5-0200 HERSTORIES OF VIOLENCE

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those involved in mentoring activities

Organizers: Tal Nitsan (University of British Columbia)

Chairs: Tal Nitsan (University of British Columbia)

Discussants: Maria Cristina Alcalde (University of Kentucky) and Patricia Tovar ( John Jay College, CUNY)

08:00

(un)Silent Witness: Doula Tales of Reproductive Violence

Aminata Maraesa (New York University)

08:15

Making Space for HERstories of Violence in the Guatemalan History

Tal Nitsan (University of British Columbia)

08:30

Discussant

Maria Cristina Alcalde (University of Kentucky)

08:45

Discussion

09:00

Ageing “Where the Devil Says Good Night:” Elderly Roma Women’s Experiences of Violence In Postsocialist Poland

Magdalena J Kazubowski-Houston (WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY)

09:15

“Soy Desmovilizada”: Testimonial HERstories of Violence Among Colombia’s Female Demobilized Combatants

Erin McFee (Havard Business School)

09:30

Ties That Bind: Kitty Parties and Ideologies of Friendship

Mukta Sharangpani (Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, DeAnza College and Santa Clara University)

09:45

Break

10:00

"What Does War, Displacement and Justice Mean to Us?": Theatre and Storytelling Challenge Conflict and Reconciliation Narratives In Northern Uganda

Lara Rosenoff-Gauvin (University of British Columbia)

10:15

Creating Illustrious Herstory: Valuable Alternative Modes of (Re)Asserting and (Re)Processing Intimate Partner Violence Experiences In Western Belize

Melissa A Beske (Tulane University)

10:30

Discussion

10:45

Resistance In Verse: A Liberation Movement In Iran

Farzad Amoozegar-Fassie (ubc)

11:00

Performing Pain: Narrative, Resistance, and Consent Among Homeless Women In Boston

Alethea Sargent (Yale University and Stanford Law School)

11:15

Discussant

Patricia Tovar ( John Jay College, CUNY)

11:30

Discussion

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