Panels
Panel 1A: Art as Therapy
Donnerstag, 27. Mai, 15:00-16:30
Chair: Gerlinde Mautner
- Meaningfulness in the making: A phenomenological and sensory study of embodied and gendered meanings experienced during creative leisure occupations, in midlife
Tamar Amiri-Savitzky, University of Humanistic Studies, Netherlands - Embodied creativity & transformation
Daniela Lehner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Creating an “archive of feeling”: photography as “cure” and the writing impasse
Dunja Plazonja, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Panel 1B: Encountering the Other
Donnerstag, 27. Mai, 15:00-16:30
Chair: Zorica Siročić
- In the Face of the Other: Affect, film, and the divided landscape of Brexit
Marta Hawkins & Matthew Hawkins, In-Light-Of & London South Bank University, UK - Where the lines can’t be drawn: An autoethnographic film analysis of vulnerability and recognition in the film ‘Step Out’ (2018)
Lara Bochmann & Erin Hampson, artists and independent scholars
Panel 2A: Literature
Donnerstag, 27. Mai; 17:00–18:30
Chair: Gudrun Reimerth
- Poet on Facebook is more than a poet: Writing poetry as a poetical / political performance
Jana Kostincova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - ‘Now she was a painted doll’: Angela Carter, ekphrasis and the female body in The Magic Toyshop
Claire Bennett, University of Chester, UK
Panel 2B: Everyday / Lived Creativity
Donnerstag, 27. Mai; 17:00-18:30
Chair: Wolfgang Kühnelt
- Gender and creativity in a DIY culture: Czech case of reclaiming domesticity in relation to sustainability
Marta Kolářová, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic - “It’s easier to find a surrogate than a syringe guy”: Gendered discourses about same-sex parenting on Hungarian LGBTQ internet forums
Rita Béres-Deak, Central European University, Austria - I’d rather be called shrill than a corporate shill: Selling menstrual stains to absorb the cost of shame
Chella Quint, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Panel 2C: Visual Arts
Donnerstag, 27. Mai; 17:00-18:30
Chair: Joanna Sofaer
- Trust, creativity, and the studio space
Lawrence Buttigieg, artist and freelance researcher - Female performers in the protest movement of contemporary Russia
Ella Yushkova, independent scholar - The skin as a creative material: Tattooist’s concepts of the skin as their work object
Irmgard Steckdaub-Muller, University of Nürnberg, Germany
Panel 3A: Embodiment in Material Interactions
Freitag, 28. Mai; 13:00-14:30
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchová
- Haptic exploration of the urban Belgrade
Maja Maksimović & Jelena Joksimović (Mirjana Utvić), University of Belgrade, Serbia - The very last design conference: Gendering intersections - Towards an actionable criticality
Lisa Baumgarten & Imad Gebrayel, independent scholars - “Kutilství”: Degendering in theory and practice
Blanka Nyklova, Petr Gibas, Karel Sima, Charles University, Czech Republic
Panel 3B: Creative Becomings
Freitag, 28. Mai; 13:00-14:30
Chair: Lea Spahn
- Processes of creative trans becomings in Danish socio-medical, socio-legality
Molly Occhino, Roskilde University, Denmark - Queerness encoded: The pleasure of transformation in speculative comics
Anna Oleszczuk, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Gender transitions as non-linear movements: Creative flights and fugitive subjectivities
Louka Goetzke, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Panel 3C: Writing change(s)
Freitag, 28. Mai; 13:00–14:30
Chair: Katharina Scherke
- [PRESENTATION CANCELLED] Canon? What canon? Girls, authorship and the inclusive magic of fanfiction
Maša Huzjak, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Teaching collaborative and creative writing strategies: Online Writing retreats as emancipatory support for students
Lena Eckert, Martin-Luther-University Halle / Berlin, Germany
Panel 4A: Performance Art
Freitag, 28. Mai; 16:30-17:30
Chair: Frithjof Nungesser
- Let’s burn some Dollars and stab oranges! An investigation on the performative acts in Turkish right protests
Cemre Özev, Central European University, Austria - Corporeal identity DE-sculpted through muscles: Between resistance and gender roles submission
Isabel Fontbona, University of Girona, Spain
Panel 4B: Digital (Non-)normativity
Freitag, 28. Mai; 16:30–17:30
Chair: Kate Koppy
- The dancing queer: The non-normative masculinity in Felix the Reaper (2019)
Agata Waszkiewicz, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland - Most beautiful dead body: The gendered depiction of suicidal behaviour on photography platforms
Michaela Hintermayr, University of Vienna, Austria
Panel 5A: Literature
Samstag, 29. Mai; 13:00-14:30
Chair: Matthew Hawkins
- Saying it otherwise: Levinas, Lorde and a contestation of the master’s tools
Flora Löffelmann, University of Vienna, Austria - Garnett’s granddaughters: Female creative minds in Twentieth- and Twenty-First century Russian literary translation
Cathy McAteer, University of Exeter, UK - Making art / making citizenship: The tensions between state socialism and female artist in the play The Dark Room by Suncana Skrinjaric
Natalija Stepanovic, Central European University, Austria
Panel 5B: Dance
Samstag, 29. Mai; 13:00-14:30
Chair: Arno Plass
- Good dancing is good dancing – or is it?! Genderless quality criteria in heteronormative Latin-American competitive dancing
Valentin Meneau, University of Salzburg / University of Graz, Austria - Embodied leadership and the subversive power of the follower
Fides Matzdorf, Sheffield Business School, UK - Ballerina’s voices from the archives: Retheorizing ballet choreography as a social phenomenon
Lee Singh, University of California, USA
Panel 5C: Literature and Writing
Samstag, 29. Mai; 13:00-14:30
Chair: Jana Mikats
- “Resist the waste of female intelligence”: Class, gender and creativity in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Masa Grdesic, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Jane Marcet: The woman who created extraordinary aspirations
Gill Badrock, University of Chester, UK
Panel 6A: Handicraft
Samstag, 29. Mai; 15:00-16:30
Chair: Ondrej Daniel
- Creativity versus conformity: Women and the Needlecraft in the 1930s
Anna König, Arts University Bournemouth, UK - Material practices and the creation of gendered attractiveness: A case study of an online sewing community
Julia Hahmann, University of Vechta, Germany - Writing our stories with hooks and needles: A digital humanities project
Kate Koppy, New Economic School of Moscow, Russia
Panel 6B: Transformative Performances
Samstag, 29. Mai; 15:00-16:30
Chair: Valentin Meneau
- Rethinking Eastern femininity: A dancing body becomes an autoethnographic performative approach
Grit Koeltzsch, National University of Jujuy, Argentina - Exploring gender dichotomy in ‘Khaita – Joyful Dances’
Eva Leick, University of Salzburg, Austria - Becoming woman: Embodied subjectivity and emotions in Bhawaiya folk songs of Bengal
Nasrin Khandoker, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
Panel 7A: Dance
Samstag, 29. Mai; 17:00-18:30
Chair: Grit Koeltzsch
- The dancing body as creative process
Hanne Tjersland, University Jaume I, Castello de la Plana, Spain - Gender collectivity movement: a queer-feminist analysis of improvisation practices
Lea Spahn, University of Marburg, Slovenja
Panel 7B: Bodies and States
Samstag, 29. Mai; 17:00-18:30
Chair: Barbara Hey
- Embodied becomings of law
Camilla Jydebjerg, Roskilde University, Denmark - The creativity of coping: Vulnerability, resistance, and gender in two modern torture institutions
Frithjof Nungesser, University of Graz, Austria - Sculptors at the mining quarries: Creativity and embodiment in human – stone interactions in Northwestern Russia
Anna Varfolomeeva, University of Helsinki, Finland