Women and Mountaineering / Frauen im Bergsport | Tagung

Workshop / Tagung
Wed. 21 to Fri. 23 November, 2018

Over the course of its development mountaineering/alpinism has experienced an outstanding linking with male values and concepts of (heroic) masculinity. As a result women mountaineers and their achievements were marginalized or downright disregarded. With its 2015 exhibition “Ich, am Gipfel. Eine Frauenalpingeschichte” (“Me, on Top. An Alpine History of Women”) Frauenmuseum Hittisau focused on the issue.

International experts on women/gender and alpine sports from Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Poland and Switzerland are going to attend the workshop “Women & Mountaineering” hosted by the museum. The lectures will be published in a special edition of the “International Journal of the History of Sport”.

In recent years a number of studies and books were dedicated to the issue of gender as category in mountaineering history analyzing gender relations and the circumstances of women mountaineers under new aspects. The workshop provides a platform for the presentation of the results and discussion in a circle of experts.

VENUE
FRAUENMUSEUM HITTISAU
Platz 501
6952 Hittisau
Austria

REGISTRATION
Registration is requested until November 19, 2018:
T +43 5513 620930
kontakt@frauenmuseum.at
www.frauenmuseum.at

ADMISSION
The admission is free.
The workshop will be held in English.
Der Workshop findet in englischer Sprache statt.

DRINKS, COFFEE & FOOD
Wednesday: Euro 25.-
Thursday: Euro 40.-
Friday: Euro 15.-
3 days: Euro 70.-

GETTING HERE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
from Dornbirn twice an hour with Landbus 41 or 40+25
from Bregenz twice an hour with Landbus 25 or 37+41
Further information at: vmobil.at

PROGRAM

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

14.30-15.45
Welcome and introduction
Short visit to the museum, coffee
Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra (Women‘s Museum Hittisau)
Frauenmuseum Hittisau. A Women‘s Museum in an Alpine Rural Area

16.00-16.45
Ingrid Runggaldier (Bolzano/Bozen)
Female Mountaineers in the Early History of Mountaineering

17.00-17.45
Clare Roche (Birbeck University of London)
A Different „Way of Beeing“. Women and Mountains

18.00
Dinner

19.00-21.00
Martina Gugglberger (University of Linz)
Expedition Films of Female Mountaineers:
The Example of the International Cho Oyu Women’s Expedition 1959

Thursday, November 22, 2018

09.30-10.15
Eric Boutroy (University of Lyon)
Female Rope-Teams: A Social Innovation between Emancipation and Domination

10.30-11.15
Eva Maurer (University of Bern)
Soviet and Western Women Climbers at the
Pamir International Mountaineering Camp 1974

11.30-12.15
Carol Osborne (Leeds Beckett University)
Gender and the Writing of Climbing History

12.30
Lunch Break

13.30
Trips to Nature (Wood Culture or Water Trail)

16.00-16.45
Karen Stockham (Plymouth Majoran University) „Home is just another range of mountains“:
Exploring Constructions of Home and the
Ideology of Domesticity in Selected Women’s Mountaineering Literature

17.00-17.45
Eva Roszkowska (University of Krakow)
„A woman will never be a real climber“.
An Outline of the History of Polish Female‘s Alpinism

19.00
Dinner (with „Kässpätzle“)

Friday, November 23, 2018

09.30-10.15
Gertrud Pfister (Copenhagen University)
A Woman, a Man and a Rope. Doing Gender in Mountaineering

10.30-11.15
Rosa Diketmüller (University of Vienna)
When Female Climbers Compete.
Gendered Stories about Successful Women „On the Top“

11.30-12.15
Annette Hofmann (Ludwigsburg University of Education)
Skiing, a Passion for Life:
Christl Cranz, the First Olympic Gold Medalist and the National Socialist Impact

12.15
Closing
Snacks and departure

ORGANISATION

Prof.in Dr.in Annette Hofmann,
Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany
ISHPES President, DTB Vice-President
Academic Editor Europe of IJHS
Assoz. Univ. Prof.in Martina Gugglberger
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra
Director of Women‘s Museum Hittisau, Austria