Shame – Shaming – Shamelessness
International Conference by the Research Network “Gender and Agency”
Friday, 29 November/Saturday, 30 November 2019
Juridicum Wien, Top Floor, Schottenbastei 10 – 16, 1010 Vienna
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.
Programme
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