SexViolHist Bib: Announcements: Upcoming Conferences and Lectures

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: 71^st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: March 20-22, 2025
Language: English
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March 13, 2025

Speaker: Rachel Serena Levine
Title: From Obscurity to Action
Subtitle: Japan’s Human Rights Battle Against Sexual Violence
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 1-029 - Politics, Policy, and Praxis: The Use of “Human Rights” in Japan (Chair: Rachel Serena Levine)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 13, 2025
Language: English
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March 14, 2025

Speaker: Sachraa Sergeleng
Title: Female Chastity and Legal Practices in 19th-Century Inner Mongolia
Subtitle: -
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 4-003 - Women, Slaves, and Soldiers: Underrepresented Experiences in Qing Mongolia (Chair: Sachraa Sergeleng)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 14, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Jaeyeon Lee
Title: Digital Hauntology
Subtitle: The Heeum Museum’s VR Exhibition of Comfort Women’s Ghostly Testimonies
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 4-026 - New Approaches to the Politics of Memory in Northeast Asia (Chair: Gwendolyn Gillson)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 14, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Royce Novak
Title: The Political Economy of Silence
Subtitle: War, Revolution, and Capital in the Absent Memory of Vietnamese “Comfort Women”
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 4-023 - Experiments in Writing the Political Economy of History Across Asia-Part 1: Economies of Remembering (Chair: Cory Willmott)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 14, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Jae-jung Suh
Title: Clash of Transnational Discourses on “Comfort Women”
Subtitle: Antagonistic Interdependence of Regionalist and Nationalist Forces in Japan and Korea
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 4-026 - New Approaches to the Politics of Memory in Northeast Asia (Chair: Gwendolyn Gillson)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 14, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Zi Ye
Title: Rethinking Recruiters’ Motivations for Participating in Wartime Human Trafficking
Subtitle: A Case Study of Early “Comfort Women” Recruiters in Japan
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 4-026 - New Approaches to the Politics of Memory in Northeast Asia (Chair: Gwendolyn Gillson)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 14, 2025
Language: English
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Speaker: Wen Zhang
Title: War Memory and Postwar Reconciliation
Subtitle: An Analysis of Yoshiko Yamaguchi Biography
Conference: Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (March 13-16, 2025)
Session: 3-031 - Negotiating with the Colonial Complex: Body and Mobility in East Asian Women’s Writings about Manchuria (Chair: Lina Qu)
Place: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Date: March 14, 2025
Language: English
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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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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: 71^st 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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Conference: 118^th OAH Conference on American History
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: April 3-6, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 60^th 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: 49^th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society - 49^e Congrès Annuel de la Société d’histoire coloniale française
Theme: 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: 32^nd International Medieval Congress
Theme: Worlds of Learning
Organizers: University of Leeds
Place: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Date: July 7-10, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 51^st Annual Meeting of the Global Consortium for French Historical Studies
Theme: Resistance
Place: Paris, France
Date: July 15-19, 2025
Language: English
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July 7, 2025

Speaker: Lindsay Pereira
Title: What Is the Position of Rape within the Chivalric Code?
Subtitle: Learning through Trauma Narratives
Conference: 32^nd International Medieval Congress (July 1-10, 2025)
Session: 121 Artefacts and Artisans, I: Medieval Expertise and Lessons Presented in Maps, Imagery, and Prose (Organiser: Harriet Mahood)
Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date: July 7, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 110^th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Place: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Date: September 24-28, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 49^th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association
Place: Arlington, Virginia, United States
Date: September 25-28 2025
Language: English
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Conference: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Date: November 19-23, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 80^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Place: Washington, D.C., United States
Date: November 12-15, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 57^th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies
Place: Washington D.C., United States
Date: December 14-16, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 8-11, 2025
Language: English
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Conference: 119^th OAH Conference on American History
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date: April 16-19, 2026
Language: English
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Conference: The 20^th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities
Place: United States
Date: June 18-21, 2026
Language: English
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Conference: 120^th OAH Conference on American History
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: April 1-4, 2027
Language: English
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