Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Announcements:
UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

N o v e m b e r   2 0 2 4

General

Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: November 13-16, 2024
Language: English
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Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 14-17, 2024
Language: English
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Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
Place: San Diego, California, United States
Date: November 23-26, 2024
Language: English
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November 13, 2024

Speakers: Nicole Fox and Alexa Sardina
Title: Community Healing in Minneapolis
Subtitle: Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Power of America's First Survivors Memorial
Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (November 13-16, 2024)
Session: Gendered Violence (Chair: Nicole Fox)
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: November 13, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program


November 14, 2024

Speaker: Jessica Tjiu
Title: Rhetorical Memories of “Sexual Slavery”
Subtitle: A Critical Engagement at The Museum of Sexual Slavery by Japanese Military
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: Imperial “Comfort”: Redressing Japan’s Military Sexual Violence
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 14, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speakers: Laurel Wallace and Kayla Rogers
Title: Feminist Justice After Life
Subtitle: Art, Memorial, and the Filipina "Comfort Women"
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: Imperial “Comfort”: Redressing Japan’s Military Sexual Violence
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 14, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Seon-Myung Yoo
Title: Strategic Genealogy in Jane Jin Kaisen’s Film The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger (2010)
Subtitle: -
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: Imperial “Comfort”: Redressing Japan’s Military Sexual Violence
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 14, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program


November 15, 2024

Speaker: Anouk Noelle Nicklas
Title: Criminologial Perspectives on Rape in Armed Conflict
Subtitle: -
Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (November 13-16, 2024)
Session: International Perspectives on Sexual Violence (Chair: Francis Boateng)
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: November 15, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: Gemini Parker
Title: The Police, Rape Myths, and Fictional Media
Subtitle: How “Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit” Depicts Police-Based Rape Myths and the Implications of Its Portrayal
Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (November 13-16, 2024)
Session: Student Panel: Police Misconduct, Perceptions, and Factors for Recruitment (Chair: Lidia E. Nuño)
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: November 15, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program


November 16, 2024

Speakers: Mia Bloom and Edna Erez
Title: When Sexually Assaulted Women Are Not Believed
Subtitle: “Ideal Victims” and the October 7 Hamas Attack
Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (November 13-16, 2024)
Session: Understanding and Preventing Crimes Against Targeted or Vulnerable Groups (Chair: Mia Bloom)
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: November 16, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Kyung Hee Ha
Title: Unveiling Memories, Unraveling Paradoxes
Subtitle: The ‘Women’s Column of Strength’ Memorial and the Complexities of Human Rights in San Francisco
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: The “Comfort Women” History and the Politics of Denial in the U.S.
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 16, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Joyce Jekayinoluwa
Title: Intergenerational Trauma and Gender Violence in Gayl Jones' Corregidora
Subtitle: -
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: Gender-based Violence: Research and Resistance
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 16, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Emi Koyama
Title: Ramseyer and the White Supremacy in Japan Studies in North America
Subtitle: -
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: The “Comfort Women” History and the Politics of Denial in the U.S.
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 16, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Tomomi Yamaguchi
Title: Contested Commemoration
Subtitle: The Attacks on “Comfort Women” Memorial in the United States
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: The “Comfort Women” History and the Politics of Denial in the U.S.
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 16, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program


November 17, 2024

Speaker: Joyce Jekayinoluwa
Title: Intergenerational Trauma and Gender Violence in Gayl Jones' Corregidora
Subtitle: -
Conference: 44th Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (November 14-17, 2024)
Session: Black Bodies as Transgression
Place: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date: November 17, 2024
Language: English
More information: Online Program


November 23, 2024

Speaker: Kathy Gaca
Title: Why It Is Good for a Man "Not to haptesthai a Woman" in 1 Cor 7:1
Subtitle: -
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (November 23-26, 2024)
Session: S23-233: Pauline Epistles. Theme: Paul and Porneia (Chair: Laura Dingeldein)
Place: San Diego, California, United States
Date: November 23, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: David Tombs
Title: The Unspeakable Trauma of Crucifixion
Subtitle: Hermeneutical Insights from How Sexual Violence Is Referenced in Present-Day Torture Reports
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (November 23-26, 2024)
Session: S23-209: Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma (Chair: Sarah Emanuel)
Place: San Diego, California, United States
Date: November 23, 2024
Language: English
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November 24, 2024

Speaker: Kirsi Cobb
Title: Gender and Sexual Violence in Hosea
Subtitle: -
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (November 23-26, 2024)
Session: S24-116: Book of the Twelve Prophets / Israelite Prophetic Literature. Theme: The Study of the Book of Hosea Present and Future: A Conversation Inspired by the Oxford Handbook of Hosea. Part 2: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence (Chair: Nicholas Werse)
Place: San Diego, California, United States
Date: November 24, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: Jung Ae Kim
Title: Abject Female-Beast Bodies
Subtitle: The Domestication of the Scarlet Beast and the Sexualized Murder and the Consumption of the Whore of Babylon in Revelation 17
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (November 23-26, 2024)
Session: S24-140: The Bible and Animal Studies. Theme: Animality and Gender (Chair: Suzanna Millar)
Place: San Diego, California, United States
Date: November 24, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: Milly Erema Maturu
Title: A Contextual Analysis of the Sarai-Hagar Conflict from an African Perspective
Subtitle: -
Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (November 23-26, 2024)
Session: S24-140: Pentateuch. Theme: Genesis and Pentateuchal Composition (Chair: Megan Warner)
Place: San Diego, California, United States
Date: November 24, 2024
Language: English
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Conference: 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Place: Virtual
Date: December 15–19, 2024
Language: English
More information: Website


December 18, 2024

Speaker: Hinde Ena Burstin
Title: “IKH BIN GEVORN SHTUM
Subtitle: coercion, control and gender-based violence in two Yiddish poems by Avigayl
Conference: 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (December 15–19, 2024)
Session: Yiddish Women's Writing
Place: Virtual
Date: December 18, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: William Jones
Title: Sexual(ized) Violence and the ‘Non-Absent’ Male Body
Subtitle: Castration and Sterilization in Auschwitz
Conference: 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (December 15–19, 2024)
Session: Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: Language, Body and Power (Chair: Dorota Glowacka)
Place: Virtual
Date: December 18, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: Katarzyna Person
Title: The Language of Women’s Experience in Small Ghettos in Occupied Poland
Subtitle: -
Conference: 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (December 15–19, 2024)
Session: Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: Language, Body and Power (Chair: Dorota Glowacka)
Place: Virtual
Date: December 18, 2024
Language: English
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Speaker: Hannah Pollin-Galay
Title: How Yiddish Dealt with Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
Subtitle: From Pipels to Kuzinkes
Conference: 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (December 15–19, 2024)
Session: Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: Language, Body and Power (Chair: Dorota Glowacka)
Place: Virtual
Date: December 18, 2024
Language: English
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December 19, 2024

Speaker: Pascale Rachel Bos
Title: On the Rape of Jewish Women
Subtitle: October 7th in the Shadow of the Shoah
Conference: 56th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (December 15–19, 2024)
Session: Gush Katif, 2005, Gaza, and the October 7 Massacres
Place: Virtual
Date: December 19, 2024
Language: English
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J a n u a r y   2 0 2 5

General

Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 3–6, 2025
Language: English
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M a r c h   2 0 2 5

General

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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A p r i l   2 0 2 5

Conference: 118th OAH Conference on American History
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: April 3-6, 2025
Language: English
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M a y   2 0 2 5

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Conference: 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Organizer: Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States and in a hybrid format
Date: May 8-10, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 49th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society - 49e Congrès Annuel de la Société d’histoire coloniale française
Topic: Representations of Empire: Art, Museums, International Expos
Place: Buffalo, New York, United States
Date: May 29-31, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: International Medieval Congress
Topic: Special Thematic Focus: Worlds of Learning
Organizers: University of Leeds
Place: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Date: July 1-10, 2025
Language: English
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D e c e m b e r   2 0 2 5

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Conference: 57th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Place: Washington DC, United States
Date: December 14-16, 2025
Language: English
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