»Against Our Will« Forty Years After: Exploring the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

Conference Participants

Yonson Ahn, Korean Studies, Gender Studies, Professor, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany, selected key words: Gender-based Violence in Conflict; Memory Politics; Transnational Migration and Gender; Transnational Feminist Activism 

Miranda Alison, SVAC, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK, selected key words: Female Combatants in Non-state Military Groups; Ethno-National Conflicts in Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland 

Claire Andrieu, Historian, Sciences Po Paris, France, selected key words: State and Society in France; Violence and Non Violence In World War II Europe; Mass Violence and Its Memories 

Branka Antic-Stauber, prim. dr., Specialist in Family Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Association »Snaga zene« Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, selected key words: Medical, Psychological, Social, and Cultural Aspect of War Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Rehabilitation through Occupational Model, Horticultural and Ecological Therapy 

Meira Asher, Artist, Haifa University, Israel, selected key words: Social Documentary; Female Ex-Child Combatants; Demilitarization; Radio Art; Sound Art 

Aaron Belkin, Queer theory, Military Studies, American Politics; University of California, USA, selected key words: Anti-Militarism; Gays in the Military; Military Masculinity; Transgender Military Service; »Don't Ask, Don't Tell«; Research Translation and Public Policy 

Doris Bergen, Historian, University of Toronto, Canada, selected key words: Women and Gender in the Holocaust and World War II; Linkages between Sexual Violence, Religion, and War 

Debra Bergoffen, SVAC, Philosophy, Feminist Theory, American University, USA, selected key words: Human Rights; Politics; Phenomenology and Ontology of Vulnerability and Sexual Violence 

Kerstin Bischl, Historian, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, selected key words: Gender, Sexuality and Violence in the Red Army during WWII; Sexual Violence and Liberation in Central and Eastern Europe 

Jelke Boesten, Interdisciplinary Social Scientist, King’s College London, UK, selected key words: Peru; Sexual Violence in War and Peace; Social Policy; Gender, Memory and the Arts 

Pascale R. Bos, SVAC, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Holocaust and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA, selected key words: Holocaust Memory; Gender and Sexuality during WWII and the Holocaust; Holocaust and (Trans-Generational) Trauma; Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict 

Joanna Bourke, SVAC, Historian, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, selected key words: Sexual Violence in Britain and America from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 

Raphaëlle Branche, SVAC, Historian, Rouen University, France, selected key words: Colonial Violence; Guerilla Warfare; Masculinity and War; Memory and Transmission 

Susan Brownmiller, Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Pace University in New York, USA, selected key words: »Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape« (1975) and other books 

Kirsten Campbell, SVAC, Sociology, Goldsmiths, UK, selected key words: Models of Sexual Violence, International Criminal Law, Gender Harms, Former Yugoslavia 

Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law, Director of the Centre on Women, Peace and Security at the LSE, UK 

Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, English Literature, Creighton University, USA, selected key words: Representation, Gender and Rape in Congolese conflicts 

Janine Natalya Clark, Law and International Relations, Associate Professor in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice, University of Birmingham, UK, selected key words: Legacy of Mass Rape During the Bosnian War 

Chris Coulter, Anthropologist and Expert on Women, Peace and Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, selected key words: Women, Peace and Security 

Jason Crouthamel, Historian, Grand Valley State University, USA, selected key words: Gender and Sexuality in Germany during World War I; Sexual Violence and Crisis of Masculinity 

Elma Demir, Researcher and Project Coordinator in BiH, Goldsmiths, University of London, Bosnia and Herzegovina, selected key words: Social Justice; Political Economy of Transitional Justice; the Rule of Law; Economics and War 

Louise du Toit, SVAC, Philosopher, Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, selected key words: Sexual violence in the Postcolony; South Africa; Transitional Justice and Sexual Violence; Continuities and Discontinuities between War and Peace 

Verónica Ferreira, International Relations Student, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, selected key words: Gender and Violence; Sexual Violence during Armed Conflicts; Western Discourses about Sexual Violence in the Middle East 

Sybille Fezer, Social Worker and Journalist, Germany, selected key words: Peace Studies, Feminist Women’s NGO, SGBV Programmes in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Liberia 

Katia Forbert Petersen, Film Director, Photographer and Producer, Sfinx Film /TV ApS Copenhagen, Denmark, selected key words: Documentary Film about Rape as a Weapon of War in Contemporary Armed Conflicts & against Lack of Judicial Justice Post-War 

Lisa Gabriel, SVAC, Freelance Sociologist, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture – SVAC Bibliography, Germany, selected key words: Social Work in the Field of Violence Prevention and Youth Culture in Berlin 

Anna v. Gall, SVAC, Lawyer, Germany, selected key words: Litigating (Conflict-Related) Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Europe, the Philippines, DRC, Sri Lanka, and Colombia; CEDAW and Other UN Mechanisms 

Júlia Garraio, SVAC, German Studies, Center for Social Studies (Coimbra), Portugal, selected key words: German Literature and WWII, Sexual Violence and Memory Politics 

Joshua S. Goldstein, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American University in Washington, DC, USA, selected key words: War and Gender; History of Women Combatants; Biology; Child Development; Masculinity

Sabine Grenz, Gender Studies, Wiss MA/Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programmes at the Göttingen Centre for Gender Studies, Göttingen University, Germany, selected key words: Cultural History of Sexuality; Gendered Construction of Sexuality; Second World War.

Karin Griese, SVAC, Sociologist, medica mondiale e.V., Germany, selected key words: Feminist Women's NGO; Holistic and Trauma Sensitive Support to Survivors of War-Related Sexual Violence in Areas of War and Conflict; Qualification Programmes 

Atina Grossmann, History, Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Cooper Union, New York, USA, selected key words: Gender and the Holocaust: History and Memory; Gender and Sexuality during and after WWII: Jewish Refugees and Survivors; Sexuality and Sexual Violence in Postwar Germany 

Christa Hämmerle, Historian, Department of History at the University of Vienna and L'Homme, Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, Austria, selected key words: Gender and Violence during World War I; the Austro-Hungarian Army (1868-1914); Total War and Ego-Documents 

Carol Harrington, Sociology and Social Policy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, selected key words: International institutions, Feminist Activism, and Sexual Violence discourse and Policy; Sex Work, Trafficking in Women and Discourses of Sexual Violence; Sexual Violence and the Construction of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 

Monika Hauser, SVAC, Gynaecologist and Women’s Rights Activist, medica mondiale e.V., Germany, selected key words: Empowerment of Women after Experiences of Sexualised Violence in War and Conflict 

Marta Havryshko, Historian, Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine, selected key words: Sexual Violence during World War II in Ukraine; Gender and Nationalism; Ukrainian Nationalist Underground Movement (OUN, UPA); Soviet Regime 

Renee Heberle, Professor, Political Science and Law and Society, USA; selected key words: Feminist Theory; Sexual Violence and Social Movements; Domestic Law and Sexual Violence; Gender and Incarceration 

Elissa Helms, Anthropologist, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, selected key words: Gender and Nationalism; Women's Activism; Gender and War; Post-war Memory Politics; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Former Yugoslavia 

Smiljana Hesse, Teacher for Adults, Vive Zene e.V. Dortmund, Germany, selected key words: Gender and Sexuality during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Psycho-social Work and Women’s Rights, Transitional Justice 

Jasmina Husanovic, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, selected key words: Trauma, Witnessing and Gender; Politics of Memory in the Former Yugoslavia; Sexual Violence and Conflict 

Tuba Inal, Political Scientist, Izmir University, Turkey, selected key words: International Humanitarian Law; Development of the Laws of War and Rape in War; Sexual Violence against Women and Just War Theorizing 

Dobrochna Kałwa, Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, selected key words: Women’s History in 20th-century Poland, Memory of WW II 

Claudia Kemper, Historian, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, selected key words: Gender Theory in Contemporary History, Social Movement 

Sabine Lammers, Editor, Publishing House Hamburger Edition HIS, Germany

Julie Le Gac, Historian, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Labex Ecrire une Histoire Nouvelle de l’Europe at the Paris Sorbonne, France, selected key words: Sexual Violence during the Second World War; Gender; Race 

Na-Young Lee, Feminist Sociologist, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea, selected key words: Gender and Sexuality during the Cold War in East Asia; Women's Movements on Sexual Violence and Prostitution 

Susann Lewerenz, SVAC, Historian, Staff Member SVAC at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, Germany, selected key words: Postcolonial German History; Race and Gender 

Bob Lilly, Sociologist and Criminologist, Northern Kentucky University, USA, selected key words: Rape and Other Serious Crimes Committed by US Soldiers in WWII (Europe) and North Africa; Sex Crimes and Comparative Rape Narratives 

Elissa Mailänder, SVAC, Historian, Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po Paris, France, selected key words: Gender and Sexuality in Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe during World War II; Perpetrator History and Concentration Camp Violence 

Rashida Manjoo, SRVAW in UN System and Law Professor, United Nations and University of Cape Town, South Africa, selected key words: State Responsibility to Act with Due Diligence to Respond to and Prevent Violence against Women and Girls 

Chiseche Salome Mibenge, Law & Political Science, City University of New York Graduate Center and Lehman College, USA, selected key words: Gender, Race and Sexuality; Homosocial Spaces and Gender Based Violence; Enforcement of Morality Laws against Women and LGBT Communities; Oral History as Feminist Method; Creative Writing as Feminist Method 

Gabriela Mischkowski, SVAC, Advisor for Gender Justice, medica mondiale e.V., Germany, selected key words: Sexual Violence in Judicial Proceedings 

Gorana Mlinarevic, Researcher, Goldsmiths, University of London, Bosnia and Herzegovina, selected key words: Prosecution of War crimes; Social Justice; Feminist Justice; Feminist Movement 

Nayanika Mookherjee, Social Anthropology, University of Durham, UK, selected key words: Gendered Violence during Wars; Commemoration and Public Memory; Bangladesh War of 1971; South Asia 

Jaimie Morse, MPH, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, selected key words: History and Use of Medical Evidence to Document Political and Sexual Violence among Survivors 

Jessica Mosbahi, Lawyer and Advisor on Human Rights and Politics, medica mondiale e.V., Germany, selected key words: Lobbying on Women's Rights (especially in Afghanistan) and Implementation of UNSC Res. 1325; Prosecution of Sexualised War Violence 

Tatiana Moura, SVAC, Political Scientist, Executive Director Instituto Promundo, Brazil, selected key words: Feminism and International Relations; New Wars and Urban Violence; Gender and Armed Violence 

Regina Mühlhäuser, SVAC, Historian, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, Associate Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, selected key words: Sexuality and Violence during World War II in Europe and Asia; Sexual Violence and Memory Politics 

Christina Müller, Editor of the Journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Mittelweg 36, Germany 

Alejandra Muñoz, ECCHR, Germany 

Michiko Nakahara, Historian, Co-Chairperson, Violence against Women in War Research and Action Center, selected key words: Forced Labour in Asia during World War II; Comfort Women; International Women's Tribunal; Memory 

Alexandra Oberländer, Historian, Germany, selected key words: Sexual Violence in Russia 1880-1910 

Annette Mari Olsen, Film director and Producer, Sfinx Film /TV ApS Copenhagen, Denmark, selected key words: Documentary Film about Rape as a Weapon of War in Contemporary Armed Conflicts & against Lack of Judicial Justice Post-War 

Valerie Oosterveld, Associate Dean for Research and Administration and Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Canada, selected key words: the Meaning of ›gender‹ in International Criminal Law; Forced Marriage; the Intersection of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence with other Prohibited Acts, such as Murder, Enslavement and Committing Acts of Terror in International Criminal Law 

Maria O'Reilly, International Relations, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, selected key words: Gender and Agency in War and Peace; Gender and DDR; Women's Activism around Transitional Justice Issues in Bosnia & Herzegovina 

Birgit Otte, Editorial Director of the Publishing House Hamburger Edition HIS, Germany 

Patricia Owens, Reader in International Relations, University of Sussex, UK, selected key words: Gender and Counterinsurgency; Torture, Sexuality and Military Orientalism 

Donna Pankhurst, Professor of Peacebuilding and Development, Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK, selected key words: Masculinities; Soldiers; Ex-combatants; Peacebuilding; Sexual Violence; Conflict 

Andrea Pető, Historian, Professor, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, selected key words: Sexual Violence; Second World War; Memory Politics; Gender 

Nela Porobić Isaković, Project Coordinator, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, selected key words: Wartime Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice, in particular, Reparations; Wartime Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina 

Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Philologist, Founder of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Executive Council of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, Germany, selected key words: Literature of the 18th and 20th Centuries; Theory of Civilization; History of Human Destructivity 

Madeleine Rees, SVAC, Lawyer, Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 

Amandine Regamey, SVAC, Russian Language & Culture, University Paris I and CERCEC (EHESS/ CNRS), France, selected key words: Chechnya & Russia; War Legends; Soviet Union and WWII 

Mary Louise Roberts, Lucie Aubrac Distinguished Professor of History, Plaenert Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, selected key words: Gender and Sexuality during the Second World War in France, England and the United States; Sexual Violence, Gender and Race Relations during the Second World War 

Sofia José Santos, International Relations, Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, selected key words: Media and Masculinities; Media and Gender Studies; Media and Memory Politics 

Robin May Schott, Philosopher, Danish Institute for international Studies, Denmark, selected key words: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; Gender, Conflict, War, and Sexual Violence 

Ruth Seifert, Sociologist, Professor, the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany, selected key words: Gender-specific Violence in Armed Conflicts; Gender and Post-war Reconstruction 

Atreyee Sen, SVAC, Anthropologist, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, selected key words: Urban Conflict and Poverty in India; Violent Political Movements and Prison Politics in Urban India 

Fernando Serrano-Amaya, Anthropologist, Consultant, Secretaría Distrital de la Mujer – District Women’s Department in Bogotá, Colombia, selected key words: Homophobic Violence in Armed Conflicts in Latin America; Sexuality, Violence and Political Conflicts; Masculinities; Peace Building, Gender and Sexuality 

Sabine Sielke, Chair of North American Literature and Culture and Director, North American Studies Program, University of Bonn, Germany, selected key terms: Discourses of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture; Trauma Studies; Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies 

Silke Studzinsky, Lawyer at the ECCC and Legal Adviser at the Trust Fund for Victims at the ICC, Germany, selected key words: Represented Victims of Sexual Violence at the ECCC and Fostered the Inclusion of Sexual Violence and Forced Marriage into the Indictment; Reparations for Victims of Sexual Violence as International Crimes 

Yuki Tanaka, SVAC, History, War Crimes, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan and Australia, selected key words: Japanese Military Sex Slaves; the Asia Pacific War; Politics of War Responsibility and Memories 

Meredeth Turshen, Professor, School of Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, selected key words: Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict; Health Consequences of Violence against Women; Africa (Algeria, RD Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda, etc.) 

Fabrice Virgili, SVAC, Historian, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, selected key words: War and Gender during World War I and II in Western Europe and Asia; Sexual Violence; Domestic Violence 

Patricia Viseur Sellers, International Criminal Lawyer, Oxford University, International Criminal Court, UK, selected key words: International Criminal/Humanitarian Law; Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Armed Conflict; International Human Rights 

Mina Watanabe, Activist, Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM), Japan, selected key words: Japan's Military Sexual Slavery (the »Comfort Women« Issue); Museum and Education; Memory Politics; Reparation 

Tsukasa Yajima, Photographer and Journalist, Germany/Japan, Asahi Shimbun, selected key words: Photography Project on »Comfort Women« in Korea (2003-2006) 

Daqing Yang, Historian, George Washington University, USA, currently at IfZ, Munich, Germany, selected key words: Violence and War Crimes during World War II in Asia; War and Memory Politics 

Hyunah Yang, SVAC, Professor of Law, Seoul National University, Korea, selected key words: Feminist Legal Studies; Post-colonialism and Family Law in Korea; Victim Testimony Research with Emphasis on the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Survivors 

Dubravka Zarkov, SVAC, Sociology, Development of Women’s Studies and Conflict Studies, International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the Netherlands, selected key words: Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity, War, and Media; Femininity/Masculinity and Sexual Violence against Women and Men; Neo-Liberal Economic Globalization; Militarism and War; Former Yugoslavia; South Asia; USA; Netherlands 

Gaby Zipfel, SVAC, Social Scientist, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, Associate Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, selected key words: War as State of Society; Gender as a Structuring Category of Violence