This conference is part of the Pembroke Center's four-year research initiative, Seeing War Differently: Rethinking the Subject(s) of Warfare. An exhibit curated by Ariella Azoulay, The Natural History of Rape,

will be on display in Pembroke Hall during the conference.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Friday, April 15, 2016 1:45 - 4:15 – Introductory Remarks and Panel 1

Miriam Cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University Islamic State: Sexuality and Violence

Lianhong Zhang, Professor of History, Nanjing Normal University “The Establishment of the Japanese Army's Comfort Stations During the Nanjing Massacre: Records and Criticisms of the American Missionaries”

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History, University of East Anglia “Do it to Julia”: Rape and the Refugee

Moderator: Nina Tannenwald, Director, International Relations Program, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Brown University

4:15 - 4:30 – Break

4:30 - 5:15 – Exhibit, A Natural History of Rape

Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

5:15 - 6:15 – Reception

Generously cosponsored by Comparative Literature, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice,

Anthropology, English, History, Modern Culture and Media, East Asian Studies

Saturday, April 16, 2016

8:30 - 9:00 – Breakfast

9:00 - 11:00 – Panel 2

Wendy Kozol, Professor of Comparative American Studies, Oberlin College Looking at Survival: Decentering the Spectacle of Sexual Violence

Donna DeCesare, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin Picturing the Unspeakable: Dilemmas of the Working Journalist

Kimberly Juanita Brown, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, Mt. Holyoke College In Plain Sight

Moderator: Ourida Mostefai, Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University

11:15 - 1:15 – Panel 3

Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Feminism and the Abomination of Violence

Dara Kay Cohen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Rape During Civil War

Liangqin Jiang, Professor of History, Nanjing University From Shanghai to Nanjing: Chiang Kai-shek’s Mistakes in the Choice of Political & War Strategy and the Nanjing Massacre

Moderator: Anila Daulatzai, Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Brown University

1:30 - 2:30 – Break

2:30 - 4:30 – Panel 4

Emma Kuby, Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University Rape and the Rhetoric of Anti-War Protest: Lessons from the Franco-Algerian War

Yukiko Koga, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College After Empire: Questioning Postwar in Post-Imperial and Post-Colonial East Asia

Xiaming Yang, Professor of International Relations, Jiangsu Institute of Public Administration Roosevelt's Response to the Rape of Nanking

Moderator: Ariella Azoulay, Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University