History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones Conference
Keynote Address
Rhonda Copelon, Professor of Law, City University of New York
"Visibilizing the Invisible: Accountability for Gender Violence in Conflict Situations"
8 p.m. Thursday, April 27
Stanley Auditorium (Room 1505, Seamans Center for Engineering Arts & Sciences)
Rhonda Copelon
Dr. Copelon is director of CUNY's International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic (IWHR). She is a co-founder of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice, which negotiated the gender provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a member of the Advisory Council for its successor, the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice in The Hague.
She has played a significant role in bringing gender into the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals and other institutions of international human rights. She also is a former staff attorney and longtime member of the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights, has argued several women's rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has written widely on women's rights and human rights under U.S. and international law.
Keynote Reception
6:30 p.m.-7:45 p.m. Thursday, April 27
Stanley Auditorium (Room 1505, Seamans Center for Engineering Arts & Sciences)
The reception is open to everyone attending the keynote address. Light refreshments will be provided.
Film Screenings
5 p.m. Saturday, April 29
Room 101, Becker Communication Studies Building
"Women's Bodies: The Front Line of the War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
Directed by Yasmina Bouziane, a Moroccan filmmaker and photographer who for the last four years has been a photographer and documentary filmmaker with the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"God Sleeps in Rwanda"
Directed by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman, was nominated for an Aacdemy Award in 2005. It tells the story of five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide.
Workshop Sessions - Friday, April 28
Room 302, Schaeffer Hall
Introductory remarks
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m
Session I: Colonialism, Conquest, Race
8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Discussant: Kevin Mumford, University of Iowa
Sharon Block, University of California-Irvine
Rethinking Rape in Conflict Zones with an Early American Case Study
Jim Giblin, University of Iowa
Women as Victims of Colonial Rebellion: The Maji Maji War of 1905-07 in German East Africa
Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming
Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling Murders
Session II: Civil Wars
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Discussant: Brian Gollnick, University of Iowa
Susan Barber, College of Notre Dame
"Unlawfully and Against Her Consent": Rape and Sexual Assault in the American Civil War
Robert Gerwarth, Oxford University
Violence Against Women in the Central European Counterrevolution, 1919-1922
Andrea Turpin, University of Virginia
After the Occupation: The Violence of Reform in 19th-century Mountain Lebanon
Session III: Laws and Norms
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Discussant: Marcella David, University of Iowa
Anne Curry, University of Southhampton
The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West
Barbara Donagan, Huntington Library
Women and War in Early Modern England
Kathy Gaca, Vanderbilt University
Girls, Women, and the Sexual Norms of War from Antiquity to the Modern Day
Yuma Totani, Harvard University
Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience
Workshop Sessions - Saturday, April 29
Room 302, Schaeffer Hall
Session IV: Ways of Talking: Representations of SVCZ
8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Discussant: Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa
Tammy Ho, University of Iowa
Burma/Myanmar: Displacement and Gendered Violence in Literary Testimonies
Anna Klosowska, Miami University of Ohio
A Theory of Narratives of SVCZ: Nation-Building, Enjoyment, and the Unnarratable in Early Modern France
John Theibault, The Chemical Heritage Foundation
Sexual Violence in the Thirty Years War: Image, Event, Experience
Session V: Memories of SVCZ & Post-Conflict Politics
10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Discussant: Paul Greenough, University of Iowa
Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union
"The Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War and Occupation in Post-World War II German Memory and Imagination
Nicoletta Gullace, University of New Hampshire
Gender and the Politics of Suffering in Interwar Britain
Yasmin Sakia, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"They Were Human": Men, Women and Violence in 1971, East Pakistan
Session VI: Theorizing SVCZ
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Facilitator: Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa