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Friday 2 November 2012
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1.00-3.00pm
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New Theatre, East Building, LSE
This roundtable is concerned with analysing the importance of gender in recent research on military masculinities, border militias, violence within militaries, the militarisation of everyday life, and the ethics of war and peace.
Participants
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Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
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Cynthia Cockburn, City University
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Amanda Conroy, LSE
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Aaron Belkin, Palm Center & San Fransisco State University
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Kimberley Hutchings, LSE
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Harriet Gray, LSE
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Discussant: Alex Hyde, LSE
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Chair: Marsha Henry, LSE
Open to all - no booking required.
Followed by a launch of Aaron Belkin's new book 'Bring Me Men' at the Gender Institute Open Space.
Biographies
Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Enloe's research focuses on the interactions of feminism, women, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics in countries such as Japan, Iraq, the US, Britain, the Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey
Cynthia Cockburn visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and an honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick. Cockburn is a feminist researcher and writer working at the intersection of gender studies and peace/conflict studies.
Amanda Conroy is an LSE Gender Institute PhD student who uses ethnographic methods to trace the intersections between masculinity, citizenship and state sovereignty in the Minuteman movement, a set of loosely-organized groups of U.S. citizens who organize patrols of the US-Mexico border in order to protect ‘national sovereignty’ and prevent illegal migration.
Aaron Belkin serves as professor of political science at San Francisco State University. Since 1999, Belkin has served as founding director of the Palm Center, which the Advocate named as one of the most effective gay rights organizations in the US.
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations at LSE. Hutchings' main research interests international ethical and political theory, feminist ethical and political theory, and the work of Kant and Hegel.
Harriet Gray is an LSE Gender Institute PhD student researching domestic violence within UK armed service families.
Alex Hyde (Discussant) is an LSE Gender Institute PhD student whose research is a comparative study of British and American military bases overseas, investigating how gender, transnationalism and militarisation combine to shape the everyday lives of military spouses in multiple national contexts.
Marsha Henry (Chair) is Lecturer in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the LSE Gender Institute. Her research interests focus on gender, development and militarisation; gender, 'race' and health; and feminist, diasporic and qualitative methodologies.