CONF.- Women in War, Ohio State University, Oct. 26-27, 2007

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CONF.- Women in War, Ohio State University, Oct. 26-27, 2007

Posted by: Serguei Alex. Oushakine <oushakin@PRINCETON.EDU>

NOTE: Some papers in the program are on Chechnya and Afghanistan

International and Interdisciplinary Conference on
Women in War

Organizers:
Yana Hashamova
Helena Goscilo
http://slaviccenter.osu.edu/WIW/schedule.html

Schedule

October 26 (Friday) 3:30-9 pm

Opening Remarks - 3:30

Panel 1- The Yugoslav Wars and the Other - 4:00-6:00

Chair/Discussant: Snjezana Buzov (Ohio State)
Jennifer Erickson (University of Oregon), "Racism, Classism, Gender, and
War: The Case of Romani Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Amy Szabo (Ohio State), "The Silent War on Women: Ethnic Conflict and the
Development of Sex Trafficking in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Aleksandra Milicevic (University of North Florida), "Men and Women in the
Wars in Former Yugoslavia"

Screening of Esma's Secret (2006) - 6:00-7:30

Reception - 7:30-9:00

October 27 (Saturday) - 9:00-6:00

Panel 2 - Women Writers and the Yugoslav Wars - 9:00-10:30

Chair/Discussant: Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State)
Ajla Demiragic (University of Sarajevo), "(Out)Living the War: Literary
Representation of War in Contemporary Fiction by Women Writers from Bosnia
and Herzegovina"
Jessica Wienhold (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Engendering
Defamiliarization: Dubravka Ugresic's 'point of pain'
in The Museum of Unconditional Surrender"

Coffee Break - 10:30-10:45

Panel 3 - Memory and the Yugoslav Wars - 10:45-12:15

Chair/Discussant: Dorothy Noyes (Ohio State)
Julie Mertus (American University), "Memories of Sisterhood United,
Sisterhood Divided"
Ramajana Hidic Demirovic (Indiana University), "Dichotomy of Memory? Women
Surviving Memories of the Genocide in Bosnia"

Lunch - 12:15-1:30

Panel 4 - Film and the Yugoslav Wars - 1:30-3:00

Chair/Discussant: Brian Baer (Kent State University)
Yana Hashamova (Ohio State), "War Rapes: Redefining Motherhood, Fatherhood,
and Nationhood"
Olha Rudich (Ohio State), "Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain: Zamira's
Love and Religious and Ethnic Conflicts"

Panel 5 - Women's Representations and the War on Terror - 3:00-4:30

Chair/Discussant: Ruby Tapia (Ohio State)
Wendy Hesford (Ohio State), "Staging Terror, Staging Gender"
Reshmi Mukherjee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Studying the
Gaze: Submission or Subversion?"

Coffee Break - 4:30-4:45

Panel 6 - Women in Afghan and Chechen Conflicts - 4:45-6:45

Chair/Discussant: Helena Goscilo (University of Pittsburgh)
Kirsten Rutsala (Oklahoma University), "Shifting Between Worlds: Gender
Identity in the Second Chechen War"
Trina Mamoon (University of Alaska - Fairbanks), "Desperate and Dangerous:
'Black Widows' and the Chechen Conflict"
Sergei Oushakine (Princeton), "Private Traumas of Local Wars: On Mothers,
Objects, and Relations"

Reception - 7:00-9:00

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