Women in Modern Wars

International Conference 

Women in Modern Wars

https://womenmodernwars.wordpress.com/programme-english/

Programme

VENUE: LISBON, FCSH-UNL | Av. Berna 26 C | ID, Room Multiusos 2 and Multiusos 3

DATE: 28th and 29th September 2016

On the 28^th September there will be parallel sessions. On the 29^th September, sessions will take place only in Room Multiusos 2.

Invited keynote speakers will give their conferences in Room Multiusos 2 to all participants present at this event.

DAY 1 – 28th September 2016 (Room Multiusos 2)

09h30 – Registration andparticipants’ reception

09h45 – Opening session

Conference

10h00 – Ingrid Sharp – Women against the war: pacifism and internationalism in the women’s movement 1914-1924

Chair: To be determined

10h45 – Debate

11h00 – Coffee Break

11h20 Panel Ia – War, remembrance and female literature

Chair: To be determined

11h20 – Monica Quirico - Mourning the Fallen: between individual sorrow and historical narratives

11h40 – Francisco Mata Pereira - A escrita de guerra no feminino. O contributo das mulheres portuguesas para a literatura relativa à Grande Guerra

12h00 – Nidhal Chami - Algerian Women Fighters Remember, Talk and Write Back

12h20 – Debate

12h40 – Free lunch break

Conference

14h00 - Anne Cova – As mulheres e as guerras no mundo contemporâneo: os conselhos nacionais das mulheres na Europa do Sul e na América Latina durante a Grande Guerra

Chair: To be determined

14h45 – Debate

15h00 Panel IIa – Life paths

Chair: To be determined

15h00 – Anabela Silveira - De pacifista a defensora da Guerra. O percurso singular de Beatriz Pinheiro (1871-1922)

15h20 – Adília Fernandes - A Grande Guerra na correspondência feminina do espólio de Bernardino Machado

15h50 –Inês Borges e Anabela Salgueiro - Branca de Gonta Colaço: correspondência literária em tempos da Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945)

16h10 – Marta Correia - Not in My Name. Slavenka Drakulić and the war in the former Yugoslavia

16h30 – Debate

16h50 – Coffee Break

17h10 Panel IIIa – Women and the Great War

Chair: To be determined

17h10 – Natividade Monteiro - As organizações patrióticas e humanitárias das mulheres portuguesas na I Guerra Mundial

17h30 – Diogo Ferreira - A intervenção cívica da subcomissão de Setúbal da Cruzada das Mulheres Portuguesas (1916-1919)

17h50 – Nulita Andrade - Viscondessa da Ribeira Brava: uma voz proactiva na Cruzada das Mulheres Portuguesas

18h10 – Paulo Gonçalves - O Papel das Damas Enfermeiras no Apoio ao Corpo Expedicionário Português

18h30 – Debate

18h50 – Closing Session

DAY 1 – 28th September 2016 (Room Multiusos 3)

11h20 Panel Ib – Other wars, other female perspectives

Chair: To be determined

11h20 – Inês José - Quotidianos militares: as operárias da Manutenção Militar de Lisboa (1912-1918)

11h50 –Arlette Meyer - Female domestic life and professional live in time of war leading to nationalist movements

12h10 – Beate Slok-Andersen - Women in the Danish military – now and then

12h30 – Debate

12h50 – Free lunch break

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15h00 Panel IIb – Female Fighters

Chair: To be determined

15h00 – Anouk Guiné - Women of the Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path since the 1970s. Towards a New Historiography. 

15h20 – Jennifer Phillipa Eggert - Female fighters, non-state political violence and individual motivations:  The case of women joining Christian militias during the Lebanese civil war(s) (1975 – 1990)

15h50 –Marta Romero Delgado - Transgressing gender roles: women in guerrilla movements during last Peruvian civil war

16h10 – Mariana Castro - As Mulheres Contrabandistas em Elvas durante as Guerras: Do espaço doméstico para o comércio ilegal (1914-1945)

16h30 – Debate

16h50 – Coffee Break

17h10 Panel IIIb – World War II and Colonial Wars

Chair: To be determined

17h10 – Alexis Peri - Demobilizing & Domesticating Female Soldiers in the USSR, 1945-50

17h30 – Silvia Cassamagnaghi - Afro-American Soldiers and Italian Women during WWII: from Racial Laws to Interracial Marriages

17h50 – Gemma Nadal - Filhas de colonos, mulheres de militares: a visão da guerra nas narradoras portuguesas da Guerra Colonial

18h10 – Leonardo Aboim Pires - Guerra e política colonial na Assembleia Nacional: o contributo das mulheres deputadas (1961-1974)

18h30 – Debate

18h50 – Closing Session

DAY 2 – 29th September 2016 (Room Multiusos 2)

09h45 – Participants’ reception

Conference

10h00 – Margarida Calafate Ribeiro – Nos trilhos da resistência em Angola e Moçambique: anti-colonialismo e ruturas identitárias no feminino

Chair: To be determined

10h45 – Debate

11h00 – Coffee Break

11h20 Panel VI – Gender and violence. Is violence a weapon of war?

Chair: To be determined

11h20 – Anna Di Giusto - War Rapes. Wartime Sexual Violence, Biopolitics, and the Female Body

11h40 – Meta Remec - Rape and violence during World War I

12h00 – Marina Sola Garcia - Experiences of Women in Conflict and Post-conflict situations: Women in the Rwandan Genocide: Victims, Violent Perpetrators and Peacebuilders

12h20 – Rodolpho Padovani de Brito - A violência sexual utilizada como arma de guerra no século XX: um estudo sobre os conflitos da Ex-Iugoslávia e Ruanda nos anos 1990

12h40 – Debate

12h50 – Free lunch break

14h20 Panel V – Contemporary Wars

Chair: To be determined

14h20 – Ana Romão - Lynndiebot: Representing the Female Soldier after Abu Ghraib

14h40 – Katharina Stockli The other half of the population: Women as “Resource” for the U.S.-Counterinsurgency engagement in Afghanistan

15h00 –Nitai Aleksiewicz - Battling for Equality: Competing Gender Narratives and Kurdish Soldiers

15h20 – Yosra Karaani - Witnessing her/story:  American and Iraqi Women Writing Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Narratives of the Iraq War

15h40 – Debate

16h00 – Coffee Break

16h20 Panel VI – Literature and Memory… The power of «Remembrance»

Chair: To be determined

16h20 – Teresa da Silva - Gender, Freud and the First World War: trauma, dream and the female figure in The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

16h40 – Cláudia Coimbra - "Endless Parade: Shadows of the Grotesque in Helen Zenna Smith's Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War"

17h00 – Alexandra Cheira - Mapping the two world wars in the feminine: A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book and Ragnarök: The End of the Gods

17h20 – Debate

17h40 – Round Table

Participants to be confirmed

19h00 – Closing Session