18.09.2026 Register Now: Seminar "Gendered Memories of Conflict"

The University of Marburg and the Off University are offering a joint course again this winter.

Off University

The Everyday and the Unremembered - Gendered Memories of Conflict

Overview

This online laboratory, supported by the Memory Studies Association, examines how armed conflict is remembered through a gendered lens, shifting attention away from dominant narratives centered on combat, heroism, and spectacular violence. Instead, it focuses on what remains in the background: the everyday practices that sustain life under violence, the invisible labor of survival, and the forms of memory that remain unrecognized or excluded from official narratives.

Rather than treating memory as a representation of the past, the course approaches it as a lived and ongoing condition, structured by waiting, uncertainty, and unresolved loss. Drawing on feminist memory studies, the anthropology of the everyday, and the instructor’s doctoral and continuing research on women partners of guerrillas in the Kurdish conflict, the course develops conceptual and analytical tools to examine how memory is produced, silenced, and contested.

The course adopts a thematic and comparative approach, examining how similar memory processes — disappearance, waiting, silence, survival — emerge across different contexts (including Latin America, the post-Yugoslav space, and post-conflict settings), rather than organizing the course by region. Designed as an interactive online laboratory, it prioritizes collaborative inquiry, iterative analysis, and collective knowledge production, explicitly connecting teaching and research by involving participants in materials related to the instructor’s research trajectory.

Course Information

📆 Start: 13.10.26 - 27.01.27
📍Place: Online Lecture
⏰ Time: Tuesdays, 10:00 CET
🎓Credits: 6 ECTS
🔗 Link to more information on the syllabus and course registration

Creditability

In order to enrol on this course, you will need to create a Moodle account in order to access live sessions, reading materials and other resources provided by the instructors.

For students of the Master's programme Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (PO 2024), the course is creditable with 6 ECTS in specific modules, which will be announced shortly.

This course is supported by the Off University and hosted by Marburg University, Center for Conflict Studies.

Marburg University will provide certificates with 6 ECTS on successful completion.

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