4-1035 GENDER VIOLENCE IN MELANESIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE: TOWARD A RESEARCH AGENDA

Friday, November 18, 2011: 16:00-17:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Aletta Biersack (University of Oregon) and Martha Adele Macintyre (University of Melbourne)

Chairs: Holly Wardlow (University of Toronto)

Discussants: Bruce M Knauft (Emory University)

16:00

In Search of a Research Agenda In the Study of Gender Violence In Melanesia

Aletta Biersack (University of Oregon)

16:15

Life Crises, Gender Crises and the Need to Rethink Anthropological Interpretations of Marriage and Brideprice In Melanesia

Martha Adele Macintyre (University of Melbourne)

16:30

“Where Appropriate Medical and Psychosocial Services for Survivors of Violence Are Largely Non-existent”: MSF’s Project In Tari, Papua New Guinea

Holly Wardlow (University of Toronto)

16:45

Proclivity and Prevalence: Accounting for the Dynamics of Sexual Violence In the Response to HIV In Papua New Guinea

Katherine M Lepani (Australian National University)

17:00

Marian Devotion As a Solution to Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS In Urban Papua New Guinea

Anna-Karina Hermkens (Radboud University and Australian National University)

17:15

Gender Violence, Human Rights and the Papua New Guinea Courts

Jean G Zorn (Florida International University)

17:30

Discussant

Bruce M Knauft (Emory University)

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