Thursday June 29, 2017

14.00–14.30 Esther Möller (Mainz), Johannes Paulmann (Mainz), Katharina Stornig (Giessen): Welcome and Introduction

I. Masculinities and Femininities in Humanitarian Discourse and Practice (Chair: Ulrike Weckel, Giessen)

14.30–15.30 Inger Marie Okkenhaug (Volda):
Gender and Humanitarian Practices after World War I: Female Scandinavian Relief Workers and Armenian Women Refugees in Lebanon and Syria

15.30–16.30 Maria Lidola (Konstanz):
Gender and the Formation of Humanitarian Discourse in the Global South: The Specific Case of Cuban Medical Missions

16.30–17.00 Coffee break

17.00–18.00 Bertrand Taithe (Manchester):
Masculine Character and Heroics in Humanitarian Aid: A Long Perspective

18.00–19.00 Kerrie Holloway (London):
Where are all the Men in Humanitarian History? A Re-assessment of Field Workers during the Spanish Civil War

20.00 Conference Dinner

Friday June 30, 2017

II. Gender and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Chair: Ulrike Lindner, Cologne)

9.00–10.00 Ceren Ayguel (Istanbul/Mainz):
The Interplay between Ottoman Red Crescent, Women’s Movement and Nationalism in the Ottoman State during World War One

10.00–11.00 Francesca Piana (London):
Women and Medical Humanitarian Aid in the Interwar Period

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–12.30 Maria Framke (Rostock):
Non-Governmental Relief Organizations in Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Redrawing the Boundaries of Gender in Terms of Femininity and Masculinity?

12.3o–13.30 Nora Derbal (Berlin):
Humanitarian Service in the Name of Social Development: Women’s Welfare Associations in Saudi Arabia

13.30 Lunch

III. Gendered Bodies, Sexual Violence and Humanitarian Responses (Chair: Manfred Sing, Mainz)

15.00–16.00 Jadwiga Pieper Mooney (Tucson):
Asymmetries of Care: Power, Populations, and Peace Corps Projects in Bolivia

16.00–17.00 Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham):
Humanitarianism and Orientalising Wartime Sexual Violence

17.00–17.30 Coffee Break

17.30–18.30 Sonja Dolinsek (Erfurt):
From “White Slavery” to “Sexual Slavery”: Framing Women’s Sexual Labour in Transnational Migrations from the 1960s to the 1980s

Saturday July, 1 2017

IV. Gendering Humanitarian Work for Children (Chair: John Wood, Mainz)

9.00–10.00 Beth Baron (New York):
Medical Missionaries, Gendered Bodies, and Infant Mortality in Interwar Egypt

10.00–11.00 Nazan Maksudyan (Berlin/Istanbul):
The Orphan Nation: Armenian Children in Istanbul (1919–1922)

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–12.30 Joelle Droux (Geneva):
Labour of Love? Gender Roles in Humanitarian Careers and Practices at the Save the Children International Union (1920–1945)

12.30–13.00 Concluding Remarks

13.00 Light Lunch