Past Event

Biennial SpanPort Symposium: Contesting Violence(s)

February 14, 2025

Emory University

International Women’s Dar Celebration: All She Wrote

Thursday, March 7, 2024 | 5:30-7pm EST  

Location: Cabot 7th Floor, The Fletcher School

February 22, 2024
Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College

March 25, 2024
University of Oklahoma

In Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies and Kin, author Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair.

November 30 – December 2, 2023
University of Warsaw, Poland

Keynote speaker Kimberly Theidon at the University of Poland for Red Lines, Red Tape: Ethical Challenges in Sensitive Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights: Paul Robeson Speaker Series, Rutgers University

Keynote lecture by Dr. Kimberly Theidon, Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Chair in International Humanitarian Studies at Tufts University.

In this lecture Professor Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born from rape during war, the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gender theory of damage and reparation.

Kimberly Theidon is a PhD in Medical Anthropology and an expert in Latin America. This video is part of the International Cycle of Academic Conferences: Sexual VIOLence, what society sees and silences.

Kimberly Theidon spoke on how the offspring of rape in Peru face formidable challenges both within the home & in their community as that stigma from birth threatens to rigidly cast their entire future.

Lecture “A Greater Measure of Justice: Reflections on the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda” by Professor Kimberly Theidon.