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GKAT Workshop: Gender, Authority, and Trust

  • Samstag, 11. Juli 2026, 10:00 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.

    Mount Rushmore

    Agenda 11 July

    • 10:00-10:30: Lanza, Margherita, (Heidelberg/Venice), “Queer Authority in Djuna Barnes’s The Ladies Almanack“
    • 10:30-11:00: Theresa Heyd and Miriam Neuhausen (Heidelberg), “Linguistic Authority and Antipronominal Discourse”
    • 11:00-11:30: Karen C. Adkins (Denver/Greifswald), “MeToo but Not Them: Institutional Betrayal, Open Secrets, and Whisper Campaigns”
    • 11:30–12:00: Donna Drucker (New York), “The American Abortion Clinic as a Site of State Authority, 1973–2022”
       
    • Lunch
       
    • 13:30–14:00: Aleksandra Malinowska (Warsaw), “Building Authority in Feminist Manifestos: Positioned Outside, Speaking from Within”
    • 14:00–14:30: Julia Modes, (Karlsruhe), “Rosalind Constable. Invisible Female Labor in American Art Criticism”
       
    • Break
       
    • 15:00–15:30: Leon Blanchaert (Le Havre/Reims), “From Thick Trust to Political Relevance: Yiddish Women, Radicalism, and Reform in New York, 1900–1930”
    • 15:30–16:00  Raluca-Nicoleta Rogoveanu (Constanta), “Gender and Ethnicity in National and Transnational Spaces: Romanian Ladies’ Auxiliaries in the United States, 1900–1940”
    • 16:00–16:15: Margit Peterfy, Susana Rocha Teixeira, Anja Schüler, Farewell
       
    • 17:00-19:30: Filmscreening of The Conductor (2021), followed by a Q+A with film director Bernadette Wegenstein (Baltimore) and the speaker of CRC 1671, Christiane Wiesenfeldt, at the Gloria/Gloriette cinema (in cooperation with CRC 1671)

     


     

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