Reframing Gender, Reframing Critique

Veranstalter

Netzwerk Gender Studies Schweiz

Veranstaltungsort

University of Basel

Ort

Basel, Switzerland

Land

Switzerland

Vom - Bis

16.09.2011 - 17.09.2011

Website

http://genderstudies.unibas.ch/aktuelles/international-conference/

Von

Franziska Schutzbach

Keynotes and Contributors:
Lauren Berlant Chicago / Nikita Dhawan Frankfurt a.M. / Gabriele Dietze Berlin / Umut Erel London / Barbara Hobson Stockholm / Eveline Kilian Berlin / Margrit Shildrick Belfast / Lynn Staeheli Durham and others

The international conference “Reframing Gender, Reframing Critique” is interested in the present-day diagnostic potential of current research approaches and in broad interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary challenges to be discussed in panels, lectures, and discussion forums. The key focus of the conference is to reevaluate to what extent our understanding of gender, gender relations and criticism needs to be reformulated or in reference to the title reframed.

From the beginning gender research understood itself as a critical project. It was, and still is, both a field of critical analysis of gender orders and practices and a critique of the production of knowledge about gender and of our understanding of knowledge itself. Over the course of the past years, however, the conditions and objects of research have been modified significantly. Gender relations are changing at a local and transnational level. In the context of current processes of globalization and migration, organizational forms of paid work, family and citizenship, as well as bodies, sexualities, feelings and affects, all central to gender relations, are being reconfigured in profound ways. New subjects and identities are emerging, and, at the same time, political, economic and cultural shifts and differentiations generate new sites for agency and action while at the same time producing new hierarchies and exclusions. Against this background, the responsibility of feminist criticism and critical gender research change, and so do feminist expectations. One main focus still lies on how gender, sexuality, and body are formed in text and practices. A new consideration is the question of how gender practices concur constitutively with other practices of normalization and social differentiation. Grasping these connections in a conceptual way while at the same time asking how other ways of life may be conceivable as well as livable, are some of the challenges critical Gender Studies faces at the beginning of the 21st century. These concerns offer a starting point for intensive discussion about the possibilities and challenges of critical Gender Studies today.

Programm

Friday, September 16, 2011

Room: Aula, Main building University of Basel

09.15 Welcome

09.30 Keynote: Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago: On the Desire for the Political

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Keynote: Margrit Shildrick, Queen’s University, Belfast: Dangerous Discourses: anomalous embodiment and the prosthetic imaginary

13.00 Lunch Break (Mensa)

14.30 Panel 1-4

1/ Gender arrangements in paid and unpaid work: articulations between discourse and practice

Discussant Barbara Hobson (Stockholm) Papers Barbara Hobson: The Agency Gap: Women’s and Men’s aspirations and capabilities for Worklife Balance

Papers:
Isabel Valarino: Competing problematisations of parental leave policies in Switzerland. How is parenthood represented?
Lucia Lanfranconi: The Swiss Equality Policy in Working Life: Focus on paid – not unpaid work
Pierre Bataille: Representation and practice of paid and unpaid work: Does social origin matters?
Michèle Amacker: Doing Precarity! A gender-sensitive view on strategies of Swiss households in precarious living conditions

Chair Isabelle Zinn

Room 115

2/ Literarische Körper-Räume: Geschlechtskonfigurationen und narrative Konstruktion von Geschlechtsidentität

Discussant Eveline Kilian (Berlin)

Papers:
Ursula Caci: Locating Gender in Space. Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Gender
Martina Läubli: Kein “Körper ohne Fehl”: Subjektivität und Körper in Karl Philipp’ Moritz Anton Reiser
Christa Binswanger: Sexualität als Palimpsest: zur narrativen Konstruktion sexueller Scripts in Max Frischs Stiller

Chair Angelika Baier

Room 116

3/ Affect I: Politics of Affect – Structures of Feeling

Discussant Lauren Berlant (Chicago)

Papers:
Brigitte Bargetz: Affective Politics: between Domination and Emancipation
Dominique Grisard: Pink Stinks. The Affective Production in the Girlie Girl Industry
Eveline Y. Nay: “Not Gay as in Happy, but Happy as in Family?” Affective Politics of Queer Families

Chair Jana Häberlein

Room 118

4/ Negotiating Gender in a Transnational Space

Discussant Umut Erel (London)

Papers:
Susanne Bachmann: Zielgruppen mit “besonderen Anliegen” – Diskursive Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Geschlechterdifferenz in der Integrationspolitik
Melanie Mettler: The Family as Transnational Space of Negotiation
Joëlle Moret: Mobility capital: challenging the gender order in a transnational space?

Chair Francesca Falk

Room 117

17.30 Coffee break

18.30-20.00 Round-Table “Us and You. Othering, difference and equality”
Room: Aula, Main building University of Basel
Nikita Dhawan (Frankfurt a.M.), Gabriele Dietze (Berlin), Katrin Meyer (Basel), Lynn Staeheli (Durham)
Moderation: Inés Mateos. Organized by the SGGF/SSEG

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Room: Aula, Main building University of Basel

10.00 Panel 5-7

5/ Verflechtungen: Geschlecht in der Aufklärungszeit aus der Perspektive der postkolonialen Theorie - Reworking implications of gender in the Enlightenment from a postcolonial theory perspective

Discussant Nikita Dhawan (Frankfurt a.M.)

Papers:
Karin Hostettler: Das kultivierte Geschlechterverhältnis. Rasse und Geschlecht bei Immanuel Kant
Sophie Vögele: Interrogating circular concepts: Representation and normative production within the “Contact Zone”.
Enit K. Steiner: Negotiating Cosmopolitanism in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis

Chair Seraina Renz

Room 115

6/ Feminism and Politics across Time and Space

Discussant Lynn Staeheli (Durham)

Papers:
Fabienne Amlinger/Carolin Schurr: Women politicians and their understandings of feminism
Ekaterina Frolova: Tajikistani women politicians’ understandings of feminist designation
Leena Schmitter: Resistance, protest and institutionalized Politics: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Switzerland
Sarah Kiani: Issues of equality laws in Switzerland: the case study of paragraph 4

Chair Michèle Amacker

Room 116

7/ Affect II: Affect – Embodiment – Othering

Discussant Margrit Shildrick (Belfast)

Papers:
Angelika Baier: The Monstrous Body in Contemporary Literature on Intersexuality
Lotta Samelius: Turning Points and the Everyday
Franziska Schutzbach: Redundant Bodies
Andrea Zimmermann: Mimesis and the Dis/Abled Body in Contemporary German Drama

Chair Christa Binswanger

Room 117

13.00 Lunch Break (Mensa)

14.30 Keynote: Umut Erel, Open University London: Migrant women's mothering practices as citizenship practices

16.00 Closing Remarks

21.00 Party!

Kontakt

Tina Bopp
Zentrum Gender Studies
Sreinengraben 5
CH-4051 Basel

http://genderstudies.unibas.ch/aktuelles/international-conference/

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Reframing Gender, Reframing Critique., In: H-Soz-Kult, 31.05.2011, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-66580>.

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