02 Tan Vien, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
08h30 – 09h00 : Registration
09h00 – 09h30 : Conference opening
09h30 – 10h15 : Presentations on the topic of Research methods used in the research on women and war
1/ Françoise Thébaud : « Femmes, genre et guerres : une large historiographie »
2/ Bui Tran Phuong : « Research on the topic of ’women and war’ in Vietnam, a new approach »
10h15 – 10h30 : Break time
10h30 – 11h00 :
3/ Cynthia Enloe : « What Do We All Learn About Wars by Taking Women’s Lives Seriously ? »
4/ Pham Quoc Loc : « Women in Tradition and in War : Issues in Gender Identity and Performative »
5/ Caroline Moine : « Le viol en temps de guerre. Mémoires allemandes de l’avance des troupes soviétiques (des années 1950 à nos jours) »
11h00 – 12h00 : Discussion
12h00 : Lunch
14h30 – 17h30 : Showing the movie « Bao giờ cho đến tháng Mười » by the director Đặng Nhật Minh – discussion with the director : introduction and discussion on the loneliness of women during the war
From 18h00 : Opening of the exposition regarding women’s portraits and activities during the war
Lotus Gallery, 67 Pasteur, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
18h30 or 19h00 : Dinner for invited guest speakers
02 Tan Vien, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
08h30 – 09h45 : Presentations on the topic of Life experiences of women during the war
1/ Le Thi : « The roles of Vietnamese women in the war – and female youth volunteers »
2/ Marguerite Rollinde : « Femmes palestiniennes en lutte : la voix des femmes de Gaza »
3/ Ho Viet Doan : « General Nguyen Thi Dinh and the long-hair army »
4/ François Rouquet : « La guerrière à l’écran »
09h45 – 10h15 : Discussion
10h15 – 10h30:Break time
10h30 – 11h15 :
1/ Nguyen Thi Hien Linh : « The lives of female political prisoners in Southern prisons during the resistance against the American occupation »
2/ Ngo Thi Phuong Thien : « Struggling movements of women in the urban areas in the South (About Madam Ngo Ba Thanh) »
1/ John K.Swensson : « American Women’s Participation in the Vietnam conflict »
2/ Yenny Narny : "Violence against women in the communist tragedy in West Sumatra 1965/1966
3/ Dominique Rolland : [subject to be identified]
1/ Vatthana Pholsena : « Minority Women and War - The case of Laos »
2/ Tram Huong : « Female youth volunteers 1C (in the South) »
11h15 – 12h00 : Discussion
12h00 : Lunch
14h30 – 17h00 :
Showing the movie « Regret to Inform » by Barbara Sonneborn
02 Tan Vien, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
08h30 – 09h15 : Presentations on the topic of Women in the post-war time
1/ CGFED Center : « Female victims of Agent Orange / Dioxin »
2/ Fabrice Virgili : « Les enfants de l’ennemi »
3/ Jane Freedman : « Vivre après les violences. Les expériences des femmes en République Démocratique du Congo »
09h15 – 09h45 : Discussion
09h45 – 10h00 : Break time
10h00 – 11h30 :
1/ Le Thi Kim Lan : « Women, Children and the Agent Orange »
2/ Masako Tanaka : « Seeking Justice. Struggles of Sexual Violence Survivors in Post Conflict Nepal »
1/ Buu Y : « Women and war in Trinh Cong Son’s music »
2/ Thai Phan Vang Anh : « War having the ’Face of women’ in post war prose »
3/ Le Thi Huong : « Femine voice in prose on war by female authors »
1/ Hoa Sen University : « Memoirs of Heroic Vietnamese Mothers »
2/ François Guillemot : « Perceptions et voix féminines de la guerre du Vietnam »
Discussion
11h30 – 12h30 : Groups presenting discussion results - Conference summary
Southern Women Museum - 202 Vo Thi Sau, District 3, HCMC, Viet Nam
09h00 – 11h30 :
Visit to the Southern Women Museum to view the exposition of documents about women. Conversational exchange with former female prisoners and former female youth volunteers
