Violences and Silences: Shaming, Blaming – and Intervening

October 12 – 14, 2010, Room Temcas, T-House, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish [...]]]> GEXcel, Gendering EXcellence – Centre of Gender Excellence welcomes you to the conference

Violences and Silences: Shaming, Blaming – and Intervening

October 12 – 14, 2010, Room Temcas, T-House, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council, Linköping University and Örebro University launched a 5 year project to establish a European Centre of Gender Excellence based in Sweden–Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment, directed by professor Nina Lykke. In 2010 the GEXcel program at Linköping university will run subtheme 7 Getting rid of violence.

Subtheme 7 is lead by professor Barbro Wijma, and it is organized as a part of Theme 7 & 8, Teaching Normcritical Sex – Getting Rid of Violence. TRANSdisciplinary, TRANSnational and TRANSformative Feminist Dialogues on Embodiment, Emotions and Ethics.

The conference Violences and Silences is a culminating event of subtheme 7. Here, the focus will be on violence as well as on intervention strategies. Through an exploration of the role of silences and silencing, shame and blaming for maintaining violence, the concept of “perpetrator” is expanded, and thus, extended possibilities for intervention can be identified and discussed. During the conference, key note addresses will be given by internationally reputed researchers and artists.

The conference is chaired by Professor Barbro Wijma, with keynote addresses from:

Susan Edwards, Professor of Law, University of Buckingham, UK

”The Aetiology of Women’s Silence in Violence – Lessons from the legal field”

Dubravka Zarkov, Associate Professor in Gender, Development and Conflict Studies, The International Institute of Social Studies, The Hauge

Ann Heberlein, Associate Professer in Etichs, University of Lund, Sweden

Ka Schmitz, Artist, illustrator and queer feminist activist, Berlin, Germany & Sandra Klauert, graduated social worker and queer feminist activist, Germany

“Getting in Touch – Comic and Activism”

Lotta Samelius, Dr, Psychology, the National Swedish Police Academy, Sweden, Christa Binswanger, Dr phil, Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland & Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Government, University of Uppsala, Sweden

“Turning points and the ‘Everyday’: Exploring Agency and Violence in Intimate Relationships”

Åsa Wettergren, Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

“The humiliation and shaming of helper interactions – how good intentions undermine agency”

Barbro Wijma, Professor of Gender and Medicine, University of Linköping, Sweden

Junior as well as senior scholars are invited to present papers in the conference workshop streams. Send an abstract of the proposed paper to coordinator@genderexcel.org of up to 250 words demonstrating how research connects to the theme of the conference. Please also include a brief biographical note of up to 150 words outlining your current research interests, most recent publications, academic affiliation and status. Deadline for submissions are 15 September. Those who are accepted to present a paper will be notified shortly thereafter.

The deadline for registration is 24 September. Register to participate by sending an e-mail to coordinator@genderexcel.org. The registration fee is 400 SEK (about 40 Euro), and includes the conference dinner, lunches and coffee. Those who are accepted to present papers will be exempted from the registration fee.

For updates about the conference, visit http://www.genderexcel.org/?q=node/277

December 1, Tuesday 4 to 6:30 PM

SCA Gallery Space 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Bowery @ East 5th Street

A roundtable discussion with:

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA Law

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Chandan Reddy, University of Washington

Karen Shimakawa, Performance Studies, NYU

This forum commemorates the 20th anniversary of [...]]]>

December 1, Tuesday
4 to 6:30 PM

SCA Gallery Space
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
Bowery @ East 5th Street

A roundtable discussion with:

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA Law

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Chandan Reddy, University of Washington

Karen Shimakawa, Performance Studies, NYU

This forum commemorates the 20th anniversary of the enunciation and analysis of “intersectionality” by legal theorist Kimberlé W. Crenshaw in her path-breaking essays, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” (1989) and “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color” (1991). Panelists explore the ongoing analytic purchase of “intersectionality” for anti-racist social critique and legal activism and also ask how the term has been transformed as it travels across different historical and disciplinary contexts.

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is Professor of Law at the University of California Law School. She teaches Civil Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Her primary scholarly interests center around race and the law, and she was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory. She was elected Professor of the Year by the 1991 and 1994 graduating classes. She now splits her time each year between UCLA and the Columbia School of Law. At the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she received her LL.M., Professor Crenshaw was a William H. Hastie Fellow. She then clerked for Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Professor Crenshaw’s publications include Critical Race Theory (edited by Crenshaw, et al., 1995) and Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (with Matsuda, et al., 1993). In 2007, Professor Crenshaw was nominated the Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil. In 2008, she was nominated an Alphonse Fletcher Fellow. In the same year she joined the selective group of scholars awarded with an in-residence fellowship at the Center of Advanced Behavioral Studies at Stanford. You can find out more about Professor Crenshaw’s work through her think tank, The African American Policy Forum.

Lisa Duggan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She is the author of Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy and Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity, co-author with Nan Hunter of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, and co-editor with Lauren Berlant of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest.

Karen Shimakawa is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at NYU. She is the author of National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage and co-editor (with Kandice Chuh) of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Her current project, titled Somatic Citizenship, focuses on the construction and maintenance of bodily regimes of cultural identification and her research and teaching interests include critical race theory, law and performance, and Asian American Jurisprudence.

Sponsored by the American Studies Program, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU; co-sponsored by CSGS.

October 16, Friday 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM

La Maison Française 16 Washington Mews between 8th Street and Washington Square North

A symposium co-organized with the Institute of French Studies, NYU

Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, USA, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris

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October 16, Friday
10:30 AM to 7:30 PM

La Maison Française
16 Washington Mews
between 8th Street and Washington Square North

A symposium co-organized with the Institute of French Studies, NYU

Made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, USA, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris

This symposium will put scholars from the U.S. and France into conversation to explore how feminist movements have been divided over such differences as class, religion, sexuality, and race; how feminisms have been institutionalized by the state and by global institutions; and what kinds of alliances are possible across difference (including national difference). Different social and political contexts in France and in the U.S. have come to shape different feminist agendas and alliances in these countries. While French feminisms had to deal with the rhetorical frame of universal and secular Republicanism, U.S. feminisms were faced with the specifics of their racial history as well as the dismantling of the welfare state. Yet, French and American feminisms have constantly fueled each other, from the influence of Beauvoir in the U.S. to the recent importation by French feminists of the notions of postcolonialism and intersectionality. Invited speakers will address and speak from their national contexts, but will also move beyond the national to get to questions about feminisms and the transnational. As a transnational feminist project, then, this symposium moves to ask how ideas travel, what (and who) gets lost in translation, how and which global institutions (for example, the UN, NGOs, internationalized universities) come to shape feminist agendas in different countries.

Keynote address by Joan W. Scott.

Additional presentations and comments by Laure Bereni, Elsa Dorlin, Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Rana Jaleel, James McBride, Ann Pellegrini, and Robert Reid-Pharr.

Welcoming remarks by Catharine R. Stimpson, Edward Berenson, and Frédéric Viguier.

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come.

For more information, please call 212-998-8754.

Click here for symposium poster.

10:30 AM: Welcoming remarks and introduction
Dean Catharine R. Stimpson (Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU)
Edward Berenson (History, NYU)
Frédéric Viguier (IFS, NYU)

11:00 AM to 12:30 PM: Institutional Legacies of Second-Wave Feminism
Laure Bereni (IFS, NYU)
Rana Jaleel (American Studies, NYU)
Discussant: Victoria Hesford (Women’s Studies, SUNY Stony Brooke)

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM: Feminism and Religion: Current Controversies
Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Université Paris 13 / IFS, NYU)
James McBride (Liberal Studies, NYU)
Discussant: Ann Pellegrini (CSGS, NYU)

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM: The Future of Intersectionality
Elsa Dorlin (Université de Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne)
Robert Reid-Pharr (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Discussant: Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Université Paris 13 / IFS, NYU)

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM: Keynote: Feminism’s Difference Problem
Joan W. Scott (Institute for Advanced Study)