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GKAT Workshop: Gender, Authority, and Trust

  • Freitag, 10. Juli 2026, 14:00 Uhr
  • Heidelberg Center for American Studies

    In recent decades, research on authority and trust in the US has seen a considerable increase across various disciplines. However, in comparison, there has been much less scholarship on aspects of gender since Anette Baier dedicated her influential 1994 collection of essays Moral Prejudices on trust (and related issues) to her “women students, past, present, and future.” This workshop, organized by the Research Training Group “Authority and Trust” based at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies of Heidelberg University, addresses this lacuna, both from a theoretical perspective, and in the light of current cultural, social, and political developments in the US, and of (once again) contested definitions of gender(ed) identities, practices, performances, and ethics.

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    Agenda 10 July

    • 14:00–14:15: Ulrike Gerhard, Director GKAT (Heidelberg), Welcome
    • 14:15–14:45 Julia Roth (Bielefeld), “Feminist Politics of Connectedness: En-Racing Gender, En-Gendering Class in African American, Chicana, Indigenous, and Caribbean Feminisms“
    • 14:45–15:15: Yaatsil Guevara González (Heidelberg), “Authority, Trust, and Digital Motherhood Across Entangled Migration Corridors“
    • 15:15-15:45: Matthias Voigt (Berlin), “(En)Gendering Colonial Authority – Federal Indian Policy, Mistrust and the Making of Militant Indigenous Masculinity”
       
    • Break
       
    • 16:00–16:30: Susana Rocha Teixeira (Heidelberg), “Authority, Trust, and the American Bro Culture”
    • 16:30–17:00: Simon Wendt (Frankfurt), “Authority, Trust, and Masculinities in American Memory from the Gilded Age to the Trump Era”
       
    • Break
       
    • 17:15–17:45: Diana Wagner (Stuttgart), “Gender, Vulnability, and Effective Politics of Trust in Seventeenth-Century New England Witch Hunting”
    • 17:45-18:15: Nicole Colaianni (Heidelberg), “When “Zero-Tolerance” Becomes “Zero-Trust”: The Campus Consequences of Corporate Harassment Policies”
    • 18:15-18:45: Marion Röwekamp, (Mexico), “Gendered Authority and Transnational Trust at the League of Nations”

    English