Gender History and the Visual Archive.
Discourses, Practices, Experiences (19th and 20th century)
International workshop 6–7 March 2025
Organisers: Christina Reimann and Christina Benninghaus
Conference venue:
University of Gothenburg, Humanities Faculty, Renströmsgatan 6, 412 55 Göteborg. Room C 442
Programme
Wed 5 March 2025
Arrival of participants. Informal get together starting at 7 pm.
Thu 6 March 2025
9.00 Welcome and introduction: Christina Reimann, Christina Benninghaus
Section I: Representing selves, forging relations
9.30–11.00
Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University: Gender portraiture
Jennifer Evans, Carleton University: Unlikely allies: Jewish middle age women and the trans camera
Moderator: Maja Hultman
11.30–13.00
Sigrid Lien, University of Bergen: Magdalene Norman: Spinster queerness - a photo-autobiography of life and love
Christina Benninghaus, University Bielefeld: Doing gender while courting - a case study from 1950s Germany
Moderator: Maria Cavallin-Aijmer
13.00–14.15 Lunch
Section II: Bodies, performances, and the negotiation of gender
14.15–15.45
Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary University of London: Performing ideal femininity in post-war Britain
Michaela Malmberg, Stockholm University, "Healthy and willing – not a weak lily" - Female gymnastics directors’ femininity, collectivity and emancipation c. 1820-1940
Moderator: Martina Hjertman
16.15-17.45
Peter K. Andersson, Kulturen Lund: Male expansiveness and female withdrawal: Studying historical body language through street photography
Christina Reimann, University of Gothenburg: The bodily exercise of democracy? Gender performances in interwar port cities seen through photography.
Moderator: Kenneth Nyberg
18.00–19.00 Film apéritif
19.30 Dinner at Restaurang Familjen, Arkivgatan 7
Fri 7 March 2025
Section III: Gender/politics and/in the private sphere
9.00–10:30
Markus Wurzer, Graz University: Gendered visual practises? Colonialism in family memories
Michaela Scharf, University Gießen: Constructions of masculinity in amateur films from National Socialist Austria
Moderator: Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson
11.00–12:30
Anja Laukötter, University of Jena: Gender on screen in amateur film of the GDR: Visual sources between politics, work and everyday life
Sarah Kiani, University of Neuchâtel/Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin: Chantal Akerman and the politicization of the banal
Moderator: Rebecka Dahlkvist
12.30–13.45 Lunch
Section IV: Approaching archives of sexism and racism
13.45–15.15
Mara Keire, University of Oxford: "Coax Me": Popular Understandings of Sexual Coercion in New York, 1900-1929.
Jörg Requate, University Kassel: Subversive sexism? On the treatment of female and male body depictions in the satirical magazines Hara-Kiri and Pardon
Moderator: Jens Carlesson Magalhães
Moving forwards: Visual history and the future of gender history
15.30–17.30
Elizabeth Edwards, De Montfort University/University of Oxford: Photographic disruptions: some thoughts on historiography and method
Christina Benninghaus und Christina Reimann: Identifying questions, drawing conclusions
Final Discussion
Moderator: Christina Benninghaus
