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War, Memory and Gender Conference to be Held March 27-29 in Mobile

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Posted on March 21, 2014

Alice Jackson

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The University鈥檚 Center for the Study of War and Memory and the Gender Studies Program will present the War, Memory and Gender Conference March 27-29 at the History Museum of Mobile. The conference will focus on the increase of scholarly interest in the subject of war and gender as well as the study of collective or cultural memory, especially in connection with armed conflict.

Dr. Jennifer Haytock, professor and chair of the department of English at the State University of New York at Brockport, will be the keynote speaker with 鈥淢emory, Trauma, and Gendered Identity in Literature of the Iraq War.鈥� The address will begin at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 27.

Haytock鈥檚 teaching and creative interests include 20th Century American literature, modernism, women鈥檚 literature, American war literature, literature and culture of the Jazz Age, literature of the 1930s and the novel. Her extensive publications include the books 鈥淎t Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature,鈥� 鈥淓dith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism鈥� and 鈥淭he Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women Writers of the Great Depression.鈥� She is beginning a project on literature of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This semester, she is teaching a course on 鈥淪oldiers, Identity, and Trauma鈥� that focuses on literature of recent American wars and trauma studies.

Haytock received her bachelor of arts degree from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. She earned a master of art degree and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Panel discussions will include topics such as 鈥淔ashioning Representations of War,鈥� 鈥淣arratives, Grief and 21st Century Warfare,鈥� 鈥淲WII and Memory,鈥� 鈥淕ender Commemoration and Agency,鈥� 鈥淰isual Art and Memory,鈥� 鈥淢asculinity and Film,鈥� 鈥淔ascism and Memory鈥� and 鈥淲WI and Memory.鈥� There will also be a showing of the film 鈥淗idden Warriors: Women on the Ho Chi Minh Trail鈥� at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 28. It will be followed by a roundtable discussion, 鈥淰eterans Remember.鈥�

Conference co-organizers are Dr. Steven Trout, chair of the department of English and director of the Center for the Study of War and Memory; and Dr. Martha Jane Brazy, associate professor of history. The conference poster was designed by Diane Gibbs, associate professor of art and art history.

All conference sessions and presentations are free to all USA students, staff and faculty.
For more information on the conference, visit/english/conferences/wmg/index.html.

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