College of Arts and Humanities
SpeakerProfessor Joanna Bourke
Speaker's BiographyProf. Joanna Bourke is Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College and a Fellow of the British Academy.
She has published widely on topics such as the social and economic history of Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, social histories of the British working classes between 1860 and 1960s, cultural histories of military conflict between the Anglo-Boer war and the present.
She is currently the Principal Investigator of Wellcome Trust funded project called ‘Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters’.
From: 18 Feb 2020, 6 p.m.To: 18 Feb 2020, 8 p.m.
Location: Mall Room, Taliesin Create, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ, Swansea
This year’s Conflict, Reconstruction, and Memory (CRAM) Research Group lecture will be given by Prof. Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck).
The CRAM lecture sees a distinguished historian of conflict and its social and cultural consequences speak about their current research. It is CRAM’s flagship event.
Prof. Bourke will speak about: ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Historical Reflections’.
Contact: Dr Tomás Irish (Email: T.D.Irish@Swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792 602781
Event created by: s.l.davies