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Programme

Renegotiating Minoritarian In_Visibilities

12.-14. November 2019

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

 

Conference Programme

 

Monday, 11. November 2019

6:30-8:30 p.m

Margarete-Bieber-Saal

Pre-Conference Event

Chair: Greta Olson

Sarah Held (Vienna) & Sylvia Sadzinski (Berlin): Plonker - Porn - Protest. A Performative Presentation and Movie Screening.

 

Tuesday, 12. November 2019

1:00-1:45 p.m

GCS, MFR

Welcome and Introduction

Official Introduction to the Conference by the Organisation Team


 Break (15 min.)


2:00-3:30 p.m

GCSC, MFR

Panel I: In_Visible Relations and Solidarities

Chair: Jana Tiborra

 

Regina Brückner (Berlin): (In)Visibilities of Racism and Neonazi Terrorism: the “National Socialist Underground” in Audiovisual Media


Sebastian Garbe (Giessen): In_Visible Solidarities – Negotiating Political and Social Coalitions across Differences

 

Clara-Sophie Höhn (Augsburg): Hidden Histories? White Southern Women and their “in_visible” involvement in the Civil Rights Movement

 

Break (30 min.)


4.00-5:45 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Workshop I  (closed event)

Chair: Katharina Wolf

 

Maicyra Leão e Silva (Sergipe) & Magdalena Kallenberger (Weimar): Maternal Fantasies – Collective Artistic Strategies of In_Visibility towards Political Agency


 Break (30 min.)

 

6:15-7:45 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Keynote Lecture

Chair: Oliver Klaassen & Jana Tiborra

 

Isabel Paehr (Berlin) & Johanna Schaffer (Kassel): Ambivalences of Visibility (Revised)

 

20.15 p.m.: Dinner at DachCafé

 

Wednesday, 13. November 2019

9:00-9:15 a.m.

GCSC, MFR

Welcome & Introduction to the Second Conference Day

 

 

9:15 a.m. –

12:15 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Workshop II  (closed event)

Chair: Taya Hanauer & Rebekka Marpert

 

İpek Burçak (Kassel), Isabel Paehr (Berlin), Johanna Schaffer (Kassel), Nicole voec (Kassel), and Cilian Woywod (Kassel): A Set of Speculative Interventions in Virtual Space

 

Lunchbreak & Change of Room


2:00-3:15 p.m.

IfK, PHIL II, H105 (Photo Studio)

Artist Talk

Welcome: Ansgar Schnurr | Chair: Jana Tiborra

 

SandraF (London/Vienna): Spectral Realities   - CANCELLED-

 

Break & Change of Room (30 min.)


3:45-5:15 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Panel II: Critiquing Hegemonic In_Visibilities

Chair: Cathérine Ludwig-Ockenfels

 

Lisa Beckmann (Giessen): The Politics of Staring: Negotiating Disability and Visibility from the Freak Show to the Ugly Laws in the US  -CANCELLED-

 

Sebastian Köthe (Berlin): Censorship and Politics of In_visibility in the “global war on terror”. The Case of Abu Zubaydah.

 

Fadi Saleh (Göttingen): Queer/Humanitarian Visibility: The Emergence of the Figure of "the Suffering Syrian Gay Refugee”

5:15-6:15 p.m.

GCSC, MFR


Theme-Café

 

6:15-7:15 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Lecture Performance

Chair: Danae Gallo González

 

Sophie Sexon (Glasgow): The In_Visibility of the Non-Binary Body in Drag Performance and Medieval Visual Art

 

Evening Reception (7.15-8.30 p.m., GCSC, Foyer, MFR)

 

Thursday, 14. November 2019

9:00-9:15 a.m.

GCSC, MFR

Welcome & Introduction to the Third Conference Day

 

 

9:15-10:15 a.m.

GCSC, MFR

Lecture

Chair: Cathérine Ludwig-Ockenfels

 

Jonathan D. Katz (Philadelphia): The Sexuality of the Hard-Edge: Abstraction, Phenomenology, and Post War American Art 

 


Break (15 min.)


10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Panel III: Queer-Feminist In_Visibilities 

Chair: Oliver Klaassen

 

Sarah Held (Wien): Subversion & Intervention - Material Culture as a Strategy of Visualization of Sexual Violence and Feminines

 

Sylvia Sadzinski (Berlin): Queer Feminist Curating or How to Go Beyond Politics of Representation?

 

William J. Simmons (Los Angeles): Queer Materialisms and Imaginary Friends

 

Break (30 min.)


12:30-1:30 p.m.

GCSC, MFR

Concluding Debate

Final Discussion

Official Farewell with the Organisation Team