Masculine Identifications conference

[Sunderland, Jane]

Masculine Identifications: An Interdisciplinary conference 

 

University of Huddersfield,UK

 

9th-11th July 2010

 

Plenary speakers:

 

Dr Paul Baker, Lancaster University

 

Dr Dawn Hadley, University of Sheffield

 

Professor Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan

 

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.

* theorising masculinities

* masculine objects

* practising masculinities

* masculinities and femininities

* masculinities and class

* masculinities and race

* masculinities and sexuality

* masculinities and age

* masculinities and empire

* masculinities in film and photography

* masculinities in sport

* masculinities in literature and popular fiction * masculinities in
fine art * domestic masculinities * masculinities and the public sphere
* masculinities and violence * cross-identifications,
mis-identifications or counter-identifications.

 

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to the Conference
Committee at
conference.presentations05 at hud.ac.uk<mailto:conference.presentations05 at h
ud.ac.uk> by 16 April 2010.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

For further info please contact Laura Coffey
l.coffey at hud.ac.uk<mailto:l.coffey at hud.ac.uk> or Elizabeth Anderson
e.anderson at hud.ac.uk<mailto:e.anderson at hud.ac.uk>

 

 

 

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