Thursday, May 25
11:00 am Coffee and Welcome
11:30 am Introduction
11:45 am Keynote I
Nadja Durbach (Salt Lake City): The Working-Class Body and the Rise of the Modern State in 19th Century Britain
1:00 pm Lunch (at the venue)
2:00 pm Panel I
Pascal Eitler (Hannover): Vers le concret - Körper und Klasse in materialistischer Perspektive
3:00 am Panel II
Veronika Settele (Bremen): Freedom, Future, Nation: Sexuality between Body Autonomy and Population Policy, Germany and US, 1840-1900
Mirjam Janett (Bern): Politics of Female Pain. Body and Class in 19th Century Socialist Feminism
Mareen Heying (Düsseldorf): Alkohol und Geschlecht. Zur Konstruktion des proletarischen Trinkers im 19. Jahrhundert
5:30 pm Coffee Break
6:00 pm Keynote II
Felix Krämer (Erfurt): A Class of its Own. Venture Smith and the Possessive Individualism of Racial Capitalism
8:00 Dinner (tba)
Friday, May 26
9:00 am Panel III
Christa Klein (Leipzig): „Degrees of Humanity“. Body-Heat-Abilities as Entanglements of Racism and Classism in the 19. Century
Anne Peiter (Saint-Denis): Die Last auf ihren Schultern. Zur Körpergeschichte afrikanischer LastenträgerInnen und ihrer Darstellung in der deutschen und französischen Kolonialliteratur, -photographie und -lithographie bis 1870
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 am Panel IV
Raphael Rossel (Hagen): Un/touchable Bodies. Hazing of Black and White Cadets at 19th Century US Military Academies
Sylvia Wehren (Hildesheim): Subjugated Youth Bodies. Exploring the Connection between Body, Class and Gender in Youth Diaries from the 19th Century
12:30 am Closing