Call for Paper: GSA Seminar

Seminar: Gendered Violence in Literature, Theater, and Visual Arts after 1970

Place:
The 47th German Studies Association Conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada, from October 5 to October 8, 2023

Conveners:

Abstract: 

Gender and violence are inextricably linked. On the one hand, violence plays an integral part in the performativity of gender. On the other, the specificity of violence can only be understood when gender is taken into account. Because violence and gender are so culturally conditioned and historically variable, they are also deeply rooted in linguistic, narrative, medial, and aesthetic phenomena. The histories of art, literature, and film provide therefore detailed insights into how gendered violence constitutes and maintains its own myths and how it, in turn, shapes forms, mediums and genres. Querying these configurations through a constellation of aesthetic objects, this seminar seeks to establish the structural dimension at the center of all gendered violence. The seminar invites participants invested in interrogating the highly topical issue of gendered violence in literary, cinematic and other aesthetic works after 1970, i.e., after the second feminist movement. Intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives are especially encouraged.

Format: 

The seminar involves group discussions and individual presentations. Participants will read theories from gender, queer, affect, visual and media studies (approx. 80–100 pp.). We will ask participants to prepare an essay discussing an artefact of their choice within the theoretical framework of the seminar (max. 3500 words) to be pre-circulated four weeks before the conference.

Application: 

Until Friday, March 3rd at 11:59 p.m. PST via thegsa.org

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