Inaugural annual conference of the Research Network Military, War and Gender/Diversity (MKGD): Tanja Bührer (Paris Lodron Univ. Salzburg), Isabelle Deflers (Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich), and Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (Web)

Time: 30.-31.01.2025
Venue: Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), Potsdam
Registration by: 02.12.2024

The extreme violence in colonial wars and anti-colonial wars of liberation as well as the structural and actual practice of violence under colonial rule have received increasing international academic attention in the last two decades. However, the gender dimension of the topic is still under-researched, despite previous research on colonial conflicts which shows that gender is of considerable importance both as a methodological approach and as a subject of research. The aim of the first thematic international conference of the newly established MKGD research network together with the ZMSBw is to comparatively examine the manifold violent interactions in colonial wars, colonial rule and anti-colonial liberation struggles with a focus on „gender“. In doing so, the conference takes a look at both early modern and modern colonial conflicts up to the end of the Cold War and offers both contextualized case studies and diachronic/synchronic comparisons. Read more … (Web)

Programm (PDF)

Panels: Gender in Early Modern Colonialism | Women in the Imperial and (Anti)Colonial Project | Men in the Imperial and (Anti)Colonial Project | Gender, Violence, and Resistance against Colonial Rule | Recollecting and Presenting Colonial Rule and Anticolonial Resistance

Keynote: Karen Hagemann (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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