WG Feminist Research

Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 2201}

Conveners: Elaine Aston (Lancaster University, UK), Sue Ellen Case (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

• Elin Diamond (Rutgers University, USA):
  Churchill, Agamben, and the Problem of Affect
• Shonagh Hill (Queen's University of Belfast, UK):
  Embodying Hope. The "Tender Gesture" in Paula Meehan's Mrs. Sweeney
• Nobuko Anan (University of Warwick, UK):
  Japanese Women's Pop Cultural Performances
• Elaine Aston (Lancaster University, UK):
  Calendar Girls and the Affective Pleasures of Woman Behaving "Badly"
• Antje Budde (University of Toronto, Canada):
  Site-Specific Theater, Urban Culture and the History of Beauty Pageants
• Bishnupriya Dutt (Calcutta University, India):
  Terrorism, the Nation, and the Actress in Performance. Ibsen's Women as Contemporary Indian Subjects
• Janelle Reinelt (University of Warwick, UK):
  Guilty Pleasures. Heterosexual Icons of a Certain Age
• Christina Svens (Umeå University, Sweden):
  The Performance of Nisti Sterk
• Asha Pande (University of Rajasthan, India):
  Woman Directors. Interculturalism and Repositioning of Gender in Modern Indian Theatre
• Jung-Soon Shim (Soongsil University, Korea):
  Popularizing Mother-Daughter Emotions in Recent Korean Woman's Theater

_{Please contact your conveners for programme details.}