VI: Sexualized Violence
Wednesday June 23
Auditorium, University Library
Capacity: 138
Room U2, The University Library
Capacity: 56
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
Aud. University Library 
Berit Schei (Norway): Violence against Women ? A Hidden Health Burden
  
 2nd. Session
Violence against Women in War, Crisis and Conflict Situations
Chair/Coordinator: Lily-Rose Nomfundo Mlisa (South Africa)
Lily-Rose Nomfundo Mlisa (South Africa): Psychological Crisis of Women in South Africa: The Phenomenological Experience of 
Women in Rural and Settlement Areas in Eastern Cape Province
Alica B. Hashim (USA): Violence against Women in War Zones: 
Health and Repercussions and Legal Implications
 
 Women’s Values and Violence (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Alene Thorunn Moris (USA)
Participants:
Alene Thorunn Moris (USA) 
Judy R. Zeigler (USA)
 3rd Session
The Impact of Violence and Power
Chair/Coordinator: Heidemarie Winkel (Germany)
Heidemarie Winkel (Germany): ’My Husband’s Death, It Didn’t 
Move Me At All’: Mourning and Sexual Child Abuse
Katriina Honkanen (Finland): Love as Power: Normalization and 
Time
Cathrine Mudime Akale (UK): Who Has the Right to Name 
Female Genital Mutilation a Crime?
 
Crossing the Public?Private: Crisis Centres as a Test for Women-Friendly Democracy (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Raissa Danilova (Russia)
Raissa Danilova (Russia): Necessity of a Women’s Crisis Centre in Arkhangels
Olga Liapounova (Russia): Domestic Violence in Arkhangels (Statistical Data and Psychological Analysis)
 4th Session
The Fight against Prostitution Across Boarders: What Can 
We Do Together? (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Kirsti B. Aarseth (Norway)
Participants:
Marit Smuk Solbakk (Norway) 
Lyubor Vertenskaja (Russia)
Eva Engman (Sweden)
Asta B. Håland (Norway)
Svetlana Parshkova (Russia)
 
Crossing the Public?Private (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Carita Peltonen (Finland)
Carita Peltonen (Finland): Prospects for Crisis Centres in the Balticum 
Natasha Khodyreva (Russia) and Larissa Boitschenko (Russia): Gender Images In Change: Russian Experiences on Mobilizing Vulnerable Groups
Virginia Griffith (Norway): Crisis Centres as Women’s Good Practices: European Experiences
 5th Session
The Fight against Prostitution across Boarders: What Can We 
Do Together? Networking Meeting
Chair/Coordinator: Kirsti B. Aarseth (Norway)
 



 
 
 VI: Sexualized Violence
Thursday June 24 
Auditorium, University Library
Capacity: 138
 
Room U2, The University Library
Capacity: 56
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker    
   
    
 2nd. Session
Crisis Centres: First Aid for the Abused Mother and Child (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Tove Hægg Versland (Norway)
Participants:
Tove Hægg Versland (Norway)
Guri Wold (Norway) 
 
 

 

Sexual Harassment
Chair/Coordinator: Kazuko Watanabe (Japan)
Kazuko Watanabe (Japan): Transforming the Public: Fighting Against Sexual Harassment on Campus
Greetje Timmerman (Netherlands): Sexual Harassment in European Workplaces: A Cross-cultural Perspective on the Incidence in Northern European Countries
Patricia Pierce (USA): Sexual Harassment: Frankly what is it?
Kay Hartwell Hunnicutt (USA): Violence against Women on University Campuses in the United States and the Legal Response
 
 3rd. Session
 Honor Killings and Women Who Kill
Chair/Coordinator: Leylâ Pervizat (Turkey)
Leylâ Pervizat (Turkey): Case of Extra Judicial Killings by Non-State Actors: Honour Killings in Turkey
Elisabeth K. Moen (Sweden): Homicide in Everyday Life. Women’s Stories of Violent Acts
 
Non-Government Organising in Combating Violence Against Women: Norway, Lithuania and South Africa (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Sidsel Aas (Norway)
Participants:
Rachel Paul (Norway): The Norwegian Shelter Movement: Historical Development and Challenges
Sidsel Aas (Norway)
 
 4th.Session
Strategies for Support and Empowerment of Women
Chair/Coordinator: Nandita Baruah (India)
Nandita Baruah (India): Operationalizing Feminism within 
Mainstream Structures: A Case Study 
Glenda Darville (Australia) and Fran Gallagher (Australia): Do 
Nurses Respond to Women Following Domestic Violence?
Leonor Arrigo (Argentina): Experiencia en Grupos de Ayuda 
Mutua durante Ochos Años 
Elanor Vander Haegen (USA): Learning from Each Other: 
International Cooperation to Combat Domestic 
Violence and Sexual Assault
 
Violence against Women
Chair/Coordinator: Rohana Ariffin (Malaysia)
Rohana Ariffin (Malaysia): Crime against Women: Situation of Rape in Malaysia
Lesley Ann Foster (South Africa): The State’s Response to Gender Violence in South Africa
 

 

 5th. Session
Violence against Women (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Giedre Purvaneckiene (Lithuania)
Tarek Hussain (Denmark): Violence against Women: A Review of the Asian Situation and a Case Study from Kazakhstan
Giedre Purvaneckiene (Lithuania): Violence against Women: Research Aimed at Social Change
 



 
 
 VI: Sexualized Violence
Friday June 25 
Auditorium, University Library
Capacity: 138
  
Room U2, The University Library
Capacity: 56
 1st.Session: Keynote Speaker  
 2nd. Session
The Legal System
Chair/Coordinator: Elim Kim (Korea)
Elim Kim (Korea): Korean Legal System with Regard to 
Violence against Women
Karie A. Hiebert (Canada): Legal Rules and Women’s Lives: 
A Question of Application 
Åse Texmo (Norway): Sexual Violence towards Women 
and Children ? a Gender Perspective on the Handling 
Procedures with the Police and Public Prosecution 
Authority in Norway
 
Sexual Violence
Chair/Coordinator: Smita Tyagi Vir (Australia)
Suzanne Daley (Australia): Fear Management/Violence Prevention: An Australian Perspective
Smita Tyagi Vir (Canada): Incest and Women of Colour Survivors: Experiences of Disclosure, Coping and Help Seeking
Liz Mulder (Australia): Preventing Violence Towards Women
Sherbanu Kassim (Tanzania): Provocation as a Defence in Domestic Violence Killings: Gender Perspective
 
 3rd. Session
The Legal System (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Nancy Lemon (USA)
Nancy Lemon (USA): Use of Violence: Expert Witnesses in Legal Cases 
Jorunn-Elise Tharaldsen (Norway): Constructing Trustworthiness. Dealing with Rape in the Courtroom
Violence in Relationships
Chair/Coordinator: Terry Arendell (USA)
Terry Arendell (USA) and Demie Kurz (USA): Divorce, Violence, and Gender
Maria Eriksson (Sweden): Heterosexual Parenthood – At Any Cost
Åsa Eldén (Sweden): To Act like a Proper Swedish Girl – Pay with Your Life?
 
 4th. Session
Practising and ’Performing’ Sexual Violence
Chair/Coordinator: Sheila Jeffreys (Australia)
Sheila Jeffreys (Australia): ’Body Art’ and Social Status: Cutting, Tattooing and Piercing from a Feminist Perspective
Carole Moschetti (Australia): Intersexuality: A Feminist 
Perspective on Surgical Intervention in the Construction and Maintenance of Gender
Mary Lucille Sullivan (Australia): The Industrialisation 
of Prostitution in Victoria
 
Pornography
Chair/Coordinator: Diana Russell (USA)
Diana Russell (USA): Against Pornography: The Visual Evidence of Harm 
Lena Berg (Sweden): Turned on by Pornography – Still a ’Good Girl’?
 

 

 5th. Session
Prostitution
Chair/Coordinator: Gloria Gale (Argentina)
Gloria Gale (Argentina): Child Prostitution in Latin America
Anne Dahl (Norway): Prostitution and Trafficking: Causes and Consequences of Commodification of Sex and Women
May-Len Skilbrei (Norway): Societal Conditions for Massage 
Parlor Prostitution
 
Pornography  (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Karen Boyle (UK)
Miriam Formanek-Brunell (USA): Vixens, Victims, and Villains: Discursive Representations of Babysitters in American Popular Culture
Karen Boyle (UK): Screening Violence: A Feminist Critique of the Screen Violence Debate