Conference: Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities. Inaugural Conference of the eponymous Research Platform GAIN, 15.-16.04.2021, virtual space

Research platform „GAIN – Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities“  (Web)
Time: 15.-16.04.2021, 10-18.30 Uhr
Venue: virtual space (Zoom), via Vienna
The research platform „GAIN – Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities“ was established in January 2020 and aims at attending to the complex and ambivalent processes that give rise to intersectionally gendered in_visibilities. Originally, the kick-off conference had been scheduled for April 2020, but had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. Now GAIN is pleased to host its inaugural conference online via Zoom in cooperation with colleagues from Hungary.
Program (PDF)
The organziers are proud to be able to announce the following as confirmed speakers: Erzsébet Barát, Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Eva Flicker, Rosalind Gill, Sabine Grenz, Christa Hämmerle, Elisabeth Holzleithner, Brigitta Keintzel, Angéla Kóczé, Claudia Kraft, Andrea Kriszan, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Beáta Nagy, Birgit Sauer, Katharina Wiedlack, Violetta Zentai, and Patricia Zuckerhut.
In addition to interdisciplinary panels, which will cover a board range of topics, the organizers are delighted to announce that this year’s first GAIN Gender & Agency Lecture is going to be given by Rosalind Gill on the topic of “Posting a perfect life: Affect, social media and fear of getting it wrong” (April 15 at 6:30pm).
Panels

  • Historical Perspectives
  • Paradoxes of Visibility and Voice
  • Creating epistemic and ontological in_visibilities
  • Class, Gender and In_Visibilisation
  • Ambivalent In_visibilities in (popular) culture

The zoom link will be published on the GAIN Facebook page and the GAIN homepage in a timely manner before the event.
Quelle: gain@lists.univie.ac.at

Klicktipp und CfP: OPEN GENDER JOURNAL (Open Access-Zeitschrift); bis: –

OPEN GENDER JOURNAL (OGJ) (Web)

Die Open-Access-Zeitschrift OPEN GENDER JOURNAL erscheint seit 2017. Sie wird von der Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien und vier Geschlechterforschungszentren in Deutschland und Österreich herausgegeben.

OGJ reflektiert durch ihre thematische und disziplinäre Offenheit die Breite und Vielfalt des wissenschaftlichen Feldes der intersektionalen Geschlechterforschung. Das umfasst verschiedene methodische und theoretische Ausrichtungen, einschließlich – aber nicht beschränkt auf – Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Diversity Studies, feministische Forschung, Frauen*forschung, Disability Studies, Rassismusforschung, Klassismusforschung, Critical Whiteness, Post- und Decolonial Studies.

Link zu den bisher erschiedenen Ausgaben (Web)

Call vor Papers

Die Redaktion des OGJ freut sich über die Einreichung von neuen Beiträgen. Veröffentlicht werden können folgende Texttypen:

  • Forschungsartikel, die das Feld auf qualitativ hochwertige Weise bereichern
  • Beiträge in der Rubrik „Forum“, die aktuelle Debatten innerhalb der Geschlechterforschung aufgreifen und Impulse für die Entwicklung des Feldes setzen
  • Besprechungen von Publikationen aus allen Themenbereichen der Geschlechterforschung in der Rubrik „querelles-net“: Rezensionen

Qualitätssicherung: Forschungsartikel durchlaufen eine doppelt anonyme Fachbegutachtung; Beiträge der Rubrik „Forum“ und „Rezensionen“ werden durch die Redaktion begutachtet. OGJ akzeptiert ausschließlich unveröffentlichte Manuskripte.

Open Access: OGJ veröffentlicht alle Beiträge unter einer freien und offenen Lizenz (CC BY 4.0). Auf diese Weise können Autor/innen ihre Arbeit weltweit frei zugänglich machen und zugleich etwaige Fördervorgaben zur freien Veröffentlichung von Projektergebnissen erfüllen. OGJ setzt auf transparente Redaktionsprozesse, verzichtet vollständig auf Publikationsgebühren und nutzt die neuesten Möglichkeiten elektronischen Publizierens. Beiträge erscheinen fortlaufend.

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CfP: Antiimperialist Rosa – On the Actuality of Rosa Luxemburg’s Theory of Imperialism (Event: 05/2021, St. Petersburg); by: 31.03.2021

Plekhanov House, the National Library of Russia department, St. Petersburg (Web)

Time: 28.-29.05.2021
Venue: St. Petersburg
Proposals by: 31.03.2021

This symposium is organized in cooperation between the Plekhanov House, the National Library of Russia department (St. Petersburg), the Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS), University of Bremen and the Moscow Branch of The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Berlin) to celebrate Rosa Luxemburg’s 150th anniversary. It aims at critically discussing Rosa Luxemburg as well as her associates and adherents’ historical, anti-imperialist and political writings in the context of theory of imperialism with regard to questions of anti-imperial and post-/de-colonial studies.

At the turn of the 20th century Rosa Luxemburg positioned herself as a revolutionary and against the revision of Marxist principles within social democracy. She resolutely opposed parliamentarism as well as tendencies of chauvinism and militarism inside the social-democratic worker’s movement.

While political writings such as “Social Reform or Revolution?” (1899) emphasize class struggle as a Marxist principle, “Militarism, War and the Working Class” (1914) expresses an internationalist stance against imperialist wars. In prison Rosa Luxemburg wrote “The Crisis of Social Democracy” (1916), which also circulated under the title “Junius Brochure”. A crisis within the European Marxist labour movement led to the split of Marxist movements (Social Democrats vs. Communists) in 1919 as a result of the first imperialist World War – taking place mainly on European(-controlled), Russian and Ottoman territories. As an internationalist Rosa Luxemburg positioned herself not only on questions of war and peace within Europe, but also with regard to the standpoint of European Marxists towards the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistances in Asia, Africa and the Americas. In 1906, a majority of German Social Democrats voted in Parliament for the further financial support of German colonial rule in southern Africa, where the genocide of the Hereros and Nama was continuing as survivors of General von Trotha’s killing policy were imprisoned in concentration camps. Such racist politics developed into the system of Apartheid. Read more and source (Web).

CfP: Epidemics and Nation-Building in Interwar East Central Europe (Expert panel and seminar discussion for graduate students, 04/2021, virtual space); – extended – by: 24.03.2021

The Intellectual History in East Central Europe Research Network (Web)

Time: 17.04.2021
Venue: virtual space, via Budapst/Vienna and Prague
Proposals – extended – by: 24.03.2021

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a quest for historical parallels that help us contextualize this traumatic event. The voices of historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science are vital in this debate. This event uses the case of interwar East Central Europe to explore these historical parallels. After the collapse of continental empires, this “other Europe” faced a double challenge of taming epidemics and creating new states. Drawing on the concept of biopolitics, this panel will rethink the process of nation-building through the prism of epidemics control. What social actors claimed expertise on these issues, and how did they win – or fail to win – trust in polarized interwar societies? How did their discourses and practices relate to the ethnocultural diversity of these spaces and how did they shape identities such as race, gender, class and ability? On what transnational, (post-)imperial, and colonial models did they draw? Conversely, how did the biopolitical experts, knowledge and practices from East Central Europe circulate on a global scale?

Program (Poster as PDF)

  • 11:00: Panel of distinguished speakers (4 panelists + 1 chair)
  • 13:00: Lunch and coffee break
  • 15:00: Seminar with graduate students, based on the panel and pre-assigned readings (moderated discussion)

About the Network

“Intellectual History in East Central Europe” was launched in 2020 by a group of advanced doctoral students from the Central European University. The aim of the research network is to promote – in the ECE area – the research on intellectual history that goesbeyond the national canons. More information (Link).

Application

This panel will bring together distinguished scholars from various contexts to examine these issues. Each panelist will give a short talk (cca. 20 min), which will be followed by a Q&A session, Continue reading →

CfP: Female Fighters in diverse world regions and organizations (Edited Volume); by: 25.03.2021

Béatrice Hendrich, Universität zu Köln (Web)

Proposals by: 25.03.2021

Although the sheer number of women participating in combat units and armed battle all over the world has been steadily increasing since World War II, academic research has been hesitant to investigate the manifold aspects of this phenomenon until recently. But a development of this dimension needs much more thorough research by cultural and area studies than has been carried out to date. The aim of the editors is to come up with an innovative and interdisciplinary volume on women in combat units, or otherwise actively engaged in armed battle, in several world regions, organizations, and time periods. The perspective of the women themselves is of particular importance to the editors.

While the historic perspective informs the work of the editors, a variety of disciplinary perspectives such as anthropology and feminist studies will be included in this publication. The editors are seeking further authors working on any world regions and historical periods or specific organizations. They are specifically interested in papers on (East-)Africa or Algeria, on specific organizations and activities, e.g. anti-nazi, (pro-communist) revolutionary, women in the IRA or RAF (Red Army Faction), and on women in combat units of legally recognized organizations such as NATO or national defense forces.

Due to the pandemic situation and the experience with the preparation of an edited volume, the editors have opted for a different path that goes beyond a basic call for papers. Thy are going to have a small number of online-meetings during the coming months, together with the authors, and some interested colleagues. Each meeting will focus on a particular question or theoretical approach relevant to our articles. By means of these meetings, the editors hope to create an inner cohesion of the volume, a connectedness of the articles without limiting the individual approach of each author. That means also that the editors expect the authors to join the meetings (which will be neither too numerous nor too long and arranged in accordance with the calendars of the participants). This mutual exchange will allow all participants to introduce their own perspectives into the overall project and to become part of an extremely committed and supportive network.

Publication language is English. Please send your abstract, together with a short CV, no later than March 25, 2021.

The editors will ask for the first drafts at the end of July 2021. The editors want to publish a volume with fresh perspectives on a timely topic. However, Continue reading →

Lecture: Maayan Armelin: Leadership Styles and Social Relations in the SS-Einsatzgruppen, 25.03.2021, virtual space

Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien: Reihe „Interaktionen“ – in cooperation with the VWI (Web)
Time: Thur., 25.03.2021, 12.00 pm
Venue: virtual space, via Vienna
Online-Webinar (Link)
Mass executions across the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union marked the first stage of systematic annihilation during the Holocaust. The SS-Einsatzgruppen, mobile paramilitary units, murdered over a million and a half civilians, shooting them on the margins of cities and in pits in the hearts of forests and fields. This presentation will discuss the leadership styles practised by the Einsatzgruppen officers, particularly the social hierarchies in the units, and how they enhanced the members‘ apparent willingness to perpetrate mass murder. Spotlighting three units, the Einsatzgruppen members‘ postwar testimonies reveal that their officers followed the German military tradition of Auftragstaktik (mission command), by which the leadership required junior officers to set their immediate goals and promoted them based on proven results. Anticipating later promotion, Einsatzgruppen officers practiced a number of distinct leadership styles while initiating more executions, increasing followers‘ compliance, and reaching faster killing rates.
Social hierarchies and operational structures added to the brutality of the Einsatzgruppen. Each unit comprised members of all the different institutions under the RSHA: the SD (SS intelligence), Gestapo (secret police), Kripo (criminal police), Waffen-SS (armed SS), drivers, cooks, and interpreters. These institutions determined the members‘ age, experience, professionality, and job allocation, their levels of autonomy and agency, and their place in the unit’s hierarchy. Perpetrating executions, the men operated in small, mixed-background squads, of which the makeup changed frequently. Belonging to these groups demanded of the members that they prove their loyalty by adopting new standards of violence, while lessening their ability to defy orders. The interaction between military traditions, leadership styles, social hierarchies, and operational structures encouraged Einsatzgruppen members to engage in mass violence. Understanding how these factors facilitated genocide helps in the analysis of current paramilitary groups who engage in mass violence against civilians and contributes to the efforts to alleviate present conflicts or prevent future ones.

  • Commented by Bertrand Perz

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Conference: Democracy and Gender: The Legitimation of Power in Modern Societies, 26.-28.05.2021, München and virtual space

Universität der Bundeswehr München: Hedwig Richter and Clara Maier (Berlin) (Web)
Time: 26.-28.05.2021
Venue: München and virtual space
Registration by: 24.05.2021
This conference examines the complex interactions between the emergence of mass democracy and radical changes in gender relations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
With contributions from historians, political scientists and political theorists the conference aims to better understand the role of gender in the functioning, the legitimation and de-legitimation of modern democracy.
Keynotes

  • Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Berlin): Monarchie und Geschlecht: Herrschaftslegitimation im frühneuzeitlichen Europa
  • Georgina Waylen (Manchester): Engendering the crisis of democracy

Panels

  • Democracy’s Legitimacy in Crisis?
  • Female Rule: A Special Kind of Power?
  • The Legitimating Power of Masculinity
  • Representing Gendered Orders
  • Difference and Inclusion

Program in detail as PDF
Online registration until 24.05.2021 to Nicole Höner: nicole.hoener@unibw.de
Source: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-96341

CfP: Pflege im Nationalsozialismus (Event: 10/2021, Pirna); bis: 31.05.2021

Fachgesellschaft Pflegegeschichte e.V. (GAHN) (Web); Pierre Pfütsch, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung

Zeit: 22.-23.10.2021
Ort: Pirna
Einreichrfrist: 31.05.2021

Ebenso wie in der Medizin- ist auch in der Pflegegeschichte die Zeit des NS seit vielen Jahren ein beliebtes Forschungsfeld. Der Workshop der Fachgesellschaft Pflegegeschichte will daher die gegenwärtig laufenden Forschungsprojekte zusammenbringen und nach dem State-of-the-Art der Forschung zum Thema fragen. Willkommen sind Beiträge zur gesamten Breite des Themas.

Welche Rolle spielte Pflege generell in der NS-Ära und welches berufliche Selbstverständnis lag dem zugrunde? Wie sah die standespolitische Vertretung aus und wie fügte sie sich in die NS-Strukturen ein? Wie ging man mit jüdischen Kolleginnen und Kollegen um?

Welche Rolle kam Pflegenden im Kontext von nationalsozialistischen medizinischen Verbrechen in Konzentrationslagern, Heil- und Pflegeanstalten und (psychiatrischen) Kliniken zu? Waren sie lediglich ausführende Organe der von Medizinern und Politikern gefassten Entscheidungen oder besaßen sie auch Handlungsspielräume? Und wenn ja, wie sahen diese konkret aus?

Angesichts der Millionen Verwundeten und Toten des Zweiten Weltkrieges ist auch nach der Funktion und dem Alltag der Kriegskrankenpflege zu fragen. Wie wurde diese organisiert und unter welchen Bedingungen fand die Pflegearbeit an der Front statt?

Auch die Zeit nach 1945 soll in den Blick genommen werden. Welche Rolle spielte eine mögliche nationalistische Vergangenheit für die Pflegerinnen und Pfleger nach 1945? Gab es Restriktionen bei der (Wieder-)Einstellung aufgrund einer möglichen NS-Vergangenheit? Zeigen sich eher Kontinuitäten oder Brüche? Fand eine Auseinandersetzung mit den NS-Verbrechen im Kreis der Pflegenden statt?

Ebenso willkommen sind transnational oder auch regional vergleichend angelegte Bearbeitungen des Themas. In dem Workshop sollen aktuelle Forschungen – gerne „Work in Progress“ – präsentiert und zur Diskussion gestellt werden.

Der Workshop musste im Jahr 2020 aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie verschoben werden. Er wird Continue reading →

CfP: The Gender of Ethnographic Collecting (Decolonizing Collections – Networking towards Relationality Debates); by: 01.04.2021

Decolonizing Collections – Networking towards Relationality Debates (DCNtR) (Web); Mary Mbewe, Univ. of the Western Cape, Cape Town and Carl Deussen, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne

Proposals by: 01.04.2021

DCNtR Debates starts with its first issue on „The Gender of Ethnographic Collecting“, bringing the analytic category of gender to the debate about imperial collecting and the ethnographic museum.

It has long been accepted that colonialism had a distinctive epistemic dimension, which was upheld by disciplines such as social anthropology and other knowledge-making projects. Under this colonial episteme, people and human experiences were hierarchically classified according to racial categories and ethnography and ethnographic collecting were key components in these processes. However, the colonial regime did not only rely on race as an organising category, but also on gender.

There is now a growing literature on how many aspects of colonialism and its discursive techniques were gendered male. Still, not much analysis has been done in regards to how ethnographic collecting and its resultant knowledges were and continue to be gendered. Histories of collecting have usually been limited to a generalised engagement with the relationship of collector and subject, ignoring gender and how it may impact the results of these knowledge-making projects. Taking this general observation as a starting point, we propose an engagement with ethnographic collecting and ethnographic museums that takes gender as its central analytical category. We invite reflections on questions which include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • What is the relationship between ethnographic collecting, gender, and imperialism? Is there an imperial masculinity specific to ethnographic collecting?
  • How far can ethnographic collecting be understood to be a gendered activity and in what ways can the resulting collections and knowledges be understood as gendered? What codes and landscapes are used in these kinds of knowledge productions?
  • What is the relationship between the gender of the collector and that of those collected from?
  • Museums and Gendered Collections: In how far do styles of display highlight/occlude/sustain the gendered histories of collections? How can new museologies challenge these?
  • Can specific modes of exhibitions themselves be understood as gendered?

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Vortrag: Larisa Schippel: Übersetzerinnen im Exil. Drei Fallbeispiele und eine translationswissenschaftliche Einbindung, 23.03.2021, Wien

Frauenarbeitsgemeinschaft der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (Web)
Zeit: 23.03.2021, 18:30 Uhr
Ort: virtueller Raum, via Wien
In Deutschland wurden 1933 missliebige Bücher verbrannt, in Österreich bereitete man mit Hilfe sog. Sperrlisten die «Säuberung» der öffentlichen Bibliotheken vor. Bücher deutschsprachiger AutorInnen werden gewöhnlich genannt, wenn es um Gedenken und Erinnerung geht. Weitaus seltener werden die AutorInnen «fremder Zunge» erwähnt – Zola, Dos Passos, Gorki, Barbusse, Ehrenburg und viele andere fielen dem Verbot anheim. Wer waren die Übersetzerinnen dieser Werke und was geschah (mit) ihnen? Viele gingen ins Exil, soweit es ihnen gelang, Aufnahme in einem sicheren Exilland zu finden. Viele übersetzten. Andere wurden im Exil zu ÜbersetzerInnen. Und wieder andere begannen erst nach dem Exil, ihre neu erworbenen Sprachkenntnisse als Übersetzerinnen zu nutzen. «Verlorene Heimat, gewonnene Sprache»…

  • Moderation: Irene Messinger

Larisa Schippel hat seit Oktober 2010 eine Professur für Transkulturelle Kommunikation am Zentrum für Translationswissenschaft der Universität Wien inne, seit 2011 ist sie Leiterin des Zentrums. Geb. 1951 in Karpinsk, UdSSR, 1957 Übersiedelung mit der Familie nach Dresden. 1969-1973 Studium an der HU Berlin und der Universität Bukarest (Dipl.-Sprachmittler in der Fächerkombination Rumänisch und Russisch). 1973 Diplom-Sprachmittlerin für Russisch und Rumänisch. 1973-1977 Assistentin an der Sektion Romanistik der HU. 1977-1982 wiss. Mitarbeiterin an der Sektion Romanistik der HU. 1982-1985 Leiterin der Dolmetschergruppe der HU. 1983 Promotion zum Dr. phil. 1985-2000 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Sektion/am Institut für Romanistik der HU. Seit 1991 Fachprüferin am Landesprüfungsamt für Übersetzer des Landes Berlin. 2000-2002 freiberufliche Übersetzerin. 2002-2008 Gastprofessorin für Übersetzungswissenschaft am Institut für Slawistik der HU. Mitherausgeberin von Stefanie Kremmel, Julia Richter und Larisa Schippel (Hg.): Österreichische Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzer im Exil, Wien 2020 (Web).
Zoom (Link); Meeting-ID: 859 220 2223; Passwort: 783530; Einladung als PDF