Vorträge: Ilse Lenz: Feminisms in Japan in transnational longterm perspective, 13.06.2024, virtueller Raum und 20.06.2024, München

Lecture Series des Instituts für Japanologie der Univ. Wien (Web)

Zeit: 13.06.2024, 18:00-19:30 Uhr
Ort: virtueller Raum – via Wien

Feminisms in Japan in transnational longterm perspective
Feminisms in Japan have a singular and crucial meaning in international perspective: They developed as an autonomous force selecting international impulses (for example equality, participation and female eros) and locating them in their context. And they were confronted with Japan’s singular development which was threatened by Western colonialism and transformed into a colonizing imperialist nation. They raise the issues of feminist autonomy in diverse cultural contexts and postcolonial critical memory. Read more and Zoom-Link …(Web)

Forschungskolloquium zu aktuellen Themen der Japanforschung der LMU München (Web)

Zeit: 20.06.2024, 18:15-19:45 Uhr
Ort: Univ. München

Die neue Frauenbewegung in Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich
In Japan wie Deutschland forderten die Frauenbewegungen radikale Selbstbestimmung im Denken und Handeln, eine grundlegende Veränderung der neopatriarchalen Strukturen und Gleichheit in intersektionaler Sicht. Dennoch unterschieden sie sich stark. Ilse Lenz will diese Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten herausarbeiten, indem sie auf ihr Denken und ihre Praktiken zu den folgenden Fragen eingeht: Geschlecht, Intersektionalität, Lesbianismus und die postkoloniale transnationale Vernetzung mit ostasiatischen Frauenbewegungen in Japan. Sie beendet den Vortrag damit, die Veränderungen und die neuen Herausforderungen an den Feminismus heute zu umreißen.

Prof. (i.R.) Dr. Ilse Lenz studierte in den USA, Japan und an der LMU München; sie promovierte an der FU Berlin zur Frauenarbeit in der japanischen Industrialisierung aus entwicklungssoziologischer Sicht. In ihrer Habilitation in Münster 1989 untersuchte sie das Geschlechterverhältnis auf dem japanischen Arbeitsmarkt und die Einflüsse der Computerisierung Continue reading →

CfP: Dimensions of Genocide: Persistence, Denial, Resistance and Justice (6th Internat. Conference on Genocide, 11/2024, Sacramento); by: 15.06.2024

Department of Ethnic Studies at California State Univ. (Web)

Time: 14.-16.11.2024
Venue: Sacramento
Proposals by: 15.06.2024

The 6th International Conference on Genocide at Sacramento State is a call for a collective meditation and action on the myriad contemporary and historical realities of Genocide, and the possibilities to end their pernicious influence and persistence on current world events, politics, and social relations. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines Genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” We call on the global community of academics, Genocide and justice scholars, community activists, humanitarian aid workers and practitioners, students, politicians, policy makers and artists to come together and consider the various dimensions of Genocide, past and present. Topics could include Genocides and other atrocity crimes that are rooted in the logic of Genocide, such as current and past wars, neocolonial oppression, rise of fascism, ethnic cleansing, femicide, homophobia, transphobia, racialized state violence and Genocide denials. The goal, through a close examination of these dimensions of Genocide, is to identify strategies and resources for the end of genocidal practices across the globe. These could include but are not limited to resistance, pathways to restorative and transformative justice, reparation, reconciliation, healing, and divestment.
This year’s conference will feature special sessions and events on the 30th Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The organisers will also honor the late Dr. Alexander Kimenyi, a Rwandan professor of Ethnic Studies who inaugurated the International Conferences on Genocide at Sacramento State. The Department of Ethnic Studies at California State Univ., Sacramento, in collaboration with its partners invites scholars, researchers, graduate & undergraduate students, activists and practitioners from across the world to submit abstracts for individual papers, panel proposals, poster presentations and artistic works for the 6th International Conference on Genocide. Read more … (Web)

Lecture: Aviv Hilbig-Bokaer: Ambivalent Liaisons. Sexuality between Pathology and Criminality in Viennese Modernism, 24.06.2024, Vienna and virtual space

ifk – Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften der Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien (Web)

Time: 24.06.2024, 18:15 Uhr
Venue: ifk, Reichsratsstr. 17, 1010 Vienna – and virtual space

The turn of the 20th century in Vienna saw the explosion of discursive and scientific appropriations of sexual difference based on new scientific paradigms of pathologization and hereditariness. Challenging both social and political exigencies, these new formations came into violent contact with the conservative carceral and criminal demands of the state vis-à-vis sexual deviance. The literature of what is now known as Viennese Modernism consequently became the site in which this social friction was both aesthetically rendered and politically problematized. In zeroing in on the moment of translation, that is the textual instance where these rival forces are negotiated, this intervention seeks to illuminate the peripheral discourses of sexuality, particularly the opening of discursive fields of queerness and sex-work. This lecture intervenes at the site of this entanglement, reading Robert Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß and selected essays of Karl Kraus to highlight the increasingly aporetic affiliation between a modern understanding of sexuality based on »scientific knowledge« and a staid political paradigm. In re-excavating Psychopathia Sexualis and other texts arising from University of Vienna’s Department of Psychiatry at the turn of the 20th century under the leadership of Krafft-Ebing, this talk emphasizes the myriad ways in which psychiatric texts and their subsequent public commentary created the social contradictions which the authors of Viennese Modernism took up with unbridled curiosity.

Aviv Hilbig-Bokaer works on literature and visual culture of the early 20th century with a particular focus on illness, psychoanalysis, and queer studies. He was a Fellow at NYU in Paris and held the Mainzer Fellowship for research on the history of sexuality.

In cooperation with Fulbright Austria

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CfP: Körper – Geschlecht – Gender. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven (Event, 11/2024, Magdeburg); bis: 01.08.2024

13. Landesweiter Tag der Genderforschung in Sachsen-Anhalt (Web)

Zeit: 14.11.2024
Ort: Magdeburg
Einreichfrist: 01.08.2024

In unserer Gegenwart spielen Körperdiskurse und der Körper selbst eine immense Rolle. Körper begegnen uns täglich in ihren Facetten von Gestaltbarkeit, Verfügbarkeit, Normierung, als zugerichtete, präsentierte oder stigmatisierte Körper und werden so zum Seismographen für gesellschaftlich akzeptierte oder abgelehnte Praktiken. Auch wissenschaftlich ist der Körper in den letzten Jahrzehnten in den Fokus gerückt (somatic turn oder body turn), wobei auch Gender- und Diversitätsdimensionen zunehmend in den Blick geraten und im Kontext intersektionaler Zugänge gedacht und verhandelt werden. Die engen Verflechtungen und Interdependenzen zwischen Körper, Geschlecht und Gender kann man auch daran ablesen, dass gesellschaftspolitische Debatten um Feminismus, Gleichstellung und Diversität ganz essenziell von der Ebene des Körperlichen bestimmt werden.
Vor diesem Hintergrund verortet sich die Tagung an der Schnittstelle von Körperdiskursen und Genderforschung mit dem Ziel, die komplexen Zusammenhänge zwischen Körper, Geschlecht und Gender aus den verschiedensten Perspektiven zu beleuchten. Weiterlesen … (PDF)

Veranstalter:innen: Koordinierungsstelle Genderforschung & Chancengleichheit Sachsen-Anhalt (KGC), Büro für Gleichstellung und Familie der Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. Magdeburg (OVGU) und Projekt gender*bildet der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)

Lecture: Krushil Watene: Storytelling and Regendering: Ngati Manu wahine, 18.06.2024, Wien und virtueller Raum

Ringvorlesung des Referats Genderforschung an der Univ. Wien; Organisation: Tomi Adeaga (Web)

Zeit: 18.06.2024, 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Gerda-Lerner-Saal/HS 41, Hauptgebäude der Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien – und Online-Stream
Anmeldung zum Online-Stream (Web)

Drawing from stories of wahine maori (maori women) from her community of Ngati Manu, Krushil Watene set out to demonstrate the importance of wahine maori within our communities. In particular, referring to such things as, for instance: tribal creation narratives, kin-community practices, and leadership, she contend that the role of women is vital to our understanding of our histories and futures. Elevating the voices of women and other gender-diverse communities, Krushil Watene show how projects of regendering by indigenous communities are vital for the pursuit of local and global change.

Krushil Watene is Peter Kraus Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Univ. of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research addresses fundamental questions in ethics, politics, and Indigenous philosophy. In particular, her research engages at the intersections of diverse philosophical traditions, trans-disciplinarity, and the role of local communities for global change. She is a member of the Māori tribal communities of Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, and the Pacific island of Tonga (Hunga, Vava’u).

Programm der Ringvorlesung Continue reading →

Gespräch: Julya Rabinowich, Katharina Prager und Barbara Toth: Die neue Wienerin der Zwischenkriegszeit, 18.06.2024, Wien

Wienmuseum (Web)

Zeit: 18.06.2024, 18.30 Uhr
Ort: Wienmuseum, Karlspl., 1040 Wien
Anmeldung notwendig (Web)

Die „neue Frau“ war in den Jahren nach dem ersten Weltkrieg in aller Munde. Nicht nur genoss sie zum ersten Mal das Wahlrecht, sie stand auch für eine Reihe sozialer und kultureller Errungenschaften. Frauen waren nun an den Universitäten zugelassen, ihnen öffneten sich die Türen zur Arbeitswelt und sie eroberten sich Freiräume in der städtischen Unterhaltungsszene. Gleichzeitig leisteten konservative Kreise erbitterten Widerstand gegen diese Emanzipation; unter Austrofaschismus und Nationalsozialismus wurde der Fortschritt in vielerlei Hinsicht wieder rückgängig gemacht.
In einem Gespräch beleuchten Schriftstellerin Julya Rabinowich und Historikerin Katharina Prager diesen faszinierenden Moment der Wiener Geschichte. Beide haben sich intensiv mit dem Phänomen der neuen Frau auseinandergesetzt. Unter der Moderation von Journalistin Barbara Toth erörtern sie die spezifischen Umstände der neuen Wienerin und spüren ihrem Vermächtnis bis in die Gegenwart nach.

Katharina Prager, stv. Direktorin der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, ist Zeithistorikerin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin. Sie ist die Autorin u.a. von „Berthold Viertel: Eine Biographie der Wiener Moderne“ und „Ein Spiel, gesinnungslos wie die Liebe. Das Leben und Wirken des Satirikers Karl Kraus.“

Julya Rabinowich ist die vielfach ausgezeichnete Autorin der Romane „Spaltkopf“, „Herznovelle“, „Die Erdfresserin“ und „Krötenliebe“ sowie der Jugendbücher „Dazwischen: Ich“ und „Hinter Glas“.

Barbara Tóth, Redakteurin beim Falter, ist studierte Historikerin. Zu ihren zahlreichen Büchern zählen „Stiefmütter: Leben mit Bonuskindern“ und „Karl Schwarzenberg: Die Biographie“. Continue reading →

CfP: International Networks of Women’s Activism and Mobility in Central and East Central Europe 1848–1990 (Publication); by: 30.06.2024

Hungarian Historical Review (Web), Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner

Proposals by: 30.06.2024

This special issue explores women’s activism in Central and East Central Europe (including the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its successor states) between 1848 and 1990. It investigates the history of the diverse array of women’s associations in these regions and considers the ways in which these associations established networks and cooperated in their efforts to further women’s rights. It also examines the endeavors of the individual leaders of these movements over longer periods of time and often across international borders or under radically shifting political regimes. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • To what extent could the 1840s be interpreted as the genesis of women’s activism in the different regions? How did the first groups of women fulfill their traditional roles as wives and mothers while also becoming active as organizers and raising their voices for the emancipation of women? How did they connect with one another?
  • How did the women of the next generations make efforts to change the existing social relations? Who were these women who embraced progressive and sometimes radical ideas? How were they involved in the women’s movements?
  • What types of networks were formed among women’s organizations in the different regions over the course of a period of decades which bore witness to several political, economic, social, and cultural transformations?
  • How did international women’s organizations, such as the International Council of Women (Washington D.C. 1888–), the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (Berlin, 1904–, since 1926 the International Alliance of Women), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (The Hague, 1915–) influence this process? What kinds of structural inequalities can be observed among the national and international associations?
  • How did activism alter women’s citizenship status? Why was it important in this process that certain activists could afford to travel regularly? How did women who could not travel pursue other forms of activism? Continue reading →

Workshop: Fashion, Image, Exile: The Rediscovery of Theatre Photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977), 12.-13.06.2024, Essen

College for Social Sciences and Humanities (UA Ruhr) and Cultural Anthropology of Textiles, TU Dortmund Univ. (Web)

Time: 12.-13.06.2024
Venue: Essen
Registration by: 10.06.2024 (Web)

The recently rediscovered work of theatre photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977), wo was active in Berlin in the 1920s, Paris in the 1930s, and New York in the 1940s, serves as the starting point for a broader discussion of fashion and theatre photography in this two-day workshop. Its specific focus is on the fate of fashion and theatre photography in exile and the challenges associated with curating photographic images for contemporary audiences.
The workshop is co-organised and hosted by Mila Ganeva, current Senior Fellow at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities and professor at Miami Univ., and her tandem partner Gudrun M. König, Cultural Anthropology of Textiles at TU Dortmund Univ. On 12 June, scholars and curators will shed light on fashion photography in the Weimar republic and Elli Marcus’s work in exile and provide insights into curating fashion photographs. On the agenda for 13 June are female photographers’ networks in exile, theater photography, and digital curating practices.

Programme

Wednesday, 12 June

  • 15:00 – Begrüßung | Introduction – Mila Ganeva & Gudrun M. König
  • 15:15 – Medienumbrüche / politische Zäsuren: Mode fotografieren in der Weimarer Republik und im Exil | Burcu Dogramaci, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München
  • 16:00 – Who was Elli Marcus? Photography, Exile, and Weimar Nostalgia | Mila Ganeva, College for Social Sciences and Humanities / Miami University, Ohio, (USA)
  • 17:15 – KEYNOTE: Modebilder kuratieren | Britta Bommert, Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Sammlung Modebild – Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek
  • 18:15 – Discussion
  • 18:45 – Refreshments Continue reading →

Discussion: June Thoburn, Michael Lambert and Marian Brandon: Social work and neglect 1948-today: From ‚the cruelty man‘ and ‚the problem family‘ via ‚prevention‘ to ’safeguarding‘, 17.06.2024, London and virtual space

Hybrid meeting des Social Work History Networks (Web)

Time: 17.06.2024, 2-4 pm (UK)
Venue: London – and virtual space
Registration at the website (Web)

Programme

  • June Thoburn will illustrate a ‚time line‘ of key events and the changing discourse of ‘neglect’ with some reflections of working as a family caseworker in Children’s Departments 1963- mid 70s.
  • Michael Lambert discusses his archival research using social work and family rehabilitation centre records to provide insights into how different professional groups worked with the ‘problem family’ between 1948 and 1974.
  • Marian Brandon brings her perspective on ‘neglect and social work’ from the 1980s onwards as a LA family social worker, researcher and lead author of Serious Case Reviews.

Contributors

Marian Brandon was a social worker for 10 years before taking up her academic post at UEA, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Social Work. Her research interests over the years have been child protection, family support and interagency working. For over 15 years she directed national analyses of serious case reviews for first the Welsh Government and then the Department for Education in England. Stemming from the SCR studies, she became particularly interested in neglect, carrying out a neglect study for the NSPCC in 2013 and being part of a team constructing guidance about indicators of neglect for practitioners (for the DfE) in 2014. Most recently she has been co-lead of a large team researching men as fathers in child protection. Continue reading →

Vortrag: Maximilian Jablonowski: Popkörper: Spurensuche im Allgegenwärtigen, 06.06.2024, Wien und virtueller Raum

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Univ. Wien: Institutskolloquium „Körper“

Zeit: Do., 06.06.2024, 17:00 Uhr
Ort: Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Hanuschg. 3, 1010 Wien, Seminarraum 1 – und virtueller Raum

Körper sind im Pop allgegenwärtig. Begehrte Starkörper, ekstatische Fankörper und alles, was sonst noch dazu gehört: Posen, Fashion, Feelings… Pop ist ganz klar ein zentrales Aushandlungsfeld von Körperbildern. Warum also eine Spurensuche? Die Popforschung scheint sich gelegentlich schwer zu tun mit dem Körper und den Körpern. Umstritten ist z.B., welche Rolle Körper überhaupt für die Konstitution popkultureller Zeichen und Praktiken spielen (sollten). Ausgehend von Diederich Diederichsens Begriff der indexikalischen Kunst geht der Referent an ausgewählten Beispielen einigen Spuren nach, wie die gegenwärtige Popkultur avantgardistische Körper entwirft.

Onlinezugang: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66776638562?pwd=NXFGSVJlekorUWVHSkxKN3ptUlpwUT09

Maximilian Jablonowski ist seit September 2023 Universitätsassistent „post doc“ am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Univ. Wien.