Vortrag: Jonathan Dumont: Mary of Burgundy and Margaret of Austria. Two Female Rulerships in the Habsburg Low Countries, 18.05.2022, Wien oder virtueller Raum

Vortrag der Reihe „Geschichte am Mittwoch“ des Instituts für Geschichte der Univ. Wien (Web) und Jour fixe des Instituts für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit
Zeit: 18.05.2022, 18.30-20.00 Uhr
Ort: Universität Wien, HS 30 – oder virtueller Raum
This lecture will focus on the legitimation of female rulership in the late 15th- and the early 16th-Habsburg Low Countries. During this period, the Low Countries were ruled by two women: Duchess Mary of Burgundy (r. 1477–1482) as sovereign ruler, and her daughter Margaret of Austria as governor general (1507–1515, 1519–1530). The context and the characteristics of these two rulerships were very different. Mary’s rule was contested by the king of France. She counterattacked by claiming that she was the sole heir of her father Duke Charles the Bold and therefore the only natural sovereign of her lands. Margaret of Austria ruled as governor general by delegation of her nephew Charles V’s sovereignty. She legitimated her position by relying on a very specific conception of power that characterised dynastic rulership: shared sovereignty.
This lecture will present the results of two recent collective books codirected by the speaker:

  • Michael Depreter, Jonathan Dumont, Elizabeth L’Estrange, and Samuel Mareel (Eds.): Marie de Bourgogne. Figure, principat et postérité d’une duchesse tardo- médiévale / Mary of Burgundy. Reign, ‘Persona’, and Legacy of a Late Medieval Duchess (coll. Burgundica 31, 2021, Web).
  • Jonathan Dumont, Laure Fagnart, Pierre-Gilles Girault, and Nicolas Le Roux (Eds.): La Paix des Dames (1529), Tours (coll. Renaissance, 2021, Web).

Moderation: Karl Vocelka
Jonathan Dumont holds a PhD in History, Art, and Archaeology (Univ. de Liège, Belgium). He is currently Research Fellow at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Institut für Mittelalterforschung). His work focusses on late medieval and early modern political history and history of political cultures, particularly in France, the Low Countries, and the early Habsburg Monarchy.

Discusion: Aleksandar Rankovic, Perica Jovchevski, and Kathleen Zeidler: Collecting and Archiving LGBTIQ+ and Women’s Movements in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space, 25.04.2022, Vienna and virtual space

Fakultätszentrum für transdisziplinäre historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien (FakZen THKS): Gesprächsreihe Disziplinen in Bewegung (Web)

Zeit: 25.04.2022, 18:30-20:00 Uhr
Ort: Fakultätszentrum, Koling. 14-16, 1090 Wien, and virtual space

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and queer, as well as feminist activists have created a vast array of materials bearing witness to their struggle for liberation: magazines, photographs, books, papers, reports, leaflets and videos are tangible products of their historical agency. Recent activities in collecting, curating, and exhibiting these traces speak of an on-going process of (self-)historicization which raises a variety of significant questions:
How and where have archives been established by LGBTIQ+ and feminist activists across the Post-Yugoslav space? Is there a conflict of interest when activists themselves create archival knowledge? How can processes of LGBTIQ+ and feminist (self-)historicization look like in and beyond the (Post-)Yugoslav space? Which obstacles do activists face when creating archives? Where do we locate sexualities beyond LG in the context of LGBTIQ+ archives? Can there be a queer/feminist practice of collecting and archiving?

The topic is discussed by these researchers:

  • Aleksandar Rankovic (Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Univ. Wien) (Web)
  • Perica Jovchevski (Doctoral School, Central European Univ.)
  • Kathleen Zeidler (Graduate School, Univ. Leipzig)

This discussion will bring together perspectives of both practices of curating and of historical research based on LGBTIQ+/feminist related archival sources with a particular focus on (Post-)Yugoslavia.
The event will take place live in compliance with the current COVID-regulations. Please register in advance at admin.thks@univie.ac.at if you want to join on site. If you want to follow online via Zoom please register here (Web).

Source: admin.thks@univie.ac.at

CfP: Gender and Sport in a long-term perspective (Event, 11/2022, Roma); by: 15.05.2022

Società Italiana delle Storiche; Siglinde Clementi (Web)

Time: 17.-19.11.2022
Venue: Roma
Proposals by: 15.05.2022

Starting from the stages of women’s participation in the various sports disciplines, the conference aims to develop the role of feminist movements in stimulating or claiming women’s sports practice and the formal admission of women to competitions. Furthermore, it intends to investigate the field of sport as a fundamental context for the definition of male and female attributes, the construction of gender and binarism.

The successes of the ‚Azzurre‘, the discussions on professional women’s sport and the ensuing legal protection, the exclusion of women from certain sports, the controversy surrounding the natural testosterone levels of some women athletes, the political tensions generated by the restriction or exclusion of women from sport in certain regimes, the new visibility of the Paralympics, are just some of the current issues that touch on gender issues and call for in-depth reflection.

On an international level, in recent years there has been a proliferation of historical studies from a gender perspective on competitive and amateur sporting practices. Despite the fact that Italy is not absent in the panorama of studies – the Italian Society of Sport History has recently been established and the journal ‚Storia dello Sport. Rivista di studi contemporanei‘ – has been recently established, research is still relatively limited. In this context, the conference organised by the Società Italiana delle Storiche aims to stimulate research and to offer a ground for international comparison on sport in a long-term gender perspective.

Starting from the stages of women’s participation in the various sports disciplines, the conference aims to develop the role of feminist movements in stimulating or claiming women’s sports practice and the formal admission of women to competitions. Furthermore, it intends to investigate the field of sport as a fundamental context for the definition of male and female attributes, the construction of gender and binarism.

This is a terrain of competition and conflict, with forces on the ‚field‘ attempting to define the boundaries of male and female eligibility, and the bodies themselves, as demonstrated by … read more and source (Web).

International Workshop: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Food, 05.-06.05.2022, Vienna

2nd Vienna Workshop on Gender & Sexuality in STEM Collections – Technisches Museum Wien (TMW) (Web)
Time: 05.-06.05.2022
Venue: TMW, Mariahilfer Str. 212, 1150 Wien
Registration by: 22.04.2022
Programm (PDF)
05.05.2022

  • 11.00 Exhibition Tour: Get together & Tour “FoodPrints” & tasteLAB – by Sophie Gerber and Marion Oberhofer (Curators)
  • 1.30 Introduction: Martina Griesser-Stermscheg (TMW Research Institute), Sophie Gerber and Sophie Kühnlenz (Organisers, TMW): Welcome and Introduction

1.45 – Panel 1

  • Corinna Schmechel (HU Berlin): The Gendered History of Diet Tracking Technologies
  • Naomi Hammett (Lancaster Univ.): What future for fat cows?

3.30 – Panel 2

  • Sahar Tavakoli (Cornell Univ.): Butta la Pastiche! Camp visions and national palates
  • Fabiana Senkpiel (Bern Univ. of the Arts): How Soya the Cow is trying to save the world through veganism

5.30 – Keynote Lecture

  • Psyche Williams-Forson (Univ. of Maryland): Seeking the Absent Potential: When Food and Intersectionality Meetup in the Museum. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

06.05.2022

  •  9.30 Wrap-up with Sophie Gerber & Sophie Kühnlenz

10.00 – Workshops 1 + 2

  • Anja Herrmann (Berlin): Fat Matters. Reflections on Fat_ness and Gender in the Collection of Technisches Museum Wien
  • Ana Daldon (TMW): In the name of fat. Curatorial game

1.30 – Workshop 3 Continue reading →

Konferenz: Local Answers to Global Transitions – Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies in Plurilocal Perspectives, 19.-21.05.2022, Oldenburg

ZFG – Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (Web)

Zeit: 19.-21.05.2022
Ort: Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Celebrating 21 Years of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies.
Während der Gründungskonferenz „Societies in Transition – Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies“ des ZFG – Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung im Jahr 2001 war weithin eine Aufbruchstimmung spürbar. Wo stehen die Gender Studies heute? Welche politischen und institutionellen Bedingungen sind bestimmend? Welche theoretischen Konzepte, Entwicklungen und Perspektiven haben sich bewährt oder verändert? Dies möchten die Veranstalter:innen mit Wissenschaftler:innen und Activist Scholars aus Asien, Afrika, Nordamerika, West- und Osteuropa und vielen teilnehmenden Gästen diskutieren.
Panels (Web)

  • Panel: Knowledge, Power, Crisis, and the Pandemic. Towards a Responsible Culture of Objectivity: Corona Discourses as Situated Knowledges
  • Panel 1: Global/Local Developments and their Impact on Gender Studies
  • Panel 2: Societal Transitions as Threats, Limitations and Opportunities I
  • Panel 3: (Un-)Gendering, Decolonizing, Queering I
  • Panel 4: Societal Transitions as Threats, Limitations and Opportunities II
  • Panel 5: (Un-)Gendering, Decolonizing, Queering II
  • Panel 6: Conflicts, Gender Politics, Activisms
  • Panel 7: Potential and Transformation of Concepts
  • Roundtable: Inter-/Transdisciplinarity—Inter-/Transnationality in Gender Studies
  • Panel 8: Societal Transitions as Threats, Limitations and Opportunities III
  • Panel 9: Identity in Intersectional Perspectives
  • Panel 10: Gender – Politics – Knowledge: Challenges and Perspectives The Feminist Canon? – Decolonising the Mind

Vortrag: Nora Lehner: Von ‚Geldgeschenken‘ und ‚Unzuchtsdiebstählen‘. Verhandeln über sexuelle Dienstleistungen im Wien der 1940er- bis 1960er-Jahre, 30.03.2022, Wien und virtueller Raum

WISO Morgenkolloquium (Web)
Zeit: Mi., 30. März 2022, 9.00–10.00 Uhr
Ort: Universität Wien, Seminarraum Geschichte 1, 1. Stock und hybrid/online via Zoom
Das Verkaufen sexueller Dienstleistungen war nach dem Ende des NS geduldet, aber anhand mehrerer Strafgesetze, die sich mehrheitlich an Frauen wandten, reglementiert. Während die Rechtslage von Mitte 1945 bis 1973/75 unverändert blieb, wurden die Handlungsanweisungen an sich prostituierende Frauen bzw. die Polizei, der die Überwachung der reglementierten Prostitution und die Bekämpfung der „Geheimprostitution“ oblag, laufend angepasst. Frauen, die sexuelle Dienstleistungen verkauften, verfügten über keine rechtlichen Möglichkeiten, um die Entlohnung ihrer Arbeit abzusichern. Ausgehend von einem Sample von Gerichtsakten analysiere ich, wie sich das wirtschaftliche Handeln von Frauen vor dem Hintergrund dieser rechtlich und meist auch ökonomisch prekären Rahmenbedingungen gestaltete. Welche (Ver-)Handlungsstrategien und Verkaufspraktiken wandten Frauen an, die sich in diesem rechtlich nicht stabilisierten Markt bewegten?
Im Vortrag widmet sich die Referentin – mit der Frage nach den Perspektiven, Erfahrungen und der Handlungsmacht von Frauen, die sexuelle Dienstleistungen verkauften – einem Teilaspekt ihres Dissertationsprojektes „Kommerzielle Sexualität und sexueller Tauschhandel im Wien der Nachkriegszeit (1945–1974)“. Darin verwendet sie kommerzielle Sexualität und sexuellen Tauschhandel als Linse, um gesellschaftliche Normierungsprozesse zu beleuchten, die sich in den ersten vier Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg vollzogen.

  • Moderation: Therese Garstenauer
  • Kommentar: Pauline Bögner

Link zum virtuelen Raum: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63676317003?pwd=ejA1UkdscUtuc1R1d3dkZkwzTDBMQT09#success
Quelle: fernetzt@lists.univie.ac.at

CfP: Natürlich. Übernatürlich. Natur und Geschlechtsbegriff (Event, 10/2022, Hohenheim); bis: 15.05.2022

27. Fachtagung des Arbeitskreises Geschlechtergeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit; Claudia Opitz, Monika Mommertz und Sophie Ruppel (Web)

Zeit: 27.-29.10.2022
Ort: Tagungszentrum Hohenheim
Einreichfrist: 15.05.2022

Die Natur ist im christlichen Mittelalter zunächst allumfassend die Schöpfung Gottes, deren Krone die Menschen (bzw. Mann und Frau) darstellen und die in ihrem Urzustand auch die bestmögliche Realisierung erfahren hat; durch den Sündenfall wird diese ursprüngliche Einheit und Schönheit zerstört und der Mensch/Mann soll nun zur Strafe im Schweisse seines Angesichts sein Brot essen, die Frau «unter Schmerzen Kinder gebären» und ihrem Mann untergeben sein. So geraten also beide, Mann und Frau, von der schönen paradiesischen Natur in einen «Kulturzustand», der Mühen, Not, Schmerzen und schliesslich den Tod mit sich bringt, der allerdings auch Erkenntnis, Bildung, Verbesserung des irdischen Elends usw. verspricht.

Diese Schöpfungs- und Sündenfallgeschichte hat bereits in der frühen Neuzeit zu einer breit angelegten Debatte geführt, der «querelle des femmes“, in der u.a. auch kritisch nach der Verankerung von Geschlechterhierarchien in der als Schöpfung verstandenen Natur gefragt wurde. Daneben wurde der Zugang zum «Übernatürlichen» im Sinne einer Reihe in der Natur nicht vorkommender Kräfte und Wesen gesucht. Geister oder Hexen besaßen in der Wahrnehmung der Zeitgenoss*innen spezielle – übernatürliche – Kräfte. Diese hatten nicht selten selbstverständlich auch ein Geschlecht – oder es wurden ihnen je besondere Wirkungen auf Frauen und Männer zugeschrieben.

Nicht zuletzt war es nach frühneuzeitlicher Auffassung auch möglich, die „natürliche Ordnung (der Geschlechter)“ ganz zu überwinden – durch göttlichen Willen nämlich, was etwa bei der Legitimierung weiblicher Herrscher ein gerne genutztes Argument war, oder durch ein (oder mehrere) Wunder, die es auch Frauen ermöglichten, über ihre „niedere“ Natur hinauszuwachsen und zu wirken, wie dies bei berühmten Klosterfrauen und Heiligen (etwa bei der hochberühmten Theresa von Avila oder der späteren französischen Nationalheiligen Jeanne d’Arc ) der Fall war.

Dabei wurde der Verweis auf Natur oder die natürliche Ordnung schon vor-aufklärerisch dazu genutzt, diverse Verhaltensweisen, aber auch Erscheinungsformen menschlichen wie tierischen Lebens als „wider die Natur“ gerichtet zu be- oder gar zu verurteilen; dazu zählen vor allem Sexualpraktiken (etwa … weiterlesen und Quelle (Web).

Quelle: HSozuKult

CfP: The Watchful Society: Sexuality, Society, and Vigilance in East-Central and Southeast Europe, 1945–1989 (Event, 11/2022, Fischbachau); by: 15.04.2022

Collegium Carolinum, CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance (Web)

Time: 17.-20.11.2022
Venue: Fischbachau, Bayern
Proposals by: 15.04.2022

Sexuality is probably the most private area of human life. Yet modern states interfere with this sphere in various ways, beginning with the legislative frameworks for gender relations and extending to the definition of legitimate sexual desire and the legal regulation of reproductive decisions. The realization of such norms determined by laws always requires the participation of many individuals, however. Without people dedicating their attention and activity to the enforcement of a norm – be it of an ethical-moral, legal, or societal kind – that norm has no effect.

When the communist parties in East-Central and Southeast Europe came into power following the Second World War, they offered a promise of comprehensive renewal extending all the way down to the individual private sphere. Among other things, socialism was expected to establish a new gender order and liberate the people from repressive “bourgeois” and church-dictated sexual morals. As research in recent years has shown, this project delivered conflicting outcomes. A relatively progressive legislation compared to many Western European countries on the one hand was accompanied by considerable pressure to conform as well as limited and strictly defined individual latitude for decision-making – especially with regard to sex and the body – on the other. This has been described as a typical result of a reform “from above”.

The goal is to discuss the sexual orders of the socialist states of East-Central and Southeast Europe from a broader perspective. While top-down processes are relatively well researched, the horizontal negotiation, control, and enforcement of norms has hitherto not been the focus of much scholarly attention. The interaction between these two axes has only been examined sporadically as well. The organizers are therefore particularly interested in forms of monitoring sexuality that occurred below the governmental level. Read more and source … (Web)

Conference: Establishing Empathy. Education, Emotions and Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 31.03.-02.04.2022, Hamburg

Sylvia Kesper-Biermann (Hamburg), Esther Möller (München), and Katharina Stornig (Giessen) (Web)
Time: 31.03.-02.04.2022
Venue: Universität Hamburg
This international conference explores the relationships between empathy, education and society. It focuses on Europe as well as its transnational connections in the 19th and 20th centuries. Perceiving empathy as the capacity to put oneself in someone else’s shoes and to share his or her feelings and experiences, the conference pursues two goals. On the one hand, it strives to examine the social and cultural institutions that – following what Ute Frevert has called “schools of emotions” – functioned as “schools of empathy” and to question their effects on community building as well as on social mechanisms of inclusion or exclusion. On the other hand, we aim to analyze the groups and individuals that served as “educators” as well as the educational practices they developed. This involves asking for the various meanings attributed to empathy at different points in time. Furthermore, it means asking … read more (Web)
Program (Web)
“University of Empathy” features prominently on a promotional T-shirt sold by the German NGO “Sea Watch”. Founded in response to the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, “Sea Watch” conducts search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea. However, the T-shirt not only appeals to the function of “Sea Watch” as a life-saving institution, it also promotes the organization as a body of emotional education that teaches empathy. Thus, it directs our attention to the question of where empathy “comes from” and which social, cultural and political contexts have promoted, trained, shaped, cultivated and inscribed empathic practices in collective action and institutional behavior. The claim put forward by „Sea Watch“ and other contemporary institutions (such as so-called schools or trainings of empathy) invites us to historicize empathy, including how it has been understood and taught over time. This involves asking which actors and institutions promoted, cultivated, and integrated empathy into formal and informal educational programs and practices. Furthermore, it draws our attention to the more general questions of when and how empathy became to be considered an appropriate response to perceived social and cultural needs and was thus translated from philosophical, religious or moral tractates into more popular realms, educational practices and day-to-day social behavior and action.

CfP: Gender Embodied – Verkörpertes Geschlecht (Event, 09/2022, Salzburg); by: 20.04.2022

9. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF) (Web)

Zeit: 29.09.-01.10.2022
Ort: Paris-Lodron University Salzburg
Einreichfrist: 20.04.2022

Diskurse über den Körper spielen in der Entwicklung der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung seit den 1970er Jahren eine zentrale Rolle. Mit der performativen Wende rückte die Frage nach der Verkörperung von Geschlecht zwischen Materialität, Diskurs und kulturellen Praktiken in den Vordergrund; ebenso werden die gesellschaftspolitischen Debatten um Feminismus, Gleichstellung und Diversität wesentlich mit Bezug auf den Körper geführt.

Die 9. Jahrestagung der ÖGGF lädt zu Beiträgen ein, die das komplexe Verhältnis von Geschlecht und Verkörperung nicht zuletzt in seiner Relevanz für das Empowerment marginalisierter Geschlechter befragen. Wir erhoffen uns ein möglichst breites Spektrum an Disziplinen wie auch genuin interdisziplinäre Ansätze. Die Jahrestagung will einen Ort des lebendigen Austauschs über sich wandelnde Geschlechterverhältnisse in unterschiedlichsten Kontexten bieten.

The organizers welcome submissions of panels or individual presentations on research addressing questions around embodied gender—including, but not limited to the following questions:

  • To what extent do sexual and gender differences play a role in scientific findings?
  • Why/How do the politics of gender relate to policies of healthcare and domestic work?
  • Why/How do cultural-historical norms of gender, sex and race influence corporeal practices as well as feelings and affects?
  • Why/How do norms of religious traditions, political convictions and belief systems and their ethics regulate bodies?
  • To what extent are sex and gender markers of inclusion and/or exclusion in different social spheres and historical contexts?
  • How are gendered, raced, classed, abled bodies represented? How are disabled bodies staged in relation to gender, sexuality, race?
  • Why/How do (artistic, economic, political, religious, social, cultural, historical, media…) practices produce and reproduce gender? Continue reading →