Panel on “Disruptive Presences and Absences of the Female Body from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century” at AAAS Vienna 2025

Stefanie Schäfer and Antonia Purk will be part of a panel on “Disruptive Presences and Absences of the Female Body from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century” at this years annual conference of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2025 to be held in Vienna. Hosted by Antonia Purk (University of Mannheim) and Isabel Kalous (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), the panel focuses on the disruptive properties of the female body, examining its presence and absence and its in_visibility across a variety of contexts – from male-dominated spaces to textual spaces to visual art. By bringing together a variety of texts and media from different historical periods, the panel investigates how the female body has historically and contemporarily been staged as a force against hegemonic structures, epistemologies, and traditional concepts of masculinity and whiteness. Co-panelists are also Allison M. Stagg (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Dr. Katharina Wiedlack (University of Vienna).

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