International Research Center Gender and Performativity (ICGP) Opening

Jack Halberstam and many more
June 12th – 14th

https://www.mdw.ac.at/icgp/en/events/international-research-center-gender-and-performativity-icgp-opening-2/


JUNE 12th
Joseph Haydn-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)

6 pm Welcome Address/Introduction
Ulrike Sych (Rector, mdw), Sylvia Mieszkowski (GAIN, Uni Vienna), Hanna Meißner (ZIFG, TU Berlin), Evelyn Annuß (ICGP, mdw)
Moderation: Therese Kaufmann

Opening Keynote: Jack Halberstam (NYC)
Dereliction: On Feminist Violence


JUNE 13th
place: Neuer Konzertsaal (Rennweg 8)

10 am Mbongeni Mtshali (Cape Town), Black Queer Futures
Moderation: Philipp Hohmann


11 am Claudia Bosse (Vienna) in conversation with Chris Standfest (Vienna)


1.30 pm Ulrike Hanstein (Linz) Revisiting HOMOMETER (1973)
Moderation: Marina Rauchenbacher

2.30 pm Keynote: Tavia Nyong’o (Yale), Black Apocalypse: Acceleration, Anxiety, and the Ends of the “World”,
Moderation: Raz Weiner


4.30 pm J-N-N (Screening) Ginan Seidl (Berlin/Vienna),f
ollowed by a conversation with Clarissa Thieme (Berlin/Vienna)



JUNE 14th

place: Fanny Hensel-Saal (mdw-Campus, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1)

10 am Ulrike Haß (Berlin), On the Timeliness of Boy-Girl Figures. Florentina Holzinger & Co

Moderation: Evelyn Annuß


11 am
crazinisT artisT / Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (Kumasi)in conversation with Sandra Umathum (Vienna)


12.30 pm Facing the Authoritarian Drift: (Art) Universities as Sites of Critique?

Podium: Sofia Bempeza (Vienna), Katrin Köppert (Berlin/Leipzig), Isabell Lorey (Cologne), Kathrin Peters (Berlin)

Round Table: Jack Halberstam, Mbongeni Mtshali, Tavia Nyong’o, Elsa Dorlin, Hanna Meißner, Moderation: Evelyn Annuß

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