Location: Mobile, Alabama
Conference Date: March 27-29, 2014
Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2013

The past several decades have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in
the subject of war and gender. At the same time, the study of collective or
cultural memory, especially in connection with armed conflict, has become a
veritable cottage industry. This conference seeks to bring these two areas
of intensive study into dialogue with each other, exploring the complex
ways in which gender shapes war memory and war memory shapes gender.
Comprised of a select number of presentations (so that all participants
will be able to hear every paper), together with a keynote address by
Professor Jennifer Haytock (SUNY-Brockport) and a panel discussion
featuring women military veterans, the conference will address multiple
conflicts and nationalities from the perspectives of multiple disciplines.

Hosted by the Center for the Study of War and Memory and the Gender Studies
Program at the University of South Alabama, “War, Memory, and Gender” will
be held in the History Museum of Mobile, a beautiful structure located in
the heart of the city’s scenic and historic downtown. Restaurants in the
downtown area will host receptions for conference registrants, and a
downtown hotel (to be announced) will offer a block of rooms at a reduced
rate. Local attractions include Alabama Gulf-Coast beaches, the U.S.S.
Alabama Memorial Park on Mobile Bay, the African-American Heritage Trail,
the Bellingrath mansion and gardens, the Blakeley Civil War battlefield,
the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, and the charming nearby towns of Daphne and
Fairhope.

Interested scholars should email a 350-word proposal, along with a CV, to
conference co-directors Martha Jane Brazy (mjbrazy@southalabama.edu) and
Steven Trout (strout@southalabama.edu) before October 15, 2013.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Remembering male and/or female bodies at war
War propaganda and gender
Women and forgotten conflicts
Gender, Race, and War
Women of color and war memory
Sexuality and War
Restoring women to the so-called Greatest Generation
Women and veterans’ organizations
The Vietnam War and the crisis of American masculinity
Remembering women combatants
Women as custodians of war memory
War, gender, and grief
Gender, war, and modernism(s)
Male and female war films
Women writers, male war stories
Medicine, war, and gender
LGBTQ memories of war
Trauma and gendered memory
Women artists/architects and public war memorials
Gender and military video games
Gender and historical writing about war
Gender and war reenactment

Martha Jane Brazy
Associate Professor of History
Director of Gender Studies
University of South Alabama
(251) 460-7540

Email: mjbrazy@southalabama.edu