Dilek Güven and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, ICRAR/Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin; David Feldman, ICRAR/Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, London; Ayse Gül Altinay, Sabanci Univ., Gender and Women’s Studies Forum, Istanbul; Andrea Petö, Central European Univ., Department of Gender Studies, Budapest

Time: 04.–06.06.2015
Venue: Berlin
Deadline: 30.11.2014

The history of genocide and its aftermath cannot be understood without taking gender into account. As research on the history of the Holocaust and other genocides has demonstrated, genocidal violence has different but related effects on men and women, on gender relations and on gender hierarchies. Its processes have imposed new meanings on biological differences, femininity and masculinity, and on sexuality. Post-genocidal periods have witnessed the reconstitution of gender relations and the gendering of memory. Histories and memories of genocide are deeply gendered, both in their content and their silences. Read more and source … (PDF)