Gender and Violence in Colonial Wars, Colonial Rule and Anti-colonial Liberation Struggles

Gender and Violence in Colonial Wars, Colonial Rule and Anti-colonial Liberation Struggles

Veranstalter
Tanja Bührer, Paris Lodron University Salzburg; Isabelle Deflers, University of the Bundeswehr Munich; Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD); Center for Military History and Social Studies of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw); University of the Bundeswehr Munich; Paris Lordon University Salzburg)
Ausrichter
Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD); Center for Military History and Social Studies of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw); University of the Bundeswehr Munich; Paris Lordon University Salzburg
Veranstaltungsort
Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), Zeppelinstraße 127/128
PLZ
14471
Ort
Potsdam
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
30.01.2025 - 31.01.2025
Deadline
02.12.2024
Von
Jasper Heinzen, Department of History, University of York

Inaugural annual conference of the Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD)

Organisers: Tanja Bührer (Paris Lodron University Salzburg), Isabelle Deflers (University of the Bundeswehr Munich), Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Hosts: Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD); Center for Military History and Social Studies of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw); University of the Bundeswehr Munich; Paris Lordon University Salzburg

Venue: Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), Zeppelinstraße 127/128, 14471 Potsdam, Germany

Dates: 30.01.2025 – 31.01.2025

Deadline for registration: 02.12.2024

Gender and Violence in Colonial Wars, Colonial Rule and Anti-colonial Liberation Struggles

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 increasing international academic attention in the last two decades. However, the gender dimension of the topic is still under-researched, despite previous research on colonial conflicts which shows that gender is of considerable importance both as a methodological approach and as a subject of research. The aim of the first thematic international conference of the newly established MKGD research network together with the ZMSBw 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 wish to look at both early modern and modern colonial conflicts up to the end of the Cold War and welcome both contextualized case studies and diachronic/synchronic comparisons

Registration:
Registration is mandatory. The final deadline is Monday, December 2, 2024. To register, please go to: https://mkgd.hypotheses.org/current-workshop

The conference fee is 25 EUR (for coffee and lunch breaks).

Programm

Thursday, January 30, 2025

9:00 – 9:30: Registration and Welcome Coffee

9:30 – 10:00: Welcome and Introduction

Alaric Searle (Center for Military History and Social Studies of the Bundeswehr)
Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Tanja Bührer (Paris Lodron University Salzburg) (MKGD)

10:00 – 12:00: Panel 1: Gender in Early Modern Colonialism
Moderation: Isabelle Deflers (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)

Eva Maria Lehner (University of Bonn): Detecting Sexual and Sexualised Violence in the Dutch Colonial Cape (1652-1795)

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

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:45: 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)

Kristy Campbell (University of the Bundeswehr Munich): More than just a Kulturträgerin: The Role of German Women Settlers in the Colonial Violence of 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

14:45 – 15:15: Coffee Break

15:15 – 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

Carl Deußen (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Sexuality and Sexual Violence in Imperial Ethnographic Collecting: The Case of German Anthropologist Wilhelm Joest

Susie Protschky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Race and Soldiering Masculinities in Dutch in Modern Colonial Wars in Indonesia

Rachel Johnston-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
Moderation: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Natalya Benkhaled-Vince (Oxford University): Gender in Anticolonial Conflicts: The Example of the Algerian War

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 (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– 13:30: 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)

Catheline Nyabwengi (University of Bayreuth): Reclaiming Herstory: Intersectionality of Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Mau Mau Conflict in Kenya (1952–1960): Women‘s Bodies as Potent Weapons of Resistance

Jan Boeder (University of Warwick): 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 (1975-1999)

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 of the Bundeswehr Munich)

Sylvan Niedermeier (University of Erfurt): Gender, Imperial Violence and Family Memory in Private Photo Albums of the Philippine-American War (1809-1902)

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): Women in German South West Africa: The Theme of Violence against Women in Historical Novels and Films

16:30 – 16:45: Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:45: Final Discussion
Moderation: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

with Birthe Kundrus (University of Hamburg) / Alaric Searle (ZMSBw)

18:00 – 19:30: Meeting of the Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD)

20:00: Joint Dinner

Kontakt

mkgd.forschungsverbund@gmail.com

https://mkgd.hypotheses.org/current-workshop
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