Shame – Shaming – Shamelessness

29.11.2019

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

Friday, 29 November/Saturday, 30 November 2019
Juridicum Wien, Top Floor, Schottenbastei 10 – 16, 1010 Vienna

PROGRAMM:

Friday, 29 November 2019


10:00
Welcome addresses
Paul Oberhammer, Dean of the Faculty of Law
Elisabeth Holzleithner, Speaker of the Gender and Agency Research Network

  • 10:30 – 12:30 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 – 14:30 Lunch break

  • 14:30 – 16:30 Panel II

    Katrin Röder, Humboldt Universität 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 – 17:00 Break

  • 17:00 – 18:20 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


Saturday, 30 November 2019

  • 10:00 – 12:00 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 – 13:00 Lunch buffet

  • 13:00 – 14:20 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

14:20 – 14:40 Break

  • 14:40 – 16:00 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