Join CENES’s Dr. Gaby Pailer and Tilman Venzl (LMU Munich) for a hybrid symposium on the works of Hedwig Dohm.
The event is dedicated to the German-Jewish writer and activist Dohm (1831-1919), whose lifelong work paved way for our modern feminist, pacifist, democratic, and human rights movements, also anticipating gender, queer, and intersectional perspectives and practices in her various genres and styles of writing.
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Arts and the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies; Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich, Germany; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Program
The hybrid event is free and open to the public, and combines in-camera and online presentations. We welcome the audience to join us in the Green College Coach House or to attend presentations online. Refreshments will be served.
Please note that most presentations are in English, and some will be in German (*).
Hedwig Dohm’s Feminism, Aesthetics, and Political Philosophy
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
- 9:00 am: Gaby Pailer (UBC) and Tilman Venzl (LMU), Land Acknowledgement and Brief Introduction
- 9:15 am: Ervin Malakaj (UBC), UBC–CENES Welcome Note
- 9:30 am: Tilman Venzl (LMU), Dohm’s Political Philosophy of Democracy
- 10:15 am: Elisabeth Weiß-Sinn (U Würzburg), Caring, Calculating, Withdrawing: Hedwig Dohm’s Aesthetic Modernism and the Widow as ‘Femina oeconomica’ in “Werde, die du bist”
- 11:00 am: Annette Kliewer (Wissembourg), Streit in der Frauenbewegung: Hedwig Dohm und Lou Andreas-Salomé in politischen und ästhetischen Stellungnahmen*
Hedwig Dohm’s Writing Styles and Literary Strategies
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- 1:00 pm: Gaby Pailer (UBC), Colonized within the Empire: Hedwig Dohm’s Sibilla Dalmar (1896) in Reference to George Sand’s Indiana (1832), and Theodor Fontane’s L’Adultera (1882).
- 1:45 pm: Magdalini Makres (LMU), “Mein Herz ist kein Asyl für obdachlose Gefühle.“ Ironie in Hedwig Dohms dramatischem Werk*
- 2:30 pm: Gaby Pailer with CENES Students and Graduates Sarah Blackwood, Emmett Mark, and Sebi Singh, Group presentation outlining our planned special issue of the CENES student journal Augenblick
- 3:15 pm: Concluding discussion
How to Attend
This symposium is a hybrid event. Attendees can join in-person at the Green College Coach House located at 6201 Cecil Green Park Rd, or via Zoom (meeting ID: 853 9954 7508 / Passcode: 5LS5qB).
Questions can be directed to Dr. Pailer.