Speaker: Violeta Davoliūtė, Tarptautinių santykių ir politikos mokslų institutas (Institute of International Relations and Political Science), Vilniaus universitetas (Vilnius University) - Personal Website, Academia.edu, ORCID

Abstract: »Sexual violence in Soviet prison and labour camps was ubiquitous and took many forms, from the direct application of force to more subtle exercises of power and dominance. While the past few decades of research into women and children’s memoirs have by and large restored their voices to the mainstream of deportee memory, the question of sexual violence was often omitted, filtered or displaced in the memoirs of women and children themselves. This presentation will examine how the fact of sexual violence was represented across a range of memoirs and testimonies, including a sample of ethic Lithuanians and Jews, deported from Lithuania in June 1941.« (Source: All Academic)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Lithuania / History of Lithuania | History of Europe: History of Russia / History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) | Deportation: Soviet deportations from Lithuania / June deportation | Sex and the law: Sexual violence / State terrorism