10Th European Feminist Research Conference Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions
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10th European Feminist Research Conference Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions 12th - 15th September 2018 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany BOOK OF ABSTRACTS IMPRINT EDITOR Göttingen Diversity Research Institute, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, 37073 Göttingen COORDINATION Göttingen Diversity Research Institute DESIGN AND LAYOUT Rothe Grafik, Georgsmarienhütte © Cover: Judith Groth PRINTING Linden-Druck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hannover NOTE Some plenary events are video recorded and pictures may be taken during these occasions. Please notify us, if you do not wish that pictures of you will be published on our website. 2 10th European Feminist Research Conference Difference, Diversity, Diffraction: Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions 12th - 15th September 2018 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 10TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE 3 WELCOME TO THE 10TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE ”DIFFERENCE, DIVERSITY, DIFFRACTION: WELCOME CONFRONTING HEGEMONIES AND DISPOSSESSIONS”! With the first European Feminist Research Conference (EFRC) in 1991, the EFRC has a tradition of nearly 30 years. During the preceding conferences the EFRC debated and investigated the relationship between Eastern and Western European feminist researchers (Aalborg), technoscience and tech- nology (Graz), mobility as well as the institutionalisation of Women’s, Fem- inist and Gender Studies (Coimbra), borders and policies (Bologna), post-communist feminism and the power relation between West and East (Lund), citizenship and multicultural contexts (Łód’z), gendered cultures in knowledge and politics (Utrecht), the politics of location on a local as well as global scale (Budapest) and the challenges of intensified capitalism (Rovaniemi). The focus of the 10th EFRC is twofold. The terms ”difference”, ”diversity” and ”diffraction” emphasize the interdisciplinarity of the broad feminist field of feminist research and refer to a topic central to Gender Studies: the social construction of difference and inequality on the one hand, and the recogni- tion of marginalised experiences and subject positions on the other. In the face of growing right-wing populist movements, anti-feminist and anti-queer backlashes, forced migration, austerity and climate change, these concerns take on renewed relevance. ”Confronting hegemonies and dispossessions” is a call to interrogate and challenge the current global situation in which economic, cultural as well as knowledge hegemonies and social hierarchies create inequalities, unliveable environments and precarious lives. Each EFRC conference brought innovations. For instance, already the second EFRC expanded its scope beyond European researchers, while the third invited a strong interdisciplinarity by crossing the boundaries between the humanities, the social and the natural sciences. The fourth included 4 practitioners and policy makers, while the fifth inaugurated a new stream on archives and documentation. During the sixth conference the merger of European feminist associations was discussed and as a result of this, in 2009 ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Edu- cation and Documentation bringing together ATHENA, AOIFE and WISE, was founded. Since then, ATGENDER has organised the triannual EFRC together with local partners. In the past year ATGENDER and the German Gender Studies Association (founded in 2010) have collaborated for the first time to organise the 10th EFRC – that simultaneously is the annual conference of both – in partnership with the local hosts, the Goettingen Centre for Gender Studies and the Diversity Research Institute at the Uni- versity of Goettingen. The 10 marks an anniversary, a very special occasion to which we admit- ted more than 600 paper presentations organised in about 190 panels, workshops, book presentations and other events in English and German. The conference also features four keynote lectures with speakers from in- and outside Europe and round tables on timely topics. Alongside the offi- cial programme, we expect plenty of informal discussions during breaks, over dinners, and at drinks. Our aim was to make the conference as ac- cessible, inclusive and sustainable as possible with our means. Thus, the 10th EFRC imagines itself as an inclusive space of inspiring debates and interdisciplinary exchange, in which timely analyses of the present will be discussed, new theoretical and methodological approaches will be pre- sented and the manifold institutionalisation of research as well as teaching will be debated. We wish everybody an exciting and enriching experience and look forward to four days of intense debates, inspiration and fun. Once again, welcome to all of you! Your conference committee (Irina Gradinari, Sabine Grenz, Inka Greusing, Adriano J. Habed, Konstanze Hanitzsch, Sara de Jong, Edyta Just, Kateˇrina Koláˇrová, Ksenia Meshkova, Barbara Schaff, Marianne Schmidbaur, Aggeliki Sifaki and Elisabeth Tuider) 10TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE 5 WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 9:00-10:30 Panels 10:30-11:00 Networking coffee 11:00-12:00 Keynote PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Noémi Michel 12:00-13:00 Networking lunch Lunch Event: ATGENDER Book Presentation 13.00-14:30 13:00-14:30 Panels Round Table "Beyond Eurocentric Feminisms" 14:30-15:00 Networking break 15:00-16:00 Opening Ceremony 15:00-16:30 15:00-16:30 Panels Open Fora 16:00-17:00 Keynote Alexandre Baril 16.30-17:00 Networking coffee 17:00-17:30 Networking coffee 17:00-18.30 Panels 17:30-19.00 "Round Table Funding Gender Research – Institutionalizing Gender Studies" from 18:30 Networking dinner from 19:00 Conference dinner 6 FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 9:00-10:30 Panels 09:00-11:00 Mitglieder- versammlung 09:30-11:00 FG Gender Panels 10:30-11:00 Networking coffee 11:00-12:00 Keynote 11:00-11:30 Networking coffee Niharika Banerjea 11:30- 12:30 Keynote Agnieszka Graff und 12:00-13:00 Networking lunch Elz˙bieta Korolczuk Lunch Event: WINE Presentation 12:30-13:30 Networking lunch 13.00- 13:00-14:30 13:00- 14:30 Round Table 14:30 Panels "Gender and Open Fora 13.30-15:00 13:30-15:00 Sexuality in the Politics of Panels in Streams Round Table Borders" "Attacks on Gender (Studies): 14:30-15:00 Networking break Seeking Strategies" 15:00- 15:00-16:30 15:00- 15:00-15:30 Closing Ceremony 16:30 Workshop 16:30 Panels Inter- Open Fora sectionality 16.30-17:00 Networking coffee 17:00-19:00 General 17:00- Assembly ATGENDER 2h 19:00 DFG Workshop from 19:00 Networking dinner 10TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome 4 Programme Overview 6 Table of Contents 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE Detailed Table of Contents: Panel, Open Fora and Poster Sessions 10 Overall Information – Overview conference venue 18 – Need for childcare and for assistance 18 – Campus map 19 – Map ZhG 20 Opening Ceremony 21 Keynote Lectures 1. Alexandre Baril: Cripping Trans Studies and Transing Crip Studies: Transness and Disability 22 2. Noémi Michel: Black Feminist Thoughts: From Intersectionality to the Engendering of Racial Capital 23 3. Niharika Banerjea: Liveability as a Decolonial Option through Collaborative Research and Activisms 25 4. Agnieszka Graff and Elzbieta Korolczuk: “Ebola from Brussels”: Anti-Genderism, Right-Wing Populism and the Future of Transnational Feminism 27 Round Tables 1. Funding Gender Research – Institutionalizing Gender Studies 29 2. Beyond Eurocentric Feminisms 30 3. Gender and Sexuality in the Politics of Borders 30 4. Attacks on Gender (Studies): Seeking Strategies 31 8 Special Events – Workshop Intersectionality 32 – General Assembly ATGENDER 33 – DFG-Workshop (in German) 34 – Mitgliederversammlung FG Gender (in German) 35 Streams 1. Remembering/Representing/Signifying 36 2. Destructing/Reconciling/Transforming 37 3. Teaching/Learning/Facilitating 38 4. Legislating/Politicising/Institutionalising 39 5. Networking/Solidarising/Bridging 41 6. Playing/Watching/Observing 42 7. Embodying/Performing/Affecting 44 8. Investigating/Analysing/Measuring 46 9. Healing/Coping/Caring 47 10. Believing/Moralising/Reasoning 49 11. Working/Struggling/Organising 50 Panels – Panels | Stream 1 52 – Panels | Stream 2 86 – Panels | Stream 3 147 – Panels | Stream 4 174 – Panels | Stream 5 220 – Panels | Stream 6 262 – Panels | Stream 7 284 – Panels | Stream 8 342 – Panels | Stream 9 380 – Panels | Stream 10 419 – Panels | Stream 11 438 Open Fora 480 Poster Sessions 514 10TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE 9 Associations and Networks for Publications and Information – ATGENDER 543 – Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien 546 – Open Gender Platform 537 – Open Gender Journal 538 – Open Gender Repositorium 539 – Women’s Information Network of Europe (WINE) 540 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE Concept and Organisation 542 Index 546 Space for own notes 556 Programme Overview – Wednesday 12 September 564 – Thursday 13 September 565 – Friday 14 September 572 – Saturday 15 September 578 Detailed Table of Contents: Panels, Open Fora and Poster Sessions Panels Panels | Stream 1: Remembering/Representing/Signifying 1.01. Memory and histor(y/i)ography 52 1.02. Memory and literature 55 1.03. Gender and representation in visiual media 57 1.04. Imagining a future: from dispossesed memories to alternative visions 60 1.05. Queer sites of memory 63 1.06. Trauma, representation and resistance 67 1.07. Gender, memory and (re)signification in Eastern Europe 70 1.08. Gender, remembering and war/terror