organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG), the Autonomous Feminist Women's and Lesbian Department and the Autonomous Gay Department of the University of Oldenburg

Programme

Friday, 10.1.2003

13h-14h Arrival

14h Introduction

Thematic block: The heteronormative view

14h30-16h OPENING LECTURES:
Jutta Hartmann (University of Innsbruck): Normalising research
Bettina Bock v. Wülfingen (University of Bremen): Same-sex heterosexuality and the social power of testosterone

16h30-17h15
Jan Pinseler (Dresden University of Technology): Heterosexualisation or Demonisation. Forms of representation of heterosexual and non-heterosexual behaviour in investigative programmes

A. Thematic block: Entanglements of normative discourses

17h45-19h15

Nina Degele (University of Freiburg): "Making oneself beautiful" as heteronormative social behaviour
Christian Klesse (University of Essex /UK): Heteronormativity, Queer Non-monogamies, and Promiscuity Debates in the Gay Male and Bisexual Movements

B. Thematic Block: Beyond Dichotomies? Analyses of cultural stagings

17h45-19h15 (parallel)

Peter Wagenknecht (Berlin): The production of ambivalence
Lüder Tietz (University of Oldenburg): Gender stagings at the CSD in Cologne (project seminar 2001) - critical ethnological observations on the scope of the concept of heteronormativity

19h30-20h Interim conclusion

from 20h Buffet
Saturday, 11.1.2003

Thematic block: Self-movements. Analyses of subjective negotiation processes

9h15-10h45
Kristina Hackmann (University of Oldenburg): Changing search movements. Adolescent girls between homosexual and heterosexual desires and fantasies
Bettina Fritzsche (Freie Universität Berlin): "I love you, AJ!" - Negotiating heteronormative demands in the culture of pop fans

11h-11h45
Matthias Rudlof (Technische Universität Berlin): Heteronormativity as an object of critical reflection in gender-related youth work and its reproduction as implicit gender knowledge in the autobiographical and pedagogical practice of male social workers

11h45-12h45 Lunch break

12h45-14h15
Corinna Genschel (University of Potsdam): "You've got to reclaim your place 'in the world' one way or another". Contested subjectivity in and against hegemonic discourses of transsexuality
Ulrike Hänsch (Berlin): Heteronormativity and Eigensinn. Possibilities for action and constructions of meaning in the life stories of lesbian women

14h30-15h30 Final discussion and outlook

Bettina Fritzsche, Kristina Hackmann, Jutta Hartmann and Eske Wollrad will moderate the discussion on both days.

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Registration formalities

Please register by 6 December 2002.
Please send an email to Bettina Fritzsche (zoranied@zedat.fu-berlin.de) stating whether you would like to attend the buffet on the evening of 10 January (all-inclusive fee of 7 euros) and whether you agree to your email address being printed in the workshop handout.

Access routes to the University of Oldenburg

The workshop will take place at the University of Oldenburg, central area Ammerländer Heerstraße/Uhlhornsweg, building A5, room 0-054.

Access by car
Coming from the Oldenburg-Ost motorway junction, take the A28 towards Emden/Leer. Leave the motorway at the Haarentor/ Universität exit and turn right at the traffic lights onto Ammerländer Heerstraße. At the second set of traffic lights (after approx. 800 metres), turn left into Uhlhornsweg.

Access by public transport

Travelling by train
Take the train to Oldenburg main station and board one of the following bus lines at the back of the station at the ZOB:

Bus connection
At the central bus station and at the main transfer point "Lappan" in the city centre
o Line 306 "Universität", to "Universität/ Artillerieweg"
o Line 310 "Wehnen" to "Universität/Artillerieweg", on the opposite side of the road into Uhlhornsweg, 2 minutes on foot)
o Regional bus 350 "Westerstede" (as for line 310 "Wehnen")

A map of the central area Ammerländer Heerstraße/Uhlhornsweg of the University of Oldenburg can be found on the Internet at www.admin.uni-oldenburg.de/zufahrt/zentral.htm.

Overnight accommodation in Oldenburg

Antares-Hotel, Am Staugraben 8, 26122 Oldenburg, Tel. 0441-92250, Fax: -9225100, single room 75 Euro, double room 105 Euro

Hotel Harmonie, Dragonerstr. 59, 26135 Oldenburg, Tel. 0441-27704, Fax: -27706, single room 50 DM, double room 89 DM

Hotel Haus Ingeborg (non-smoking house) Brachvogelweg 27, 26133 Oldenburg, Tel. 0441-41084, Fax: -4860728, single room 68 DM, double room 98 DM

Hotel Sprenz, Heiligengeiststr. 15, 26121 Oldenburg, Tel. 0441-87033, Fax: -8859798, single room 50 DM, double room 125 DM

Zum schiefen Stiefel, Weißenmoorstr. 249, 26125 Oldenburg, Tel. 0441-303138, Fax: -301195, single room 75 DM, double room 110 DM

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