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International Conference ”The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media”: November 23 to 25, 2022

International Conference ”The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures”: November 23 to 25, 2022

 

The Research Network ”Gender • Power Relations • State” (GMS) will host the International Conference ”The Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms, Media, which will be concerned with analyzing the configurations of gendered power relations from the early modern era to the present from an interdisciplinary perspective.

After the conference’s opening on the first day with an evening lecture, the following two days will feature three sessions consisting of two panels, each scheduled to respectively highlight the leading categories of gender, power relations, and state. Each session will open with one keynote. The second day will start with the keynote focused on Gender, leading to the panel discussions on „Medialization of Gendered Rule” and „Imaginations of Female Presidency in TV Series”, which will then be followed by the keynote focused on Power Relations with the attached panel discussions on „Entangling Conceptions of ‚Weak Rule’ and ‚Femininity’ from Shakespeare Plays to Presidential Representation” and „Subalternity and Epistemic Violence”. The third day will open with the Keynote focused on the State and then proceed with the panel discussions on „Sexuality, Violence and the State: Norms and Regulations” and „Women as newly emergent Political Actors”.

The event will open with an introductory keynote, held on November 23 by Prof. Myra Marx Ferree (University of Wisconsin-Madison). The speakers for the three following keynotes are Prof. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (University of Oxford), Prof. Claudia Ulbrich (FU Berlin), and Prof. Birgit Sauer (Universität Wien), focusing on Gender, Power Relations, and State, respectively.

The conference will take place at the Herder-Institute Marburg from Wednesday, November 23, to Friday, November 25, 2022 and will be held in English. Participation in person is limited. Online participation is possible. For an attendance in presence, registration is required:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(10.10.2022, Tillmann Schorstein)