Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
Cultural Specificity and the (In)visibility of Old Age across Film Cultures
It is often said that women become invisible in society after a certain age. However, ageing women have certainly become more visible in European cinema over the last two decades. But how do filmmakers from different parts of Europe negotiate the visibility of ageing women on screen?
Screening
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus Media Room 7.214
2022, Comedy Drama, Dir. Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević
The film is divided into three chapters, three acts that follow three different lives of a middle-aged woman of the same name – Draginja.
GRADE Center Gender
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften (SKW) 02-A0101
Ein Komplex aus Architektur und (Stadt-)Landschaft, Gebäuden und Gelände und Wegen, die diese miteinander verbinden. Täglich kommen und gehen Hunderte von Menschen, verbringen hier ihre Zeit. Was machen sie an und mit diesem Ort? Was macht dieser Ort mit ihnen?
Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
The Double Standard of Ageing On-screen
Age has always been a factor of great sensitivity in the careers of screen actors. In 1957, Edgar Morin wrote that beauty and youth are the inseparable requirements of film stars.
Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
Figures of Authority, Goddesses of Wisdom, or Mad Rebels, and/or Societal Waste?
In spite of their peripheral situatedness and scarce(er) resources, 21st century European small national cinemas are overrepresented as far as the moving image-based, narrative fictional articulation of the ageing, childless, or infertile woman, fighting an ecological(ly) inspired ‘war’, is concerned.
Screening
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus Media Room 7.214
2018, Adventure Comedy Drama, Director Benedikt Erlingsson
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry.
GRADE Center Gender
As speaker of the GRADE Center Gender, Prof.in Sarah Speck cordially invites you to the networking meeting for GRADE Gender members.
Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
Ageing as Screen Performance
In recent years, several European films released in movie theaters have cast middle-aged stars in order to portray characters of an older age: relevant examples that come to mind are Alex Lutz playing a washed-up pop singer in Guy (Alex Lutz, 2018), Tilda Swinton embodying her character’s mother in The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022
Screening
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus Media Room 7.214
2018, Comedy Drama Music, Dir. Alex Lutz
Gauthier, a young journalist, learns through his mother that he's the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, an aging French pop singer who was famous from the '60s to the '90s.
Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
Masculinity and Ageing in a Transnational European Context
The decade of the 2010s and the early 2020s have witnessed the release of several high-profile films in different European countries which featured male protagonists over 60 years of age who were faced with reformulations of their notions of maleness and masculinity and subsequent losses of meaning.
Screening
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus Media Room 7.214
2019, Drama, Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
PAIN AND GLORY tells of a series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas), a film director in his physical decline.
Panel discussion
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
A Dialogue between Gerontology and Cinema Studies
One of the most important characteristics of contemporary societies has been the emergence of the visual and the virtual. Age itself has become a visual phenomenon - whereby the older people, women in particular, have become more strongly defined by their appearance.
Screening
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe Uni, Campus Westend, IG-Farben-Haus Media Room 7.214
2006, Comedy Drama, Dir. Bettina Oberli
The movie centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841109/)
Colloquium, Discussion, Series of lectures
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
Theorizing Labor With and Against Nature
Eco-Marxist and Marxist feminist thought frequently draws analogies between unwaged reproductive labor and the unvalued activities of nonhuman nature. But what is the basis of this analogy?
Colloquium, Discussion, Series of lectures
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Restorying the (M)Anthropocene
In her prologue to their dialogical text Through Vegetal Being (2016), Luce Irigaray writes to Michael Marder that “coexistence with vegetal being – I could almost say: this vegetal existence – keeps me alive and secretly goes with my words” (7).
Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.191
Theorizing Gender(ed) Violence
A Case Study of Conflict-related Sexual Violence
Over the last twenty years, conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) has become a conspicuous concern of academics, activists, and practitioners. However, fundamental conceptual and political problems are also increasingly visible in the field. I suggest that we now need to turn our attention to knowledge production about gender-based violence.
Talk
Cornelia Goethe Colloquia
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, PEG 1.G191
I consider the trope of “bad feelings”, set out in this lecture series, to explore the dynamics of shame in contemporary American women’s fiction.
Conversation
Angela Davis Guest Professorship
Guest professor Ann Phoenix
The fireside conversation is aimed at (PhD) students of the GRADE Centre Gender, interested parties from the administration and management of Goethe University as well as activists of queer-feminist, anti-racist initiatives. The discussion will be moderated by Marianne Schmidbaur and Vanessa Eileen Thompson.