CUSO Workshop on Feminism and Postfeminism
March 20 & 21, 2014
University of Lausanne
Programme
Thursday March 20th
9:15
Coffee
10:00
Welcome and public lecture by Angela McRobbie:
“Normal' Pathologies of Contemporary Femininity: Containment, Rage,
Resistance”
Room: Internef 271
12:00
Lunch
Doctoral workshop
Room: Anthropole 4074
14:00
1. Isis Giraldo (University of Lausanne)
“‘Brave New Women’: Gender configurations in contemporary
Colombian television”
14:45
2. Dina Bader (University of Neuchâtel)
“Challenging the obvious: Debating female circumcision and female
genital cosmetic surgery in the Swiss public sphere”
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
3. Fleur Weibel (University of Basel)
“’We’re getting married’. An ethnography on the staging of intimate couple
relationships in contemporary wedding ceremonies”
17:00
Finish for the day
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Friday March 21st
9:15
9:45
Coffee
Welcome
10:00
Public lecture by Rosalind Gill: “Love your body (but hate it too):
Confidence, beauty and the regulation of postfeminist subjectivity”
Room: Anthropole 2013
12:00
Lunch
Doctoral workshop
Room: Anthropole 4074
13:30
1. Anas Sareen (University of Lausanne)
“Dragging Belle in Again: Queering Bodies in Translation La Belle et la
Bête (1946) and Angels in America (2003)”
14:00
2. Ola Madhour (University of Fribourg)
“Wild Femininity in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”
14:30
Coffee break
14:45
3. Ieva Bisigirskaitė (University of Zürich)
“Postfeminist (?) female surnames in contemporary Lithuania: media
research”
15:30
Finish
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