Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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Announcements:
UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

D e c e m b e r   2 0 2 4

General

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
More information: Online Program

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
More information: Online Program

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
More information: Online Program

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
More information: Online Program


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
More information: Online Program



J a n u a r y   2 0 2 5

General

Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 3–6, 2025
Language: English
More information: Website


January 3, 2025

Speaker: Belinda He
Title: Rashomon, Rape, or Rethinking Cinema as Women’s Hearings?
Subtitle: -
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 22. After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia (Chair: Qiong Liu)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 3, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Lin Li
Title: Becoming Vocal
Subtitle: Politicizing the Voices of “Comfort Women”
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 22. After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia (Chair: Qiong Liu)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 3, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Qiong Liu
Title: Reconceptualize Rape in Revolution
Subtitle: Narratives about Sexual Crimes in the Land Reform in China
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 22. After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia (Chair: Qiong Liu)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 3, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Tiantian Zheng
Title: Sexual Violence and Unworthy Victims in Postsocialist China
Subtitle: -
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 22. After Silence: Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance across Asia (Chair: Qiong Liu)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 3, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program


January 4, 2025

Speaker: Chaoran Ma
Title: “Barbarian Women” on the Riverbank
Subtitle: Ethnicity, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking in Qing Southwest China
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: Chinese Historians in the United States Session 6: Human Trade and Slavery in and beyond China, 1600–1900 (Chair: Qin Fang)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 4, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Hyesong Lim
Title: Women on the Red Island
Subtitle: Women’s Memories of Violence during the Jeju April 3rd Massacres, 1947–54
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 61. Love and War: Gender, Intimacies, and Resistance in Times of Upheaval (Chair: Samantha de Vera)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 4, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program


January 5, 2025

Speaker: Taiwo Bello
Title: Paying the Price
Subtitle: Women and Violence in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–70
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 255. Evolving Trends in Nigerian History, Part 1 (Chair: Saheed Aderinto)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 5, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Adrian De Leon
Title: Heterosovereign Power and Buried Life
Subtitle: American Jurisprudence and Filipino Punishment in the 1933 Cecelia Navarro Murder Trial
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 190. Imperial Dimensions of US Belonging and Exclusion: New Directions in Asian American History (Chair: Ji-Yeon Yuh)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 5, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Shannon Camille Eaves
Title: Black Women and Sexual Violence in the Antebellum South
Subtitle: -
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 284. New Directions in African American Women's History (Chair: Tamika Nunley)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 5, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Tuğçe Kayaal
Title: Untamed Sexualities, Unruly Places
Subtitle: War Orphans and the Case of House of Orphans in Konya
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 210. Lost, Kidnapped, Missing, Untamed: How “Discarded People” Challenged the Legal and Social Order (Chair: Pamela L. Ballinger)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 5, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Sarah Pearlman Shapiro
Title: “Under the Pretense”
Subtitle: Caretaking Vulnerabilities and Sexual Assault in Revolutionary New England
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 237. Labor, Violence, and Resistance in Revolutionary America (Chair: Ruma Chopra)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 5, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program


January 6, 2025

Speaker: Emily Brooks
Title: "With Measured Tread"
Subtitle: Gendered and Racialized Workplace Violence, Economic Citizenship, and the Mid-20th-Century Carceral State
Conference: 138th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Session: 295. Law and Order Policing in New York City (Chair: Elizabeth Hinton)
Place: New York City, New York, United States
Date: January 6, 2025
Language: English
More information: Online Program


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
More information: Website


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
More information: Website


M a y   2 0 2 5

General

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
More information: Website

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
More information: Website


J u l y   2 0 2 5

General

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
More information: Website


D e c e m b e r   2 0 2 5

General

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