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• 27 sep 2019

  28 sep 2019

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500

  A two-days international conference

  The last decades have witnessed an increased interest in research on the relationship between women and violence in the Middle Ages, with new works both on female criminality and on women as victims of violence. The contributions of gender theory and feminist criminology have renewed the approached used in this type of research. Nevertheless, many facets of the complex relationship between women and violence in medieval times still await to be explored in depth. This conference aims to understand how far the roots of modern assumptions concerning women and violence may be found in the late medieval Mediterranean, a context of intense cultural elaboration and exchange which many scholars have indicated as the cradle of modern judicial culture. While dialogue across the Mediterranean was constant in the late Middle Ages, occasions for comparative discussion remain rare for modern-day scholars, to the detriment of a deeper understanding of the complexity of many issues. Thus, we encourage specialists of different areas across the Mediterranean (Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world) to contribute to the discussion. What were the main differences and similarities? How did these change through time? What were the causes for change? Were coexisting assumptions linking femininity and violence conflicting or collaborating?

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• 10 oct 2018	14 nov 2018	12 déc 2018
  13 fév 2019	13 mar 2019	...

  Paris

  Seminar - History

  War/Sexuality/Gender. Looking back on the 20th century

  Homosexuality in conflict

  Ce séminaire de recherche propose de revisiter les violences du vingtième siècle à l’aune des rapports de genre et de sexualité, plus particulièrement les « homosexualités en conflit ». Il sera évidemment question des homosexualités dans les conflits armés (guerre franco-prussienne, guerres mondiales) et dans la Shoah. Néanmoins la notion de conflit sera élargie aux luttes politiques et sexuelles autour et à l’intérieur des mouvements de défense des droits des gays et lesbiennes dans les années 1970-1980 et à leur mémorialisation. Enfin, le conflit passe aussi par un combat pour une reconnaissance institutionnelle des archives LGBT+.

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