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Symposium on War and Gender

Date:
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Location:
Student Center Rm. 230

Thursday, September 8
6:00 -- Welcome Reception

7:00 - 8:30 -- Keynote Lecture
Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina
"War and Gender in the Age of the World Wars: Reflections on the History and Memory of German Women's War Service in the Third Reich"

Friday, September 9
9:00 - 10:30 -- Panel I: war and Gender in the Neneteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Research Presentations by Franci Chassen-Lopez (Mexico). Pearl James (US), and Colleen Glenn (US)

10:30 - 11:00 -- Break

11:00 - 12:30 -- Panel II: War and GEnder in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centure
Research Presentations by Diane King (Iraq), Lien-Hang Nguyen (Vietnam) and Karen Petrone (Russia/Soviet Union)

2:00 - 3:30 -- Keynote Lecture
Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame
"Tomorrow's War and Gender Violence in the 21st Century"

3:45 - 5:00 -- Closing discussion led by Karen Hagemann and Carolyn Nordstrom

 

Thy symposium is coordinated by the Working Group on War and Gender and is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, and the College of Arts and Sciences Enrichment Fund.