Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence
7-8 December 2012 Central European University
Budapest
Workshop organized in the framework of the
Central European University-Sabancı University Joint Academic Initiative by Ayşe Gül Altınay, Çiçek Đlengiz, Borbala Klacsmann, Andrea Petö
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6 December Thursday
18.00 Roundtable
Gellner Room
Gendering Genocide
Chair: Karoly Bard
Andrea Petö (Central European University) Ayşe Gül Altınay (Sabancı University)
19.30 Reception
7 December Friday
8.30-9.00 Gellner Room Foyer
Registration
9.00 – 9.15 Gellner room Introductions Andrea Petö & Borbala Klacsmann (Central European University)
Ayşe Gül Altınay & Çiçek Đlengiz (Sabancı University) 9.15-11.15 Panel I A
Gellner Room
Panel I B Popper Room
Visualising War, Political Violence and Genocide
WWII:
Methodological Challenges, New Historiographies
Chair: Eszter Varsa
Boglárka Mácsai – “ We do our best to be like him”:
Masculinization of Girl’s Patriotism Through the Memory of War Heroes in Contemporary Russia
Lucia Popa – The Women Artists During the Romanian Communism: The Mirrors of “Traumatic Silence”
Jasmina Gavrankapetanovic-Redzic - Uses and Abuses of Memory in Visual Arts: War against Bosnia and Srebrenica Genocide
Chair: Gabor Kadar
Whitney Stark – Keywording Oppression: A Critical Perspective on The Shoah Foundation's Visual Archive
Edit Kovács – Jewish Women’s “Sexual Collaboration” in Poland and Hungary under the Nazi Occupation
Sarah Morris –The Reader
Shelley Oberer – Humanitarian Aid for Children during the Second World War through Kindertransport and Its Impact on the Kinder’s Biography
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee/Tea
11.30 – 13.00 Panel II Gellner Room
Literary
Representations of War, Memory and Gender
Chair: Jasmina Lukic
Kata Gyuris – Games of Power and Gender in J. M.
Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Ceren Yartan – Ephemeral Sounds in Jacob’s Room
Deniz Gündoğan – At the Ruins of a Disjointed Present:
Dersim’s Abject and Spectral Female Heritage in Yüzünde Bir Yer by Sema Kaygusuz
13.00 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.30 Panel III A
Gellner Room
Panel III B Popper Room
Gender, Memory, Violence
Making Sexual Violence Visible
Chair: Tijana Krstic
Timea Baumann – “Who should guard it if not me?”:
Memories of the Yugoslav Wars in the Biographies of Women of Kopačevo (Croatia)
Katie Livingstone – Atrocity Photography during the Bosnian War: Voyeurism or Call to Action?
Diana Labiris – The Continuum of Violence: Remembering the
“Comfort Women” System Anew Chair: Gaby Zipfer
Nena Mocnik – Re-Act(ivat)ed Sexualities: Researching Women's Sexuality after the War Rapes in Bosnia-Hercegovina with Applied Drama Approach
Rira Miranda – The Sexual Violence towards Albanian and Kosovo Women in Wars of Previous Century
Monika Stafa – Violence Against Women in Kosovo: A Silent Trauma under the Pressure of Patriarchy
Janna Aljets – The Conspiracy of Silence around Sexual Violence Against Men: Implications for Cultural Memory 15.30 – 15.45 Coffee/Tea
15.45 – 17.45 Panel IV A Gellner Room
Testimony and Literary Narrations of War
Chair: Anna Menyhert
Veronika Helfert – Narrating Civil War?: On the Complex Relations of Violence, Gender and Politics in Bernhardine Alma’s Diary, 1934
Marta Körösi – The Subject’s Imperative of Telling and Forgiving: Alaine Polcz’s Autobiographical Novel One Woman in the War
Eszter Szep – Graphic Novel Memoirs of Women in War:
Picturing Women, War and Identity in Maus, We are on our Own and Persepolis
Yael Hazan – “All that the body insists on remembering”: An Israeli Literary Testimony on Torture
Panel IV B Popper Room
Gendering Genocide
Chair: Judit Takacs
Monika Magyar – Gender Roles in the Cambodian Khmer Rouge Genocide
Sara Swerdlyk – A Feminist and Postcolonial Analysis of the Holocaust of Czech Roma
Michelle Wren Haskin – “Gay Genocide” Rhetoric:
Emergence from and Appropriation of Gay Memories and Memorials of the Holocaust
Jamie Arntson-Kynn – Reliving the Past: Women, Rape, and the Gacaca Courts in Post-Genocide Rwanda
17.45 – 18.00 Coffee/Tea 18.00 – 19.30 Panel V A
Gellner Room
Panel V B Popper Room
Motherhood, War and Memory
Women’s Political Agency and Resistance
Chair: Andrea Szonyi
Hanna Teichler – Memory, Motherhood and the Savages:
Telling the Stories of the Stolen Generations
Esra Gedik – Women’s Changing Life Perception After These Women Lost Their Sons in The War in Turkey
Can Zeynep Sungur – Peace Means Life: The Case of Peace Mothers of Turkey as an Anti-War Movement
Chair: Balazs Sipos
Susan Benson-Sökmen – “Refusing to Stay Put”: The Feminist Legacies of the Women of the PKK
Dieter Reinisch – Irish Republican Women and Remembrance
20.30 Dinner Fortuna Boat, Pier 1 for invited guests
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8 December Saturday
9.00 – 10.30 Panel VI Gellner Room
Gendered Memories in Cinema I
Chair: Terez Vincze
Helen Budd – “Softer” Soldiers?: Constructions of Child Soldiers in 1950s German Film and Literature
Irina Grin – Waiting for Return: Female Figures in Tomorrow Was The War (1987), Linin’s Testament (2007), and Ellipsis (2006) Balazs Santa – Man of War: Rambo and Schelling’s Theory of Tragedy
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee/Tea
10.45 – 12.00 Panel VII Gellner Room
Gendered Memories in Cinema II
Chair: Terez Vincze
Kerstin Bischl – How ‘Anonyma’ are Memories?: Female Protagonists in German Movies on the end of the Third Reich Anna Paradowska – Gender and Armenian Genocide in Visual Arts on the Example of Silent Film Ravished Armenia (1919) and Comic Book Prior to the Auction of Souls (2008)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Gellner Room 13.00 – 14.30 Panel VIII
Gellner Room
Gendered Memories of War
Chair: Ursula Mindler
Akın Yiğit – Gendered Memories of World War I in the Ottoman Empire
Linda Wotzlaw – Reporting and Remembering: Women’s and Men’s writing on Violence and World War I in the German magazine Die Grenzboten, 1914-1922
Pınar Ensari – Insecure Subjectivities, Fearful Memories:
Kurdish Women Students Remembering the War in Eastern Turkey
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee / Tea 14.45 – 16.45 Panel IX
Gellner Room
Confronting Ethnicized Memories of State and Communal Violence
Chair: Istvan Majoros
Gülen Göktürk & Aytek Alpan – Gendering the Displacement:
A Critical Perspective to the Greco-Turkish Experience of War and Displacement (1919-1923)
Çiçek Đlengiz – Aestheticization of a Loss: The Case of the Fabiato Mansion
Laylo Sabzalieva – Gendered, Ethnicized Memories of Tajik Civil War and Nation Building Process in Tajikistan
Jasneet Aulakh – Stolen Girls: Women and Sexual Violence in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogrom in India
16.45 – 17.00 Gellner Room General Discussion 17.30 Feminist bus tour of
Budapest
Departure from Basilica, Bajcsy Zs. ut 21.00 Informal get
together in a
“Ruin Pub”
