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.
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
Information
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.
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
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
