«A la recherche du genre»
International Conference of the Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies
18-19 June 2008 | University of Geneva | Switzerland
20 June 2008 | Closing session for the members of the Graduate Programme only
Gender research is dynamic and daring. It bridges theory and practice in a vast field of disciplines and explores new methods for understanding the social world. The topic «A la recherche du genre» draws attention to the fact that Gender Studies does not only use the category gender in its research, but that this category itself remains the subject of probing and critical exploration.
The conference «A la recherche du genre» marks the closing event of the Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies. Participants of the graduate schools from the universities of Basel, Berne/Fribourg, Geneva/Lausanne and Zurich will present their current research projects and discuss them with international experts. The research findings are part of PhD and Habilitation projects that were established in the course of the three-year programme. Both the themes and the panel chairs were determined and invited by the graduates themselves. They represent current interests and trends in gender research in Switzerland.
Venue
University of Geneva | Uni Mail | Boulevard du Pont d’Arve, 40 | 1205 Genève
From Geneva train station: tram 15 | direction Palettes | stop Uni-Mail (20 minutes)
http://www.unige.ch/visite/batiments/fr/mail.html
Organization
The Conference is organized by the Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies, directed by Prof. Regina Wecker, University of Basel
Responsable for the organization are: Christa Binswanger, Jana Häberlein, Barbara Lucas, Katrin Meyer, Tanja Rietmann
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Programme [PDF] Poster [PDF]
Wednesday 18 June
9.00-10.00 Registration and coffee | Central hall
10.00-10.30 Opening of the conference and welcome address
Thanh-Huyen Ballmer-Cao (Director of the Graduate Programme in Gender Studies at the University of Geneva)
Jean-Dominique Vassalli (President of the University of Geneva)
Regina Wecker (Director of the Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies)
Room M R060
10.30-12.30 Round Table «Gender Research in an International Perspective»
with Tatjana Barchunova (Novosibirsk), Jeff Hearn (Helsinki/Linköping), Ina Schabert (Munich), Regina Wecker (Basel)
Moderation: Valéry Cossy (Lausanne)
Room M R060
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.30 Panel Sessions 1 | 2| 3
Session 1 | Gender in Transition. Gender Constructions in Russia and in Post-/Soviet Migration
14.00-17.30 | Room M 3220 | German, English (part I) | French , Russian (part II)
Chair: Ingrid Oswald (Berlin/St. Petersburg) and Tatjana Barchunova (Novosibirsk)
Ilka Borchardt (Basel): Geschlechterstereotype, Homosexualität und post-sowjetische Migration in Berlin
Aglaia Wespe (Basel): GenderMemory – GenderImages. Geschlechterverhältnisse im spätsowjetischen Alltag
Tatjana Khristova (Geneva): Transition et Contradictions: la construction des relations de genre en Russie
Magali Delaloye (Berne): Pratiques et représentations des masculinités au sein du Kremlin sous Staline
Session 2 | Normative Processes of Masculinity in Medicine and Technics
14.00-16.30 | Room M 5220 | English
Chair: Jeff Hearn (Helsinki/Linköping)
Inge Beckel (Basel/Zurich): The Engineer as a Symbol of the Bourgeois Man
Frank Luck (Basel): Men, Masculinity and Health
Session 3 | Nouvelles générations et vieux problèmesen études genre: entre science et militance
14.00-17.00 | Room M R150 | French
Chair: Eleni Varikas (Paris)
Caroline Dayer (Geneva): Tensions scientifiques, politiques et identitaires: quels enjeux?
Anne Claire Emo (Geneva): Réflexion sur la légitimation de la posture radicale: une comparaison Jean-Léon Beauvois/Christine Delphy
Elodie Baerlocher (Geneva): Que choisir entre mes résultats et mes convictions?
17.15-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.30 Lecture open to the public
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Violence, Gender and Subjectivity: Reading the Ethnographic Record
Room M R060
19.30 Dinner buffet
Thursday 19 June
9.30-13.00 Panel Sessions 4 | 5| 6
Session 4 | Réseaux, identités, valeurs: la construction des discours parlementaires sur les femmes
9.30-12.30 | Room M 3220 | French
Chair: Anne Verjus (Lyon)
Nadine Boucherin (Fribourg): L'instrumentalisation politique de la médecine sur la question du genre
Pedro Esteves Rodrigues (Geneva): La régulation de l’avortement au Portugal (1975-2007)
Anouk Lloren (Geneva): Parler pour et au nom des femmes. La mise en discours des intérêts des femmes au sein du Parlement Suisse (1999-2007)
Session 5 | In the Aftermath of War and Disaster: Coping with Violence and Bereavement
9.30-12.30 | Room M 5220 | English
Chair: Veena Das (Baltimore)
Katharina Thurnheer (Berne): Caring for Life – After the Tsunami in Eastern Sri Lanka
Andrea Grieder (Zurich): Painful Tears: Dealing with Pain in Rwanda
Anja Sieber (Berne): Memories of War – War of Memories in Bosnia
Session 6 | Rhetorik des Geschlechts. Literarische Figurationen der bürgerlichen Geschlechterordnung
9.30-13.00 | Room M R150 | German, English
Chair: Ina Schabert (Munich)
Isabelle Stauffer (Frankfurt/Zurich): Erben weiblicher Gesprächskultur? Galante Literatur zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland [fällt aus]
Barbara Straumann (Zurich): Embodied Voices. Female Performers in American and British Literature and Culture
Susanne Balmer (Zurich/Berne): Der weibliche Entwicklungsroman. Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im Kontext des Zweigeschlechtermodells
Anna Cuchiella (Geneva): The Traveller’s Eye: Suzanne Voilquin (1801-1877) France, Margareth Fuller (1810-1850) U.S.A. and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioiso (1808-1871) Italy
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-17.30 Panel Session 7 | 8 | 9
Session 7 | L’impact des identités de sexe et postures féministes sur le déroulement et les résultats de recherche
14.00-16.30 | Room M 5220 | French
Chair: Ellen Hertz (Neuchâtel)
Thierry Amrein (Geneva): Un chercheur et des actrices dans une vallée alpine: de réelles difficultés de «compréhension»?
Nadja Monnet (Paris/Geneva): Réflexions épistémologiques d’une ethnographe-actrice à l’œuvre sur une place publique
Karine Darbellay (Geneva): Méthodologie: cas d'une chercheuse susceptible d'être estampillée féministe sur un terrain «sensible»
Session 8 | Normen und Leitbilder von Vaterschaft im Wandel
14.00-17.30 | Room: M R150 | German
Chair: Günter Burkart (Lüneburg)
Paola Cimino (Basel): «Ich möchte gerne ganz und recht seyn» - Söhne des Kaufmannsstands in Briefwechseln mit ihren Vätern um 1800 am Beispiel des Zürchers Conrad Werdmüller (1777-1845)
Diana Baumgarten (Basel/Zurich): «Mutter zeigt mir Liebe, der Vater Anerkennung». Vaterschaftskonstruktionen bei Jugendlichen & ihren Vätern
Nina Wehner (Basel/Freiburg i. Br.): Konstruktionen von Vaterschaft bei studierenden Vätern
Karin Schwiter (Basel/Zurich): Bilder von Vaterschaft in den Lebensentwürfen junger Erwachsener
Session 9 | Open Panel «Materiality, essence and gender»
14.00-16.00 | Room M 3220 | English
Moderation: Andrea Zimmermann (Basel)
17.15-18.15 Apéritif
18.15-20.00 Round Table open to the public
«Gender Studies and Employment»
Results of the research project «Gender Studies and Employment», presented by its co-authors Thanh-Huyen Ballmer-Cao (Geneva), Monique Dupuis (Zurich), and Brigitte Liebig (Olten)
Discussion with: Michelle Cottier (Former member of the Graduate Programme in Gender Studies, Basel), Brigitte Liebig (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Olten), Peju Olukoya (Department of Gender, Women and Health of the Word Health Organization, Geneva), Raymond Werlen (CRUS - Conférence des Recteurs des Universités Suisses)
Moderation: Katrin Meyer (Coordinator of the Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies)
Room M R060
Friday 20 June
«Looking back and forward»
Closing session for the members of the Swiss Graduate Programme only
Programme of the closing session [PDF]
9.30-13.00 | Room M R160
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