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Interdisciplinary Workshop organized by the Graduate Research Group Gender as a Category of Knowledge at Humboldt University, Berlin, 27th + 28th of October 2006
Gender as a Taboo: Places, Dynamics and Functions
Deadline: 10.04.2006
Organization: Dr. Ute Frietsch, Dr. Sabine Grenz, Dr. Lidia Guzy, Jennifer John, M.A., Beatrice Michaelis, M.A.
Gender is both a taboo and a field of knowledge. Gender as a taboo and gender as a category of knowledge are mutually dependent â they constitute a pair â comparable to the implicit and the explicit, secret and scandal, silence and speech. One priority of the workshop is to interrogate what kind of âwill to knowledgeâ (Foucault) motivates the talk and exposure of sexual acts, genitals etc. Furthermore, we want to investigate the âwillâ to ignore gender in sciences and other fields of knowledge. This includes questions of canon-making in academic disciplines and other fields of knowledge as well as of larger social mechanisms, such as political correctness and breaking discursive taboos (pretending to explicate what has long been silenced, thereby negating that enunciations of racism, sexism and other discriminatory modes have always already been practiced). Not only becomes the marginalized tabooed but also the privileged. It remains unmarked and simultaneously marks its âotherâ. The preservation of power as well as the maintenance of social coherence appear to be crucial a cause of tabooing. How can we evaluate and analyse the ability of taboos to contain potential threats? Both the tabooing and the perpetuation of a binary logic of gender relations are instrumental in the construction and taxonomy of social and scientific communities, culture and human beings. Taboos, however, are situated and culturally as well as historically contingent. The workshop is designed to examine places, dynamics, and specific functions of taboos concerning gender (gender performance, gender relations, homo/hetero/sexuality). How, for instance, can we intervene in a binary gender logic, if we recognise that gender studies is not innocent either in the process of tabooing other genders (Intersex, Trans*) in very material-corporeal and violent ways. How is (scientific/academic) knowledge structured by taboos? How does tabooing affect subjectivities? In how far can taboos be conceptualised as discursive? How does a taboo define who is in and who is out? In how far is tabooing ludicrous? Can a taboo concerning gender still function, if once articulated? Can canons incorporate taboos without de-tabooing them? How can we describe the limitations of taboos? Taboo research exists in various fields, among others psychology/psychoanalysis, ethnology, sociology, theology, cultural studies, film and literary theory. At this workshop we wish to connect these two fields of knowledge (taboo and gender) in a transdisciplinary manner reflecting mechanisms of tabooing both within science and society. We invite contributions investigating gender as a taboo from all areas of academia, reaching from the natural sciences to arts/art theory. Papers should be self-reflexive concerning the status of gender in their own (inter/trans) disciplinary situatedness.
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Joan Cadden (provisional) Dr. Bettina Mathes
Conference languages will be German and English. However, discussions can also be held in French. Conference fee: There is a small conference fee of 10 â for both days of the workshop to be paid at registration. Travel expenses might be covered for invited papers.
Proposals should not exceed 2,000 characters. Please send them together with a CV until the 10th of April, 2006 to the following address:
gradkollgeschlecht@hu-berlin.de
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Le Groupe dâÃtude sur le genre en tant que catÃgorie de connaissance à la Humboldt Università de Berlin organise des journÃes dÂÃtudes internationales, les 27 et 28 octobre 2006 sur le thÃme:
Le genre comme tabou: Lieux, dynamiques et fonctions
Appel à contribution. Date limite: 10.04.2006
Organisation: Dr. Ute Frietsch, Dr. Sabine Grenz, Dr. Lidia Guzy, Jennifer John, M.A., Beatrice Michaelis, M.A.
Le ÂGenre est à la fois un tabou et un champ de connaissance. Le genre en tant que tabou et le genre en tant que catÃgorie de connaissance se rÃpondent lâun, lâautre. Ils constituent une paire, similaire au dit et au non-dit, à lâexplicite et à lâimplicite, au scandale et au mystÃre. Pendant ces journÃes dÂÃtudes nous nous efforcerons de rÃpondre à la question Âquelle volontà de savoir (âvolontà de savoirâ compris dans le sens que Foucault donne à ce terme) motive la recherche ainsi que les manifestations du âgenreâ (actes sexuels, parties gÃnitales, etc.)Â. Nous nous poserons aussi la question de savoir sâil existe aussi une volontà dâexclure le sujet du genre des relations sociales et culturelles dans les sciences et dans les divers champs de connaissance. Cette mise en question du genre au niveau des pratiques sociales implique dâun cÃtà un processus de canonisation dans les diverses disciplines des sciences sociales et dans les champs de connaissance. DÂun autre cÃtÃ, cela implique dÂautres mÃcanismes sociaux marquÃs par une tension entre des discours de type Âpolitiquement correct et ceux brisant les tabous(par exemple: en postulant de dire quelque chose de choquant, on cache le fait que certains racismes, sexismes et dâautre expressions discriminatoires ont toujours Ãtà perpÃtuÃs). Non seulement lâexclu est tabouisÃ, mais le privilÃgià est aussi tabou. Celui nÂest pas marquà mais il marque son Autre. La prÃservation dâune certaine forme de pouvoir ainsi que de la cohÃsion sociale semble liÃe aux causes et aux effets fondamentaux de lâÃtablissement des tabous. Dans cette perspective, nous essaierons dâanalyser le potentiel que reprÃsentent les tabous pour parvenir à contrÃler le potentiellement menaÃant. Le processus de construire le tabou et de continuer de concevoir les relations de sexe de faÃon binaire est un instrument avec lequel les formes de sociÃtÃ, les formes de sciences sociales et de connaissances, la culture et lÂhomme, sont organisÃs et remis en ordre.
La pensÃe scientifique sur le tabou sÂÃtend aujourdâhui aux champs de disciplines comme la psychologie, la psychanalyse, lÂethnologie, la sociologie, les sciences sociales des religions, les sciences sociales culturelles, aux lettres et à la filmologie. Pendant les journÃes dâÃtudes, nous envisageons dâaborder les divers champs de connaissance concernant le tabou et le genre dÂune faÃon transdisciplinaire et rÃflexive par rapport au processus de construction du savoir, lâanalyse sociale incluse. Nous souhaitons intÃgrer des contributions qui mettent en lumiÃre le sujet du Âgenre en tant que tabou du point de vue des sciences sociales et naturelles, mais aussi du point de vue des beaux-arts et de leur science. Les contributions devront rÃflÃchir à leur propre constitution du savoir par rapport au genre.
Introduction aux journÃes dâÃtudes: Prof. Dr. Joan Cadden (demandÃe), Dr. Bettina Mathes
La langue des confÃrences doit Ãtre allemand ou anglais. La discussion peut Ãgalement avoir lieu en franÃais. Les frais de voyages seront partiellement remboursÃs. Une contribution de 10 â et à payer en registration.
Envoyez votre proposition (une page de 2000 signes maximum) et votre CV jusqu`au 10.04.2006 ÃÂ:
gradkollgeschlecht@hu-berlin.de
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