Date: Sunday, October 09, 2022

Time: 03:00 PM

Location: Aula am Campus, University of Vienna

Roundtable about controversies and struggles about Taiwan’s “Comfort Women” and the continued use of sexual violence in warfare today.

Introduction to the background of the project: Chris Berry, King’s College London

Extract of film Song of the Reed 蘆葦之歌 (2015)

Expert panel 

Chair: Chris Berry, King’s College London

This roundtable is motivated by both recent controversies and struggles about remembering – and forgetting – Taiwan’s so-called “comfort women” and the continued use of sexual violence in warfare today. Urgent questions include:

* How can we remember without re-traumatizing victims, but instead empower them?

* How has does our knowledge about past sexual violence shape our understanding of what is happening today?

* As survivors become fewer with the passing of time, how can we continue to raise public awareness?

* What are legal, political and cultural specificities of dealing with the legacy of military sexual violence in different places?

Expert speakers:

– Dr. Marta Havryshko, Associate Researcher at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences 

– Feride Rushiti, The Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT)

– Emilie Hu, Fenton Communications, graduate of Scripps College