PD Dr. Karen Nolte
Thursday, January 24
14.00 – 14.30: Welcome
Ulrike Manz and Karin Klenke, DFG-Network „Praxeologies of the Body“
Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Vice-President, University of Göttingen
Irene Schneider, Chair of the Arbeitsgruppe Geschlechterforschung, University of Göttingen
Panel I: Materiality
Chair: Ulrike Manz, University of Frankfurt
14.30 – 15.15
Susanne Lettow, University of Paderborn
Materiality and praxis. Remarks on Material Feminism
15.15 - 16.00
Malaika Rödel, University of Frankfurt
What matters? Nature, technology and gender in the discourse of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee break
16.30 – 17.15
Silke Schicktanz, University of Göttingen
The giving and taking of organs – ethical and cultural dynamics beyond symbolic actions
17.15 – 18.00
Eva Sänger, University of Frankfurt
Matter of time: making up babies in obstetrical ultrasound scanning in Germany
18:00 – 19:30: Dinner
20:00 ct: Public Keynote Lecture:
Nina Lykke, University of Linköping
Feminist postconstructionism, postdisciplinary practices - and the oxymoron of doing academic activism
Venue: Holborn‘sches Haus, Rote Straße 34
Friday, January 25
Panel II: Discursivity
Chair: Karen Nolte, University of Würzburg
9.30 – 10.15
Margrit Shildrick, University of Linköping
Embodied discourses: The somatechnics of disability
10.15 – 11.00
Heike Raab, University of Innsbruck
Technobodies and dis/ability – on an analyses of a discursive relationship of tension
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15
Olaf Stieglitz, University of Essen
Texts and muscles – discourse, practice & the writing of sports history
12.15 – 13:00
Mica Wirtz, University of Hamburg
Analysing contemporary fitness practices – methodological reflections
13.00 – 14.30: Lunch
Panel III: Performativity
Chair: Karin Klenke, University of Göttingen
14.30 – 15.15
Robert Schmidt, Technical University of Darmstadt
From studies of the performative towards a sociology of social practices. Notes on changing perspectives
15.15– 16.00
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, University of Iceland
Performative theories of the body in environmental ethics and how they make environmental ethics a radical field within the humanities
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee break
16.30 – 17.15
Uta Schirmer, University of Göttingen
On the performativity of drag as social practice
17.15 – 18.00
Kristina Schneider, University of Göttingen
„We are doing it, not appearing like it“ – Performing lesbi genders in Indonesia
19.30: Dinner
Saturday, January 26
Panel IV: Structurality
Chair: Karen Wagels, University of Kassel
09.00 – 09:45
Brigitte Bargetz, Humboldt University Berlin
Structuring the everyday. Politics, power, practices
09.45 – 10.30
Katja Jana, University of Göttingen
From Westernization to civilization? Body politics and the formation of modern subjects in the passage from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish nation-state
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45
Anne Marie Rafferty, King’s College London
The body politic in colonial nursing
11:45 – 12.30
Bettina Brockmeyer, University of Bielefeld
Colonizing bodies: German structures, African experiences?
12:30 – 13:15
Wrap-up: Andrea Bührmann, University of Göttingen
13.15: Lunch