CANCELLED: Workshop on Gender, War and Narrative

The UCL Gender & Feminism Research Network (GFRN) in cooperation with the Department of European and International Social and Political Studies (EISPS) organizes a workshop on narrative research on the gendered experience of war, state-sanctioned violence and military force.

This workshop on narrative research on the gendered experience of war, state-sanctioned violence and military force aims to explore the idea of ‘war stories’ as a form of narrative power, examining how war becomes a frame for gendered (and ‘other’) experience and vice versa.

The particular focus of the symposium is the portrayal of war from a gendered perspective through contemporary forms of representation. This includes empirical research as well as analysis of mainstream and social media, policy and rights discourses, literature, film, the arts, cultural productions and collective memorialisation. The debate will be built around the epistemic reproduction of violence and its multiple erasures; censorship and sensitivity in popular representations of violence; the role of witnessing and personal testimony in monitoring, reporting and data on violence and, importantly, the ways in which the representation of war is tied up in questions of gendered agency, victimhood and survival.

Organizers: Alex Hyde (a.hyde@ucl.ac.uk) and Anna Kvit (a.kvit@ucl.ac.uk)

The Gender and Feminism Research Network brings together scholars and students at UCL and beyond, working across the arts, humanities and social and political sciences. Our aim is to explore the points where gender and feminist politics intersect with a diverse range of power relations and social movements. We also want to support broader EDI initiatives, working towards social change and widening access to research on gender and sexual diversity.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/gender-and-feminism-research-network