Shame and Vigilance
Interdisziplinärer Workshop des SFB 1369 Vigilanzkulturen
The workshop aims to examine different areas of the dynamics between shame and vigilance. If you wish to attend please register in advance at luis.schaefer@lmu.de.
Programm
Wednesday, 7th October 2026
10.00 Opening of the venue
10.30 BRENDAN RÖDER and LUIS SCHÄFER (LMU Munich)
Opening Statement
10.45 Chair: BRENDAN RÖDER (LMU Munich)
SARAH SCHARRER (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Schame: Between Seeing and Concealing. Semantic Constellations of Vigilance
in the Work of Konrad von Würzburg
LUIS SCHÄFER (LMU Munich)
Shame or Vigilance? The Exegesis of the Biblical Dinah in Medieval and Early
Modern Literature
12.15 Lunch break
13.45 Chair: MARIACARLA GADEBUSCH BONDIO (University of Bonn)
VIRGINIA BURRUS (Syracuse University New York)
The Virgin Martyr and the Holy Harlot: Shame Between Purity and Abjection
LOUISA BERGOLD (University of Oxford)
Virtue and Wifely Chastity in Reformation Interpretations of Lucretia
15.15 Coffee break
15.45 Chair: MARTINA RAVAIOLI (University of Bonn)
KORINNA GONSCHOREK (LMU Munich)
Adoptive Fathers and Embarrassed Sons. Status and Public Gaze in Medieval
Romance
CASSANDRE VOLERY (Université de Fribourg)
Dynamics of Vigilance, Blame and Shame over Ante- and Perinatal Infant
Deaths in the Old Swiss Confederacy, 17th–18th centuries
17.15 Break
18.00 Chair: BEATE KELLNER (LMU Munich)
UTE FREVERT (Max Planck Institute Berlin)
Shame and Shaming in Modern History
19.30 Get-together
Thursday, 8th October 2026
9.00 Chair: LUIS SCHÄFER (LMU Munich)
JUDITH KLINGER (University of Potsdam)
Vigilance Shamed: Unsettled Observation, Transgressive Possibilities
JÖRG WETTLAUFER (Göttingen Digital Academy)
On Vigilance and Women. Preserving Honor and Preventing Shame in Late
Medieval Urban Law
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Chair: PIA FUSCHLBERGER (LMU Munich)
KLAUS BJÖRN BUSCHBECK (University of Zurich)
Aware of Dishonor: Shame, Vigilance, and Invectivity in Hartmann’s Erec and
Iwein
LAURA SCHIAVONE (LMU Munich)
Shame and Hierarchies of Knowledge in an Early Modern Miscarriage Trial
(Bologna, 1711)
12.30 SUSANNE REICHLIN (LMU Munich)
Closing Statement
12.45 End of Workshop
Einlass ist ab 9.30 Uhr bis maximal zum Veranstaltungsbeginn. Der Zugang zum Haus ist nicht barrierefrei.
Die Veranstaltungen werden mit Foto und Video dokumentiert. Mit Ihrer Teilnahme erklären Sie sich mit der Aufzeichnung und deren Nutzung im Rahmen der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit des Historischen Kollegs einverstanden.
