BTWS #3

Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility:

Vulnerable Positions and Positioning in Society

Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility:

Vulnerable Positions and Positioning in Society
A Conference Series on Contradictory Discourses of Marginality
Bremen-Turku-Warsaw-Stockholm Series on Studies in Discourse and Contradiction
BTWS Series 2018–2022 | #3

March 25th. - 27th. 2021, Warsaw, Poland, Institute of Intercultural and Specialized
Communication, University of Warsaw [online]

Thursday, March 25th 2021

9.00-9.15 Welcome
PROF. ZYGMUNT LALAK – Vice-Rector for Research (Univeristy of Warsaw)
PHD, DSC JULIA KUBISA - Equal Opportunities Chief Specialist (Univeristy of
Warsaw)
PROF. EWA ŻEBROWSKA - Vice-Dean for Scientific Research (Faculty of Applied
Linguistics, University of Warsaw)
PROF. ELŻBIETA JAMROZIK – Head of Institute of Specialized and Intercultural
Communication (Faculty of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw)

I - DISCOURSES OF LEGAL VULNERABILITY AND VULNERABILITY OF THE BODY

(Moderation: Ingo H. Warnke, Carsten Junker)

9.15-10.00 MITCHELL TRAVIS (University of Leeds): Nobody, Anybody, Somebody and

Everybody: A Jurisprudence of the Body (keynote-lecture)
10.00-10.30 JOANNA OSIEJEWICZ (University of Warsaw): Vulnerability under the law: a
challenge in the field of legal communication
10.30-11.00 DENNIS WILKE (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz): Childhood studies and
the interrelation of vulnerability and agency. Reflections on the relevance of
corporeality, affectionability and responsivity following the phenomenology of
Bernhard Waldenfels

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11.00-11.30 HANNA ACKE & LEENA MARIA HEIKKOLA (Åbo Akademi University): Vulnerability and
educational equity: PISA 2018 in Finnish and German media discourses
11.30-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-12.10 SIMONE KNEWITZ (University of Münster): #WhiteTears: Whiteness and Affect in
Contemporary U.S. Liberal Discourse
12.10-12.40 KENDRA WILLSON (University of Turku): Rhetoric of vulnerability in Icelandic
personal name law discourse
12.40-13.10 JOANNA PĘDZISZ (University UMCS, Lublin): Zur Wahrnehmung von Vulnerabilität
im ästhetischen Tanzdiskurs
13.10-14.10 DISCUSSION
14.10-15.15 Lunch

II - VULNERABILITY OF THE MIND

(Moderation: Silvia Bonacchi)

15.15-16.00 MICHAEL BUCHHOLZ (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin):

Vulnerability and courage in psychoanalytic treatment rooms – the
conversational turn in sight (keynote-lecture)
16.00-16.30 PAULA MUHR (Humboldt University Berlin): The Biologically Vulnerable Brain:
Insight Emerging from fMRI-Based Hysteria Research
16.30-17.00 EKATERINA TOKALOVA (Charity Foundation Anton’s right here, St. Petersburg):
Multiple Vulnerabilities in the Discourse Around Autism in Saint-Petersburg
17.00-17:10 Coffee break
17.10-17.40 (POSTERS)
Breakout room 1: Breakout room 2:
ANASTASIJA SMIRNOVA (University of Latvia): MASCHA HELENE LANGE (University of Leipzig):
Understanding of Social Responsibility and Chanel Miller’s Know My Name and (the Art
Assistance: Term “Disabled” mentioning in the of) Vulnerable World Making
Latvian Press

17.40-18.10 BORIS SCHWENCKE (University of Warsaw): Vulnerability - An Artist's Perspective

18.10-19.10 DISCUSSION
19.10-20.30 Virtual Sightseeing of Warsaw in Discovery Paths

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Friday, March 26th 2021

III - DOING VULNERABLE AND STAGING VULNERABILITY

(Moderation: Kamila Miłkowska-Samul, Charlotta Seiler Brylla, Carsten Junker)

9.15-10.00 PASCAL NICKLAS (Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz): Vulnerability and

Resilience (keynote-lecture)
10.00-10.30 EVGENIIA KUZINER (National Research University HSE, Saint Petersburg): The
house of homeless women and coping strategies they use on the street
10.30-11.00 EKATERINA B. REPINA (Laboratory of Anthropological Linguistics, Institute for
Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg): Waltzing
through a minefield: Feminine as a given and as a mockery among Russian-
speakers
11.00-11.10 Coffee break
11.10-11.40 JOANNA SZCZĘK & MARCELINA KAŁASZNIk (University of Wrocław): Verletzbarkeit im
öffentlichen Raum am Beispiel der Banner und Plakate während der
Demonstrationen der Frauenstreiks in Polen
11.40-12.10 CHRISTOPHER SCHMIDT (Åbo Akademi University): Das Eigene und das Fremde in
der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Corona-Virus im Rahmen des
Migrationsdiskurses
12.10-12.40 HRISTO KYUCHUKOV (Roma Center, Roma Research Centre University of Silesia,
Katowice): The Gypsies brought the virous and spread it! Hate speech towards
Roma during Pandemic crises
12.40-13.10 KRYSTIAN SUCHORAB (University of Wrocław): Verletzen beim Kommentieren: Zu
den Bezeichnungen für Flüchtlinge am Beispiel der deutschen und polnischen
Internetkommentare zur Flüchtlingsproblematik
13.10-14.10 DISCUSSION
14.10.-15.15 Lunch
Breakout room 1:
Unofficial talk with the artist BORIS SCHWENCKE

15.15-15.45 NINA SARAH HOLZSCHUH (University of Tübingen): Gender-specific narrative forms

of vulnerability in the Middle High German Nibelungenlied
15.45-16.15 KATHARINA MUCHA (Ruhr University Bochum): Facets of storytelling – On the
characters’ vulnerability or fragility

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16.15-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00 JARA SCHMIDT & JULE THIEMANN (University of Hamburg): Female Flanerie as
Countermovement: an Intermedial Stroll
17.00-17.30 IZABELA OLSZEWSKA (University of Gdansk): Das ist Jude! - The apperance as a
source of the marginalization of cultural minority on the example of The
Ringelblum Archive: A linguistic analysis
17.30-18.30 DISCUSSION
18.30-20.00 POLIN - An Encounter with Jewish Culture

Saturday, March 27th 2021

IV - A DIALOGUE ABOUT THE NARRATIVES OF VULNERABILIT

(Moderation: Hanna Acke, Charlotta Seiler Brylla)

9.15-10.00 CARSTEN JUNKER (TU Dresden) & TOMASZ BASIUK (University of Warsaw):
Conceptualizing Vulnerability in Cultural Historiography: Carsten Junker in
Conversation with Tomasz Basiuk (keynote-lecture)
10.00-10.30 HERBERT ROSTAND NGOUO (University of Maroua): Historic Trauma in the
Discourse of Vulnerable Masses in Africa on the Backdrop of Covid-19
10.30-11.00 NATALIE RAUSCHER (University of Heidelberg): Narratives of Vulnerability and
Resilience in Media Discourses around Natural Catastrophes in the United
States
11.00-11.30 FIEN DE MALSCHE (University of Antwerp): I’m not very Chinese: (De)constructing
identity in conversation with an adult third-culture kid
11.30-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-12.10 JOANNA SZCZĘK (University of Wrocław): Bitte nicht böse sein! – Zum verletzenden
Potential der Absageformulierungen in deutschen Absageschreiben auf
Bewerbungen
12.10-12.40 ALEKSANDRA LIDZBA (University of Wrocław): Zum Verletzbarkeitspotential der
Tiernamen im Deutschen und im Polnischen
12.40-13.40 FINAL DISCUSSION

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Information: vulnerability2020.uw.edu.pl

Contact:
Silvia Bonacchi, s.bonacchi@uw.edu.pl
Mateusz Patera, mateusz.patera@uw.edu.pl

Organisation:
Silvia Bonacchi, University of Warsaw, s.bonacchi@uw.edu,pl
Ingo H. Warnke, University of Bremen, iwarnke@uni-bremen.de
Charlotta Seiler Brylla, University of Stockholm, charlotta.brylla@tyska.su.se
Hanna Acke, Åbo Akademi University, hanna.acke@abo.fi
Carsten Junker, Technische Universität Dresden, carsten.junker@tu-dresden.de

Onsite address:
Institute of Intercultural and Specialized Communication
University of Warsaw
ul. Szturmowa 4
02-678 Warsaw
Telephone: + 48 22 55 34 248
Website: iksi.uw.edu.pl

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