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