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University of Huddersfield 10 -11 July 2010
The conference is running for 2 days Sat 10 July and Sun 11 July.
Online registration is now open
Closing date for registration is 30 June 2010
The development of masculinities as a distinctive area of research coincided with the prominence of identity politics in the 1990s and the growth of the fields of gender studies and queer theory, which spread across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. These developments not only have complicated our understanding of masculine norms but also raise questions about how these norms have been sustained and/or transformed by various discourses, practices and texts, ranging from spectacular public interventions to everyday domestic performances.
This conference aims to bring together established and emerging scholars across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in order to explore the significance of ideas of identity and identification in the contemporary study of masculinities. We hope and anticipate that the conference will encourage cross-fertilisation of methodologies and overlapping areas of study and analysis.
Topics may include (but are not restricted to) the list below.
Saturday 10th July | ||||
| 08.30-09.15 | Registration | |||
| 09.15-10.15 | Opening keynote: Professor Andrew Smith | |||
| Tea & coffee | ||||
| 10.30-12.30 | Session 1: Masculinities and war | Session 2: Masculinities and popular culture | Session 3: Masculinities and race | |
| Linda Danil: An analysis of the construction of sexual and gender identity of British male soldiers during the 20th (post-World War II) and 21st century | Mary Talbot: Zoo format media, laddism and women's place | Matthew Bentley: "A Thoroughly Dispicable Figure": Civilisation, manhood and Moses Friedman | ||
| Lisa Felstead: Institutionalised Men | Sarah Godfrey: The problematic politics of the post-feminist 'New' Lad | David Doddington: Slave work and masculinities in the Antebellum South: A homosocial hierarchy | ||
| Laura Coffey: Monsters and Heroes: evluations of masculinity in women's magazines | Páraic Finnerty: Portrait of an Englishman: Henry James's Lord Warburton | |||
| Andrew Patch: 'Make a noice and I'll push this in your spine': Violence, masculinity and identity in Dead Man's Shoes (Meadows, 2004) | Katie McGettigan: American Manhood and American Imperialism: The Male Body in the Western Fiction of Owen Wister | |||
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch | |||
| 13.30-15.30 | Session 4: Fatherhood | Session 5: Masculinities and violence | Session 6: Masculinities and Politics | Session 7: Questioning masculinities |
| Jessica Malay: Constructing the parental voice in Maurice Tuke's A Fathers Blessinge | Krizia Nardini: On being men: Identities at stake and "plural" masculinities in contemporary Italy | Laura Paterson: Who is the generic masculine? | Helena Gurfinkel: Edwardian Erasures: The Limits of Sexual Identity in David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk | |
| Abigail Locke and Kirsty Budds: 'Learning to be a dad': Constructing the role of fathers in 'parentcraft' antenatal classes | Muhammad Saeed: Challenges to undertaking research on masculinity and domestic violencfe in Pakistan | Rainer Emig: Political Masculinities Then and Now: Bully Gordon and Miss Westerwelle | Tracy Hayes: Subversive Pessimisms: Masculinity Triumvirates in the Novels of Thomas Hardy | |
| Laura King: 'I was a family man': Masculinity, fatherhood and families in Britain, c.1918-1960 | Dario Llinares: Punishing bodies and bodies that punish: Aesthetics of masculine violence in contemporary British Cinema | Chris Parkes: The Welles of Loneliness: Sexuality, scandal, and the state department, 1920-1950 | ||
| Rachel Moss: ‘Mi ryght wel-belouved fadyr’: the language of fifteenth century fatherhood | ||||
| 15.30-16.00 | Tea & coffee | |||
| 16.00-17.00 | Closing keynote: Dr Paul Baker | |||
| 17.15-18.30 | Film screening | |||
| 18.30-19.30 | Wine reception | |||
Sunday 11th July | ||||
| 09.15-10.15 | Opening keynote: Dr Dawn Hadley | |||
| 10.15-10.30 | Tea & coffee | |||
| 10.30-12.30 | Session 8: Masculinities and the body | Session 9: Masculinities and sport | Session 10: Hegemonic masculinity | |
| Jennifer Sarha: Male beauty in Mary Renault's The Charioteer | Ayako Tominari: The representation of a male sports hero and masculinities in the sports newspaper coverage of a baseball championship in Japan | Konstantia Kosetzi: Self-Constructions and other-presentations of masculinities and male heterosexualities in Greek fictional television | ||
| Sam de Boise: Boys (Don't?) Cry: Masculinities, music, emotion and affect | Andy Harvey: Staging the sixties: This Sporting Life by David Storey | Sophie Smith: Negotiating a homosexual identity in the novels of Eyet Chékib Djaziri and Abdellah Taïa | ||
| Lynn Haycock: The perceptions of food and health of men aged 18-24 | Elizabeth Coleman: Metrosexuality: Korea's new orientation | Erez Levon: Language and the reproduction of hegemonic masculinity among gay men in Israel | ||
| Martin King: 'Running Like Big Daft Girls': Reading The Beatles as a subversive masculine discourse. | ||||
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch | |||
| 13.30-15.00 | Session 11: Queer identifications | Session 12: Parodic Masculinities | Session 13: Questioning objects | |
| Alan Johnson: Eros, Agon, and Influence: Pederasty and masculine desire in Harold Bloom’s Poetics of Literary Incest | Zlatina Sandalska: Parodic male societies in Russian culture | Antony Whitehead: Masculinity, Motorcycling and the Road | ||
| Taylor Black: His Wonderful Wickedness: Quentin Crisp and the art of professional failure | Louise Lee: "An Effect without a cause": Suddenness in Victorian nonsense fiction as masculine subjectivity | Stephanie Yorke: Masculinity and Mobility: a Gendered History of the Self-Propelled Wheelchair | ||
| John Heywood: Doing Masculinity with Style? The functions of plain written style in Straight to Hell magazine. | ||||
| 15.00-15.15 | Tea & coffee | |||
| 15.15-16.30 | Roundtable | |||
