Organizers:
- Tanja Bührer, Fachbereich Geschichte (Department of History), Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)

- Isabelle Deflers, Historische Institut (Department of History), Universität der Bundeswehr München (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)

- Karen Hagemann, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Program:

	Thursday, January 30, 2025
	9:00–9.30: Registration and Welcome Coffee
	9:30–10:00: Welcome and Introduction
	10:00–11:30: Panel 1: Gender in Early Modern Colonialism
	Moderation: Isabelle Deflers (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)
	Chechesh Kudachinova (Free University of Berlin) The Construction of Colonial Masculinities and Agency in 17th Century Siberia
	Marion Philip and Elodie Bascoul (University of Geneva) Studying Masculinities, Violence and Colonial Rule in the 18th Century French Caribbean: Sources and Approaches
	11:30–12:30: Lunch Break
	12:30 – 14:30
	12:30–14:30: Panel 2: Women in the Imperial and (Anti)Colonial Project
	Moderation: Tanja Bührer (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
	Carla Andreas Bauzá (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) Enslaved and Free Women of African Descent in the Ten Years’ War in Cuba, 1868-1878)
	Kirsty Campbell (University of the Bundeswehr Munich) More than just Kulturträgerin: The Role of German Women Settlers in the Colonial Violence in German South-west Africa, 1884-1915
	Swati Guha (Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata) Reformer or Perpetrator of Gender Crimes? British Colonial Rule in India and the Woman Question
	14:30–15:00: Coffee Break
	15:00–17:30: Panel 3: Men in the Imperial and (Anti)Colonial Project
	Moderation: Christian Stachelbeck (ZMSBw)
	Marie Muschalek (University of Basel) Martial Violence, ‘Caring’ Violence: Colonial Masculinities in the Mounted Police of German South-West Africa, 1905-1915
	Susie Protschky (Free University of Amsterdam) Race and Soldiering Masculinities in Modern Dutch Colonial Wars in Indonesia
	Carl Deußen (University of Amsterdam) Sexuality and Sexual Violence in Imperial Ethnographic Collecting: The Case of German Anthropologist Wilhelm Joest
	Rachel McElroy White (University of Groningen) Soldier-Photographers’ Images of Violence during the Algerian War through the Lens of Military Masculinities
	17:30–18:00: Coffee Break
	18:00 –19:30: Keynote: Gender in Anticolonial Conflicts: The Example of the Algerian War
	Prof. Dr. Natalya Benkhaled-Vince (Oxford University) Moderation: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
	20:00: Conference Dinner
	Friday, January 31, 2025
	9:30– 11:30: Panel 4: Gender, Violence, and Resistance against Colonial Rule I
	Moderation: Friederike Hartung (ZMSBw)
	Michael Rösser (University of Bamberg) Gender, War and Violence –Revisiting the Maji Maji War in German East Africa, 1905-1908
	Maria Tumiotto (University of Manchester) Bengali Women Activists In Revolutionary Nationalism in the 1930s: Practices and Narratives
	Paula Dahl (University of Hamburg) Women as Anticolonial Freedom Fighters in Algeria, 1940s-1960s
	11:30–12:30: Lunch Break
	12:30–14:30: Panel 5: Gender, Violence, and Resistance against Colonial Rule II
	Moderation: Frank Reichherzer (ZMSBw)
	Jonathan Verwey (University of Leiden) The Dutch Military Leadership’s Approach to Intimate Encounters and Sexual Violence by Dutch Soldiers during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949
	Niels Boender (University of Edinburgh) Insurgent Masculinities and the Return of Anti-Colonial Mau Mau Fighters in Kenya since 1956
	Sandra Lourenço (Universidade de Lisboa) Struggle, Resistance and Guerrilla: The case of East Timor under Indonesian Neo-colonial Rule in a Gender Perspective, 1975-199)
	14:30–14:45: Coffee Break
	14:45–16:30: Panel 6: Recollecting and Presenting Colonial Rule and Anticolonial Resistance
	Moderation: Anke Fischer-Kattner (University oft he Bundeswehr Munich)
	Silvan Niedermeier (University of Erfurt) Gender, Imperial Violence and Family Memory in Private Photo Albums of the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
	Claudia Siebrecht (University of Sussex) The Testimony of Maria III: Sexual Violence and the Archival Grain, German South West Africa, 1906
	Carmen Letz (Université de Limoges / Pilecki Institut, Warszawa/Berlin) Women in German Southwest Africa: The Theme of Violence against Women in Historical Novels and Films
	16:30–16:45: Coffee Break
	16:45–17:45: Final Discussion
	Birthe Kundrus (University of Hamburg) Alaric Searle (ZMSBw)
	Moderation: Karen Hagemann (Univerity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
	18:00–19:30: Meeting of the Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD)
	20:00: Joint Dinner at the Trattoria Toscana

Description: »The extreme violence in colonial wars and anti-colonial wars of liberation as well as the structural and actual practice of violence under colonial rule have received increased international academic attention in the last two decades. However, the gender dimension of the topic is still under-researched, although previous gender-historical research on colonial conflicts shows that gender is of considerable importance both as a methodological approach and as a subject of research.
Gender images constructed intersectionally in connection with social, ethnic and racial differences shaped and legitimized the spheres of action of men and women in the violent interactions of colonial conflicts. They significantly influenced the colonial invaders’ practices of violence and the colonized population’s experiences of violence. Native women in the colonies, for example, were particularly victims of sexual violence in its various forms, from forced prostitution and forced concubinage to rape. Native men were forced into forced labor by the colonial powers and recruited as colonial soldiers.
In colonial wars and anti-colonial wars of liberation, especially when they took the form of guerrilla wars, the distinction made in international laws of war—at least in theory—between soldiers and the civilian population was usually completely abolished. They were waged early on as “total” wars with systematic mass violence against the entire population to be colonized. Both colonial troops and the armed forces of anti-colonial liberation movements were dependent on the support and services of the civilian population, including women, during their campaigns. After victorious colonial conquests, the violence in the rule over the indigenous population continued in many ways. Both men and women in the imperial metropolises supported the belligerent politics of colonial conquest in a gender-specific way. Both genders were also actively involved in various ways in the uprisings and wars of liberation that fought against colonial oppression.
The aim of the first thematic conference of the newly founded MKGD research network is to comparatively examine the manifold violent interactions in colonial wars, colonial rule and anti-colonial liberation struggles with a focus on “gender”. In doing so, we want to look at both early modern and modern colonial conflicts up to the end of the Cold War and therefore include both: contextualized case studies and diachronic and synchronic comparisons.« (Source: International Research Network “Military, War and Gender/Diversity / Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht/Diversität”)

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