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COE - Strasbourg, 7-8 October 1999

PROGRAMME


Thursday 7 October 1999

8h30 - 9h30 Arrival of participants and registration

9h30 - 10h00 OPENING SESSION

 Chair: Ms Violeta NEUBAUER (Slovenia), Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men (CDEG)

 Opening address by Mr Pierre-Henri IMBERT, Director of Human Rights

 Introduction by Ms Caroline MECHIN (France), Chair of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men (CDEG)

10h00 – 13h00 WORKING SESSION I

 "METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES"

 Chair: Ms Elizabeth STANKO, Brunel University, United Kingdom

 Moderator: Ms Renée ROMKENS, Utrecht University, Netherlands

 Presentation and discussion of the following reports:

 Comparing methodologies used to study violence against women
 by Ms Sylvia WALBY, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

 Representations of intimate male violence in the United States and Poland
 by Ms Renate KLEIN, University of Maine, USA and
Ms Anna KWIATKOWSKA, University of Bialystok, Poland

 Gendering research on men's violence to known women
 by Ms Jalna HANMER, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom and Mr Jeff HEARN, Tampere University, Finland and Manchester University, United Kingdom

11h30 – 11h45 Coffee break

 DISCUSSION

13h00 – 14h30 Lunch break

14h30 – 18h00 WORKING SESSION II

 
"VIOLENCE IN THE FORMATION OF GENDERED MALE IDENTITIES"

 Chair: Ms Margit EPSTEIN, University of Osnabrück, Germany

 Moderator: Ms Marianne HESTER, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

 Presentation and discussion of the following reports:
 
 Explaining the inclination to use violence

 by Ms Carol HAGEMANN-WHITE and Ms Christiane MICUS, University of Osnabrück, Germany

 Explanations for male violence, psychoanalysis, feminist theory and the new men's movement
 
by Ms Ursula MÜLLER, University of Bielefeld, Germany

 Growing up in the proximity of violence: Teenagers' stories of violence in the home
 by Ms Katarina WEINEHALL, University of Umeå, Sweden

 Teenage boys as violent actors in today's Romanian communities
 by Ms Anca DUMITRESCU and Ms Elena PENTELEICIUC, University of Bucharest, Romania

 Socio-Economic Roots for Cases of Male Violence against Women in Russia
 by Ms Vera GRACHEVA, Russian Federation

 DISCUSSION

16h00-16h15 Coffee break

 DISCUSSION

18h00 Vin d'honneur - Blue Room of the Council of Europe


Friday 8 October 1999


09h30 – 13h00 WORKING SESSION III

 "TRANSITIONS IN ADULTHOOD AND MEN'S VIOLENCE"[1]

 Chair: Ms Barbara KAVEMANN, WiBIG, Germany

 Moderator: Ms Linda REGAN, University of North London, United Kingdom
 
 Presentation and discussion of the following reports:

 The contribution of the military and military discourse to the construction of masculinity in society
 by Ms Uta KLEIN, University of Münster, Germany

 Men's violence against women and children in situations of armed conflict
 by Ms Dubrovka KOCIJAN HERCIGONJA, Zagreb, Croatia

 The approach of the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe to the issue of gender-based violence
 
by Ms Kirsten Staehr JOHANSEN, WHO-EURO, Denmark

 Older men and elder abuse
 by Ms Bridget PENHALE, University of Hull, United Kingdom
 
11h15-11h30 Coffee break

 DISCUSSION

13h00-14h30 Lunch break

14h30-16h30 WORKING SESSION IV

 "CROSS-CUTTING THEMES: MEDIA DEBATES, COSTS OF VIOLENCE, IMPLEMENTATION"

 Chair: Ms Dominique FOUGEYROLLAS, Université de Paris 9, France

 Moderator: Ms Liz KELLY, University of North London, United Kingdom

 Presentation and discussion of the following reports:

 Male violence: the economic costs
 
by Mr Alberto GODENZI and Ms Carrie YODANIS, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

 But where are the men? Central State public policies to combat violence against women in post-authoritarian Spain (1975-1999)
 by Ms Celia VALIENTE, University of Madrid, Spain

 Police methods to counteract violence against women
 by Ms Helene GÖRTZEN, Stockholm County Police Authority, Sweden

 Assumptions and implications: Notes on Greenlander men "in transition"
 
by Mr Bo WAGNER SØRENSEN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

16h30-17h00 Coffee break

17h00-18h00 CLOSING SESSION

 
Chair: Ms Caroline MECHIN, Chair of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men (CDEG)

 Conclusions of the Seminar presented by the General Rapporteur,
Ms Renate KLEIN

 Close of the Seminar


[1]              This session will put special focus on violence in military service and violence against women and children in armed conflicts.

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COE - Strasbourg, 7-8 October 1999