Sexuality, Holocaust, Stigma: Taking Stock
Draft program
organized by Anna Hájková and Birgit Bosold
Wednesday:
18.00 Regina Mühlhäuser keynote
20.00 dinner
Thursday:
9.00-12.00 Panel 1: Sexuality in prisons, gulags, and concentration camps
Anna Hajkova, Same sex desire among the Holocaust victims: Writing a queer history of the Holocaust
Gina Herrmann, Sexual violence against Spanish women political prisoners under the Franco regime
Dan Healey, Stalin’s Gulag and Popular Homophobia: Structures, stigma, and the Soviet penal queer
Moderator: Jennifer Evans
Lunch 12.00-14.00
14.00-16.00 Panel 2: Lesbian women and homophobia
Camille Fauroux, Shared Intimacies: A Lesbian Relationship in a Foreign Workers’s Camp in Berlin, 1943
Ulrike Janz, „Lesbian“ as marker in the Nazi concentration camps
Moderator: Anna Hájková
16.00-16.30 break
16.30-18.30 Panel 3: Rational approaches to sexuality
Katya Gusarov, Sex as life saving means: Survival strategies of Jewish women in the Nazi occupied East
Robert Beachy, A Nazi Dilemma: Homosexuality and the German Männerbund
Moderator: Atina Grossmann
18.30-19.30 dinner
departure 19.30
20.30 Gorki theater
Friday
9.30-11.30 Panel 4 Photography and sexual violence
Dorota Głowacka, (Re)framing gender: representations of female bodies in Holocaust photographs
Elissa Mailänder, The Different Lives of Photographic Images: How to Look at Photographs of Rape?
Moderator: Annette Timm
11.30-12.00 break
12.00-13.00 Final discussion
13.00 lunch
15.00 Reception and tour in the Schwules Museum*
18.00-20.00 Podium in Gorki Theater, Studio Я: Sexualität, Holocaust, Stigma: Warum eine Sexualitäts-Geschichte des Holocaust?
Jennifer Evans, Anna Hájková, Susanne Heim, Dagmar Herzog, Tucké Royale,
Moderator: Birgit Bosold
20.00 Reception Gorki Theater