Gender, war and security: feminist research on conflict

There are some great lectures about feminist research on conflict coming up this term - see below for details.  They are being held at Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens (just north of Uni parks...not as far away as you think.)

Trinity Term 2012 Seminar Series

Thursday 2:00 – 3:30 pm

Gender, war and security: feminist research on conflict

Convenors: Dr Janette Davies and Melanie Griffiths.

Venue: Old Library, Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall (except Weeks 5 & 6)

Date	Topic
TT12.1, Thursday Apr 26	Ana Hozyainova (APPRO Afghanistan): ‘Understanding security, war and peace: negotiating inclusion of women and their concerns’
TT12.2, Thursday May 3	Major Rachel Grimes (Royal Logistic Corps):  ‘Counterinsurgency (COIN) emasculates men and empowers women’
TT12.3, Thursdsay 10 May	Susan MacDougall (ISCA/St Antony’s): ‘“Every house has a story”: violence, displacement, and representation in Jordan's Iraqi refugee community’
TT12.4 Thursday May 17	Dr Helen Schneider (History/Virginia Tech USA): ‘Women, gender and class: mobilization and resistance during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945’
TT12.5 Thursday May 24	Chloe Lewis (ODID/Linacre): ‘Rape as a weapon of war in the DRC: uncovering the elusive male victim’ (Note venue is Jerwood Room)
TT12.6 Wednesday May 30, 5pm (note time)	The IGS at LMH, Phyllis Kaberry Commemorative Lecture 2012 Sylvia Chant, Professor of Development Geography, LSE: ‘The “feminisation of poverty” as a global concept? Critical reflections  from the Gambia, the Philippines and Costa Rica.’ (Note venue is the  LMH Lecture Theatre)
TT12.7 Thursday June 7	Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Lady Margaret Hall/RSC): ‘The ideal refugee women? The politics of “gender mainstreaming” in a North African refugee camp’
TT12.8 Thursday June 14	Dr Hanife Aliefendioglu (Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus): ‘Conflict and War: Turkish Cypriot women’s narratives on home, loss and belonging’