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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Masculine Identifications: An
Interdisciplinary conference <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>University of Huddersfield,<span
style='color:#1F497D'>UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>9th-11th July 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Plenary speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Dr Paul Baker, Lancaster University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Dr Dawn Hadley, University of Sheffield<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Professor Andrew Smith, University of
Glamorgan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Topics may include (but are not restricted
to) the list below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> theorising masculinities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculine objects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> practising masculinities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and femininities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and class<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and race<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and sexuality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and age<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and empire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities in film and photography<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities in sport<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities in literature and popular
fiction </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities in fine art </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> domestic masculinities </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and the public sphere </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> masculinities and violence </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>•</span><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'> cross-identifications, mis-identifications
or counter-identifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be
sent to the Conference Committee at conference.presentations05@hud.ac.uk<mailto:conference.presentations05@hud.ac.uk>
by 16 April 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Proposals for PhD posters/displays are also
invited. Posters will be displayed during the conference and there will be a
dedicated session on one of the days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Courier New"'>For further info please contact Laura Coffey
l.coffey@hud.ac.uk<mailto:l.coffey@hud.ac.uk> or Elizabeth Anderson
e.anderson@hud.ac.uk<mailto:e.anderson@hud.ac.uk><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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