Beyond Masculinist Ideals of Resistance online workshop, 2-3 June, 18:00 CEST

 

Type: 

Workshop

Date: 

June 2, 2022 to June 3, 2022

Location: 

Austria

Subject Fields: 

Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Middle East History / Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Women's & Gender History / Studies

 

Beyond Masculinist Ideals of Resistance: Exploring the Ambiguities of Women’s Resistance Experience

 

Online Interdisciplinary Workshop 

 

2–3 June 2022

University of Vienna

 

 

Dominant ideals of resistance are grounded in the masculinist presumption of sovereign, heroic agency, untrammelled by embodied passions, personal attachments, and situational constraints. This understanding misconstrues the experience of women resistance fighters, interpreting women’s inescapable embodiment as a constraint upon proper resistance activity. This workshop aims to rethink resistance beyond the masculinist imaginary by delving into the ambiguities of women’s resistance experience. It explores how women resisters have confronted the moral dilemmas that stem from their context-specific vulnerabilities and how their actions have reframed the repressive understandings of sexual difference. The purpose of this examination is to contest the oppressive implications of hegemonic visions of resistance and challenge the perpetuation of gender hierarchies after the supposedly emancipatory moment of resistance has passed. The workshop fosters an interdisciplinary conversation between scholars working in the fields of social and political theory, gender studies, memory politics, sociology, history, and literature. The contributors explore the ambiguities of women’s resistance experience in a range of historical contexts, from the Algerian war of independence and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. 

 

 

You can book your ticket here: tinyurl.com/bm2xst5r 

 

Please register for each session separately. 

 

 

Programme

 

Thursday, 2 June, 18:00 CEST

Lori Weintrob, “A Woman is Fighting!”: Courage and Heroism in the Holocaust and World War II

Sherine Hafez, Uprising and Gender Resistance: Re-Gendering the Space of Revolution

Discussant: Lina Schmid

 

Friday, 3 June, 18:00 CEST

Jennet Kirkpatrick and Maša Mrovlje, Resistance Beyond the Masculine: Theorizing the Ambiguous Freedom of Women Resisters with Beauvoir and Lorde

Mimi Mortimer, Inside the Battle of Algiers: Zohra Drif Looks Back on Her War Experience

Pumla Gqola, tbc

Discussants: Kyra Kraus and Johanna Hühn

 

 

The workshop is part of the Marie-Curie REWIRE project "Disappointment: Reclaiming the Unfulfilled Promise of Resistance", conducted by Maša Mrovlje at the University of Vienna. It has been sponsored by the Marie-Curie REWIRE COFUND Programme and the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. 

Contact Info: 

Dr Maša Mrovlje

Marie Curie REWIRE Fellow

Institut für Politikwissenschaft | Department of Political Science

Universität Wien | University of Vienna

Contact Email: 

masa.mrovlje@univie.ac.at

URL: 

https://www.masamrovlje.com

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Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies, Research workshop, April 19, 2022, United Kingdom

This annual exploratory and informal workshop not only offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic, but also invites contributors to explore more broadly how people relate to the past. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies related to Arabic in any region and in any period from the seventh century to the present. 

Papers might elucidate questions such as: 

How and in which terms do people refer to the past? How and in which terms do they refer to memory? What is the relation between history and memory, and between memory and space? How does the past sit in people’s bodies – and in the body politic? 

Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts? At different times and places, was the significant past the same for court historians as for literary historians; for bureaucrats as for the military; for Sufis as for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists? 

From what perspective have histories been written and what makes them coherent? How have past events been rendered intelligible? When do particular views of the past start to fall apart? Which categories and boundaries are seen as primordial and which are not? Which beings have been seen as capable of influencing events and when? 

How do people connect the/their living and the/their dead conceptually? When are past events really over and when can they be laid to rest? Under which circumstances is the past revived? Why do some past lives or events inspire action and others do not? How does unresolved conflict inform thinking about and using the past?

How did non-Muslims and Muslims, men and women, adherents of different confessional or juristic traditions, or speakers of different languages, within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community? 

How have urban and rural people, workers and peasants, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite, developed different ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating particular events in, or the broad sweep of, local, national, or “Islamic” history? 

In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organizations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe?  How do recent discourses in the West shape discussions of history in the Middle East?

How can digital methods now enhance or change our understandings of the past? What additional information and perspectives do they offer? (How) do they limit our understanding? What are practical challenges when we apply digital methods to Arabic history? What seem to be particularly promising approaches?

Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined. 

This year we anticipate running the workshop from the Aga Centre in London, with the possibility to have an online component featuring participants who are unable to travel to the UK. As in past years, there is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.

Arabic Pasts is co-organized by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC) and will take place from October 06 - 08, 2022.

Please submit an abstract of 300 words or less in word document by Tuesday, 19 April 2022 to ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu. 

Information is also available here.

Contact Info: 

ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu

Contact Email: 

ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu

CfP: The Politics of the Page: Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders, Call for Papers, May 13, 2022

 

Subject Fields: 

Communication, Cultural History / Studies, Film and Film History, Literature, Popular Culture Studies

Call for Papers: The Politics of the Page: Visuality and Materiality in Illustrated Periodicals across Cold War Borders

Online Seminar/Workshop 13 May 2022

The workshop is organized by Vincent Fröhlich (DFG Research Unit "Journal Literature", Germany) and Mary Ikoniadou (UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile, UK).
In cooperation with Gioula Koutsopanagou (ETMIET Research Unit, Research Centre for Modern Greece ΚΕΝΙ, at Panteion University, Greece).

Deadline: 15 March 2022

Illustrated periodicals have played a critical role in disseminating and performing Cold War cultural politics across national and ideological borders. In their entanglement with state or institutional actors, artistic or sports organisations, revolutionary groups and liberation movements, amongst others, periodicals have shaped notions of belonging for diverse readers, expressed in a host of visual and material formats.

The workshop will focus on the design and materiality of illustrated periodicals produced and read against the backdrop of the Cold War. We invite contributions that explore aesthetic, historical, theoretical or methodological approaches to the 'politics of the page'. We are interested in periodicals' visual and material strategies as these manifest in the layout, typography, uses of photography, choices of format, ways
of production, reproduction or circulation, during the Cold War. 

We particularly welcome studies that,

• Traverse geographical, aesthetic or ideological borders.
• Trace continuities or discontinuities of visual or material motifs across different periodicals.
• Reflect on the role of photomechanical and photographic reproduction techniques in the context of the Cold War.  
• Identify particular Cold War aesthetics, or, 
• Challenge bipolar narratives and offer alternative mappings.
• De-center established, primarily Western, paradigms of the Cold War.
• Explore local, national, regional or international characteristics in Cold War periodical design and production.
• Examine the role of Cold War politics in the traditionally non-political press, such as special interest periodicals on film, fashion or sports.
• Express, comply or challenge political power in the relationship of form to content.
• Reflect on theoretical or methodological approaches to studying visual and material forms and ideological communication.  

The workshop aim is twofold: to contribute towards a cross- and trans-disciplinary international network of researchers on Cold War illustrated periodicals and, to produce a scholarly volume on the subject.

Keynote speaker to be announced soon.

Proposals for 15-minutes presentations should include a short abstract (aprox. 300 words), name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a short bio, sent to workshop organisers Vincent Fröhlich (vincent.froehlich@staff.uni-marburg.de) and
Mary Ikoniadou (mikoniadou@uclan.ac.uk) by 15 March 2022.

Visit our website: https://tinyurl.com/bdf3e4bb

Contact Info: 

Vincent Fröhlich  (DFG Research Unit "Journal Literature", Germany) and Mary Ikoniadou (UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile, UK)

Contact Email: 

vincent.froehlich@staff.uni-marburg.de

URL: 

https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb09/institutes/media-studies/research/research-projects/seeing-film-between-the-lines/pol...

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