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International Conference "The First World War in a Gender Context – Topics and Perspectives"
It takes the upcoming centenary of 2014 as an occasion for in-depth discussion, reviews of previous studies, and conceptualizations of future research perspectives. The conference is specifically interested in strengthening comparative and transnational approaches. In bringing together scholars from various academic backgrounds it aims at reframing the catastrophe of mass mobilization and mass killing in the years 1914–1918 in a gender context. The conference is an event of the research platform “Repositioning of Women’s and Gender History in an Altered European Context. Networking – Resources – Projects” of the University of Vienna in cooperation with the “Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung”. Concept: Christa Hämmerle (University of Vienna, Austria), Birgitta Bader-Zaar (University of Vienna, Austria), Oswald Überegger (University of Hildesheim, Germany) Preliminary program Thursday, September 29, 2011, 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Welcome and Introduction PANEL I: Home Front Manon Pignot (Amiens/France): French Boys and Girls in the Great War: Use of Gender for a History of Childhood Experiences of the First World War Silke Fehlemann (Düsseldorf/Germany): “Mobilization of Mothers”: German Mothers of Soldiers during World War I Claudia Siebrecht (Dublin/Ireland): The Female Mourner Alison S. Fell (Leeds/UK): The Afterlives of French and British First World War Heroines Commentator: Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Innsbruck/Austria) PANEL II: Front Marco Mondini (Trento/Italy): The Construction of a Masculine Warrior Ideal in the Letters from the Front: an Italian Case Matteo Ermacora (Venice/Italy): Women behind the Lines: The Friuli Region as a Case Study of Total Mobilisation 1915–1917 Susan Grayzel (Oxford, MS/USA): The Baby in the Gas Mask: Air Power, Chemical Warfare, and the Gendered Division between the Fronts during the First World War and Its Aftermath Jason Crouthamel (Allendale, MI/USA): “We Need Real Men”: The Impact of the First World War on Germany’s Sexual Reform Movement Commentator: Christa Hämmerle (Vienna/Austria)
PANEL III: Violence Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg/Germany): Communicating War Violence: Imaginations and Descriptions in the Writings of a Berlin Family during the Great War Gabriela Dudeková (Bratislava/Slovakia): Suffering and Catharsis: Gendered Perceptions of Violence during the Great War and its Aftermath Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier (Hamburg/Germany) / Dorota Kurpiers (Opole/Poland): Rape Victims and Rapists: an Introduction to Sexual Crimes Committed by German, Austro-Hungarian and French troops during and after the First World War, 1914–1925 Commentator: Michael Geyer (Chicago, IL/USA)
PANEL IV: Visualization Beatriz Pichel (Madrid/Spain): Photography and Masculinity during the First World War in France Joëlle Beurier (Paris/France): Women, Photographs and Non-Fighting Men: A Redefinition of Masculinity in Wartime Julia Köhne (Vienna/Austria): Visualizing War Hysterics: Strategies of Feminization and Commentator: Monika Bernold (Vienna/Austria)
PANEL V: Peace Bruna Bianchi (Venice/Italy): Towards a New Internationalism: Pacifist Journals edited by Women (1914-1919) Ingrid Sharp (Leeds/UK): “A Foolish Dream of Sisterhood”: Anti-Pacifist Debates in the German Women’s Movement 1914–1919 Thomas F. Schneider (Osnabrück/Germany): “Then Horror Came Into Her Eyes ...”: (De-)Constructions of Masculinity in German Anti-War Texts on World War I, 1914–1918 Commentator: Laurie Cohen (Innsbruck/Austria)
PANEL VI: Citizenship Nikolai Vukov (Sofia/Bulgaria): Women’s Public Responses to War and Issues of Citizenship in Bulgaria during World War I Virginija Jureniene (Kaunas/Lithuania): Lithuanian Women during World War I: Activities and Aspirations Tina Bahovec (Klagenfurt/Austria): Of Women’s Armies, Heroic Mothers and Insane Men. Strategies and Discourses of the National and Political Mobilisation of Carinthian Slovene Women from 1917 to 1920 Allison Scardino Belzer (Savannah, GA/USA): Making Women into Citizens: The Great War in Italy Sponsored by: |
