Sonntag, 09. Oktober 2022, 15:00 - 19:00 iCal
Remembering Taiwan's "Comfort Women"
and Combatting Military Sexual Violence Today
Aula am Campus der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4 / Hof 1.11, 1090 Wien
Diskussion, Round Table
Roundtable about controversies and struggles about Taiwan’s “comfort women" and the continued use of sexual violence in warfare today.
About this event
Introduction to the background of the project: Chris Berry, King’s College LondonExtract of film Song of the Reed 蘆葦之歌(2015)
Expert panel
Chair: Chris Berry, King’s College London
This roundtable is motivated by both recent controversies and struggles about remembering – and forgetting – Taiwan’s so-called "comfort women" and the continued use of sexual violence in warfare today. Urgent questions include:
How can we remember without re-traumatizing victims, but instead empower them?
How has does our knowledge about past sexual violence shape our understanding of what is happening today?
As survivors become fewer with the passing of time, how can we continue to raise public awareness?
What are legal, political and cultural specificities of dealing with the legacy of military sexual violence in different places?
Expert speakers
Dr. Marta Havryshko , Associate Researcher at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, currently URIS fellow at Basel UniversityFeride Rushiti, The Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT)Emilie Hu, Fenton Communications, graduate of Scripps College
Snacks and drinks are provided.
Please register
Veranstalter
Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies
Um Anmeldung wird gebeten
Kontakt
Astrid Lipinsky
Universität Wien
Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften
+431427743844
astrid.lipinsky@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Dienstag, 20. September 2022, 12:05
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 27. September 2022, 09:44