*Project Presentations: Speakers and Titles

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Popular Culture II: The Queer Politics of Popular Media

 

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

• Viera Novakova: Women in US TV Series
• Rebecca L. Harper: Does She Belong? Representing Queer Women in German and British Film and Television since 2000

 

Strategies of Queer: Queering Theories and Practices

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

• Jule Jakob Hesseler: The libidinal body - a queer reading of Lyotard
• Judith Kohlenberger: From Hard Core to Hard Facts: A Queer Approach to Science
• Jasper Verlinden: Strategic Authenticity: Male Pregnancy and the Renaturalization of the Transgender Body
• Susanne Jung: Strategies of Queer Resilience in the Writings of Queer Theorists: Foucault, Sedgwick, Butler

 

Gender in Translation: Translating Queer Localities

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

• Joanna Moore: Queer Language in German and Slovene
• Somayeh Amin: A Holistic Approach to Translations of Women Specific (feminist) Literature