Seminar Timetable
Please note that when you click on the links, the seminar pages will display with a numbered topic. These numbers do NOT correspond to weeks of the term, but the sequence is-- I hope!-- clear from the layout below. Any questions, always ask.
Term 1, week 2: Introduction: when and what was 'postwar'?
Term 1, week 3: Rape as a gendered experience of defeat
Term 1, week 4: Hiroshima: a war ends, and an 'age' begins
Term 1, week 5: The elusive quality of victory
Term 1, week 7: Prisoner politics, repatriation, and cold war origins
Term 1, week 8: Demobilization, 'reconversion,' and entitlement struggles
Term 1, week 9: Intimate reconstructions: the disabled veteran as victor and victim
Term 1, week 10: The camps and after: liberators & survivors
Term 2, week 1: Populations in motion: constructing and controlling 'refugees'
Term 2, week 2: The politics of hunger
Term 2, week 3: Sex under occupation
Term 2, week 4: The camera as witness, accuser, re-educator and obfuscator
Term 2, week 5: 'Victors' Justice'?: The Nuremberg trials
Term 2, week 7: The partition of Palestine
Term 2, week 8: The partition of Korea
Term 2, week 9: Empire unsettled: veterans in Africa
Term 2, week 10: The birth of the United Nations