Conference: Shame – Shaming – Shamelessenes, 29.-30.11.2019, Wien

Forschungsverbund Gender & Agency (Web)
Time: 29.-30.11.2019
Venue: Juridicum Wien, Schottenbastei 10–16, 1010 Vienna
Registration by: 25.11.2019
Program (PDF)
29.11.2019

  • 10:00: Welcome addresses: Paul Oberhammer, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Elisabeth Holzleithner, Sprecherin von Gender & Agency

10:30: Panel I

  • Paula-Irene Villa, LMU Munich: Shaming and Blushing – An Affect between Domination and Somatic Stubbornness
  • Jo Littler, City University of London: From Shame to Subversion: Neoliberal Meritocracy and the Rebirth of Left Feminism
  • Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota: Call-Out Culture and the Feminist Politics of Shame

12:30: Lunch break
14:30: Panel II

  • Katrin Röder, HU zu Berlin: Shame as a Performative Affect in Automedial Practices by Women Authors and Artists with Disabilities
  • Christine Vogt-William, University of Bayreuth: Shame and Gendered Violence in Literary Representations of Poverty in Contemporary American Women’s Fiction
  • Iyiola Solanke, University of Leeds: Black Women, Stigma and Anti-Discrimination Law

16:30: Break
17:30: Panel III

  • Bettina Mathes, Granada, Andalusia: Shame and the Limits of Gender Studies
  • Greta Olson, Justus Liebig University Giessen: #MeToo, Shame and the Affective Politics of Fourth Wave Feminism

30.11.2019
10:00: Panel IV

  • Elissa Mailänder, Sciences Po, Paris: Performative Transgressions in Armed Conflict: Epistemological Challenges of Trophy Selfies
  • Andrea Petö, Central European University: Shame of Survivors: Holocaust Survivors, Gulag Survivors and Survivors of Rape during WWII
  • Suzana Milevska, Principal Investigator and curator of “Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects”, TRACES/Horizon 2020: Apology, Renaming and Other Strategies of “Productive Shame”

12:00: Lunch buffet
13:00: Panel V

  • Maki Kimura, University College London: Discourses on Shame in the Politics of Memorialisation: The Debate over Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery
  • Anna Reading, King’s College, London: Unashamed Memory: Women Remember Neurodiversity

14:40: Panel VI

  • Stefan Machura, Bangor University, Wales: Guilt and Shame in Popular Legal Culture: the German TV Movie “Die Konferenz”
  • Ralph Poole, University of Salzburg: Home-Longing and Nature Porn: The Shamelessness of the Heimatfilm

An event organised by the Research Network “Gender and Agency” with support from the Faculty of Law; organised in cooperation with the professors for Gender Studies; Cultural History, History of Knowledge and Gender; British Literature; Cultural History of Audiovisual Media as well as the Department of Political Science and the Gender Equality and Diversity unit at the University of Vienna.Please register for the event by 25 November via e-mail at genderandagency@univie.ac.at