In March 2015 over 500 women and men participated in the first international Marxist-Feminist conference. Some of the themes were: Revisiting and rethinking Marxist-Feminist theory, Intersectionality from a Marxist-Feminist perspective, Hegemonic Feminism as a servant of neoliberalism, the position of women in the care economy, globalisation, education and feminist theory in the global south, human-nature relationships. Speakers included: Frigga Haug, Gayatri C. Spivak, Saskia Sassen, Nira Yuval-Davis, Cynthia Cockburn, Erica Burman, Shahrzad Mojab, Tucker Pamella Farley, and many others. See the conference report by Ruth May and the article by Bärbel Danneberg.
The second conference, taking place in Vienna from 7-9 October 2016, will take up some of these themes again as well as discussing new ones. It will again be organised by the feminist section of InkriT (Berlin Institute of Critical Theory), transform! europe, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and many others.
Working languages: German and English
Further information: https://marxfemblog.wordpress.com/
For introduction and abstracts click here.
It’s free entry, open for all genders, please use the registration form on the right to register!
Austrian Cooperation Partners:
Akademie der Bildenden Künste/ Academy of Fine Arts
Femme Fiscale
Frauenhetz
Grüne Bildungswerkstatt
Grüne Frauen
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Institut für Soziologie
Institut für Internationale Entwicklung
KPÖ-Frauen
One Billion Rising Austria
Österreichischer Frauenring
Plattform 20000frauen
Referat Genderforschung der Universität Wien
Karl-Renner-Institut
transform.at
Wiener SPÖ-Frauen
Programme
| Time | Friday – Room 1: Mehrzwecksaal (MZS) Simultaneous translation English – German – English | Friday – Room 2: Ausstellungsraum
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| 08:30 – 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Introduction: Heidemarie Ambrosch, transform!europe; Eva Blimlinger, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Nora Räthzel, Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT) | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Room 1
Frigga Haug: Introduction into the Stream: Marxist-Feminist Theory (DE*) |
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| 11:00 – 12:30 | Marxist-Feminist Theory
Ligaya McGovern: Mainstreaming the Marxist Feminist Frame Jennifer Cotter: The Labor Theory of Gender Frieda Afary/Farzaneh Raji: Comparing and Contrasting Marxist-Feminist Theories Chair: Friederike Habermann |
Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Motherhood
Marie Reusch: Motherhood + Emancipation = Mission Impossible? Pınar Sarıgöl: Motherhood in the Neoliberal Family Corporation Chair: Birge Krondorfer |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | European Governance
Elisabeth Klatzer: Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Economic Governance in the EU Marina Gržinić: Marxist-Feminist Perspectives from Former Yugoslavia to Neoliberal Fascist Europe Birge Krondorfer: The Question of Education and the Lack of Critique in the European Education System (DE) Chair: Ruth May |
Marxist-Feminist Analyses of Racism
Carmen Teeple Hopkins: Secularism and Sexist Islamophobia in Quebec and France Jelena Petrović: What does (Il)legality Stand for Today? Stefanie Mayer/Edma Ajanovic/Birgit Sauer: Gender as Symbolic Glue for Right-Wing Actors Chair: Tucker P. Farley |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Marxist-Feminist Political Economy
Gabriele Michalitsch: A Feminist Critique of Political Economy Elmar Flatschart: Value-Form Theory and Feminism Friederike Habermann: Queering the World Altogether (DE) Chair: Käthe Knittler (tbc) |
Marxist-Feminist Theory
Jules Gleeson: The Byzantine Eunuch as a Pre-Modern Gender Category: a Test for Materialist Feminism Tine Haubner: Marxist-Feminist Theory of Exploitation Catia Gregoratti: Antonio Gramsci’s Feminist Questions Chair: Antje Géra |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Critical Theory and Marxist-Feminism
Flora Eder, Fe.ory Collective:The Eclipse of Gender and Reason: Adorno and Horkheimer, Subject, and the Relation of Sex and Gender Karin Stögner: “Race – Class – Gender” – an Inclusive Concept? Or: What has That got to Do with Israel? Barbara Umrath: Marxist-Feminist Theorizing as a Project of Continuous Critical Engagement with the Frankfurt School Internal chairing |
Marxist-Feminist Perspectives on Nature and Labour
https://www.transform-network.net/
Ariel Salleh: Marxism and Ecofeminism Nora Räthzel: Discussant and Chair
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| 19:00 – 19:30 | Break | |
| 19:30 – 21:00 | Location to be announced
Film Screening: Not Yet Over (Nichts ist erledigt)
Dir.: Kornelia Kugler and Hanna Bergfors/ Systrar Productions |
20:00 – 00:00: Reception and Party to Meet Vienna’s Social Democratic Women at: ega:frauen im zentrum
Windmühlgasse 26 A-1060 Wien |
| Time | Saturday – Room 1: Mehrzwecksaal (MZS)
Simultaneous translation English – German – English |
Saturday – Room 2: Ausstellungsraum
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | Room 1
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Introduction into the Stream: Feminist Organising beyond Europe |
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| 09:30 – 11:00 | Feminist Organising beyond Europe: the Global South
Ana González: Argentinian Feminist Movements Patrícia Trópia Vieira: Women in Brazil’s Trade Union Movement Khayaat Fakier/Jacklyn Cock: Reflections on Marxist–Feminist Organising in South Africa Chair: Antje Géra |
Marxist-Feminist Theory
Raphaële Chappe: Rosa Luxemburg: The Accumulation of Capital 100 Years Later Ankica Čakardić: Luxemburgian Critique of Political Economy: From the Theory of Accumulation to Social Reproduction Theory Trouble Everyday Collective (Ann Wiesental/Charlie Kaufhold): Analysing Capital and Gender Relations Using the Example of Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction Chair: Ruth May |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Feminist Organising beyond Europe: Middle East
Selin Çağatay: Feminist Struggles in the Middle East and North Africa Deniz Ulusoy: Oppression and Feminist Resistance in Turkey Feride Eralp: Decolonial Feminism and Women’s Organizing against War in Turkey/Syria Chair: Ines Schwerdtner |
Marxist-Feminist Analyses of and in Contemporary Capitalism
Ashley Bohrer: Capitalist Confinement: from Enclosures to Mass Incarceration Shannon Ikebe: Social Reproduction and the Crisis of Fordism Rebecca Carson: Indigenous Feminism and the Problem of Wave-Based Historical Determinism Chair: Flora Eder |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Feminist Organising beyond Europe: the USA
Ann Ferguson: Women’s Leadership, the Right to Care and Revolutionary Reforms in the United States Kathryn Russell: Alliances among Labor, Racial Justice and Environmental Activists: Love, Solidarity and Resistance Nancy Holmstrom: The Relationship between Political Practice and Theoretical Analyses Internal chairing |
Feminist Resistance against Fundamentalisms
Nira Yuval-Davis: Anti-Fundamentalism, Anti-Racism and Feminist Politics Pragna Patel: Fundamentalism, Cultural Relativism and Women’s Rights in the Context of the UK Gabriele Dietrich: A Flower on the Chain or a Tunnel towards Liberation? Chair: Catia Gregoratti |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Theses: Re-Foundation of Marxism-Feminism (Room 1: MZS)
Frigga Haug: Introduction into Theses (DE) Chairs and Discussants: Carina Klugbauer, Angela von Kampen Plenary discussion to decide about theses for a common Marxist-Feminist Manifesto |
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| 18:00 – 18:30 | Break | |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Cultural Programme
18.30 MZS: Cutting Edge, Fragment #3, Poltergeist arge blumen – a Viennese dialect translation of “les fleurs du mal” – is an artistic work community. Working from a feminist socio-critical perspective, Bauer and Lepold have developed a style characterized by elements of Butoh, intense physical expression, and involvement in contemporary issues. Together with the sound designer Andreas Wiesbauer, they will perform Fragment #3, Poltergeist, from their latest work, Cutting Edge. 19:00 Prospekthof: IN-VISIBLE-IN, a multi-media performance, especially produced for the 2nd International Marxism-Feminism-Conference 2016 in Vienna by Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki and visual artist starsky, uses common clichés and patterns in order to break and deconstruct them and to evoke multi-layered emotional spaces of association. |
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| Time | Sunday – Room 1: Mehrzwecksaal (MZS)
Simultaneous translation English- German – English |
Sunday – Room 2: Ausstellungsraum |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Marxist-Feminist Analyses of Work
Paula Mulinari/Rebecca Selberg: The Anti-Work Concept and the Marxist- Feminist Concept of Work Diana Mulinari/Nora Räthzel: Three Gender Regimes in Three Countries at one Transnational Corporation Hannah Schultes/Verena Letsch: Recognition of Reproductive Workers – Battlefield or Pitfall? Chair: Nancy Holmstrom |
Marxist-Feminist Organising in Europe
Annabelle Bonnet: Women in the French Trade Union Movement Feminist Organising in Spain: Confirmation pending Marianthi Anastasiadou: Marxism-Feminism/Feminism-Marxism in Greece Today: Old Obstacles, New Challenges Chair: Elisabeth Klatzer |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Diversity, Intersectionality: Practice and Theory
Tucker P. Farley: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality and Lesbian-Led Movements Globally Monica Quirico: Self-Government and Self-Organization Zoe Sutherland/Marina Vishmidt: Difference and the Universal in Legacies of Feminism Chair: Eva Egermann |
Contested Identity and Contested Nature
Workshop with: Uta von Winterfeld, Adelheid Biesecker, Sarah Breitenbach Internal chairing |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | End of Conference – Feedback – Preparation of Next Conference | |
| Workshops in Open Spaces: Times and Spaces to be Announced at the Conference
+Eva Egermann/Doris Arztmann/Jonah I. Garde/Elisabeth Magdlener: Talking Crip with Marxism-Feminism +Feminist Section of the Critical Historical Dictionary of Marxism: Presentation of the Project, Call for Authors +Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki / OBRA – One Billion Rising Austria: Break the Chain / Dancing for Activism |
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* DE = Contribution in German with simultaneous translation into English
Contributions without a symbol will be in English with simultaneous translation into German if they are in Room 1 (MZS)
This programme is subject to change without notice | Kurzfristige Programmänderungen vorbehalten