Seminar: Seksuel vold og mennesket

TIME: Friday, 25 November, 9.00-16.30

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

TIME: Friday, 25 November, 9.00-16.30

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

In 1999, the United Nations adopted Resolution 54/134 on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Previously, 25 November had been observed in Latin America. An increasing number of states have sought to act upon the objectives of the resolution by denouncing gender violence, domestic battery, rape and sexual harassment, state violence including torture and abuses of women political prisoners.

DIIS will mark the day with a public seminar that presents work from leading scholars on issues of sexual violence in both peacetime and wartime. The seminar will focus on historical and political narratives of sexual violence, of perpetrators and victims, and the relation of these images to the concepts of the human, security, and genocide.

The seminar will also focus on specific case studies of perpetrators respectively through the judgments of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, through interviews with soldiers in DR Congo, and in relation to gendered justifications for military intervention. Speakers work in a range of disciplines, including history, peace and development studies, philosophy, political science and international relations, and social psychology.

Speakers:

Joanna Bourke, Professor, University of London
Lene Hansen, Professor, University of Copenhagen
Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Annika Bergman Rosamond, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Inger Skjelsbæk, Senior Researcher, PRIO, Oslo
Maria Eriksson-Baaz, Researcher, NAI, Uppsala, Sweden
Ulla Holm, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Frederik Ferdinand Rosén, Project Researcher, DIIS
Julie Pruzan-Jørgensen, Project Researcher, DIIS

Programme:

09.00-09.10: Welcome; Nanna Hvidt, Director, DIIS

09.10-10.10: Sexual Violence and the Threshold of the Human; Joanna Bourke, Professor, University of London

10.10-10.30: Coffee Break

10.30-11.10: Gender, Violence and Security Studies; Lene Hansen, Professor, University of Copenhagen

11.10-11.40: War Rape and Genocide; Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS

11.40-11.45: Discussant; Ulla Holm, Senior Researcher, DIIS

11.45-12.15: Open Discussion

Chair: Annika Bergman Rosamond, Senior Researcher, DIIS

12.15-13.00: Sandwich Lunch

13.00-13.30: How to Study Sexual Violence Perpetrators in War; Inger Skjelsbæk, Senior Researcher, PRIO, Oslo

13.30-14.00: What can We Learn from Listening to Perpetrators? Reflections from the DR Congo; Maria Eriksson-Baaz, Researcher, NAI, Uppsala, Sweden

14.00-14.30: Gendered Justification for Military Intervention – a Scandinavian Perspective; Annika Bergman Rosamond, Senior Researcher, DIIS

14.30-14.50: Coffee break

14.50-14.55: Discussant; Frederik Ferdinand Rosén, Project Researcher, DIIS

14.55-15.45: Open Discussion

Chair: Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS

15.45-16.30: Panel Discussions: Implications of the Focus on Gender and Sexual Violence

Chair: Julie Pruzan-Jørgensen, Project Researcher, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Read more about the seminar and use the online registration form from the website no later than Wednesday, 23 October at 12.00 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.