*Thursday, 30 June, 2011: 14.30 – 17.30

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Popular Culture I: Queer Identities/Practices in Music

Chair: Astrid M. Fellner // *C7 4, Room 3.23

• Eva Battista: Postmodern Aesthetic Practices in American Music Videos: Lady Gaga (de-) constructed.
• Nora Koller: The Calculating Gaze: Beyoncé, Transsexuality, and Queer Theory
• Jenny Moos: Boy Bands, Girl Fans, and the Queering of Masculinity?
• Maria Katharina Wiedlack: “We’re gonna burn your rainbow and we’re having fun, oh yeah” (Skinjobs) – The Onset of Societies Death Drive Or Punk Rock’s Utopian Fantasy?
  

Performing Sex: Pornography Revisited

Chair: Judith Jack Halberstam // *C7 4, Room 1.17

• Stephanie Hopf: The Performed Self – Gender in Performance Art with special focus on Valie Export
• Pax Chmara: P is for Porno
• Jiann-Chyng Tu: Significant Discharge: the Money Shot, Masculinities, and Meaning
• Angelika Tsaros: Torture’s getting a bad rep: BDSM and consent
  

Troubling Gender: Facets in German Literature

Chair: Eveline Kilian // *C7 1, Room U 15 (-1.15)

• Lena Heilmann: Re-modeling the Frauenzimmer: Women and Spatiality in German Literature (1770-1820)
• Carlien Roels: The biological gender and the composition of Heimat in Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Heimsuchung
• Sebastian Zilles: Somewhere Lost In-Between: Friendship, Love and Sexual Desire in Literary Male-Bonds in Contemporary German Prose
• Michaela Koch: Hermaphroditism and Intersexuality in the early 20^th century: How a Man’s Maiden Years Reinforce the Sexual Binary