During the fall term 2026, Prof. Dr. Katrin Meyer is visiting professor at the Center for Gender Studies as part of a collaboration between the Graduate Program for Gender Studies in Basel (GGSB) and the Swiss Inter-University Doctoral Program (IDP) for Gender Studies. Katrin Meyer is a professor of Philosophy at the University Zürich and Basel, is teaching in Gender Studies and is a coordinator for Gender Studies in the IDP at the University Zürich. Meyer’s research encompasses the topics of migration, security & safety, power & violence within feminist political theory and social philosophy. She is author of Theorien der Intersektionalität zur Einführung (2017/2023), Macht und Gewalt im Widerstreit. Politisches Denken nachHannah Arendt (2016), Ästhetik der Historie. Friedrich Nietzsches „Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben“ (1998); and co-editor of Revisioning Democracy and Women’s Suffrage: Critical Feminist Interventions with Stephanie Pfenninger Tuchschmid and Yunna Sklarova (2024). 

Katrin Meyer studied Philosophy, German Literature and Church History in Basel, Berlin and Paris and graduated in Basel with a PhD on the works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Her post-doctoral research was on theories of power, ranging from Michel Foucault to Hannah Arendt. She acts as a board member of the Swiss Society of Gender Research (SGGF), member of the Society of Women in Philosophy, Switzerland (SWIP CH), member of the editorial board of the series Questions de Genre/Gender Questions published by Seismo.

The following events are organized as part of Prof. Dr. Katrin Meyer’s visiting professorship:

PhD workshop “Queer-feministische Perspektiven auf Demokratie I: Liberalismus,

Autoritarismus und widerständige Praxis”

October 2, 10.00-17.00.

University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, Room 216.

Please note: Only for GGSB and IDP members and upon registration.

Interactive Roundtable “Normativität in der Wissenschaft”

November 12, 12.00-13.30.

University of Basel, Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201.

PhD workshop “Queer-feministische Perspektiven auf Demokratie II: Geteilte Sorge

und Sicherheit”

December 11, 10.00-17.00.

University of Basel, Alte Universität, Besprechungsraum 003.

Please note: Only for GGSB and IDP members and upon registration.