From left to right: University of Birmingham PhD student Boniface Ojok (Uganda), Erin Baines (Liu Professor), Beth Stewart (Liu Scholar Alumna)
Dr. Erin Baines (Associate Professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues) and Beth Stewart (Liu Scholar Alumna, PhD Candidate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) recently participated in a workshop at the University of Birmingham: New Directions in Research on Gender Based Violence and Children Born of War in Northern Uganda.
The event brought together scholars from across the UK, Belgium, Uganda and Canada who are working on issues related to forced marriage in war and the children born from those relationships. Dr. Baines delivered the keynote lecture, “Re-storying the Archive: Reflections on ‘I am Evelyn Amony.‘”
As editor of this recent publication, Dr. Baines explored the significant contribution of Evelyn Amony’s memoir to re-writing the archive of the war in northern Uganda. Beth Stewart’s talk “‘I feel out of place’: The Negotiated Belonging of Children Born into the Lord’s Resistance Army” drew from her five years of research with children born into the LRA – a unique child-centered research project that examines the everyday lives of the children as they move toward adulthood.
See related publications:
I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming my Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army
“We are All the Same”: Experiences of children born into LRA captivity
