Seminar: Seksuel vold fra nazisternes ragnarok frem til i dag

TIME: Thursday, 29 January at 09.30 – 15.00 hours

VENUE: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Main auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (nearest S-station Nordhavn), 2100 Cph

The seminar will be conducted in English.

Participation is free of charge and includes a sandwich lunch, registration is required.

TIME: Thursday, 29 January at 09.30 – 15.00 hours

VENUE: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Main auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (nearest S-station Nordhavn), 2100 Cph

The seminar will be conducted in English.

Participation is free of charge and includes a sandwich lunch, registration is required.

Please use our online registration form on

https://conferencemanager.events/SexualViolencefromtheHolocausttotheContemporarySecurityAgenda/sign-up.html

And do so no later than Tuesday 27 January at 12.00 noon.

70 years since he liberation of Auschwitz

January 2015 marks seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest camp established by the Germans.

Each decade since the liberation has seen new paths for research.

One feature of recent scholarship on WWII and the Holocaust is a new attention to issues of sexual violence, which resonate with an increased awareness of sexual violence in conflict on the contemporary international security agenda.

This seminar sheds light on these debates by presenting new historical scholarship on sexual violence committed by Wehrmacht soldiers and SS-men against Jewish women during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, as well as on sexual violence committed by the Red Army in Eastern Europe.

In addition to this historical material, the seminar will address a number of interpretative questions:

* How does one “unsilence” the historical record, when documents do not exist or are produced with explicit political agendas?

* In which ways can researchers understand and situate the narratives and silences of perpetrators in different social and cultural contexts?

* What methodological and ethical issues do researchers face when they interview victims of sexual violence decades after the event?

* What price do victims pay for recovering memory?

* Can or should rape be understood as a weapon of war or genocide (folkemord)?

* How do new debates about sexual violence in Holocaust and genocide research relate to feminist debates about rape?

The seminar will be followed by a screening of the recent Danish documentary, “Mission Rape – A Tool of War”. 

The film focuses on the systematic rape of women during the Balkan War in 1992-95, and the expectations to and limitations of the legal justice sought at the International Criminal Court of Justice in The Hague. The filmmakers will be present for discussion.

Speakers

Regina Mühlhäuser, Guest Fellow, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Andrea Petö, Associate Professor, Central European University
Robin May Schott, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Anette Mari Olesen, Director, producer and manager of Sfinx Film/TV

Katia Forbert Petersen, Cinematographer and filmdirector

Programme

Læs videre på 

http://www.diis.dk/event/sexual-violence-from-the-holocaust-to-the-contemporary-security-agenda