© Landeshauptstadt Mainz
ISCH Conference 2021
Cultures of Participation and Belonging
Online event, organized by Prof. Dr. Jörg Rogge, JGU Mainz,
September 2nd and 3rd, 2021
(all times given in GMT+1)
02.09.2021
13:00-13:30 Welcome and Introduction
13:30-14:30 Keynote
Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto), Insiders, Outsiders, and ...: Being Ambivalent in the Early Modern World
Chair: Alessandro Arcangeli (Verona)
14:45- 16:00
Panel 1: Language and Narratives of Belonging
Raina Zimmering (Berlin), Participation and belonging: the participatory wall painting of the indigenous Zapatistas in Mexico
Anna Seregina (Moskau), Belonging and Self-exclusion. The 17th-Century English Nuns Writing History.
Francesca Zantedeschi (Florenz/Fiesole), The ´Language of Belonging´. Philology in the Service of the French Nation.
Chair: Ecaterina Lung (Bucharest)
16:15-18:00
Panel 2: Roots of Cultural History
Ulrich Breuer (Mainz), Andreas Hütig (Mainz), Christine Waldschmidt (Aachen), Establishing a New Sphere of Knowledge: The Beginnings of Cultural History in the 18th Century.
Thor Rydin (Leiden), An Alternative Narrative of the Emergence of Cultural History: The ‘Stoic Historian’
Chair: Jörg Rogge (Mainz)
03.09.2021
13:00-13:30 General Assembly for All Members of ISCH
13:30-14:30 Keynote
Panikos Panayi (Leicester), London: Global City of Migration
Chair: Marina Montesano (Messina)
14:45-16:00
Panel 3: Gender Aspects of Belonging
Liisa Lalu (Turku), Personal and Political. Belonging and Gender in the Diary of a Young Communist Woman
Ineta Lipsa (University of Latvia), Shaping Male Homosexual Identities in Soviet Latvia. A Narrative of Belonging through the Diary of a Latvian Gay Man Kaspars Aleksandrs Irbe (1906-1996)
Leon Janssens (Leuven), The Porn Problem, From Indignation to Fear? Emotional Practices in the Belgian Parliamentary Debates about Pornography (1860-1911)
Chair: Dana Weber (Florida)
16:15-17:45
Panel 4: Ancient Greece and the LGBT Community
Filippo Carlá-Uhink (Potsdam), The Sacres Band of Thebes, or, a Gay ‘Invention of Tradition’
Vivian Colbert (Mainz), Wonder Woman and the Reception of Ancient Amazons among LGBTQI* Communities
Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Bangor), Representation of Ancient Greece, Travel and Transnational Contact among Gays and Lesbians in Western Europe 1960s-1980s
Florian Freitag (Essen), The Archival Afterlives of Beefcake Magazine
Chair: Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
18:00 Closing of the conference