UNVERSCHÄMT! Thementage gegen sexistische Rollenzuschreibungen und für körperliche Selbstbestimmung von Frauen*, Mädchen* und Queers, 18.-19.03.2022, Wien

Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt; Maria Ettl (Museum), Anna Jungmayr (Projektleitung), Alina Strmljan, Corinna Beran und Olivia Schlatzer (Web)
Zeit: 18.-19.03.2022; 30.03.2022
Ort: Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt, Schmidg. 18, 1080 Wien
Im Bezirksmuseum Josefstadt ist noch bis 30. März 2022 die Ausstellung „…Vor Schand und Noth gerettet«?! Findelhaus, Gebäranstalt und die Matriken der Alser Vorstadt“ zu sehen. Sie beschäftigt sich mit (fehlender) körperlicher und sexueller Selbstbestimmung von Frauen ab dem 18. Jhd. und endet mit einer Übersicht aktueller feministischer Organisationen, die sich für reproduktive Gerechtigkeit einsetzen.
Anschließend an diese Themen findet ein umfangreiches Veranstaltungsprogramm statt, das sich mit den Themen Stigmatisierung und „Scham“ aus historischer und aktueller feministischer Perspektive auseinandersetzt, neue Geschichte schreibt und mehr Unverschämtheiten wagt.
Thementage UNVERSCHÄMT!

  • Ausführliches Programm und Anmeldung (Web)
  • Programm-Überblick (als PDF)

18.03.2022

  • 14:00 Uhr: Unter anderen Umständen – Frauen*Spaziergang mit Petra Unger (Web)
  • 18:00 Uhr: Fakten, Feelings, Feminismus – Das unverschämte Quiz (Web)

19.03.2022

  • 11:00 Uhr: Seit mehr als 111 Jahren – Stadterkundung mit Alina Strmljan und Anna Jungmayr (Web)
  • 14:30 Uhr: Her*Story – Das exklusive Ausstellungserlebnis (Web)
  •  17:00 Uhr: Poetry Slam Workshop (für FLINTA*) mit MYLF – Yasmo und Mieze Medusa (Web)
  • 20:00 Uhr: Poetry Slam Show mit MYLF (Web)

Finissage »…Vor Schand und Noth gerettet«?!
Zeit: 30.03.2022 Continue reading →

Buchpräsentation: Maria Hofstätter, Meinrad Ziegler, Katrin Auer und Martina Gugglberger: „Akteineinsicht: Marie Jahoda in Haft“, 07.03.2022, Steyr

Jahoda-Edition; Band 4 „Akteneinsicht: Marie Jahoda in Haft!“ (Web)
Zeit: 07.03.2022, 19.30 Uhr
Ort: Museum Arbeitswelt, Wehrgrabengasse 7, 4400 Steyr
»Akteneinsicht. Marie Jahoda in Haft« ist der 4. Band der Marie Jahoda-Edition (Web). In dieser Neuerscheinung begegnet uns die Sozialpsychologin Marie Jahoda (1907–2001) nicht als Sozialforscherin, sondern als politische Aktivistin. Ihre Haltung: „Den Tatbestand leugnen, nicht aber die Gesinnung.“
Im November 1936 wurde Marie Jahoda von der Polizei der Dollfuß-Schuschnigg-Diktatur verhaftet und monatelang verhört. Sie wurde verdächtigt, einer der führenden Köpfe der Revolutionären Sozialisten, der illegalen Organisation der Sozialdemokratie, zu sein und die Diktatur des Dollfuß-Schuschnigg-Regimes bekämpft zu haben. Sie saß 1936/37 neun Monate in Haft. Bei den Verhören und vor Gericht hielt sich Jahoda strikt an eine Regel der konspirativen Untergrundarbeit: „Gib nur zu, was nicht mehr bestritten werden kann, und belaste andere nicht.“
Programm (als PDF)

  • Lesung von Maria Hofstätter (Schauspielerin) von Auszüg aus den Gerichtsakten
  • Erläuterungen von Meinrad Ziegler (Soziologe, Buchautor)
  • Podiumsgespräch mit Katrin Auer (Stadträtin, Historikerin) und Martina Gugglberger (Historikerin, JKU Linz) zur Bedeutung der Sozialforscherin und Widerstandskämpferin im Kontext des Internationalen Frauentags
  • Die Veranstaltung wird moderiert von Georg Hubmann (Sozialwissenschaftler, Leiter des Jahoda-Bauer-Instituts)

Maria Hofstätter tritt neben ihrer Arbeit am Theater und im Fernsehen (»Braunschlag«) seit mehr als 20 Jahren in Ulrich Seidls sozialkritischen Filmen auf. 2014 erhielt sie den Österreichischen Filmpreis als „beste Darstellerin“ für ihre Rolle in »Paradies: Glaube«.
Anmeldung unter anmeldung@museumarbeitswelt.at oder +43 7252 775510

Seminar: Claudia Roesch and Jennifer Nelson: The Translations of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Comparing Feminist Self-help Handbooks in the 1970s West Germany and the United States, 15.03.2022, Boston and virtual space

The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar (Web)

Time: 15.03.2022, 5:15 PM (NY-time)/23:15 Uhr in Europe
Venue: Boston and virtual space

This paper investigates the transnational history of the feminist self-help handbook Our Bodies, Ourselves in the 1970s and 1980s. It follows sociologist Kathy Davis’s approach of investigating feminism as an epistemological project and examines from a history of knowledge perspective how concepts of feminist self-help travelled across the Atlantic.
By taking the chapters on birth control as case studies, this paper will compare the German adaptions and translations of Our Bodies, Ourselves to the American versions and examine how different themes evolved regarding the handbooks’ position towards scientific knowledge, physicians as experts and the pharmaceutical industry.

  • Author: Claudia Roesch, German Historical Institute (Web)
  • Comment: Jennifer Nelson, University of Redlands

This semiar is a hybrid event, and you can choose to attend online or in-person at the MHS. The virtual program will be hosted on the video conference platform Zoom. Link to the registration online or in person (Web). Registrants will receive a confirmation message with attendance information.
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar-Series (Web)
The History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Seminar-series ist hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
It invites you to join the conversation. The seminar brings together a diverse group of scholars and interested members of the public to workshop pre-circulated papers. After brief remarks from the author and an assigned commentator, the discussion is opened to the floor. All are encouraged to ask questions, provide feedback on the circulated essay, and discuss the topic at hand. The session is free and open to everyone.

Source: H-Net Notifications

CfP: Why focus on gender? Gender und intersektionale Perspektiven in der politischen Bildung (Event, 07/2022, Potsdam); bis: 15.03.2022

Lehrstuhl für Politische Bildung, Univ. Potsdam (Web), Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Teilinstitut Bremen (Web), Arbeitsgruppe Politische Bildung und Gender der GPJE (Web)

Zeit: 07.-08.07.2022
Ort: Universität Potsdam oder virtueller Raum
Einreichfrist: 15.03.2022

Interdependente Macht- und Ungleichheitsverhältnisse zwischen Geschlechtern werden gesellschaftlich wiederkehrend verhandelt. Gibt es also nicht dringlichere als Gender-Fragen, die sich die politische Bildung stellen sollte? Politische Bildung ist in einer komplexer werdenden Welt situiert. Probleme und Herausforderungen können oftmals nur noch kooperativ gelöst werden, gesellschaftliche Strukturen stehen jedoch in der Gefahr weiter auseinander zu driften. Technologische Entwicklungen schreiten voran, deren soziale Benefits und Risiken noch abgeschätzt werden wollen. Der Beitrag einer (kontroversen) Genderperspektive gerade zu diesen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen ist bislang noch nicht genügend berücksichtigt worden. Vor dem Hintergrund individueller und gesellschaftlicher Transformationen bleibt die Rolle von Geschlechterfragen und Heteronormativität für die politische Bildung offen.

Die Tagung möchte den Raum für die Diskussion von zwei thematischen Schwerpunkten öffnen: Der erste liegt auf Problemstellungen rund um Gender und Heteronormativität, soll eine Einführung in aktuelle wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen zum Thema geben und die Potenziale und Herausforderungen der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung und Bildungspraxis aufnehmen. Die zweite Schwerpunktsetzung sammelt Auseinandersetzungen zur intersektionalen Verwobenheit von Gender/Heteronormativität und anderen Differenzkategorien, die anschlussfähig an genderreflexive, rassismus- und antisemitismuskritische sowie inklusive Ansätze in der politischen Bildung sind.

Folgende Bereiche könnten in den Beträgen beleuchtet werden:

  • historische Rekonstruktion wissenschaftlicher, bildungspraktischer oder -politischer Auseinandersetzungen zu Gender, auch in Verbindung mit anderen Differenzkategorien
  • Strukturierung der politischen Bildung selbst durch … weiterlesen und Quelle (Web).

International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH): NEWSLETTER, Winter 2021 Issue 70 – With numerous entries from Austria (Publication)

The International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH)/Federation Internationale pour des Femmes (FIRHF) (Web)

The IFRWH-Newsletter is published every six months. It provides an overview of new international publications on women’s and gender history. Research projects are presented, conferences are announced and calls for papers are placed.

The newsletter thus gives a valuable overview of the relevant research being carried out worldwide. The Newsletter Winter 2021 Issue 70 is online now. It has a volume of 53 pages.

The newsletter always publishes a lot of information from Austria. The contributions from Austria are coordinated by Birgitta Bader-Zaar (PDF).

A list of the previous newsletters can be found on the website (Link).

The International Federation for Research in Women’s History

The IFRWH was founded in April 1987. The first meeting of national committee representatives was held in 1989, in Bellagio, Italy, with the assistance of the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Aim of IFRWH is to encourage and coordinate research in all aspects of women’s history at the international level, by promoting exchange of information and publication and by arranging and assisting in arranging large-scale international conferences as well as more restricted and specialized meetings. National Committees serve as liaison between communities of researchers and the Federation. Find more information on the website (Link).

Selected papers presented at the Federation’s confrences have been published in several volumes (Link).

Conference: Social Change in a Feminist Perspective: Situating Gender Research in Times of Political Contention (ATGENDER-Conference 2022), 15.-18.06.2022, Milano

ATGENDER. The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation (Web)
Time: 15.-18.06.2022
Venue: University of Milano-Bicocca
The contribution of feminist, transfeminist and lgbtqia+ reflections – thanks to their intersectional perspective – is capable to enrich and invest the central themes of social transformations, offering spaces for new alliances in cultural and political struggles. Additionally, social change is a complex enterprise that can be approached only through a multidisciplinary and intersectional prism, and feminisms teach us precisely how to combine different approaches, methodologies and practices to understand such complexity and to produce change.
The current pandemic crisis is bringing to light the unsustainable and deadly contradictions of the socio-economic and environmental system in which we live, both at the global and at the local level. Around us we see polarized responses: heightened individualism, a refuge in populisms, new policies of control of bodies, borders and territories, attacks on rights and delegitimization of social justice demands, backlash in the cultural and social ? but also self-organized solidarity and mutualism from below, and a widespread rethinking of existential and collective priorities. In this situation, which responses can be advanced from feminist and intersectional standpoints?
An active investigation on what spaces / relations / canons we build, how we inhabit them, which relationships these spaces/relations/canons embodied is a vital question that flows over the threads of time. Against this background, the need to call into question the gaze through which we acknowledge social change becomes an imperative. Read more … (Web)
The ATGENDER-Network
ATGENDER is a association for academics, practitioners, activists and institutions in the field of Women’s, Gender, Transgender, Sexuality, and Queer studies, feminist research, women’s, sexual and LGBTQI rights, equality, and diversity. Read more … (Web).
The „Teaching with Gender“-Book Series

Since 2009, ATGENDER has published the book series „Teaching with Gender. European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms“ in cooperation with Routledge. Read more … (Web).

Lecture: Linda Erker: The Austro-Chilean scholar Grete Mostny. How a white young woman changed Chile’s National Historiography after her flight from the NS in 1938/39, 25.02.2022, virtual space

Grupo de Historia de la Ciencia, Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC, Barcelona) (Web)
Time: 25.02.2022, 12.00 Uhr
Venue: virtual space, via Barcelona (hybrid)
Forced migration as a reaction to National Socialism represents individual as well as simultaneously collective, transnational, and global experiences. Not only identity-forming categories but also forms of knowledge are profoundly reshaped by processes of displacement and resettlement. The talk argues that the biography of the archaeologist Grete Mostny (1914–1991) offers an exemplary case study of such processes of adaptation on individual, collective, and academic levels.
Due to her escape from Austria to Chile as a persecuted Jew in 1938/39, Mostny’s identity as a white European female scholar attained a whole new significance and became – based on her talent and ambitions – the door opener for her interdisciplinary career at the interface of archaeology and anthropology in her new homeland. When Mostny arrived in Chile, a new European and US hegemony had already begun to dominate academia in the country, which was trying to modernize itself and move from the academic periphery closer to the centre. Mostny, the once ‚racially‘ discriminated scholar, fit well in this process by making use of her ‚European‘ knowledge and her networks. This paper uses Mostny’s career as a lens through which to detect connected histories and entangled hegemonies in Chilean society, especially in academia. Moreover, it elaborates on the importance of certain sociological factors to be able to establish oneself (again) as a scholar in exile. Thereby Linda Erker will show that the categories of race and ethnicity played a central role in the field of knowledge production and for career developments 12.000 kilometers far away from home.
Linda Erker is a historian of the 20th century at th e Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. In her current project she is researching the migration of scholars from Austria to Latin America between 1930 un d 1970 (especially to Argentina and Chile). Her doctoral thesis focused on a historical comparison between the Austrofascist regime (1933-1938) and early Franquism (1939-1945) from the perspective of the development of Continue reading →

Klicktipp: Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe (Weblog)

„Remembering Activism: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe“ (ERC research project, 2019-2024) (Web)

Mass demonstrations make the headlines. But how are they remembered when they are no longer news? And how does the cultural memory of earlier movements play into later ones? In the project, participants are focusing on how the memory of civil resistance has been realised in documentary films, memoirs, commemorative events, archival projects and the visual and literary arts. They believe that an insight into the role of cultural memory is necessary for a comprehensive understanding of civil resistance in today’s world. As they are also convinced of the importance of taking a long-term view, the sub-projects are not only looking at recent developments, they also reach back to the 19th century.
The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive account of the remembering and forgetting of civil resistance in Europe, which is also relevant to our understanding of movements in other countries and continents. The participants examine continuities and changes in the way protest has been represented in different media regimes; they critically analyse the role of texts, images and commemorative practices in communicating the memory of protest to later generations. And they considere how this memory feeds back into later movements.

Weblog (Web)
One component of the project is a weblog. This articles were published here so far:

  • Sophie van den Elzen: International ‘Workers’ Day?
  • Clara Vlessing: International Women’s Day: Why is it on 8 March?
  • Daniele Salerno: My Grandmother the Militant: Activism as a Family Story
  • Daniele Salerno: Trans Memory Activism and Visibility: Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina
  • Marit van de Warenburg: Remixing the Past: The Soundtrack to Black Lives Matter
  • David Beorlegui Zarranz: Memory Activism and Transitional Justice in Spain
  • Emilia Salvanou: Memory in Antagonistic Politics: Minutes from an “Antifascist September” in Greece
  • Tashina Blom: ‘My Body My Choice’: Why the Anti-Lockdown Protesters are Appropriating Memory Continue reading →

CfP: Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge. Perspectives from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (Event: 10/2022, Liblice); by – extended: 30.04.2022

Research Initiative Political Epistemologies of Eastern Europe (PECEE): Friedrich Cain and Dietlind Hüchtker (Vienna), Bernhard Kleeberg (Univ. of Erfurt), Karin Reichenbach (Leipzig), and Jan Surman (Praha) (Web)

Time: 13.-15.10.2022
Venue: Liblice Chateau, Czech Republic
Proposals by – extended: 30.04.2022

More than 30 years ago, Donna Haraway published her iconic essay „Situated Knowledge. The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective“, where she discusses the issue of objectivity in feminism. She understands „objective knowledge“ as bound to a specific historical point in time and space – precisely as „situated knowledge“. While Haraway was primarily concerned with defining the relational positioning of feminism and science, the concept of „situated knowledge“ has grown into a central notion in gender studies. By now, it seems necessary to reflect about its relevance today, considering the differentiation of gender related debates from feminism to queer theories, to transactivism and beyond, but also in the face of current social challenges like hate speech and fake news, conspiracy theories and public questioning of established scientific values.

The concept of „situated knowledge“ not only draws attention to the general way relational conceptualizations of science are challenged by proponents of „alternative facts“ as well as dynamics of denialism and hostility towards academic scholarship. It also asks how far epistemologies, evidence and knowledge are determined by gender or contain gender perspectives. Assuming that epistemologies take place in social contexts and thus are situated in space and time, how becomes a determination of difference a condition of cognition? Where and how is gender a category that governs the way in which knowledge has been and is gained?

To deepen the question of how gender and epistemologies are related, a praxeological approach can be useful. Hence, combining the perspectives on „doing gender“ and „doing truth“ could allow to inquire how claims of truth are linked to gender and gender politics. In such a praxeological perspective we can ask about roles and figures that perform truth and gender in arenas of contested knowledge, enabling us to discern and analyse situations where gender is … read more (PDF).

CfP: Decentering Allies: Negotiating Binaries in Solidarity to LGBT+ Subjects and Activisms (Event, 09/2022, Cádiz); by: 27.03.2022

The 6th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference; Ruth Blatt and Gilly Hartal (The Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan Univ. ) (Web)

Time: 14.-16.09.2022
Venue: Cádiz, Spain
Proposals by: 27.03.2022

The 6th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference has the theme „Embodied Geographies of Differences: Trans* Spaces, Identities and Solidarities“. Ruth Blatt and Gilly Hartal (The Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University) posted the following call for papers for the session „Decentering Allies: Negotiating Binaries in Solidarity to LGBT+ Subjects and Activisms“:

Allies play an important role in virtually every fight to end oppression. Yet they are often criticized by those they are allied with for reinforcing binaries and recreating colonial models of saviorism that maintain their relative social power (Ahmed, 2004; Blair, 2021). Specifically, within LGBT+ struggles, allyship is negotiated and contested (Mathers, 2017; Spade, 2020; Mathers et al., 2015), raising questions as to the different interests, social and symbolic boundaries and discourses that produce this power relations.

Looking at allyship from a spatial perspective, this session explores allyship’s paradoxical nature in both strengthening and weakening social inequalities. The session will address the meaning of allyship for varied LGBT+ communities along lines of race, ability, class, and incarcerated status. The goal of the session is to advance a conceptualization of allyship that decenters the allies‘ perspective and is sensitive to unequal structures of power and privilege. This in turn advances our conceptualization of allyship in relation to concepts such as homonormativity, care, activism, safe spaces, center/periphery divides and more, across diverse locations.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

  •  Allies and activism
  •  Allies and media
  •  Allies and institutional settings
  •  Allies and safe spaces
  •  Cisgender and transgender allyship Continue reading →