This international and interdisciplinary conference explores constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of masculinity in cultural productions, ranging from literature and film over theater and dance to art and the media, and asks how theories of affect, intersectionality, and the body enrich Masculinity Studies, for example, by helping us to rethink constructions of masculinity, intervene in debates about gender politics and diversity, and make sense of the rise of right-wing populism. You can download the program or scroll down this page. If you click on a presentation title, a PDF file including the respective abstract can be downloaded.
Friday, 22 June 2018
From 12:00 Start Registration
13:00 – 13:30 Opening and Welcome Address
13:30 – 15:00 Panel 1: Negotiations of Hegemonic Masculinity and Alternative
Models
Tim Griebel (Erlangen): Constructions of Masculinity in German Media Coverage of Football. A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis
Karin Höpker (Erlangen): Peripheral Masculinity Affect and the Rural in Contemporary US-American TV Series
Stefan Hippler (Würzburg): The Gay American Adam: Queer Masculinity in the Contemporary Novel
15:00 – 15:30 Special Feature I:
Muriel Aichberger (München): Queer Progressive Masculinities – Linking Gender Binary and a Gender-Diverse Future (a Practical Approach)
15.30 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:45 Panel 2: Fashioning the Male Body I
Melanie Haller (Hamburg): Meggings – from Subculture Styles to New Body Images of Masculinity
Jay McCauley Bowstead (London): Refashioning the Male Body
Sarah Niblock (London): Prince’s 3rd Eye: Negotiating Masculinity through Style in a Digitized World
17:45 – 18:15 Special Feature II:
Said el Amir (Bern/München): Masculinity has Never Been a Question of Muscles or Testosterone Only – Perspective of a Dancer to Whom it Applies
18:15 Conclusion Day 1
From 19:00 Conference Dinner at “Zen” (Theaterplatz 22, Erlangen)
Saturday, 23 June 2018
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Back
10:00 – 11:00 Panel 3: Masculinities in Crisis
Ali Zamanpour (Montreal): Deterritorialized Male Subjectivity and the (Im)Possibility of Becoming ‚Man‘ in the ‚Shadow‘ in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach, De Niro’s Game, and Carnival
Martina Kübler (München): “… to be shipped over to England again, more or less in bits” – Masculinity and Physical Disability in D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Panel 4: Political Masculinities
Aleksandra Gajowy (Newcastle): “That Disgusting Guy who Copulates with Christ:” Sex, Censorship and Homosociality in the Polish Contemporary Performance Art
Anna Lienen (Bochum): Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes about ‚Black Youths‘ in Contemporary Black British Fiction
12:30 – 13:00 Special Feature III:
Michael McMillan (London): Brother to Brother: Black Men Loving Black Men is a Revolutionary Act (a Mixed-Media Approach)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break (at conference venue)
14:30 – 16:00 Panel 5: Fashioning the Male Body I
Simone Broders (Erlangen): “She Broke Your Throne, and She Cut Your Hair” – An Iconography of Hair and Masculinity in English Literature and Culture
Lena Gotteswinter (Erlangen): Reinventing and Restoring Masculinity: Hipsters‘ and Blipsters‘ Hybrid Lifestyles
John Finkelberg (Ann Arbor): Transnational Dandies, Exquisites, and Lions: The Transnational Language of Masculinity in France and Britain, 1815-1830
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Panel 6: Gender Transgressions: from Passing to Crossing
Sandra Dinter (Erlangen): Passing as a Man on the Street: Cross-Dressing as a Deconstruction of the Masculine Privilege of Flânerie
Susanne Gruß (Erlangen): Refracturing Victorian Masculinity: The Curious Case of Dr James Miranda Barry
Jonathan Rose (Passau): “The Man with a Pussy:” Trans(ing) Masculinities in/through Pornography
18:00 – 18:30 Closing Remarks
You can download the CfP here: CfP „De/Constructing Masculinities?“.
