BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14850-ab79dc00146d1966c597d6dd8d2b90d0@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260929T194551Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T103000 SUMMARY:The Sawyer Seminar Series: Birthing the Nation presents a Hybrid Researc h Seminar: Ruth Wodak DESCRIPTION:\n"Analysing the “Gender Backlash” in Austrian Popular Cultu re: Back to Dirndls and Lederhosen"\n\nAs extreme right positions are in creasingly shamelessly normalised\, the gender and body politics of extr eme right parties and movements have already entered mainstream discours es and popular culture (Lehner & Rheindorf 2019\; Rheindorf & Wodak 2019 \; Wodak 2021a\, b\, 2024). In Austria\, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) has lon g provided a populist front stage for extreme right gender and body poli tics and has recently been successful not only in elections but also in gaining wider social acceptance. Indeed\, current coalition negotiations with the national-conservative party ÖVP may lead to a government\, wit h the FPÖ’s leader Herbert Kickl as prime minister\, after the FPÖ’s vic tory at the Austrian national election on 29th September 2024.\n\nArguab ly\, this success is partly due to the strategic mitigation of their pub lic rhetorics\, while their ideology has remained unchanged but is conti nuously reworded and recontextualised\, specifically after the COVID-pan demic. The COVID-19 pandemic was instrumentalised by the far-right which presented itself as the “defenders” of “democracy” and “freedom” agains t the “measures” of the then government\, labelled as “Corona-dictatorsh ip” (i.e.\, flip-siding\; Krzyżanowski & Krzyżanowski 2024). In this way \, the far-right is involved in “symbolic politics”\, a “culture war” wh ile reframing public discourses about health\, climate\, migration\, gen der\, and culture.\n\nIn this lecture\, I will analyze one dimension of the “culture war”\, the vehement and polemical debates about the “normal ” popular culture while employing the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA ) in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) (Reisigl & Wodak 2016\, Rheindorf 2019\; Wodak & Rheindorf 2022). The most prominent intersection of the p arty politics and popular culture in Austria have been the performances of the controversial musician Andreas Gabalier. Updating and popularisin g the Volksmusik-genre for young and urban audiences\, Gabalier has cons istently drawn on traditional\, even anachronistic\, gender and body pol itics in interviews\, songs\, lyrics\, stage performances\, speeches and social media posts. Here\, I will offer a cross-sectional investigation  of current extreme right gender politics through analysing on the one h and programmatic publications of the FPÖ as well as public performances of FPÖ-politicians and\, on the other hand\, Gabalier’s performances of various kinds.\n\nReferences\n\nBeverlander\, P. & Wodak\, R. (eds) (201 9) Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist\, Nationalist\, and Gl obal Challenges\, Lund: Nordic Academic Press.\nKrzyżanowski\, M. & Krzy żanowski\, N. (2024) ‘Conceptual Flipsiding in/and Illiberal Imagination –Towards a Discourse-Conceptual Analysis. Journal of Illiberalism Studi es 4(2): 33-46.\nLehner\, S. & M. Rheindorf (2019) ‘Gender and body poli tics of the extreme right in Austria. Party politics meets popular cultu re’. In Bevelander\, P. & R. Wodak\, eds.\, 181-206.\nReisigl\, M. & Wod ak\, R. (2016) ‘The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)’\, in Wodak\, R. & Meyer\, M. (eds)\, Methods of Critical Discourse Studies\, 3rd ed.\, Los Angeles: Sage\, 23–61.\nRheindorf\, M. (2019) Revisiting the Toolbox of Discourse Studies\, Basingstoke: Palgrave.\nRheindorf\, M. & Wodak\, R. (2019) ‘“Austria First” revisited: A diachronic cross-sectional anal ysis of  the gender and body politics of the extreme right’\, Patterns o f Prejudice\, 53(3): 302–20.\nWodak\, R. (2021a) The Politics of Fear. T he Shameless Normalization of Far-right Discourse\, 2nd rev. & ext. ed.\ , London: Sage.\nWodak\, Ruth (2021b) ‘Crisis communication and crisis m anagement during COVID-19’. Global Discourse 11(3): 329–353.\nWodak\, R. (2024). ‚Appeals to “Normality” and “Common Sense” in the Face of Globa l Uncertainty: An Interdisciplinary Discourse-Historical Approach\, Jour nal of Informal Logic’.\nWodak\, R. & Rheindorf\, M. (2022) Identities p olitics past and present\, Exeter: University of Exeter Press.\n\nRuth W odak is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaste r University\, UK\, and affiliated to the University of Vienna. Besides various other prizes\, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Outsta nding Researchers in 1996\, an Honorary Doctorate from University of Ör ebro in Sweden in 2010\, and an Honorary Doctorate from Warwick Universi ty in 2020. She is past-President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 2011\, she was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver for Servi ces to the Republic of Austria\, and 2018\, the Lebenswerk Preis for her lifetime achievements\, from the Austrian Ministry for Women’s Affairs. She is member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and member of t he Academia Europaea. In March 2020\, she became Honorary Member of the Senate of the University of Vienna. In June 2021\, she was awarded the B runo Kreisky Prize for her lifetime achievements\, in November 2022 she received the Paul Watzlawick Ehrenring of the Medical Society + City of Vienna.\n\nShe has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala \, Stanford University\, University Minnesota\, University of East Angli a\, and Georgetown University. 2008\, she was awarded the Kerstin Hessel gren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö). In the sp ring 2014\, Ruth held the Davis Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies at G eorgetown University\, Washington DC. In the spring 2016\, Ruth was Dist inguished Schuman Fellow at the Schuman Centre\, EUI\, Florence. 2017\, she held the Willi Brandt Chair at the University of Malmö\, Sweden. 20 18/2019 and 2021\, she was a senior visiting fellow at the Institute for  Human Sciences\, Vienna (IWM).\n\nHer research interests focus on disco urse studies\; gender studies\; identity politics and the politics of th e past\; political communication and populism\; prejudice and discrimina tion\, and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. Ruth has pu blished 12 monographs\, 29 co-authored monographs\, over 60 edited volum es and special issues of journals\, and ca 430 peer reviewed journal pap ers and book chapters. Her work has been translated into the English\, I talian\, French\, Spanish\, Hebrew\, Czech\, Portuguese\, German\, Korea n\, Japanese\, Chinese\, Polish\, Arabic\, Russian\, Czech\, Bosnian\, G reek\, Slovenian\, and Serbian.\n\nRecent book publications include Das kann noch immer in Wien passieren (Czernin Publ. 2024)\; Identity Politi cs Past and Present. Political Discourses from Post-War Austria to the C ovid Crisis. (Exeter University Press 2022\; with M. Rheindorf)\; The Po litics of Fear. The shameless normalization of far-right populist discou rses (Sage 2021\, 2nd revised and extended edition)\; Sociolinguistic Pe rspectives on Migration Control (Multilingual Matters 2020\; with M. Rhe indorf)\; Identitäten im Wandel. (Springer 2020\; with R. de Cillia\, M. Rheindorf\, S. Lehner)\; Europe at the Crossroads (Nordicum 2019\; with P. Bevelander)\; and The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics (R outledge 2018\, with B. Forchtner).\n\nSee http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/p rofiles/Ruth- Wodak for more information.\n\nPlease reach out to Hazel V elasco Palacios hgv5008@psu.edu if you have any questions about the even t or need accommodations.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Chaiken D ean’s Fund for Antisemitism Education\, the Department of Women’s\, Gend er\, and Sexuality Studies\, the Humanities Institute\, and the Mellon F oundation’s Sawyer Seminar Program.\n\nFor more details: https://events. la.psu.edu/event/sawyer-seminar-series-hybrid-ruth-wodak/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Analys ing the “Gender Backlash” in Austrian Popular Culture: Back to Dirnd ls and Lederhosen"

As extreme right positio ns are increasingly shamelessly normalised, the gender and body politics of extreme right parties and movements have already entered mainstream discourses and popular culture (Lehner & Rheindorf 2019; Rheindorf & Wod ak 2019; Wodak 2021a, b, 2024). In Austria, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) has long provided a populist front stage for extreme right gender and body p olitics and has recently been successful not only in elections but also in gaining wider social acceptance. Indeed, current coalition negotiatio ns with the national-conservative party ÖVP may lead to a government, wi th the FPÖ’s leader Herbert Kickl as prime minister, after the FPÖ’s vic tory at the Austrian national election on 29th September 2024.

Arg uably, this success is partly due to the strategic mitigation of their p ublic rhetorics, while their ideology has remained unchanged but is cont inuously reworded and recontextualised, specifically after the COVID-pan demic. The COVID-19 pandemic was instrumentalised by the far-right which presented itself as the “defenders” of “democracy” and “freedom” agains t the “measures” of the then government, labelled as “Corona-dictatorshi p” (i.e., flip-siding; Krzyżanowski & Krzyżanowski 2024). In this way, t he far-right is involved in “symbolic politics”, a “culture war” while r eframing public discourses about health, climate, migration, gender, and culture.

In this lecture, I will analyze one dimension of the “cu lture war”, the vehement and polemical debates about the “normal” popula r culture while employing the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) in Cri tical Discourse Studies (CDS) (Reisigl & Wodak 2016, Rheindorf 2019; Wod ak & Rheindorf 2022). The most prominent intersection of the party polit ics and popular culture in Austria have been the performances of the con troversial musician Andreas Gabalier. Updating and popularising the Volk smusik-genre for young and urban audiences, Gabalier has consistently dr awn on traditional, even anachronistic, gender and body politics in inte rviews, songs, lyrics, stage performances, speeches and social media pos ts. Here, I will offer a cross-sectional investigation of current extrem e right gender politics through analysing on the one hand programmatic p ublications of the FPÖ as well as public performances of FPÖ-politicians and, on the other hand, Gabalier’s performances of various kinds.

References

Ruth Wodak is Em erita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster Universi ty, UK, and affiliated to the University of Vienna. Besides various othe r prizes, she was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Outstanding Researc hers in 1996, an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010, and an Honorary Doctorate from Warwick University in 2020. She is past-President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. 2011, she was a warded the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver for Services to the Repub lic of Austria, and 2018, the Lebenswerk Preis for her lifetime achievem ents, from the Austrian Ministry for Women’s Affairs. She is member of t he British Academy of Social Sciences and member of the Academia Europae a. In March 2020, she became Honorary Member of the Senate of the Univer sity of Vienna. In June 2021, she was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize fo r her lifetime achievements, in November 2022 she received the Paul Watz lawick Ehrenring of the Medical Society + City of Vienna.

She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala, Stanford Universi ty, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown Univ ersity. 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedis h Parliament (at University Örebrö). In the spring 2014, Ruth held the Davis Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University, Was hington DC. In the spring 2016, Ruth was Distinguished Schuman Fellow at the Schuman Centre, EUI, Florence. 2017, she held the Willi Brandt Chai r at the University of Malmö, Sweden. 2018/2019 and 2021, she was a sen ior visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (IWM).

Her research interests focus on discourse studies; gender studies; identity politics and the politics of the past; political communication and populism; prejudice and discrimination, and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. Ruth has published 12 monographs, 29 co-author ed monographs, over 60 edited volumes and special issues of journals, an d ca 430 peer reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Her work has be en translated into the English, Italian, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Czech, Portuguese, German, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Czech, Bosnian, Greek, Slovenian, and Serbian.

Recent book public ations include Das kann noch immer in Wien passieren (Czernin Publ. 2024 ); Identity Politics Past and Present. Political Discourses from Post-Wa r Austria to the Covid Crisis. (Exeter University Press 2022; with M. Rh eindorf); The Politics of Fear. The shameless normalization of far-right populist discourses (Sage 2021, 2nd revised and extended edition); Soci olinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control (Multilingual Matters 2020 ; with M. Rheindorf); Identitäten im Wandel. (Springer 2020; with R. de Cillia, M. Rheindorf, S. Lehner); Europe at the Crossroads (Nordicum 201 9; with P. Bevelander); and The Routledge Handbook of Language and Polit ics (Routledge 2018, with B. Forchtner).

See http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profil es/Ruth- Wodak for more information.

Please reach out to Hazel Velasco Palacios hgv5008@psu.edu if you have any questions about the ev ent or need accommodations.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chai ken Dean’s Fund for Antisemitism Education, the Department of Women’s, G ender, and Sexuality Studies, the Humanities Institute, and the Mellon F oundation’s Sawyer Seminar Program.

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