Im Jahr 2016 fand in Hannover die Jubiläumstagung zum 25-jährigen Bestehen von FemArc Netzwerk archäologisch arbeitender Frauen e. V. statt. Die Vorträge dieser Tagung widmeten sich der archäologischen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung sowie der beruflichen Situation von Frauen in der Archäologie.
Der Blick zurück auf ein Vierteljahrhundert FemArc Netzwerk archäologisch arbeitender Frauen e. V. wurde ergänzt durch Vorträge zur Situation von Frauen in der Archäologie in anderen Ländern. Inwieweit feministische Perspektiven und Geschlechterforschung inzwischen in den Curricula der Universitätsinstitute angekommen sind, war auf der Tagung ebenso Thema wie aktuelle Forschungen aus dem Bereich der Gender-Archäologie. Feministische Perspektiven auf Gender und Archäologie legt nun einige der Beiträge der Jubiläumstagung 2016 als Publikation vor.

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Dr. Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann is currently assistant professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2011 to 2016 she was research associate and study program manager at the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn, and contracted lecturer at Leuphana university Lüneburg and at Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology. Her research interest are lifeworlds, gender roles and identity; the Justinian plaque; visual representations of the past; the archaeology of death and burial; chronology as well as statistical methods and databases in archaeology. She is mainly working in Iron Age Scandinavia; Roman Period; Migration Period as well as Merovingian Period and younger Early Middle Ages. Dr. philos. Liv Helga Dommasnes is a professor of archaeology at the University Museum, University of Bergen, Norway, working mainly on the Early Middle Age (Migration Period through the Viking Age). She has published widely on burial rites and religion, feminist/women's archaeology and archaeology and children. Since 2007 Dr. Jana Esther Fries is a heritage officer at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage and responsible for the archaeological heritage in the West of Lower Saxony. At the University of Oldenburg she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology and cultural heritage management. From 1996 to 2006 she worked as director of rescue excavations for different federal states. Her research is focused on Iron Age, gender issues, settlement archaeology and more recently on late Paleolithic sites and Mesolithic hearth pits. Dr. Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann is currently assistant professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2011 to 2016 she was research associate and study program manager at the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn, and contracted lecturer at Leuphana university Lüneburg and at Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, where she teaches introductory courses in prehistoric archaeology. Her research interest are lifeworlds, gender roles and identity; the Justinian plaque; visual representations of the past; the archaeology of death and burial; chronology as well as statistical methods and databases in archaeology. She is mainly working in Iron Age Scandinavia; Roman Period; Migration Period as well as Merovingian Period and younger Early Middle Ages.