Sexual Violence in World War II

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Sexual Violence in World War II

Veranstalter
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Professur für Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas, Universität Erfurt; Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zöllner, Abteilung für Japanologie und Koreanistik, Universität Bonn
Veranstaltungsort
Universitätsklub, Konviktstr. 9, 53113 Bonn
Ort
Bonn
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
19.02.2010 - 21.02.2010
Deadline
05.02.2010
Website
http://www.asianhistory.org/sexualviolence/registration.html
Von
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zöllner

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.

Pre-registration by February 5 is required as space is limited. Please use the link to the online registration page.
Attendance is free; travel, accomodation, and meals on your own expenses.

Programm

International Workshop:
Sexual Violence in World War II
Feb 19-21, 2010, University of Bonn
supported by the Northeast Asian History Foundation

Program

Friday, February 19

14:30 Opening Ceremony
Representative of the University of Bonn

15:00 Introduction
Claudia Kraft (Erfurt), Reinhard Zöllner (Bonn):
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 (Seoul):
Current Status and Future Prospects of Issues concerning Japanese
Military Sexual Slavery in Korea

17:15 Regina Mühlhäuser (Hamburg):
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 (Bonn):
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 (Berlin/Moskau):
Gender and Violence in the „Great Patriotic War“ in the Soviet Union

10:15 Dobrochna Kałwa (Kraków):
Gender Politics and Sexual Violence in Occupied Poland

11:00 Coffee Break

Sexual Violence in Concentration Camps

11:30 Elissa Mailänder-Koslov (Paris):
Sexual Violence in Concentration Camps – Outside the Brothels

12:15 Robert Sommer (Berlin):
Forced Prostitution in National Socialist Concentration Camps

13:00 Lunch Break

Politics of Memory

15:00 Joanna Ostrowska (Warszawa):
Tabooing War-Time “Prostitution” in Post-War Poland

16:15 Hyun-Baek Chung (Seoul):
Memory and Commemoration of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Korea

17:00 Sarah Soh (San Francisco):
Truth, Justice, Reconciliation

17:45 Chizuko Ueno (Tokyo):
Troubled Reconciliation: "Comfort Women" issue in Japan 1991-2007

18:15 Coffee Break

18:30 Keynote
John Lie (Berkeley):
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 (Erfurt)
10:30 Roundtable

12:00 Closing

Kontakt

Reinhard Zöllner

Abteilung für Japanologie und Koreanistik, Universität Bonn

0228-73 48 48
0228-73 72 23
zoellner@asianhistory.org

http://www.asianhistory.org/sexualviolence/registration.html
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