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Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War
(School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)July 12-13, 2002
Keynote Speakers: Joanna Bourke and Joy Damousi
"Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War" is a multi-disciplinary conference that will bring together researchers with an interest in the social and cultural aspects of war. It will invite, particularly, an exploration of the ways that national, cultural, and personal identities intersect at times of major upheaval. Discussions of migrant and indigenous experiences of war will be encouraged as will papers that take a comparative approach to the social and cultural aspects of conflicts across time.
Organisers invite papers from all disciplines including the Humanities, Law, Science, Medicine, and Nursing. We welcome papers from postgraduate students who wish to present their research in an international forum.
Sessions will include, but will not be restricted to, the following areas:
* Literary representations of war
* War in film
* Indigenous experiences of war
* Outsiders at home: migrants and the war experience
* Women and War
* War and Masculinity
* War commemoration
* Shifting Boundaries - War, peace treaties and enforced national identity
* Clinical War - contagious diseases, army hospitals, psychoanalysis and war neuroses
* War as MetaphorAll papers will be published on the web with the intention to publish a selection of papers in an edited volume. Speakers will be expected to give papers of 20 minutes with 10 minutes question time. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent by 15th February 2002 to:
The Organising Committee,
Frontlines: Gender, Identity and War
School of Historical Studies
Monash University
Clayton 3800
Victoria, AustraliaOr by email to: genidwar@arts.monash.edu.au
We will notify individuals of their paper's acceptance by early March 2002.
Website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/history/events/genidwar.html
