THE BONN CENTER FOR
DEPENDENCY AND SLAVERY
STUDIES
GENDERED
SEGREGATION AND
GENDERING
SEGREGATION
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
APRIL 25 – 27, 2024
CO-FUNDED BY:
hosts the Cluster of Excellence “Beyond Slavery and Freedom”, which
aims
to
overcome
the
binary
opposition
of
“slavery versus freedom”. We approach the phenomenon of slavery
and other types of strong asymmetrical dependency from
methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives.
This colloquium examines how and why segregation has been used
as a tool for constructing and policing gender boundaries, at the
intersection with race, age, status, class, functionality, ethnicity,
religion, sexuality, nationality and other historical ideas of human
identity and categorization. Segregation is the physical, cultural, or
legal separation of groups on the basis of self- or external
demarcations of difference and can be observed in many different
human societies of the past. This colloquium discusses segregation
across time and space as both a framework of control through
imposing binary and as an individual coping mechanism and a
strategy of subversion.
The colloquium is sponsored by the journal Gender & History; a
global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity,
masculinity and gender across historical eras and territories.
VENUE
University of Bonn
Bonner Universitätsforum
Heussallee 18-24
D-53113 Bonn
CONTACT
Conference Organizers:
Julia Hillner
Daniel Grey
Lisa Hellmann
Rachel Jean-Baptiste
BCDSS, University of Bonn
University of Hertfordshire
BCDSS and Lund University
Stanford University
Jan Hörber, Event Coordinator
events@dependency.uni-bonn.de
+49 228 73 62945
Please register for the colloquium by April 15, 2024
via events@dependency.uni-bonn.de.
Bonn Center for Dependency and
Slavery Studies (BCDSS)
University of Bonn
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D-53113 Bonn
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
9:00 – 9:30 AM CEST – Welcome
Segregation and Education I
9:30 – 10:15 AM
Printing for Two Nation-States: Manuela Aybar o Rodríguez’s Intellectual
Production and Gendered Access to Literacy in Spanish Haiti and the
Dominican Republic, 1790‒1850
Sophia Monegro
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)
10:15 – 11:00 AM
Integration through Segregation: Jewish Girls’ Schools in NineteenthCentury Sweden, 1838–1866
Jens Carlesson Magalhães
(University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
11:00 – 11:30 AM – Coffee Break
Segregation, Labour and Commerce
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Women’s Lost Labour in Early Modern European Mines
Gabriele Marcon
(I Tatti, Florence, Italy)
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Traditions of Gendered Authority and Autonomy in
Seventeenth-Century Senegambia
Sarah Zimmerman
(BCDSS Fellow)
1:00 – 2:00 PM – Lunch Break
Segregation and Politics
2:00 – 2:45 PM
Gendered Segregation in KwaZulu-Natal and the Making of Bertha
Mkhize (1889‒1981)
Megan Healy-Clancy
(Bridgewater State University, USA)
2:45 – 3:30 PM
Women Captains and Male Captives: Black Women and the Politics
of Intimidation in Coastal South Carolina, 1874‒1890
Gregory Downs
(University of California, Davis, USA)
3:30 – 4:00 PM – Coffee Break
Segregation and Disability
4:00 – 4:45 PM
Disability in the Australian Convict System: Unsuccessful
Segregation (online)
Emily Cock
(Cardiff University, UK)
Friday, April 26, 2024
4:45 – 5:30 PM
The Afflicted Relieving Affliction: Gender, Class, and Colonialism
during an Anti-Leprosy Campaign in the
U.S.-Occupied Philippines, 1900s‒1930s
Febe Pamonag
(Western Illinois University, USA)
5:30 PM Wine Reception
Friday, April 26, 2024
Segregation and Education II
9:00 – 9:45 AM
A Black Girl’s Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Christina Thomas
(Jackson State University, USA)
9:45 – 10:30 AM
Being Ithna Asheri: Khoja Ithna Asheri Girls, The International School of
Tanganyika and Racial, Class, Gender and Religious Separatism in
Postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Husseina Dinani
(University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)
10:30 – 11:00 AM – Coffee Break
Segregation and Urban Space
11:00 – 11:45 AM
The Participation and Segregation of Women in Public Religious Practice:
Rome and Constantinople (300‒600 CE)
Rob Heffron
(Independent Researcher, Sheffield, UK)
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
The Girls Are in Town: Purdah, Emotions, and Everyday Resistance in
Urban Pakistan
Elisabetta Iob
(Triest, Italy)
12:30 – 1:30 PM – Lunch Break
Segregation and the Household
1:30 – 2:15 PM
Segregated from The World: Women, Slavery and Monasticism in Late
Antique Egypt and Syria (online)
Marina Diaz Bourgeal
(Independent Researcher, Madrid, Spain)
2:15 – 3:00 PM
‘Hairy Legs on the Veranda’ - Umbrella, Palanquin, Brahmanical Veil and
the ‘Inner Women’ in South India
Yasser Arafath
(University of Delhi, India)
3:00 – 3:45 PM
A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
Emma Kalb
(BCDSS, University of Bonn)
3:45 – 4:15 PM – Coffee Break
Segregation and Manliness
4:15 – 5:00 PM
Woman, Warrior: Gendered Segregation and Roman Military Camps
(online)
Caitlin Gillespie
(Brandeis University, USA)
4:15 – 5:00 PM
Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering
William Bainbridge
(University of Hertfordshire, UK)
7:30 PM Conference Dinner (for speakers and organizers only)
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Segregation and the Law
9:00 – 9:45 AM
Women as The ‘Fearsome Other’: Segregation and Inclusion in the
Lawcourts of Classical Athens
Linda Rocchi
(University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
9:45 – 10:30 AM
“What Can They Criticise Us for, Loving Each Other Too Much?”: Visa
Bans for Mixed Marriages between Moroccan Soldiers and French
Women after the Second World War
Catherine Phipps
(University of Bristol, UK)
10:30 – 11:00 AM – Coffee Break
Segregation and Punishment
11:00 – 11:45 AM
Harder Punishments for Her? Fiction, Punishment and Fiction in Iberian
Regulae (Ninth‒Eleventh centuries) (online)
Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez
(CODOLGA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Serving Her Sentence: Gender and the Segregation of Carceral
Space in Nineteenth-Century America
Felicity Turner
(Georgia Southern University, USA)
12.30 ‒ 12:45 PM – Coffee Break
12:45 – 1:45 PM
Final Discussion
"Harder Punishments for Her? Punishment and Fiction in Iberian Regulae (Nineth-Eleventh centuries)", Gendered Segregation and Gendering Segregation. International Colloquium, Universität Bonn, co-funded by Gender & History, April 25 – 27, 2024
The purpose of this article is to show how monastic rules and discipline were differently constituted and applied according to gender segregation in early Medieval Iberia. Departing from this premise, this paper will draw from different monastic sources to serve the purpose of illustrating how gender difference could be here understood. The conundrum of the topic is the comparison between two tenth-century monastic penitential books showing segregation in the number of lashes used to correct monks and nuns, differently....Read more
