Panels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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