Academic Outreach
Publications
Ammann & Miller (2025): Queerying Doing Family: Gay, Bisexual, and Trans Parents in Switzerland
Ammann (2025): Unpacking Categorizations in Researching GBTIQ+ Parents
Ammann (2025): Queer fathers and parents’ caring path to parenthood in the Netherlands and Switzerland
Ammann & Vermuë (2024): “As a Father, I Like to Develop and Grow” – Fathering and Privileges among White, Heterosexual and Highly Educated Men in the Netherlands
Heilmann, S., Hässler, T., Theissing, L., & Eisner, L. (2024). Intersectionality within the LGBTIQ+ context: Discrimination, identification, and negative affect. Stigma and Health.
Presentations and Invited Talks
Caring with Research Participants: Centering Queer Voices in a Mixed-Method Project on Rainbow Families
Carole Ammann with Tamara Bosshardt and Leo Valentin Theissing
Event: Conference of the Swiss Association of Gender Studies
09/2025
Basel, CH
Who Cares About Those Who Do Care Work? Imagining and Co-Creating a ‘Caring City’
Carole Ammann with Sarah Schilliger and Katrin Hofer
Event: Conference of the Swiss Association of Gender Studies
09/2025
Basel, CH
Discussant of the panel ‘Masculinities and Gender Norms in the Reproductive Context’
Carole Ammann
Event: International Workshop on ‘A Fresh Look on Men, Masculinities and Reproduction‘
08/2025
online
Overcoming the Heteronormative Lens: Challenges and Opportunities in Surveying Rainbow Families in Switzerland
Tamara Bosshardt and Leo Valentin Theissing
Event: ESRA Conference
Institution: European Survey Research Association (ESRA)
07/2025
utrecht, nl
Participative Approach in Surveying LGBTQIA+ Families in Switzerland
Leo Valentin Theissing and Tamara Bosshardt
Event: ESRA Conference
Institution: European Survey Research Association (ESRA)
07/2025
utrecht, nl
Affective Ambivalences of Trans Care
Leo Valentin Theissing
Event: International Workshop on ‘Theorizing the Ambivalences of Care‘
Institution: University of Basel
06/2025
BASEL, CH
Queer Fathers and Parents’ Everyday Parenting Care
Carole Ammann
Event: International Workshop on ‘Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction‘
Institution: Fondation Brocher
05/2025
HERMANCE (GENEVA), CH
Discussant of the Panel ‚Reproductive Health‚
Carole Ammann
Event: International Workshop on ‘Men, Masculinities, and Reproduction‘
Institution: Fondation Brocher
05/2025
HERMANCE (GENEVA), CH
LGBTIQ+ Families in Switzerland
CAS Sex- and Gender-Specific Medicine
Carole Ammann
Event: Presentation at CAS Sex- and Gender-Specific Medicine
Institution: Department for BioMedical Research, University of Berne
04/2025
Berne, CH
Surveys
Tamara Bosshardt
Event: Guest Lecture in Ethnographic Research Methods
Institution: University of Lucerne Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
04/2025
Lucerne, CH
Queerying Doing Family? Gay and Trans Parents in Switzerland
Carole Ammann
Event: Brown Bag Lunch Series, Human Reproduction Reloaded
Institution: University of Zurich
03/2025
ZUrich, CH
Walking Interviews
Carole Ammann
Event: mLAB Community Lunch
Institution: Institute of Geography, University of Berne
03/2025
BERNE, CH
Queer Reproductive Justice? Gay and Trans Parents in Switzerland
Carole Ammann
Event: Gender Law Conference
02/2025
Neuchâtel, CH
Surveying Rainbowfamilies in Switzerland – Methods and Methodological Challenges
Leo Valentin Theissing
Event: Invited Online Talk at Quantitative LGBTIQ+ Research Seminar by Mirjam Fischer
Institution: Humboldt-University Berlin
12/2024
online
Worlding Doing Family: GBTIQ+ Parented Families in Switzerland
Carole Ammann
Event: Bayreuth Anthropology Lecture Series
Institution: Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
11/2024
BAYREUTH, DE
Unpacking Categorizations in Researching GBTIQ+ Parents
Carole Ammann
Event: mLAB Community Lunch
Institution: Institute of Geography, University of Berne
05/2024
BERNE, CH
T4t Care – A Caring Ethnography Around and With Trans Care Networks
Leo Valentin Theissing
Event: Advancing LGBTIQ+ Research Around the Globe, Preconference
02/2024
denver, usa
“We make sure our children are dressed ‘properly’” – The work of doing GBT*IQ+ families in Switzerland
Carole Ammann
Event: Conference of the Swiss Association of Gender Studies
09/2023
LAUSANNE, CH
GBTIQ+ Parents and Single Fathers in Switzerland: Parenting Outside Hegemonic Family Norms
Carole Ammann
Event: Workshop on Fatherhood
08/2023
LAUSANNE, CH
Researching GBTIQ+ parents in Switzerland and the Netherlands: beyond fixed categories?
Carole Ammann
Event: Workshop ‘Critical Perspectives on Parenting in Switzerland’
11/2022
Lucerne, CH
Parenting among queer non-female identifying persons: the (non)sense of categorising
Carole Ammann
Event: Guest Lecture in Bachelor seminar ‘Homosexuality, same-sex love, and queer identities – anthropological considerations’
Institution: Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg
05/2022
FRIBOURG, CH
Queer Parenting in Switzerland and the Netherlands: The Challenges of Categorizin
Carole Ammann
Event: Work in Progress Gender Studies
Institution: Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, University of Berne
12/2021
BERNE, CH
Organisation of Workshops and Panels
Friendly ‘Speed-Brainstorming’ on Critical Methodological Approaches
Carole Ammann with Tamara Bosshardt and Leo Valentin Theissing
Type: Laboratory
Conference: Conference of the Swiss Association of Gender Studies
09/2025
Basel, CH
A Fresh Look on Men, Masculinities and Reproduction
Carole Ammann with Alice Margaria and Agnes Kandlbinder
Type: International workshop
08/2025
online
Bringing Men into the Spotlight: Men, Masculinities and Reproduction
Carole Ammann with Alice Margaria and Agnes Kandlbinder
Type: International workshop
Institution: Brocher Foundation
05/2025
HERMANCE (GENEVA), CH
Researching Marginalized Groups in Switzerland
Carole Ammann with Leo Valentin Theissing
Type: National workshop
Institution: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne
02/2025
LUCERNE, CH
Doing and Undoing Queer Families: Queering Reproductive Justice
Carole Ammann with Caroline Chautems
Type: Panel at international conference
Conference: 18th European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference
07/2024
BARCELONA, ES
Relief Maps
Carole Ammann
Type: National workshop
Institution: Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, ETH Zurich
02/2024
ZURICH, CH
Participatory Mapping
Carole Ammann with Maaret Jokela-Pansini
Type: National workshop
Institution: Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development, ETH Zurich
10/2023
ZURICH, CH
Critical Perspectives on Parenting in Switzerland
Carole Ammann with Laura Katharina Preissler
Type: National workshop
Institution: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne
11/2022
LUCERNE, CH
Forschungsprojekt "Queere Familien in der Schweiz" 