Friday, January 12, 2018
14:00 – 14:30
Conference Registration
14:30 – 15:00
Conference Opening
15:00 – 16:30
Panel I: Gender on the TV Screen – Reading Queer Television
Valentina López Liendo (Heidelberg)
“Queer Latinas: Familia, Religion, Quinces and Coming Out”
Carolin Rolf (Hagen)
“Baiting the Fandom That Feeds You”
Kilian Schmidt (Dortmund)
“‘Sunny Is not a Woman!’- Transgender Representation in Germany’s Longest Running Soap Opera: Between Stabilizing Tropes and Queering the Lindenstraße”
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30
Panel II: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Gender
Julia Ditter (Freiburg)
“’Pussy Grabs Back’: Adapting The Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st Century”
Delia Kaltenbach (Köln)
“’Reader, I married him’ – Negotiating Feminist Protagonists, Happy Endings, and Romance”
Alyssa Steiner (Basel)
“The Afterlives of the Knights of the Roundtable: How Hollywood (Mis)Uses Arthurian Heroes to Construct Hegemonic Masculinity
18:30 – 19:00
Coffee Break
19:00 – 20:30
Keynote Lecture: “Theory and Practice in Feminism*? – On the Co-Dependency of Feminist* Theory and Feminist* Activism”
Sonja Eismann (Missy Magazine)
Laina Dawes (Columbia University, New York City)
Saturday, January 13, 2018
09:30 – 11:00
Panel III: Countering Stereotypes, Challenging Discourses
Hedwig Lieback (Leipzig)
“Mocking the Discourse and Spreading It – The ‘Did You just Assume My Gender?’ Meme” and Its Double Function”
Somaye Rezaie (Wien)
“‘I’ll Tell You My Sins, so You Can Sharpen Your Knife’ – Hozier’s ‘Take Me to Church’ and the Foucaudian Ritual of Confession and Reverse Discourse”
Anna Köhler (Aachen)
“Wicked Women: Witches on Page and Screen from Macbeth to the Present”
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Panel IV: Performing Gender – Identity and Music Culture
Luis Groitl (Regensburg)
“‘Okay, Ladies, Now Let’s Get in Formation’: Agency, Black Female Identity, and Performance in Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’”
Svea Türlings (Münster)
“Queer Performances and Gender Transgression in the Case of David Bowie”
Janik Wetzel (Potsdam)
“Drag Queen of Coney Island – Lana DelRey and Heteronormativity
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00
Panel V: Representing the Female Body
Julia Schneider (Paderborn)
“Challenging ‘Branded’ Bodies: Intersectional Feminism in Cecilia Ahern’s Flawed Series”
Sina Hellwing (Bochum)
“The Cyborg and the Prosthetic – Female Amputees on Screen”
Nic Doty (Freiburg)
“Holy Female, Batman: The Girl Wonder and the Visual Representation of the Beaten and Bloodied Female Body”
16:00 – 16:15
Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.45
Panel VI: New Media – New Potential?
Anne Korfmacher (Freiburg)
“‘When You Get What You Want, You Feel Great!’ – Gender Negotiation in My Dad Wrote a Porno Podcast”
Fabian Schwarz (Halle-Wittenberg)
“The Design of Masculinity and Femininity in Video Games”
Sabrina Pischer (Bonn)
“Of Feminazis and Social Justice Warriors: Identity Politics and Feminist Activism Represented in American Alt-Right Meme Culture”
17:45 – 18:15
Closing Remarks: Popular Culture and Its Potential for Feminism*