Programme
Thursday, June 6, 2019
09:00 I Arrival of the participants at FRIAS (seminar room)
09:15 I Opening of the workshop
Panel 1: Strategic, National, and Societal Dimensions of Sexual Violence in War Times
Chair: Sylvia Paletschek (Freiburg)
09:30 I Claire Miot (Paris): Before the Occupation. Gender Relationships between Soldiers and Women during the Invasion of Southern Germany by the French Army (April-July 1945)
10:10 I Anne-Laure Briatte (Freiburg/Paris): Reasserting Gender Roles. The Reports of the Catholic Priests on Sexual Violence and Intimate Encounters in the French Zone of Occupation
Discussion of the panel
11:00 I Coffee break in the lounge
Panel 2: Responses to Fraternizations between Allied Occupiers and German Women
Chair: Anne-Laure Briatte (Freiburg/Paris)
11:30 I Ann-Kristin Glöckner (Halle-Wittenberg): “[D]iese Art der ‚Verbrüderung‘ geht einem denn doch etwas gegen den Strich!“ – Intimate Relationships between French and Germans in Southwestern Germany under Occupation, 1945-55
12:10 I Camilo Erlichman (Maastricht): A Question of Honour? Violence against Women in the British Zone of Germany
13:00 I Lunch in the lounge
Chair: Fabrice Virgili (Paris)
14:00 I Nadja Klopprogge (Berlin/Basel): Race, Sex and the Liminality of the Aftermath: African American Occupation Troops in Postwar Germany
14:40 I Lena Rudeck (Berlin): Controlled Fraternization in Western Allied Soldiers’ Clubs? The System of American Social Passes, 1945-1948
Discussion of the panel
15:30 I Teatime
Panel 3: Shifting Gender Roles in New Power Relationships
Chair: Valérie Dubslaff (Rennes)
16:00 I Stefanie Siess (Heidelberg/Paris): Social Representations in Ego-Documents from the French Zone of Occupation (1945-1955)
16:40 I Arvid Schors (Freiburg): Young Men Returning Home to an Alien Country. German-Speaking Emigrants as American and British Soldiers of Occupation in Germany and Austria
17:20 I Bettina Blum (Paderborn): „Mothers fight for their home“. Gendered Approaches to the Requisitioning of Houses in Westphalia
Discussion of the panel
19:30 I Conference dinner
Friday, June 7, 2019
Panel 4: Cross-Border Family Constellations and National Issues around the ‘Children of the the Occupation’
Chair: Nadja Klopprogge (Berlin/Basel)
09:00 I Christopher Knowles (London): Marriage with ‘ex-enemy Aliens’: Why did British Servicemen marry German women after the End of the Second World War?
09:40 I Lukas Schretter (Graz): From Taboo to Recognition. Children Fathered by British Soldiers in Austria after World War II
10:30 I Coffee break in the lounge
Chair: Camilo Erlichman (Maastricht)
11:00 I Yves Denéchère (Angers): The Attitude of the French State towards Children born to French Soldiers and Local Women in Germany and Indochina (1945-1954). A comparative Approach
11:40 I Fabrice Virgili (Paris): Recover Allied Children in Germany (1945-1949)
Discussion of the panel
Final discussion of the workshop
Please note that a pre-registration for the workshop is necessary. Please pre-register by May 29 by e-mail to andrea.nordlander@frias.uni-freiburg.de
You can also register for the FRIAS Lunch on Thursday. The lunch costs 12 €. When registering, please specify whether you would like the meat/fish or vegetarian option.