Race, Class, Gender as categories of difference and inequality: Which perspectives arise from the concept of ‘intersectionality’ for human and cultural sciences? International conference for Young Academics

Race, Class, Gender as categories of difference and inequality: Which perspectives arise from the concept of ‘intersectionality’ for human and cultural sciences? International conference for Young Academics

Veranstalter
Ciera - Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'Allemagne, Paris Deutsch-Französische Hochschule/Université franco-allemande, Saarbrücken; Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris; Konzeption und Organisation: Vera Kallenberg, Jennifer Meyer, Johanna M. Mueller
Veranstaltungsort
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), 105, boulevard Raspail, salle 7, 75600 Paris
Ort
Paris
Land
France
Vom - Bis
10.09.2009 - 12.09.2009
Deadline
06.09.2009
Website
Von
Vera Kallenberg

Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits. (Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen 1789)

« In der That unterscheiden sich die Frauen in gewissen Grundzügen ihres Charakters, gerade wie die Männer, je nach ihrer
Lebenslage, ihrer Klasse und ihrer Erziehung. » (Hedwig Dohm, Der Frauen Natur und Recht 1876)

„Ni putes, ni soumises.“ (Motto der « Marche des femmes des quartiers pour l'égalité et contre les ghettos » im Jahr 2003, die die Situation der Frauen in den französischen Banlieues anprangerte; Name des nach der Demonstration gegründeten Vereins)

The recent paradigm of ‘intersectionality’ reissues struggles about ‘identity,’ ‘subjectivity,’ and ‘experience’ as well as about ‘agency,’ and structures of social inequalities that pervade theoretical and methodological discussions in the sciences humaines et socials and beyond. The metaphor ‘intersectionality’ anticipates a multi-dimensional perspective. It aims at analysing as capacious as possible the positioning of subjects/persons and their courses of action in historical contexts, i.e. within a heterogeneous, but by no means arbitrary field of discourses, institutions and social practices.

Due to their multi-perspectivity, intersectional approaches have to be seen as parts of a current shift of emphasis within cultural sciences and the humanities which is significantly related to ongoing reflections on processes of globalization and the “spatial turn”. This scientific orientation can be characterized by its attempt to explore multiple forms of crossings, blurrings, and transgressings of ‘borders’ and ‘spaces,’ as prevalent concepts like ‘transculturality’ and ‘transnationality’ demonstrate. In this sense intersectionality studies share certain similarities with the “histoire croisée” inititated as a heuristic device by Bénedicte Zimmerman and Michael Werner. According to the “histoire croisée,” no object in history exists as an isolated entity, or independent of interrelations with other phenomena. Thereby we deal with a processual activity which constantly produces new interrelations between already interrelated objects. What need to be distinguished in this heuristic perspective are, on the one hand, the interrelations of different perspectives that guide the views on the interrelated objects, and, on the other hand, the interrelations of analytic practices performed by researchers. While the “histoire croisée” focuses on diachronic ‘space-time’-structures, intersectional approaches seem to emphasize synchronous relations of social and geographical ‘locations’. In this constellation, the organizers see the need for clarification especially in two regards. First, concerning the question of the historicity of “axes of inequality” (Klinger, Knapp) and, second, concerning the use of intersectionality as a methodology within the heterogeneous fields of transnational cultures of knowledge.

Following up previous discussions, our conference gives young academics the opportunity to discuss analytical and methodological questions that have emerged from their own research and that are situated in the humanities as well as in the historical and social sciences. While the main focus will be on historical analyses, social practices related to the production of knowledge and representation are considered as well. The presentations encompass both micro- and macro-levels of society.

You are cordially invited to participate in the seminar. Please register until the 6th of September via email: johannammueller@gmail.com. Conference languages will be German, French and
English.

Programm

DONNERSTAG, 10. September 2009 / Jeudi, 10 septembre 2009 / Thursday, September 10 2009

9.30 - 9.45 Ankunft der TeilnehmerInnen - Accueil des participant-e-s / Arrival

9.45 - 10.00 Eröffnung / Introduction par les organisatrices et Beate Collet (Paris IV)

10.00 - 11.00 Vorstellungsrunde der ReferentInnen - Tour de table: Brêve présentation des participant-e-s / Round of Introductions

1. PANEL Wege der Rezeption - réception et critique / Reception and Critique

Moderation / Modération: Jennifer Meyer (ENS-LSH,
Universität Erfurt, Ciera)

11.15 - 12.00 Cornelia Möser (Paris 8, HU Berlin) Théories
voyageuses. Ce que le débat sur l'intersectionnalité peut apprendre du débat sur le genre / Travelling theories : Was die Intersektionalitätsdiskussion aus der Debatte über die Kategorie ‘Geschlecht’ lernen kann

12.00 - 12.45 Thomas Beaubreuil (ENS, EHESS, CSE) La réception de la notion d’ «intersectionnalité » dans le débat en France. Construction théorique, implications politiques et usages pratiques

13.00 - 14.30 Mittagessen / Déjeuner / Lunch

2. PANEL Theoretische und methodologische Zugänge / Approches
théoriques et méthodologiques / Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Moderation / Modération : Johanna M. Müller (FU Berlin)

14.30 - 15.30 Jana Tschurenev/ Urs Lindner (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich/ Goethe Universität Frankfurt) Western Modernity Revisted? Intersectionality, Structure, History

15.30 - 16.00 Pause / Break

16.00 – 17.15 Christine Kley (FU Berlin)/ Dimitri Mader (Humboldt Universität Berlin) „Interlocking structures of oppression“– power, domination and the problem of agency

3. PANEL Case Studies in Representation and Difference: the
Specificity of Intersectionality

Moderation / Modération: Johanna M. Müller (FU Berlin)

17.30 – 17.45 Manoucheka Celeste (University of Washington) (Re)presenting : Black Women in Popular Culture and the Paradoxes of Beyoncé Knowles

17.45 – 18.00 Rebekka Clark (University of Washington) Intersections of Racial Privilege and ‘Feminist’ empowerment: the Case of American Pop Icons Gwen Stefani and Fergie

18.15 – 18.30 Sara Diaz (University of Washington) Roger Arliner Young: The Historical (Mis)representation of a Black Woman Scientist

18.30 – 18.45 Martha Gonzalez (University of Washington) Collective Songwriting Process as a De-Colonial Act

18.45 – 19.00 Monique Lacoste (University of Washington) Privilege and Innocence in Orange County: Intersectional Approaches to Reading a Mediatized Rape Trial

19.15 Abendessen / Diner / Dinner

FREITAG, 11. September 2009 / Vendredi, 11 septembre 2009 / Friday, September 11 2009

4. PANEL Zur Konstruktion von ‚Normalität’ in der Geschichte –
Intersektionalität in historischer Perspektive / Constructing Normality in History – Intersectionality in a historical perspective

Moderation / Modération: Vera Kallenberg (MPIeR Frankfurt, EHESS/ Ciera)

10.00 - 10.45 Susanne Hehenberger (Österreichische Kommission für Provenienzforschung) Geheime Sünden. Strafrechtliche Konstruktion und Verfolgungspraxis von Inzest und Sodomie in der Frühen Neuzeit

10.45 - 11.30 Birgit Stammberger (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) Moderne Monstrositäten. Geschlecht und Materialität der Anormalen

5. PANEL Intersektionalität und Männlichkeit / Intersectionality and Masculinity

Moderation / Modération: Jana Tschurenev (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)

12.00 - 12.30 Martin Seeliger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Gangstarap und Intersektionalität im Mehrebenenmodell

12.30 - 13.00 Udo Gerheim (Universität Bremen) Geschlecht schlägt Klasse?! Oder: Im Bordell sind alle Männer gleich. Ein qualitativ-empirischer Beitrag zur Diskussion der männlichen Nachfrage nach käuflicher Sexualität.

13.00 - 14.30 Mittagessen / Déjeuner / Lunch

6. PANEL Das Politische der Intersektionalität – Politik der
Intersektionalität / The Political of Intersectionality – Politics of Intersectionality

Moderation / Modération: Dimitri Mader (FU Berlin)

14.30 - 15.15 Irène Pereira (EHESS, GSPM) Controverses militantes dans la gauche radicale en France autour de l’articulation entre les différentes oppressions

15.15 - 16.00 Pauline Vermeren (CSPRP Paris, Columbia NJC) Racisme et sexisme au coeur du débat postcolonial

16.00 - 16.30 Pause / Break

16.30 - 17.15 Joshua Dubrow (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warschau) Political Voice of the Disadvantaged: Intersectionality and Political Participation in France and Germany

17.15 - 18.00 Julia Verse (europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität Berlin): Antiracism und feminism in Ireland.

19.00 Abendessen / Diner / Dinner

SAMSTAG, 12. September 2009 / Samedi, 12 septembre 2009 / Saturday, September 12 2009

7. PANEL Intersektionalität in (post-) kolonialen Kontexten / Intersectionality in post colonial contexts

Moderation / Modération: Cornelia Möser (Humboldt Universität Berlin / Paris IV)

9.45 - 10.30 Sébastien Verney (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne (IERP), Université de Toronto) Races et identités indochinoises créées sous l’impulsion coloniale

10.30 - 11.15 Ninon Thiem (Universität Erfurt) Koloniales Reisen als Emanzipation? – Die Verortung der Geschlechter in Daniéle Rousseliers „Sépia“ und Pacale Roze „L’eau rouge“

11.15 - 11.30 Pause / Break

11.30 - 12.15 Laura Schuft (Université de Nice, Université de la Polynésie Francaise) Genre, ‚race’ et statut-économique dans les catégorisations conjugales' à Tahiti

Abschlussrunde / Table ronde / Final Come Together

12.15 - 13.00 Planung Arbeitskreis und Vernetzung

13.00 TAGUNGSENDE / FIN DU COLLOQUE / END OF SESSION

Kontakt

Vera Kallenberg

MPIeR, Hausener Weg 120, 60489 Frankfurt am Main

0049/69/78978167

kallenberg@mpier.uni-frankfurt.de