Programme:

9.20-9.30    Welcome and Opening Remarks by Clara Fischer (LSE)

9:30-11:00    Shame, Nation, Citizenship
Clara Fischer (LSE): “Revealing Ireland’s ‘Proper’ Heart: Gender, Nation, and the Politics of Shame”
Jill Locke (Gustavus Adolphus College): “Unashamed Citizenship”
Cecilia Macón (University of Buenos Aires): “Shame as Testimony: The Case of Sexual Violence Victims in the Crimes Against Humanity Trials”

11:00-11:30    Coffee
   
11:30-13:00    Gender, Race, Class
Gail Weiss (The George Washington University): “The Shame of Shamelessness”
Luna Dolezal (Durham University): “The Politics of Shame and Gender in Cosmetic Surgery”
Emma Casey (Kingston University): “Discourses of Shame in Working Class Women’s Narratives of Normative Gambling Consumption Practices”

13:00-14:00    Lunch

14:00-15:00    Keynote Address by Prof. Sally Munt (University of Sussex): “Argumentum ad Misericordiam – the Critical Intimacies of Victimhood”


15:00-15:30    Coffee

15:30-16:30    Shame, Gender, Activism
Donatas Paulauskas (Vilnius University): “How Vladimir Putin Became a Gay Icon: Shame as a Communal Resource for Queer Reparative Activism”
Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A.: “Countering Shame and Stigma: Pro-Choice Activism and the London-Irish Feminist Community”

16:30-16:45    Close