Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) Leipzig; Karin Reichenbach und Juliane Tomann (Univ. Regensburg) (Web)

Zeit: 02.-03.02.2023
Ort: Leipzig

Whenever history is displayed, performed or staged publicly, gender is performed as well. The workshop will focus on forms of doing history which rest on embodiment, immersive, affective, and experiential approaches and highlight playful, corporal, multi-sensory and personal engagements with the past. Participants will explore the nexus between modes of doing history and doing gender by addressing the following questions: How are notions of history and gender being co-produced in practices of doing history, when, e.g. the unstable categories of gender are regarded and performed as stable and conservative gender behavior is thus further cemented? How do perceptions of history and gender reinforce or challenge each other in action? Laying emphasis on sensorial, bodily approaches to history opens up further questions about the role of body knowledge. In which ways understanding of gender and history is located in or attached to the bodies performing them and what epistemic power is attributed to physically experiencing gender and/in history? Read more and source … (Web)

Programm (PDF)

• Panels: He-enactment, She-enactment, Re-enactment? | History and Gender in Visual Media | Engendered Performances in Museums and Memory Culture | Gender on Stage and in Performative Art
• Keynote: Dietlind Hüchtker (Univ. of Vienna): Doing Gender – Doing History. Reflections on the Practice of Praxeological Concepts