Masculinities in Russia

[Elena Gapova]

?he following announcement may be of interest to the list.
Elena Gapova

CALL FOR PAPERS

MASCULINITIES IN RUSSIA 19-23 June 2003University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign/Summer Research Laboratory

Papers are invited for an interdisciplinary conference that will explore
questions of masculinity in Russia. This conference seeks to support
contributions by Russian scholars to the emerging field of Masculinity
Studies. Encouraged by the success of last year's conference/workshop
("Masculinity in Russia"), we hope to continue discussion of key issues in
the field while expanding the theoretical and topical scope of the
conference. In particular, we are interested in looking at
masculinity/maleness as a gender-specific form of social, national,
economic, military, or aesthetic practice. We especially invite papers that
attempt to situate specific articulations of masculinity in Russia within a
larger historical, theoretical or geographical framework.

Topics for "Masculinities in Russia" may include, but are not limited to:

Historical Forms of Masculinity in Russia

Practices of Becoming Masculine

Masculine Hierarchies (hegemonic and/or subordinate masculinities)

Masculine Identities (intersections with race, class, sexual identities)

Discursive Production of Masculinity/Masculine Performance

Politics and Masculinity

Homosociability, Homosexuality and Masculinity

"Masculinities in Russia" will be a working meeting in which participants
collectively discuss papers submitted in advance. Papers from all
disciplines are welcomed. Those from typically under-represented fields,
such as Anthropology, Communications, Geography, and Psychology, are
especially encouraged.

"Masculinities in Russia" will be held as part of the annual Summer Research
Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. Workshop participants are encouraged to apply to the
Summer Research Lab for free university housing which may be extended beyond
the conference dates. (For further information on housing allowances and the
Summer Research Lab, see: http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl.htm.) Participants
will have afternoons free to conduct research in the largest Slavic library
West of Washington, D.C.

Interested scholars may submit paper proposals of no more than 500 words and
a curriculum vitae by 15 January 2003 to:

Dr. Brian James Baer/Dr. Serguei Oushakine, Coordinators

Masculinities in Russia, Department of Modern and Classical Language
Studies, Kent State University, 109 Satterfield Hall, Kent OH 44240. FAX:
330/672-4009.

Bbaer at kent.edu

sao15 at columbia.edu

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