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Gender and Modernity in Central Europe:
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its Legacy

May 16-18, 2008

Hosted by the Department of Modern Languages, University of Ottawa and the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta

Programme

Please note: All sessions are held in Desmarais Hall 1110 (55 Laurier East).

Friday, May 16:

8:30 Registration

8:45 Opening Address

Judith Szapor, Conference Organizer, Faculty Lecturer, McGill University

Agatha Schwartz, Conference Organizer, Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa

Franz Szabo, Professor and Director, Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta

László Bakos, Consul, Cultural and Press Affairs, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary

Lori Burns, Vice-Dean Research, University of Ottawa

9:00-10:00 Plenary session

Viktor Karády, Central European University, Budapest/CNRS, Paris: An Inhibited Latecoming Elite: Women in Higher Education and the Intellectual Professions in Dualist Hungary

10:00- 10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Redefining masculinity and sexuality

Chair: Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Halam University

1. Miklós Hadas, Corvinus University of Budapest: Sport, Professionalism and the  Internationalization of Masculinities

2. Steve Jobbitt, University of Toronto: Modernity and the Crisis of National Manhood in Pre-Trianon Hungary

3. Ofer Nordheimer Nur, Hebrew University Jerusalem: The Viennese Jugendkulturbewegung and the Postwar Gender Revolution of the Kibbutz of Hashomer Hatzair

12:00-14:00 Catered lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel 2: Jewish women and their role in the construction of modernity

Chair: Rebecca Margolis, University of Ottawa

1. Michaela Raggam-Blesch, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna: Jewish Intellectual Women in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

2. Alison Rose, University of Rhode Island Providence: The Interaction of Gender and Modernity in the Salons of Vienna

3. Howard Lupovitch, Colby College: Making Jews, Making Magyars: The Burden of Jewish Motherhood in Budapest

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Panel 3: Early psychoanalysis

Chair: Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa

1. Edgar Bauer, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi : Metapsychological Mythopoiesis: On Sándor Ferenczi's Theory of Sexual Difference and the Agonic Conception of Life

2. Ferenc Erös, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Gender, Hysteria, and War Neurosis

3. Anna Borgos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Woman as Theory and Theory-Maker in the Early Years of Psychoanalysis

19:00 Reception (Location: Sheraton Ottawa Hotel, 150 Albert Street)
followed by

20:00 Reading (in English) by Berlin-based Romanian author Carmen Francesca Banciu  from her novel Blütenstaub und Diamanten (Petal Dust and Diamonds)

Saturday, May 17:

9:00-10:00 Plenary session

Jiřina Šmejkalová, University of Lincoln: Czech Feminist Philosophy of the Fin-de-Siècle: The 'Unreadable Notes' of Anna Pammrová

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:30 Panel 4: Fin-de-siècle women writers

Chair: Laura Kealey, University of Ottawa

1. Helga Thorson, University of Victoria: Ethnic and Sexual Tension in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Case of Mistaken Identity in Grete Meisel-Hess's "Zwei vergnügte Tage"

2. Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa:  The City in Fin-de-Siècle Austrian and Hungarian Women Writers’ Narratives

11:30-13:00 Panel 5: Modernity in the arts

Chair: Franz Szabo, Wirth Institute, University of Alberta

1. Thomas Ort, North Carolina State University: Cubism's Sex: Why Czech Cubist Art Was Male

2. Jill Scott, Queen's University: What's in a Kiss? Public Debates and Private Jokes in Gustav Klimt's 'Der Kuss'

3. Anna Manchin, Brown University: Heroines of Modernity: The Figure of the Modern Woman in 1930s Hungarian Entertainment Films

13:00-14:00 Catered lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel 6: Viennese modernity and its literary legacy

Chair: Judy Young, Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation

1. Saskia Ziolkowski, Columbia University: Svevo's uomini senza qualità: Musil and Modernism in Trieste

2. Joanna Bottenberg, Concordia University: The Habsburg Legacy in Franz Theodor Csokor's plays and Idee Europa

3. Marcin Filipowicz, University of Hradec Králové/University of Warsaw: Misogyny in Czech Poetry at the Turn of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries?

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Panel 7: Interpreting the imperial past

Chair: Jörg Esleben, University of Ottawa

1. Maura Hametz, Old Dominion University: The Ghost of Sissi: The Empress Elizabeth in Trieste's Liberty Square

2. Judith Szapor, McGill University: The Making and Remaking of the Cult of Elizabeth in Hungary

3. Susan Ingram, York University: Czech Mates: Competing Habsburgian Presences at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exhibition

20:00 Concert by students from the Department of Music, University of Ottawa (Location:     Freiman Hall in Pérez Hall, 50 University Private )

Sunday, May 18:

9:00-10:30 Panel 8: Memories of the Empire and women's narratives

Chair: Wonneken Wanske, University of Ottawa

1. Andrea Petö, Central European University: Gendered Colonial Amnesia: Roots of Anti-Modernist Political Thoughts about the Habsburg Empire

2. Izabella Agárdi, Utrecht University: And the Story Moves On... 'Home' and Movement in the Narrative (Connections of Space, Intersubjectivity and Difference in Women's Memories)

3. Raluca Cernahoschi, University of British Columbia: Writing German /Writing Gender: Self-Identity in Post-War Romanian-German Literature Written by Women

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Panel 9: Borders and minorities

Chair: Jessica Allina-Pisano, University of Ottawa

1. Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University: Civilian Internment in Austria-Hungary during the First World War: A Violent Legacy?

2. Tina Bahovec, University of Klagenfurt: Engendering Borders: The Austro-Yugoslav Border Conflict after World War I

12:00-14:00 Catered lunch and round table discussion

Conference organizing committee:

Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa
Judith Szapor, McGill University
Laura Kealey, University of Ottawa
Wonneken Wanske, University of Ottawa

The conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Sheraton Ottawa Hotel
Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa
Austrian-Canadian Council
Austrian Cultural Forum
Department of Modern Languages, University of Ottawa
Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
Rákóczi Foundation
Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation
Embassy of Romania