Programme

“Nightwalking Hamburg: Freedom, Fears & Thrills”

A performative walk led by Clare Qualmann (University of East London) & Dee Heddon (University of Glasgow) [for speakers only]

Welcome and Introduction
Sandra Dinter (University of Hamburg)

Keynote Lecture: “The Future Histories of Women’s Walking”
Kerri Andrews (Author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, 2020)

Panel 1: Early Representations of Walking Women
Chair: Susanne Rupp (University of Hamburg)

André Otto (Humboldt University of Berlin): “The Roaming Girl. Isabella Whitney’s Will to the City”

Lindsay Reid (University of Galway): “Eurymine’s Wanderings and Daphne’s Flight in The Maid’s Metamorphosis (1600)”

Danica Stojanovic-Schaffrath (University of Graz): “The Streets as Sites of Empowerment: Revising the Perspectives on Female Flâneurs in Eighteenth-Century Classics by Women Novelists”

Panel 2: Women Walkers in the Nineteenth Century

Chair: Sophia Jochem (Independent Scholar)

Trish Bredar (Northwestern University): “‘A Pair of Thoroughly Comfortable Shoes’: Gender Identity and Pragmatic Fashion Among Nineteenth-Century Women Walkers” 

Jochen Petzold (University of Regensburg): “‘Take Plenty of Open-Air Walking, but Be Careful to Avoid Over-Fatigue’: Walking Women in the Girl’s Own Paper” 

Panel 3: Women’s Walking in the Early Twentieth Century

Chair: Sébastien Tremblay (University of Flensburg)

Jacqueline Kolditz (University of Vechta): “‘A Girl Does Not Go Alone in the World Unchallenged’: Exploring the Hazards and Liberating Aspects of Walking in H.G. Wells’ Ann Veronica”

Naomi Walker (Open University): “Women Walking the Rural Space in the Works of Mary Webb (1881-1927) and Beatrice Tunstall (1889-1966)”

Panel 4: Disability, Illness, and Women’s Walking

Chair: Ute Berns (University of Hamburg)

Kristen Pond (Baylor University): “Wild Roving and Helpless Sickness: The Liberties and Constraints of Disability and Gender in Women’s Walking”

Polly Atkin (Grasmere), Anneke Lubkowitz (Münster), Annie Rutherford (Edinburgh): “‘No Prisoner Am I on This Couch. My Mind Is Free to Roam’: Mobility and Chronic Illness in Dorothy Wordsworth and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff”

Panel 5: Female Walking as Activism in the Twenty-First Century

Chair: Sandra Dinter (University of Hamburg)

Rebecca Macklin (University of Aberdeen): “Refusal as Collective Motion: Embodied Feminist Resistance for a Post-Oil Future”

Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah (University of Warwick): “The Theatrical Public Sphere and Women Walking Against Climate Injustices in the Niger Delta of Nigeria” 

Julia Boll (University of Konstanz): “The Potential of Presence: The Radical Activism of Maya Rao’s Walk”

Panel 6: Women’s Walking on Screen

Chair: Ilka Brasch (University of Hamburg)

Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent): “Towpaths, Rail Tracks and Bus Routes: The Contributions of Women Screenwriters to British Film Psychogeography”

Angela Jouini (Free University Berlin): “Walking/Working/Filming the Streets of Los Angeles”

Fiona Handyside (University of Exeter): “Fear of Flat Feet: Barbie and Walking”

Panel 7: Narrating Women’s Walking in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Chair: Christina Meyer (University of Hamburg)

Nina Bannett (New York City College of Technology, CUNY): “Solitary Walking as Protest in Jamie Quatro and Rahawa Haile”

Sylvia Mieszkowski (University of Vienna): “Mary Anning’s Walking Towards Cultural Visibility”

Sarah Heinz (University of Vienna): “‘Hush Now. Walk.’ – Walking and/as Home in Sarah Moss’ The Fell”

Panel 8: Postcolonial Perspectives on Female Walking in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Art

Chair: Johanna Pelikan (University of Hamburg)

Priyam Goswami Choudhury (University of Potsdam): “‘Walk the World’s Bleary Eye Like Grit’: The Politics of Walking and Stasis in Kamala Das’s Poetry”

Dustin Breitenwischer (University of Hamburg): “‘The Tunnels Had Protected Her’: Kara Walker, Colson Whitehead, and the Poetics of Negative Space”