An international conference titled "War, Memory and Gender" was held by Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Forum, in partnership with Central European University, at Cezayir Meeting Hall on May 22 - 23, 2012. The Conference was organized within the framework of Sabancı University and Central European University Joint Academic Initiative by Ayşe Gül Altınay, Sabancı University Faculty Member, and Andrea Petö, Central European University Faculty Member.
Speakers from 40 universities and institutes from all over the world attended the conference. The conference was viewed by more than 150 academics and researchers from different countries around the world. Andrea Petö and Ayşe Gül Altınay made the opening speeches of the two-day international conference attended by academics from Turkey and the world. The conference started with Clark University's Cynthia Enloe's speech "Which War Women Are Remembered After the War and Which Are Forgotten? And Why Should Feminists Care About This?" and continued with the other panels. The conference aimed to examine how the experiences of war and political violence during the 20th century are remembered in terms of gender, and to evaluate and reveal the contribution of feminist studies to memory and war studies.
