‘Sexual Violence: Laws, Communities, Interventions’

SHaME and the École française d’Athènes will be holding an interdisciplinary, international conference devoted to better understanding sexual violence.

French School at Athens
6 Didotou Street
10680 Athens
GREECE

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18 October 2019

SHaME and the École française d’Athènes will be holding an interdisciplinary, international conference devoted to better understanding sexual violence in Greece, Britain, the US, and France. It will focus on three themes:

1. Histories of Sexual Violence and Law in C19th and early C20th
2: Medical Communities and Sexual Harms from the 1960s
3: Therapeutic Interventions into Sexual Abuse

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Programme

18 October 2019
14.30 to 20.40
Held at École française d’Athènes

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Professor Joanna Bourke and Professor Efi Avdela: Introductions

Dr. Achilleas Fotakis, historian, University of Athens
“Legal and Historical Meanings of Rape and Sexual Assault: Greek Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

Dr. Dimitra Vassilliadou, historian, University of Crete
“Sexual Violence, Morality and Legal Practice in Interwar Greece”

Dr. Tasos Kostopoulos, historian, University of the Aegean
A Rapists’ Testing Ground? Studying Sexual Violence During the Greek Wars, 1897-1949” 

Dr. Ruth Beecher, historian, SHaME, Birkbeck, University of London
“’Eyes and Ears Alert’: Children, Sexual Harm and the Role of the Community Health Practitioner”

Dr. Louise Hide, historian, SHaME, Birkbeck, University of London
“Open Doors, Closed Minds? Sex and Sexuality in Psychiatric Hospitals, 1960s to 1980s”

Ms. Adeline Moussion, anthropologist, SHaME, Birkbeck, University of London
“Male violence, traumatised femininities? Language of trauma meets language of Injustice in a medical centre for women victims of violence in the Île-de-France”

Dr. Panagiotis Kostaras MD, PhD, psychiatrist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, psychotraumatologist, Athens
“Revictimization and the Paradox of Repeating the Trauma”