INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RESPONSES TO WARTIME RAPE

    IONTAS SEMINAR ROOM, IONTAS BUILDING
    MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY NORTH CAMPUS

     

    INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RESPONSES TO WARTIME RAPE
    IONTAS SEMINAR ROOM, IONTAS BUILDING
    MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY NORTH CAMPUS
     
     

    MONDAY 19TH JUNE

    10:30-11:00 Registration and Coffee
    11:00-11:15 Welcome

    11:15-12:30 Plenary Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Swanson (Comparative Literature, Babson College, MA).
    “Witness Beyond Recognition, a Case Study: Cultural Representations of Rape in Democratic Republic of Congo”

    12:30-14:00 Lunch

    14:00-15:00 Interpretative Frames (Chair: Valerie Heffernan)
    Professor R.M. Douglas (History, Colgate University): ‘Forging the Perfect Victims: Anne Fontaine’s Les Innocentes (The Innocent) and the Representation of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’
    Dr Júlia Garraio (Social Studies, University of Coimbra): ‘Enlarging the Definition of Wartime Sexual Violence during the Portuguese Colonial War. On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance’
    Giovanni Battista Corvino (Criminology, University of Turin): ‘Male Victims of Sexual Violence during War Time: The Role of Cultural Works in moving from Stereotypes to Reality’

    15:00-15:30: Coffee Break

    15:30-16:30 Art, Memory, and Justice (Chair: Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż)
    Anna Di Giusto (History, Italian Society of Historian Women): ‘Cinema, Memory, and Justice in Bosnian War’
    Dr Katie Stone (German Studies, Maynooth University): ‘The Right to Represent: The Politics of Remembering Mass Rape in Germany after 1945’
     
    18:30-20:30 Screening of As If I am Not There and Q&A with Juanita Wilson.

    21:00 Late Dinner at The Gatehouse (Main Street, by Maynooth Castle)

    TUESDAY 20TH JUNE

    10:00-11:00: Screening of The Making of Thinking of You (2015), introduced by Professor Anna di Lellio (International Relations, NYU)

    11:00-11:30: Coffee Break 

    11:30-12:30: Story-Telling and Empowerment (Chair: Maria Alina Asavei)
    Dr Olivera Simić (Law, Griffith University): ‘“My Body, A War Zone”: Documenting Stories of Wartime Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Nepal’
    Natasha Jolly (Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago): ‘A continuum of care to end the continuum of violence: Using restorative processes to deal with conflict related sexual and gender based violence’

    12:30-13:30 Lunch

    13:30-14:30 Perpetrator Narratives (Chair: Olivera Simic)
    Kata Gyuris (English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University): ‘Authorship, Rape and Responsibility in Fiction about the Biafran and the Yugoslav Wars’
    Dr Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż (English Studies, University of Warsaw): ‘The Truth or the Representation (?) of War Rape: Helke Sander and Wojciech Tochman’

    14:45-15:45 Witnessing, Re-Telling, and Second-Hand Memory (Chair: Júlia Garraio)
    Dr Maria-Alina Asavei (Russian and East European Studies, Charles University in Prague): ‘Beyond Nationalist Ideologies: Transnational Artistic Memory of Mass Violence against Women’
    Stella Theocharous (Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology): ‘Meta-Memory: An empirical exploration of a new conceptual schema for understanding ethnic conflict in Cyprus’

    16:00-17:00: Closing Remarks and Directions for Future Collaboration

    19:00: Closing Dinner at The Avenue (At the far end of Main Street, Maynooth)