Famine and Mass Violence: An International Conference

September 7-9, 2008

Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

 

 

Sunday

2 pm                Welcome

                        Shearle Furnish, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

 

2:15 pm           Keynote Address: Famine and Mass Violence (Christian Gerlach, University of Berne)

 

3:20 pm           Break

 

3:45 pm           Panel I: Famine and Colonial Exploitation

 

“Rinderpest", Drought and Scorched Earth:  The Relationship between Natural Disaster, Famine and Conquest in Germany's African Colonies  (Dominik J. Schaller, Heidelberg University) 

 

 

Monday

9:00 am           Panel II: Famine as a Weapon: Policies of Famine

 

Famine and Violence, Famine as Violence in Russia of the early 1920s (Natalia Reshetova, University of London)

Case study: Food policy and mass crimes: Lithuania under German occupation 1941-1944.  (Christoph Dieckmann, Keele University)

 

10:30 am         Break

 

10:45 am         Panel III: Famine as a Weapon?: The Question of Intention

 

Stalin's Terror and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33: Camouflage for Genocide? (Henry Huttenbach, City College of New York)

On famines, genocide, and jumping to conclusions (Mark Tauger, West Virginia University)

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

2:00 pm           Panel IV: Social Impact of Famine: Violence and Its Absence

 

The 1847 food riots in Prussia (Hans Bass, Bremen University of Applied Science)

Fighting Hunger: Food in Wartime Japan (Katarzyna Cwiertka, University of Leiden)

 

3:30 pm           Break

 

3:45 pm           Panel V: Social Impact of Famine: Survival Strategies

 

"Too little to keep them alive and too much to let them die": Nazi Starvation Policy and Jewish Coping Methods in the Ghettos of Nazi Occupied Europe (Helene Sinnreich, Youngstown State University)

 

5:15 pm           Break

 

5:45 pm         Panel VI: Social Impact of Famine: Socialist Rule and Political Participation

 

Primitive Accumulation, Famine, and Mass Repression, 1937-39 (Wendy Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University) 

Hunger and State Violence in the PRC during the Great Leap Forward (Klaus Muehlhahn, Indiana University)

 

 

Tuesday

9:30 am           Starvation and Structural Violence

 

Structural violence and women's survival during famines: gender, caste, work and hunger in nineteenth century India

(Leela Sami)

The Daily Catastrophe: Structural Violence and Mass Starvation in the 20th and 21st century (Andreas Exenberger, University of Innsbruck)

 

10:45 am         Break

 

11:00 am         Concluding Roundtable Discussion