"TRANSforming Research", attend to our first departmental conference

May 22, 2023

The Department of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN) and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University invite you to join us for our first Vienna-based conference on June 19-20, 2023. 

TRANSforming Research: Feminist, Experimental, and Arts-Based Practices

The conference brings together scholars, artists, and activists who are engaged in TRANSforming research. Through lectures, performances, discussions, praxis-based workshops, musicality, and posters, the conference encourages participants to re-imagine our institutional space differently and proposes ways of queering formal research practices.

The conference is free of cost and we welcome any and all attendees either in-person or online. For in-person attendance, we kindly ask you to register in advance (by June 18, 23:59, Central European Time) here. A link is available to access the sessions online here.

The focus of the conference is to set conditions for the encounter of different strands of feminist, experimental, and arts-based research practices so that we can collectively re-imagine the spaces of academic conferences and the limits of what feminist research can encompass.

The conference is organized around the idea of three intersecting and overlapping pathways – TRANSitioning, TRANSing, and TRANSforming – and how these work in concert to shape new and experimental practices across academic traditions and disciplines. We aim to center new feminist theoretical approaches and strands, including transfeminism and research related to transness and trans bodies.

Program

June 19

10:00 – 10:30     
Welcome and logistics by Nadia Jones-Gailani and Kris Orszaghova                     

10:30 – 12:00    
Maria Hlavajova 
“Instituting Otherwise”    

12:00 – 13:00                                    
Lunch  

13:00 – 14:30  
Kateřina Kolářová and Alyson Patsavas 
“Covid, Postsocialism and Chronic TRANSitioning” 

14:30 – 15:00                             
Break 

15:00 – 16:30  
Jasmina Husanovič 
“Affective Infrastructures in Cultural and Knowledge Production and Social Activism: Challenging Feminist Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina” 

16:30 – 18:00        
Poster session 

18:00                           
Welcome drinks and open mic 

 June 20 

11:00 – 13:00                              
Paula Andrea Hoyos Hernandéz, Nathalia Orozco Espitaleta, Juan Sebastian Rueda-Toro 
“TranSER: TRANSfeminist TRANSdialogues for Research-Action-creation” 
This panel will have presentations and discussions meandering across English- and Spanish-language

13:00 – 14:00                            
Lunch 

14:30 – 16:00                       
Nerea González 
“what is the consistency of the normal?” 

16:30 – 18:00                      
Reception 

18:00 – 01:00    
“Kings, Quings, Queens, Demons and Witches”
Marina Leo 
BroHomo 
13 
Kushboo 
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See the detailed program and the conference call below

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