{"id":78,"date":"2016-04-22T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-studies.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:17:52","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/american-studies.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=78","title":{"rendered":"Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Presentations:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Dis-\/Enfreakment and the Body Politics of Popular Feminisms&#8221;, Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture, University Leipzig, May 2025. [Invited]<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cFlipping Houses on American Reality TV: Gentrification, Self-Entrepreneurship, and the (Un)Making of Homes,\u201d Gentrification Imaginaries: Stories of Urban Transformations and Displacement, University Freiburg, June 2024. [Invited]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cRedefining Bodies in Digital Media: Opening Remarks\u201d, together with Prof. Dr. Katharina Vester, From Body Hacking to Body Activism: Redefining Bodies in Digital Media, Ruhr-University Bochum June 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Media and Gentrification Aesthetics,&#8221; 69th Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies: America and Ownership, University of Rostock, June 2023. [Invited]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Minimalism: Oppositional Lifestyle, Self-Help, and Complicity,&#8221; Workshop of the DFG-Network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings, TU Dresden, Nov. 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEpidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of Covid-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives \u2013 Opening Remarks\u201d, together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rebecca Br\u00fcckmann, International Digital Symposium on Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of Covid-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives, Ruhr-University Bochum, Oct. 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Response to Alexandra Hartmann\u2019s Paper, \u201cComplicity and Religious Discourse: Evangelical Christianity in the Neoliberal Age\u201d, Workshop of the DFG-Network Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings, University of Paderborn, Sept. 2021<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMetropolitan Masculinities \u2013 Opening Remarks\u201d, together with Prof. Dr. Cornelia W\u00e4chter, Metropolitan Masculinities: Narratives of Gender and Urban Space, Ruhr-University Bochum, Nov. 2019.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Revisiting the Western &#8211; John Ford&#8217;s <em>The Searchers<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; Introduction and Discussion. &#8220;Horizons West&#8221;. Endstation Kino Bochum, in cooperation with the Department of Media Studies, RUB. October 2019. [Invited].<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Beyond Hashtags: The Body (Positive) Politics of Popular Feminisms between Post-Feminism and the Fourth Wave.&#8221; 66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies: U.S.-American Culture as Popular Culture, University Hamburg, June 2019. [Invited]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Female Bodies and Agents in the Public Discourse.&#8221; Presentation and Expert Discussion. Feminist Conversations. University Duisburg-Essen. January 2019. [Invited].<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Licentious Underworlds: The Commodification and Regulation of Sexuality in Antebellum American Popular Culture&#8221;. Sexuality and Consumption &#8211; 18th Century to 21st Century, University of Vienna, November 2018.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From Martha Washington to Melania Trump: The First Ladies of the USA.&#8221; Presentation. US-American Evening of the International Office of the Ruhr-University Bochum. July 2017.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Wege ins Wei\u00dfe Haus: Die First Ladies der USA&#8221;. Wege ins Wei\u00dfe Haus. Vortr\u00e4ge zur Wahl in den USA. Blue Square. Bochum, November 2016.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Erotic Encounters: Sexualizing the City in 19th Century American Culture&#8221;. Persons and Sexualities. Mansfield College, Oxford, July 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Panel Chair. Embodiment, Perception, and Critical Practice. Bochum, July 2016.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOf Ladies, Flower Girls and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mystery Novels\u201d. Popular Culture \u2013 Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s. Siegen University, April 2016.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Von Seer\u00e4ubern und Gouverneurst\u00f6chtern: Piraten auf der Kinoleinwand&#8221; [Of Bandits at Sea and Governors&#8217; Daughters: Pirates on Screen&#8221;]. Guest Lecture, Romance Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum, January 2016. [Invited.]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Accept yourself and beware of the risks: &#8216;Failure&#8217; in Post-Feminist Beauty Culture&#8221;. The Failed Individual. Mannheim University, November 2015.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Swashbuckling Damsels and Queer Buccaneers: Pirates as Figures of Transgression in 21st Century Hollywood Cinema&#8221;. Guest lecture, University of Vienna. January 2015. [Invited.]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sex in the City: Urban Sexuality in Antebellum American Literature&#8221;. American Antiquarian Society Fellows&#8217; Talk, Worcester, Massachusetts. September 2014.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lonely Men in the City: Refn&#8217;s <em>Drive<\/em> and McQueen&#8217;s <em>Shame<\/em>&#8220;. Visions of Identity: Global Film &amp; Media &#8211; The Fourth Annual London Film and Media Conference. June 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Panel Chair: \u201cVisualizing Katrina: Documentary\u201d. After the Storm: The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina. Ruhr-University Bochum, December 2013.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Piraten im Hollywoodkino: Piraterie- und Geschlechterdiskurse in <em>Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>\u201c. Popul\u00e4re Piraten: Vermessung eines Feldes. Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. September 2012. [Invited.]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Geschminkte Piraten: Geschlechterrollenverschiebungen, globalisierungs- und kapitalismuskritische Momente in den Filmen von <em>Fluch der Karibik<\/em>.&#8221; Panel discussion with high school students in the context of the Autumn Academy &#8220;Talent and Responsibility&#8221; organized by the Catholic Academy &#8220;Die Wolfsburg&#8221;, the Ministry of School and Further Education and the foundation &#8220;Partner for Schools North Rhine-Westphalia&#8221;. October 2011. [Invitated].<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMonstrous Modifications: The Politics of Monstrosity in Critical Makeover Narratives\u2018\u201c. Re-Thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society. LMU Munich. July 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Panel Chair: \u201cTheory\u201d. Re-Thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society. LMU Munich. July 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018I just want to be perfect\u2018: Body Projects in Contemporary American Culture\u201c. A Reading of Darren Aronofsky\u2019s <i>Black Swan<\/i>. American Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modes of Power. Fourth International Graduate Conference. FU Berlin. May 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDissecting the Norm? Plastic Surgery, Deviant Bodies and the Politics of the Monstrous in <i>Nip\/Tuck<\/i>\u201c. Breaking Boundaries: Body Politics and the Dynamics of Difference. Sarah Lawrence College, New York. March 2011.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMonstrous Makeovers: Self-Transformation, Gender Trouble and Bodily Resistance in Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s <em>Invisible Monsters<\/em>\u201c. II International Conference the Texts of the Body, Generating Bodies: Discursive Sexed Productions, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, November\/December 2010.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018I can\u2018t believe it&#8217;s me&#8217; &#8211; Making Over Bodies and Selves in American Culture.\u201c BOND &#8211; The BOchum and DortmuND American Studies Dissertation Colloquium, TU Dortmund and Ruhr-University Bochum, January 2009.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe New You\u2018: Transformations of Bodies and Selves in Contemporary American Culture.\u201c Postgraduate Forum DGfA, Westf\u00e4lische Wilhelms-University M\u00fcnster, November 2008.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Yo-ho, A Pirates Life For Me.\u2018 &#8211; Queer Positionalities, Heteronormativity, and Piracy in Pirates of the Caribbean.\u201c Postgraduate Forum DGfA, TU Chemnitz, November 2006 and BOND &#8211; The BOchum and DortmuND American Studies Dissertation Colloquium, TU Dortmund and Ruhr-University Bochum, January 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Conference Organization:<\/h4>\n\n\n<ul>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bodiesindigitalmedia.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/about\/\">International Symposium: From Body Hacking to Body Activism &#8211; Redefining Bodies in Digital Media <\/a>Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum\nOrganizers: Heike Steinhoff (Ruhr-University Bochum), Katharina Vester (American University, Washington D.C.)<\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/epidemicsandothering.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/\">Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives<\/a>. Digital Symposium, Ruhr-University Bochum, October 1-2, 2021. In cooperation with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rebecca Br\u00fcckmann.<\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metro-masculinities.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/\">Metropolitan Masculinities: Narratives of Gender and Urban Space. Ruhr-University Bochum. Nov. 28-29, 2019.<\/a> In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Cornelia W\u00e4chter.<\/li>\n \t<li>&#8220;Bioordnungen. Intersektionale Perspektiven auf die Regulierung von K\u00f6rpern&#8221;. Workshop Organization, together with Prof. Dr. Katja Sabisch. <a href=\"https:\/\/mariejahodacenter.rub.de\/en\/\">Opening Conference Marie-Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies<\/a>. Ruhr-University Bochum, June 2019.<\/li>\n \t<li>Co-organizer of the Ruhr PhD Forum in American Studies. Ruhr-University Bochum\/TU Dortmund\/University Duisburg-Essen. 27-28 January 2012, 18-19 January 2013, 24-25 January 2014.<\/li>\n \t<li>Co-organizer of \u201eBond \u2013 The BOchum DortmuND Dissertation Colloquium\u201c. Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum\/TU Dortmund. 30-31 January 2009, 29-30 January 2010, 28-29 January 2011.<\/li>\n \t<li>Member of the Organizing Team of the 54th Annual Meeting of the GAAS, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presentations: &#8220;Dis-\/Enfreakment and the Body Politics of Popular Feminisms&#8221;, Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture, University Leipzig, May 2025. [Invited] \u201cFlipping Houses on American Reality TV: Gentrification, Self-Entrepreneurship, and the (Un)Making of Homes,\u201d Gentrification Imaginaries: Stories of Urban Transformations and Displacement, University Freiburg, June 2024. 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