "Emphasizing the Individual: Feminist Foreign Policy's Potential to Critically Re-Imagine the Concept of Security" presented at the EISA PEC, Potsdam (Germany)

Further:

• since 01/ 2023 Head of the Program "Gender and International Politics" at Polis180 e.V. (Grassroots-ThinkTank for Foreign and European Policy)
• since 05/ 2023 Sylke-Temple Fellowship 2023/2024 (Project: 'Why Feminist Foreign Policy Offers Realpolitik Solutions in Times of Geopolitical Crises')