Conferences
Conference papers:
coming up October 2010
1st Annual and Founding Conference of the Association for Research
in the Fantastic: "Strange Worlds - Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in
the 21st Century"
University of Hamburg, Germany
Paper: "I'm a late-twenty-first-century-techno-crone": Bodies
and Subjectivities in Cyberpunk"
April
2005
Participation in the PhD class “The Body in Feminist Theory and Practice”
Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands
November
2004
6. Interdisziplinäre, internationale Graduiertenkonferenz:
“Grenz//Gänge - Border//Crossings”
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany
Paper: Bodies, Borders and Metamorphoses in Sterling’s Holy Fire
March
2004
1st Annual Kogakuin University/University of Limerick International Conference
of Science and Humanities:
“Postmodernism: The Global Movement”
Tokyo, Japan (gefördert durch die DFG)
Paper: The Body in Flux: Towards a Multifaceted Understanding of a Complex
Phenomenon
November
2003
Participation in the PhD Master Class “Computing the Human” with
Prof. N. Katherine Hayles
Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Paper: Complexities of the Body
August
2003
1st International Conference:
“Visions of the Human in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction”
Prague, Czech Republic
Paper: The Female Body in Bruce Sterling’s Cyberpunk Novel Holy
Fire
November 2002
“Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for America Studies (DGfA)”
University of Leipzig, Germany
Paper: Body and Cyberpunk
November 2002
5. Interdisziplinäre, internationale Graduiertenkonferenz:
“PostModerne De/Konstruktionen - PostModern De/constructions”
Friedrich-Alexander-University Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany
Paper: Technological Constructions of the Female Body
June/July 2002
4th International Conference
“Crossroads in Cultural Studies”
University of Tampere, Finland
Session organiser: ‘Bodies, Technology, Aesthetics: New Imag(in)ings,
New Experiences?’
November 2000
5th Interdisciplinary and International Symposium on Gender Research:
“The Nature of Gender – The Gender of Nature”
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Paper: A Postmodern Analysis of Lara Croft: Body and Identity
April 2000
“Changing Frames of Representation: From Classicism to Postmodernism”
University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany
Paper: Framing Lara Croft
Conference Attendance:
2000
3. Interdisziplinäre, internationale Graduiertenkonferenz: “PostModerne
Produktionen: Text – Macht – Wissen // PostModern Productions: text
- power – knowledge”, University Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany
2000
4th European Feminist Research Conference: “Body, Gender, Subjectivity:
Crossing Borders of Disciplines and Institutions”, Bologna, Italy
2003
“The Body as Interface: Dialogues between the Disciplines”, University
of Bonn, Germany
2003
“Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction”,
University of Paderborn, Germany
2003
Inaugural Landau-Paris Symposium on the Eighteenth Century (LAPASEC): “Representation
in the 18th Century”, University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany
2005
3rd Landau-Paris Symposium on the Eighteenth Century (LAPASEC): “Ruins”,
University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany