Panels and Keynotes

The panels and keynotes will deal with the following issues, among others:

• The representation of women in public space;
• Discursive constructions of women in leading positions and on the political stage;
• East-West politics regarding gender relations;
• Religious and political aspects of gender – intersectionality, body and citizenship/nationality;
• Right-wing populism and gender;
• Gender-equality in language;
• Viscourses and gender – ImagePolitics;
• Issues and political strategies of QueerLinguistics;

We have been able to invite some of the most prominent scholars and researchers who have dealt extensively with these topics: women who have proposed paradigm shifts in research.

4 Keynotes:

• Deborah Tannen (Georgetown,Washington): ‘Beyond Sexism: Why Journalists always Write about Women's Hair and Clothes - and probably always will’
• Luise F. Pusch (Germany): 'Feminist Linguistics as Entertainment'
• Helga Kotthoff (Freiburg, Germany): ‘Indexing Gender in Mothers’ Stories  in the Context of Parent-Teacher-Conferences’
• Stephanie Schnurr (Warwick, UK): 'Challenging Hegemonic Femininities: The Discourse of Trailing Spouses in Hong Kong'

5 Panel(organiser)s:

• Birgit Sauer (‘Framing Religious Difference and Gender. Intersectionality, Citizenship and Body Politics’)
• Natalia Krzyżanowska (‘Gender, Language and Politics – East and West’)
• Martin Stegu (Discrimination through Language: Feminist and Queer Positions)
• Eva Flicker/ Elisabeth Holzleithner ( ‘Gender and Visual Politics in TV-Series’)
• Tuija Saresma (Right-wing Populism, Discourse, and Gender)