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

Home-Longing and Nature Porn: The Shamelessness of the Heimatfilm