Symposion “Governance, Governmentality and the State: Postcolonial, Queer and Feminist Interventions”
Invitation to the
Symposion
“Governance, Governmentality and the State: Postcolonial, Queer and Feminist Interventions”
at the University of Viennna
November 17th to November 18th, 2016
Programme:
Thursday, 17th November 2016
18.00
Location
Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, Department of Political Science, 2nd floor, Room “Hörsaal 1” (A212)
Keynote lecture Shirin Rai
“From the State to Governance and Back Again? Postcolonial and Feminist Interventions”
Introduction: Birgit Sauer and Gundula Ludwig
Friday, 18th November 2016
Location
Alois-Wagner-Saal, C3 – Center for International Development, Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna. (http://www.centrum3.at/)
9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introduction to the Symposium (Wolfram Schaffar and Nikita Dhawan)
9.30-11.30 Panel 1
STATE POWER, GOUVERNEMENTALIZATION, GOVERNANCE
Chair: Birgit Sauer
Scheiterbauer, Tanja: The North African Uprisings and Revolts 2011: The Transformation of the State and its Impacts on Gender and Sexual Politics
Krämer, Anna: Why Africa’s ‘Weak States’ Matter. A Review of Colonial Moments in the Discourse on African Statehood and Sovereignty
Dogangun, Gökten: Conceptualizing Gender (In)equality in Turkey and Russia: Authoritarianism, Sexism, Feminism
11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
12.00-14.00 Panel 2
BIOPOLITICS, NECROPOLITICS
Chair: Nikita Dhawan
Dinkelaker, Samia: Governing through Labor Migration Sending States – Manufacturing Affective Domestic Workers from Indonesia
Hutta, Jan Simon: Precarious Governmentalisation: Brazilian Queer Politics between Transversality and the Neoliberal State
Siddiqui, Farida: Muslim Women, Religious Fundamentalism and State Intervention: The Context of Post-Colonial South Asia
14.00-15-00 Lunch Break
15.00-17.00 Panel 3
RESISTANCE
Chair: Gundula Ludwig
Jauk, Daniela: Shaping the State in a Roundabout Way? Interrogating Queer and Feminist Interventions at the United Nations
Klapeer, Christine-Maria: Decolonising the State while Queering Aid?
The (Im-)Possibility of an Affirmative Sabotage of (Homo-)Developmentalist Governmentalities
Mieszkowski, Sylvia: Governmentality and Acts of Counter-Conduct in Kate Atkinson’s “The War on Women”
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.30 Input by Nikita Dhawan
Comments by Gundula Ludwig, Birgit Sauer, Wolfram Schaffar
Farewell
For the Panel Discussions on Friday please register via verena.kettner@univie.ac.at !