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Monday | 4 November 2019 | 18:00 | Keynes Library | 43 Gordon Square | Birkbeck | University of London | England
Thursday | 31 October 2019 | 19:00 | Kulturetage Altona | Große Bergstraße 160 | 22767 Hamburg | Germany
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About
Sexual violence accompanies warfare and armed conflict at almost every point in history. Yet it appears in historically and culturally specific ways.
Sexual violence is a form of violence that is highly subjective (experienced as something distinctly different by perpetrator and victim) and at the same time social – informed by gendered ideas of body and mind, cultural norms of sexuality and aggression as well as the forms of military organization and national politics within a particular period of history.
Much work on sexual violence in armed conflict has been published during the past years, yet we still know remarkably little about it:
The International Research Group »Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict« (SVAC), founded in October 2010, addresses these and other questions. In a series of meetings and workshops interdisciplinary scholars and NGO-experts compare case studies from different theaters of war and conflict, including multifaceted theoretical approaches. The group thus promotes the systematic development of research questions and methods. [more]