Institute for History at Graz University and the Elisabeth-List-Fellowship-Programme „War Welfare and Gender Politics in the First World War“ (Web)
Time: 09.-10.12.2021
Venue: virtual space, via Graz
Resistration by 06.12.2021
The conference will explore local and global dimensions of welfare policies and humanitarian aid during and after WWI from a gender historical perspective. Topics include gender discourses that reinforce, re-establish and challenge gender conventions, gendered discourses around violence, pain, trauma, and healing and how these played out in the field of humanitarian and welfare work during the war, and during post-war reconstruction. Groups of interest include those claiming an identity as (non-)combatants and veterans, feminist and socialist anti-war activists, transnational, and international organisations as well as right wing and nationalist groups committed to reinforcing traditional gender norms and gendered citizenship models as part of their nation-building agenda.
The conference will identify and explore emerging questions and directions within First World War Gender Studies as well as reflecting on continuities and change within contemporary theories of how gender is bound up with militarism, warfare, and conflict resolution.
Participants
- Keynotes: Holly Furneaux (Cardiff) and Cynthia Enloe (Worcester, MA)
- Presentations: Hilary Buxton (Ohio), Alison S. Fell (Liverpool), Susan Grayzel (Utah), Christa Hämmerle (Wien), Jessica Meyer (Leeds), Ingrid Sharp (Leeds), Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett (Leeds), Viktoria Wind (Graz) and Heidrun Zettelbauer (Graz).
Full Program
Format: hybrid: HS 11.01 with Covid pass, proof of vaccinated, recovered or negative test status and online.
Registration and contact: genderhistory@uni-graz.at – from November 15 to December 6, 2021. NB: registration is required for attendance whether online or in person.
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