Organzisers:
- Claudia Kraft, Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Department of Contemporary History), Univerisität Wien (University of Vienna)

- Reinhard Zöllner, Abteilung für Japanologie und Koreanistik, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften (Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (University of Bonn)

Description: »From February 19 to 21, an international workshop on "Sexual Violence in World War II" will be held at the University of Bonn. Specialists from Europe, East Asia and the U.S.A. will compare manifestations, results and reconciliation of sexual violence on both theatres of World War II.
While international political, academic and media debates since the 1980s have extensively addressed sexual violence in East and South East Asian under the topic of the "comfort women" of the Japanese military, analogous events and issues of the European war theatre have so far received much less attention.
A comparative perspective is however necessary to fully analyze the interplay of modern warfare, gender politics, and nationalism. The "comfort women" issue can be seen as one of the hithero rare cases where East Asian history may serve as a methodological blueprint for a neglected chapter of European history. On the other hand, the ways in which analogous problems of reconciliation related to World War II have been solved in Europe may be tested as models for overcoming the apparent deadlock in the "comfort women" issue.« (Source: H-Soz-Kult)

Program:

	Friday, February 19
	14:30 Opening Ceremony Representative of the University of Bonn
	15:00 Introduction Claudia Kraft, Reinhard Zöllner: Sexual Violence in World War II in Comparative Perspective - Observations from East Asia and Eastern Europe
	16:00 Coffee Break
	State of the Art: Sexual Violence in Wartimes
	16:30 Hyeon-Ju Seo: Current Status and Future Prospects of Issues concerning Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Korea
	17:15 Regina Mühlhäuser: Methodological Remarks Concerning the Comparison between the Comfort Women System of the Japanese army and sexual violence carried out by Wehrmacht and SS in the Soviet Union
	18:00 Reinhard Zöllner: A Media History of the "Comfort Women"
	19:30 Conference Dinner
	Saturday, February 20
	Gender Relations and Gendered Violence during War
	09:30 Kerstin Bischl: Gender and Violence in the "Great Patriotic War" in the Soviet Union
	10:15 Dobrochna Kałwa: Gender Politics and Sexual Violence in Occupied Poland
	11:00 Coffee Break
	Sexual Violence in Concentration Camps
	11:30 Elissa Mailänder-Koslov: Sexual Violence in Concentration Camps - Outside the Brothels
	12:15 Robert Sommer:
	13:00 Lunch Break
	Politics of Memory
	15:00 Joanna Ostrowska: Tabooing War-Time "Prostitution" in Post-War Poland
	16:15 Hyun-Baek Chung: Memory and Commemoration of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Korea
	17:00 Sarah Soh: Truth, Justice, Reconciliation
	17:45 Chizuko Ueno: Troubled Reconciliation: "Comfort Women" issue in Japan 1991-2007
	18:15 Coffee Break
	18:30 Keynote John Lie: Gender, Nationalism, and War
	20:00 Conference Dinner
	Sunday, February 21
	Identifying Research Topics and Tasks for Joint Comparative Research
	09:30 Summary and Comment
	Alf Lüdtke 10:30 Roundtable
	12:00 Closing

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