Thursday June 29, 2017
14.00–14.30 Esther Möller (Mainz), Johannes Paulmann (Mainz), Katharina Stornig (Giessen): Welcome and Introduction
I. Masculinities and Femininities in Humanitarian Discourse and Practice (Chair: Ulrike Weckel, Giessen)
14.30–15.30 Inger Marie Okkenhaug (Volda): Gender and Humanitarian Practices after World War I: Female Scandinavian Relief Workers and Armenian Women Refugees in Lebanon and Syria
15.30–16.30 Maria Lidola (Konstanz): Gender and the Formation of Humanitarian Discourse in the Global South: The Specific Case of Cuban Medical Missions
16.30–17.00 Coffee break
17.00–18.00 Bertrand Taithe (Manchester): Masculine Character and Heroics in Humanitarian Aid: A Long Perspective
18.00–19.00 Kerrie Holloway (London): Where are all the Men in Humanitarian History? A Re-assessment of Field Workers during the Spanish Civil War
Friday June 30, 2017
II. Gender and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Chair: Ulrike Lindner, Cologne)
9.00–10.00 Ceren Ayguel (Istanbul/Mainz): The Interplay between Ottoman Red Crescent, Women’s Movement and Nationalism in the Ottoman State during World War One
10.00–11.00 Francesca Piana (London): Women and Medical Humanitarian Aid in the Interwar Period
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.30 Maria Framke (Rostock): Non-Governmental Relief Organizations in Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Redrawing the Boundaries of Gender in Terms of Femininity and Masculinity?
12.3o–13.30 Nora Derbal (Berlin): Humanitarian Service in the Name of Social Development: Women’s Welfare Associations in Saudi Arabia
13.30 Lunch
III. Gendered Bodies, Sexual Violence and Humanitarian Responses (Chair: Manfred Sing, Mainz)
15.00–16.00 Jadwiga Pieper Mooney (Tucson): Asymmetries of Care: Power, Populations, and Peace Corps Projects in Bolivia
16.00–17.00 Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham): Humanitarianism and Orientalising Wartime Sexual Violence
17.00–17.30 Coffee Break
17.30–18.30 Sonja Dolinsek (Erfurt):From “White Slavery” to “Sexual Slavery”: Framing Women’s Sexual Labour in Transnational Migrations from the 1960s to the 1980s
Saturday July, 1 2017
IV. Gendering Humanitarian Work for Children (Chair: John Wood, Mainz)
9.00–10.00 Beth Baron (New York): Medical Missionaries, Gendered Bodies, and Infant Mortality in Interwar Egypt
10.00–11.00 Nazan Maksudyan (Berlin):The Orphan Nation: Armenian Children in Istanbul (1919–1922)
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.30 Joelle Droux (Geneva):Labour of Love? Gender Roles in Humanitarian Careers and Practices at the Save the Children International Union (1920–1945)
12.30–13.00 Concluding Remarks