Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day

Thursday, 18 March and Friday, 19 March 2010

Co-Ordinator: Ulrike Zitzlsperger (University of Exeter)

Thursday, 18 March 2010
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House

9.30 Registration

10.00 Welcome

10.15 Susan Gaylard (Seattle): Erasing Beautiful Violence: Gendering Violence in 16th-Century Italy

10.50 Leila Goulahsen (Manchester): ‘Where violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy’: the Violence of Women’s Actions and Speech in French and English Renaissance Drama

11.25 Coffee

11.55 Sara Smart (Exeter): Violence or Heroic Fortitude and the Rise of Brandenburg Prussia (1680-1700)

12.30 Julia Prest (St Andrews): Mock Combat in French Court Ballet: Catherine de Médicis and Le Paradis d’Amour (1572)

13.05 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.30 Christian Jäger (Berlin): Murderers and Lady-Killers: Robbers in German Literature around 1800

15.05 Ricarda Schmidt (Exeter): Beauty and Violence. The Constitution of Surface and Depth in the Gaze of Male Musicians and Painters on Kleist’s Penthesilea

15.40 Susanne Kord (London): The Typical Poisoner: Class and Gender in German Legal and Medical Writing from the 18th to the 20th Century

16.15 Tea

16.45 Mira Miladinovic-Zalaznik (Ljubljana): The Case of Angela Vode and Igor Šentjurc: Origins and Impact of Stately Force

17.20 Alex Standen (Birmingham): Ostile o Affascinante: Problematising Perpetrators in Dacia Maraini’s Voci and Buio

Friday, 19 March 2010
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House

9.30 Frank Krause (London): The Female Stabber in El Hor’s Short Prose Sketch ‘The She-Fool’ (1914): ‘Feminine Expressionism’ and Otto Weininger’s ‘Sex and Character’ (1903)

10.05 Christine Kanz (Marburg): Queering Violence and Masculinity in Marinetti

10.40  Andrew Elliott (Exeter): A Killing at the Box Office: Legitimizing Violence in Medieval Film

11.15  Coffee

11.45 Anna Parkinson (Evanston): Melodramatic Masculinity and Affective Community in Contemporary German Cinema

12.20 Esme Nicholson (Berlin): ‘This will hurt you more than it hurts me’: Michael Haneke’s Das weisse Band

12.55  Lunch (own arrangements)

14.30 Johann Lughofer (Ljubljana): Male Murderers in Joseph Roth’s Tarabas and Beichte eines Mörders

15.05 Elizabeth English (London): ‘Murder is a Queer Crime’: Lesbian Criminality and Violence in Golden Age Detective Fiction

15.40 Closing Discussion chaired by Lisa Downing (CISSGE, Exeter)

16.00 Wine

To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Monday, 1 March 2010.

Conference Fees

Both Days
£50.00
£45.00 Reduced Rate
£30.00 Student Rate

1 Day
£30.00
£25.00 Reduced Rate
£20.00 Student Rate

Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only

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