Since practices of doing history and doing gender are inextricably linked, the workshop aims to explore this nexus in more detail. How are notions of history and gender being co-produced in practices of doing history? How do perceptions of history and gender reinforce or challenge each other in action? And what kind of history performances can create situations in which gender is “undone” rendered neutral and irrelative, or in which expectations of binarity are subversively undermined?
Doing Gender in Practices of Doing History: Engendered Performances of the Past
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Juliane Tomann (Public History, U Regensburg), Karin Reichenbach (GWZO Leipzig)
Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO),
04109 Leipzig (Germany)
02.03.2023 – 03.02.2023
Whenever history is displayed, performed or staged publicly, gender is performed as well. The workshop will focus on forms of doing history which rest on embodiment, immersive, affective, and experiential approaches and highlight playful, corporal, multi-sensory and personal engagements with the past. Participants will explore the nexus between modes of doing history and doing gender by addressing the following questions: How are notions of history and gender being co-produced in practices of doing history, when, e.g. the unstable categories of gender are regarded and performed as stable and conservative gender behavior is thus further cemented? How do perceptions of history and gender reinforce or challenge each other in action? Laying emphasis on sensorial, bodily approaches to history opens up further questions about the role of body knowledge. In which ways understanding of gender and history is located in or attached to the bodies performing them and what epistemic power is attributed to physically experiencing gender and/in history?
Program:
Thursday, 02 March 2023
GWZO, conference room 4th floor
15:00–15:30
Juliane Tomann (University of Regensburg) / Karin Reichenbach (GWZO, Leipzig): Welcome and Introduction
15:30–17:00
He-enactment, She-enactment, Re-enactment?
Chair: Karin Reichenbach
Elisa Chazal (European University Institute, Florence): Presence and absence of female workers in the fin-de-siècle historical re-enactments of the ‘Old Buda’ (1896) and the ‘Old Paris’ (1900)
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): Female Reenactors in Medieval Reenactment Movement in Poland
Juliane Tomann (University of Regensburg): Doing Gender in Historical Reenactment? Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing in Polish Napoleonic War Reenactment
17:30–19:30
Keynote
Chair: Juliane Tomann
Dietlind Hüchtker (University of Vienna): Doing Gender – Doing History. Überlegungen zur Praxis praxeologischer Konzepte
Friday, 03 March 2023
GWZO, conference room 4th floor
09:00–10:00
History and Gender in Visual Media
Chair: Sabine Stach (GWZO, Leipzig)
Peirou Chu (École Normal Supérieure de Lyon): Inventing the New Woman: rewriting the history of women in the Weimar Republic
Paul Csillag (European University Institute, Florence): Fighting Heresy with a Shotgun – The Figure of the Templar reframed through digital reenactment
10:30–12:00
Engendered Performances in Museums and Memory Culture
Chair: Lisa Füchte (GWZO, Leipzig)
Pablo Santacana López (Bauhaus-University Weimar): Entangled Transtemporalities: Time and Gender-crossing in Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Lili Toitot (University of London): Performing the Alsacienne: femininity as a political symbol of identity
Francesca Fulminante (Universities of Bristol and Oxford / Hanse Wissenschaftkolleg Delmenhorst): “Warriors” and “Weavers”: visual and performative representation of women and men in Pre-and Proto-history: case studies from Italy and UK
13:00–14:30
Gender on Stage and in Performative Art
Chair: Karin Reichenbach
Freyja Cox Jensen (University of Exeter) / Dana L. Key (University of Nottingham): Doing Early Modern Gender on Stage
Stefan Hartmann (University of Augsburg): “Die Pfahlbauer”: Unveiling Stereotypes (not only) of Gender on Stage
Marianna Zakrzewska (University of Warsaw): Performing history by enacting feminist continuity. Liberation practices of Polish women
14:30–15:30
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Juliane Tomann (University of Regensburg)
https://leibniz-gwzo.de/sites/default/files/dateien/23_KI_Doing%20Gender_online.pdf