Lola Fischer-Irmler
Gender and Diversity Division
Researcher
Room 218
14195 Berlin
Office hours
Wednesdays between 3 and 5 p.m.
Book your appointment in the calendar here and come to my office (room 218, Ihnestr. 22) or my Webex room at the selected time: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/lola.fischer-irmler.
My academic interests lie in feminist political theory. I focus on theories of social reproduction, care work, materialist feminist theories of the state, queer and trans studies and feminist movement research.
CV
Since October 2025 Research assistant in the Gender and Diversity department at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science.
2023–2025 Student assistant in the Gender and Diversity department at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science.
2022–2025 M.A. in Gender, Intersectionality, and Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. Thesis title: Gender Relations and Overdetermination. Materialist Feminist State Theory Following Louis Althusser (final grade: 1.0).
2013–2020: B.A. in Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Teaching
Winter semester of 2025/26Publications
Articles2025. Sorge Vergesellschaften als Strategie. Materialistisch-feministische Perspektiven auf die Vergesellschaftungsbewegung. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 38(3), 529-536. 10.1515/fjsb-2025-0042
2024. Book review: Gerner/Hansen: Ökofeminismus für heute. Contraste - Zeitung für Selbstorganisation, 41(475), 15.
Conferences and workshops2025. Materialist-feminist and eco-socialist perspectives on the movement for the socialization of care work in Berlin mit Nadine Gerner. 6th International Marxist Feminist Conference: Decolonising Bodies, Territories and Practices. Porto.
2025. Socializing care as a strategy. The movement for the socialization of care work in Berlin as a materialist-feminist strategy. Historic Materialism Conference 2025. SOAS University of London.
2024. Struggles for the conditions of social reproduction. Autors workshop Care in movements. Jena. Publication in the Special Issue Care in movements of the research journal social movements.
2024. Co-organizer of the conference Shoppingmalls zu Sorgezentren - Wege zur sorgenden Stadt. Berlin.
2024. Workshop Sorge ins Parkcenter - How do we exproriate a shopping mall in a feminist way? At the 10th anniversery conference of the Care Revolution network. Leipzig.
2023. Moderation of the Panel on Intersectionality in Knowledge Production with Prof. Jule Govrin, Aneri Vora, Jo Krishnakumar & Vibhavari Desai at the Practicing Intersectionality in Research, Activism and Politics conference. Berlin.
2023. Workshop Introduction to materialist feminism. PfiCa. Wittstock/Dosse.