Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

compiled by Stefan Blaschke

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+ Ancient History

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+ Asian History

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Start: Announcements: Lectures:

Announcements: Lectures
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES - JANUARY 2026

Canada

Conference: MLA Convention
Place: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8-11, 2026
Language: English
More information: Website

United States

Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies
Place: San Francisco, California, United States
Date: January 7-10, 2026
Language: English
More information: Website

Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 8-11, 2026
Language: English
More information: Website

January 8, 2026

Speaker: Patricia Lillo
Title: Bodies of Crime
Subtitle: Forensic Medicine and the Construction of Evidence in Chilean Rape Trials, 1900–20
Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 8-11, 2206)
Session: Women, Bodies, and Social Control (Chair: Katherine Cosby)
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 8, 2026, 2:10 PM
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Yei Won Lim
Title: Transpacific Diasporas and the Genealogy from the Comfort Woman to the ‘Multicultural Woman
Subtitle: -
Conference: 2026 MLA Annual Convention (January 8-11, 2026)
Session: 17 - Comparative Comfort Women Studies (Presiders: Min Ji Kang and Seon-Myung Yoo
Place: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8, 2026
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Ji Nang Kim
Title: Floating Archives
Subtitle: Comfort Women and Memory in Tomiyama Taeko and Nora Okja Keller
Conference: 2026 MLA Annual Convention (January 8-11, 2026)
Session: 17 - Comparative Comfort Women Studies (Presiders: Min Ji Kang and Seon-Myung Yoo
Place: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8, 2026
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Kimberly Nance
Title: Testimonies across Time and Place
Subtitle: Traces of Filipina Comfort Women in the Work of Alicia Partnoy
Conference: 2026 MLA Annual Convention (January 8-11, 2026)
Session: 17 - Comparative Comfort Women Studies (Presiders: Min Ji Kang and Seon-Myung Yoo
Place: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8, 2026
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Seon-Myung Yoo
Title: Economies of Gratitude: Adoption, Military Violence, and Comfort
Subtitle: -
Conference: 2026 MLA Annual Convention (January 8-11, 2026)
Session: 17 - Comparative Comfort Women Studies (Presiders: Min Ji Kang and Seon-Myung Yoo
Place: Toronto, Canada
Date: January 8, 2026
Language: English
More information: Online Program

January 10, 2026

Speaker: Nikki Berg Burin
Title: Dear Florence
Subtitle: A Historian’s Letters to a Progressive-Era Rape Survivor
Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 8-11, 2206)
Session: Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future (Chair: Katherine K. Jellison)
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 10, 2026, 4:30 PM
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Stephanie Martinez
Title: Consent
Subtitle: Politics and Authority, Sexual Violence, and Matriarchal Strategies in Mexico, 1723–1825
Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 8-11, 2206)
Session: Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future (Chair: Katherine K. Jellison)
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 10, 2026, 3:50 PM
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: J.E. Morgan
Title: A Precarious Space
Subtitle: Examining Patterns of Law, Custom, and Sexual Violence in British Atlantic Slavery
Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 8-11, 2206)
Session:
Session: Gendered Violence: Learning from the Past to Change the Future (Chair: Katherine K. Jellison)
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 10, 2026, 3:30 PM
Language: English
More information: Online Program

Speaker: Rebecca Waxman
Title: “Millions of Mathuras”
Subtitle: The Autonomous Women’s Movement’s Fight Against Custodial Rape in India, 1972–83
Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 8-11, 2206)
Session: Revisiting “Violence Against Women”: Feminist Activisms in the Late 20th Century (Chair: Rebecca Waxman)
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 10, 2026: 10:30 AM
Language: English
More information: Online Program

January 11, 2026

Speaker: Rabab Abdulhadi
Title: Celebrating Palestinian Death and Normalizing Gender and Sexual Violence
Subtitle: -
Conference: 139^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 8-11, 2206)
Session: Sex and Settler Colonialism in the Global 20th Century (Chair: Naoko Shibusawa) (Cancelled)
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date: January 11, 2026, 9:20 AM
Language: English
More information: Online Program

January 22, 2026

Speaker: Catherine Davies
Title: Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat
Subtitle: Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik, 1973 bis 1997
Event: Institutskolloquium des Leibniz-Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam
Place: Potsdam, Germany and online (without registration via Zoom)
Date: January 22, 2026, 10h
Language: German
More information: Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam