Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Announcements: Lectures
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES - MARCH 2025

C o n f e r e n c e s

United States

Conference: 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date: March 6-9, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 13-16, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 20-22, 2025
Language: English
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L e c t u r e s

March 15, 2025

Speaker: Hyun Gyung Kim
Title: “Comfort Women” Transformed into Mata Hari
Subtitle: Postcolonial Cold War Memories in the Korean TV Series Eyes of Dawn (1991-1992)
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 6-028 - Postcolonial Mobility and Asian Identities on Screen (Chair: Irhe Sohn)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 15, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Juwon Kim
Title: What’s in a Proper Name?
Subtitle: Censorship and “Comfort Women” in Seven Female POWs (1965)
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 10-018 - Toward a Feminist History of Cold War Korea (Chair: Jinah Kim)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 15, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Chaoran Ma
Title: Morale, Asceticism, and Prostitution in China During the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Subtitle: -
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 9-034 - Changing Moralities of Sex: Sex Work, Prostitution, and Concubinage in East Asia and Beyond (Chair: Paul D. Barclay)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 15, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Lennart Riedel
Title: In Search of Fang Siqi’s Legal Paradise
Subtitle: Reforming PRC Law Through Literature
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 6-015 - Lin Yihan’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise: Exploring the Multiverse of Trauma Literature (Chair: Miya Xie)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 15, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Paola Zamperini
Title: Teaching to Express
Subtitle: Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise and the Pedagogical Im/Possibilities of Trauma Literature
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 6-015 - Lin Yihan’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise: Exploring the Multiverse of Trauma Literature (Chair: Miya Xie)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 15, 2025
Language: English
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March 20, 2025

Speaker: Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas
Title: Satyrs in French Renaissance
Subtitle: Contrasting Representations, between Fertility of Nature and Violence against Women
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Regulating, Representing, and Restricting Sex
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 20, 2025
Language: English
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March 21, 2025

Speaker: Margaret E. Boyle
Title: Feminists writing with and against Cervantes
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Perverse Cervantes: Sexual Violence, Depravity, and Voyeurism (Organizer: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Ana Maria Diaz-Burgos
Title: Seemingly Unimportant
Subtitle: An Elliptical Reading of Female Perversity
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Perverse Cervantes: Sexual Violence, Depravity, and Voyeurism (Organizer: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Ann A. Huse
Title: Marvell’s “Nymph Complaining” and Sexual Violence
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Marvell and Childhood (Chair: Matthew Augustine)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Lisa Jennings
Title: Interrogating Spenser’s Depiction of Rape in The Faerie Queene as the Apotheotic Necessity of Art
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Conflictual Tensions in The Fairie Queene
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Jordan Katz
Title: Sexual Violence, Blank Spaces, and Jewish Women’s Erasure in the Archives
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Reexamining “Jewish” Archives and Unveiling Marginalized Histories (Chair: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Sonia Perez-Villanueva
Title: Perverse Agency in La fuerza de la sangre
Subtitle: Leocadia and the Third Space
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Perverse Cervantes: Sexual Violence, Depravity, and Voyeurism (Organizer: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Elizabeth L Spragins
Title: Substituting White Bodies for Black in Micomicón
Subtitle: The Perversity of Race in Don Quijote
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Perverse Cervantes: Sexual Violence, Depravity, and Voyeurism (Organizer: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 21, 2025
Language: English
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March 22, 2025

Speaker: Antonio J. Arraiza-Rivera
Title: “También son alguien las mujeres”
Subtitle: Gender, Readership, and Violence in Solís’s Hermafrodito y Sálmacis
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature III: Reversals and Contestations (Chair: John Slater)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Emily Colbert Cairns
Title: Unconscious Victims, Sexual Violence, and Marginal Figures in Cervantes and Zayas
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature I: Terms and Myths (Chair: Mercedes Alcalá Galán )
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Alison Caplan
Title: The Power of Polysemy
Subtitle: Protest Strategies in Cervantes
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature III: Reversals and Contestations (Chair: John Slater)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Wanxin Du
Title: Disputes and Negotiation in Sienese Criminal Appeals, 1603–51
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: Justice in Early Modern Italy II: Justice alla Senese (Organizer: Colin S. Rose)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett
Title: Language, Imagined Action, and the Imbrication of Political and Sexual Violence in Calderón’s Uxoricide Plays
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature III: Reversals and Contestations (Chair: John Slater)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Bradley Nelson
Title: Sexual Violence, Trauma Therapy, and Disinformation: Phantoms of Trauma in Cervantes
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature II: Justifications and Technologies (Chair: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Victoria Rasbridge
Title: Lending Body, Giving Voice
Subtitle: Performing Unspeakable Violence on the Early Modern Spanish Stage
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature I: Terms and Myths (Chair: Mercedes Alcalá Galán)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Elizabeth Rhodes
Title: Love as Palimpsest for Abuse in Early Modern Texts
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature I: Terms and Myths (Chair: Mercedes Alcalá Galán )
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Ana M. Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Title: Tortured Bodies, Kidnapped Lives
Subtitle: Violence Against Women in Spanish Texts and Society
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature II: Justifications and Technologies (Chair: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Felipe Valencia
Title: Maritornes, the Right to Sex, and the Matter of Angelica in Cervantes’s Don Quijote
Subtitle: -
Conference: 71st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 20-22, 2025)
Session: The Hiddenness of Sexual Violence in Early Modern Spanish Literature II: Justifications and Technologies (Chair: Elizabeth L Spragins)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 22, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program