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Thursday - 1st June 2023 |
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9:15-9:30 - Arrival & Welcome: Emily Bridger and Ruth Beecher |
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9:30-9:45 - Opening Remarks: Joanna Bourke |
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9:45-11:15 - Session 1 |
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Interviews and Methodological Unease - Chair: Ruth Beecher |
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Tutku Ayhan, 'Researching Sexual Violence in Post-Atrocity Settings: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas' |
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Emily Bridger, 'Life History Interviews and Sexual Violence in South Africa:Lessons from the South Africa's Hidden War Project' |
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Tracey Loughran, '"Everyday" Stories of Sexual Violence: Accidental Elicitation and the Afterlives of Interviews' |
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11:15-11:30 - Break |
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11:30-13:00 - Session 2 |
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Childhood and the Family: Methodological Reflections on Researching Sexual Violence - Chair: Emily Bridger |
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Victoria Hoyle, 'En/Countering Twentieth Century Child Sexual Abuse in the Archives' |
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Ruth Beecher, 'Bearing witness to distress? The historian, thehealth practitioner and the sexually abused child' |
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Adeline Moussion-Esteve, 'Unsettling trauma-informed representations of victimhood: Researching sexual violence from the perspective of women parenting while experiencing domestic violence' |
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Rape Laws and Legal Reform - Chair: Emma Yapp |
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Dipali Anumol, 'Multipliers of Slow Violence: Feminist Activism, Legal Reform and Responses to Sexual Violence in India' |
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Allison McKibban, 'The "Problem of Sexual Violence": Rethinking Policy Analysis Tools using the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)' |
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13:00-14:00 - Lunch |
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14:00-15:15 - Workshop |
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Histories and Futures of Collective Care: The Rosine Association and Rosine 2.0 |
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Jordan Landes (Project Co-Director, Rosine 2.0 and Curator, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College) |
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Katie L. Price (Project Director, Rosine 2.0 and Senior Associate Director, Lang Center, Swarthmore College) |
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Yema Rosado (Community Liaison, Rosine 2.0, and Holistic Sex Educator) |
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Naiymah Sanchez (Advisory Committee Member, Rosine 2.0 and Trans Justice Coordinator, ACLU PA) |
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15:15-15:30 - Break |
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15:30-17:30 - Session 3 |
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Making Violence Visible - Chair: George Severs |
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Rachel Sandwell, 'Over Her Dead Body: The Politics of Gendered Violence in South African Liberation Movement Fiction' |
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Ximena Goecke, 'Sexual Political Violence in Chile: Why do we need a feminist historical account?' |
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Natalia Milanesio, 'Argentine Feminists against Sexual Violence in the Return to Democracy (1983-1990)' |
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Lauren Gutterman, 'Becoming Visible: Gay and Bisexual Men's Leadership in the Movement against Childhood Sexual Abuse' |
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18:30 - Conference Dinner |
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Friday - 2nd June 2023 |
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9:00-10:30 - Session 4 |
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Colonial Archives of Sexual Violence - Room 206 - Chair: Erin Hazan |
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Ruchika Sharma, 'Witnessing Gender, Testifying Race: Sexual Violence against "Native" Women in Early Colonial Bengal' |
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Rhian Keyse, '"A man cannot in law be convicted of rape upon his own wife": Consent, coercion, and colonial histories of sexual violence in 1930s Swaziland' |
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Deana Heath, 'Sexual Violence, Colonialism, and the Archive' |
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10:30-10:45 - Break |
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10:45-12:15 - Session 5 |
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The Medicalisation of Sexual Violence - Chair: Victoria Hoyle |
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Eric Rindal, 'Humanitarian Responses in Jordan to Sexual Violence against Syrian Men: Medicalisation, Rationalisation, and Denial' |
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Whitney Wood, '"Indecent Examinations": Gynecological Violence in Late-Twentieth Century Canada' |
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Akosua Paries-Osei, 'The Biology of Difference: The Legaland Medical Fetishisation of African Girlhood' |
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Workshop: Writing about Difficult Things: A Creative Writing Workshop |
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12:15-13:00 - Lunch |
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13:00-13:45 - Workshop |
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Working together with feminist community archives to preserve histories of sexual violence |
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13:45-14:00 - Break |
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14:00-15:30 - Session 6 |
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Erasures and Silences in the Sources - Chair: Lauren Cantillon |
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Chloé Poitras-Raymond, 'Preserving Reputation: The Methodological Challenges of Erasure in Military Archives (WWII)' |
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Meryem Kalayci and Susan Grayzel, 'Writing through the silence: History and wartime sexual violence after 100 years' |
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Early Modern Cultures of Coercion - Chair: Mara Keire |
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Clare Burgess, 'Reading Rape: Questions of Consent in Early Modern Lyon and Seville' |
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Mita Choudhury, 'Grooming and the Power of Faith in Eighteenth Century France' |
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Cathy McClive, 'Gender, Sexual Violence, and Murder in the Claudine Rouge Affair, 1767' |
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15:30-15:45 - Break |
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15:45-17:15 - Session 7 |
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Narrating Sexual Violence - Chair: Allison McKibban |
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Karen Vallgårda, 'Historicizing Experiences of Sexual Violence' |
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Mara Keire, 'She said, he said, he said: Narrative destruction in a New York City rape case, 1916-1917' |
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Julie Wheelwright, 'Advocacy, ethics, and objectivity: How journalism frames the reportage of gender-based violence' |
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17:15-17:30 Conclusions |