CFP 2012
Political Masculinities in Literature and Culture: from Early Modernism to Today
The field of masculinity studies has found its way into many academic disciplines. The social sciences as well as medical and psychological research have investigated many phenomena around the issue of masculinity. Moreover, there is a consensus that masculinity as the unmarked gender has remained invisible in many contexts. This, it has been argued, is particularly true for public spheres such as politics. Thus, it is not surprising that there is an increasing body of research in political science and related disciplines such as diplomatic history, exploring the interdependence of the construction of masculinities on the one hand and the emerging, maintenance, and modification of concepts such as citizenship, nationality, democracy, militarism, policing, and colonialism on the other. As a result, masculinity is being made visible in the domain of politics.Moreover, the mechanisms and functions of different types of masculinities in variable political contexts, past and present, are being examined with a special focus on the transformation of masculinities.
Political science has contributed to the understanding of the emergence, the development and the transformation of modern politics and states as masculine areas. Empirical research identified different representations of political masculinities with respect to time, space and state form. Cultural and literary research focuses on the representation of political masculinities in artefacts and texts.
This conference intends to integrate these findings from different disciplines in order to shed light on different modes of representing and construction political masculinities across time and space. Leading questions will be: What are main characteristics of representing political masculinities (i.e. rationality, aggressiveness)? How can we trace the transformation of masculinities across time and space? The focus of all proposed papers should be in political bodies (individuals as political players). All academic disciplines are welcome.

 

Programme 2012
KEYNOTES:

• Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina)

Forging Men: Masculinities, Politics and War in a Transatlantic Perspective, 1750-1850 

 

• Eva Kreisky (University of Vienna, Austria) 

Masculinity as an Analytical Category. Work in Progress. 

 

• K.A. Cuordileone (The City University of New York, USA) 

Conservatism, Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Masculinity in Postwar America 

Political Masculinities and the Nineteenth Century

• Jutta Schwarzkopf (Bielefeld University, Germany): Rational and Respectable Beings: The Chartist Conception oft he Male Citizen

• Josephine Hoegaerts (Leuwen University, Belgium): La Voix du Pays. Masculinity, Vocal Authority and the Disembodied Citizen in the Nineteenth Century

• Antje Bednarek (Theologische Hochschule Friedensau, Germany): Work Hard, Play Hard: Disraelian One-Nation Conservatism and Young Conservatives Today 

Militarised and Colonial Political Masculinities

• Dagmar Ellerbrock (Bielefeld University, Germany): Gun-Rights as Priviledges of Free Men – Chronology of a Powerful Political Myth of the 19th and 20th Century 

• Anders Ahlbäck (Abo Akademi University, Finland): Ethnicity, Military Service and Male Civic in / exclusion in Finland, 1918-1928 

• Sutanuka Banerjee (University of Malaga, Spain): Problems of the Body: Politicization of Masculinity in the Indian Colonial Sphere 

• Saskia Stachowitsch (Bristol University, UK): (De)Constructing the 'Hypermasculine' Private Military Contractor - Critiques of Masculinity and the Legitimization of the Private Security Industry 

Political Masculinities in Film

• Sabrina Hüttner (Würzburg University, Germany): Land of Milk and Cohn: A Critique of Heteronormativity and the Ideals of U.S. Political Masculinity 

• Jan Kucharzewski (University of Hamburg, Germany): Don’t Say Penis in my House – Marking the Male Political Body in the Movies of Oliver Stone 

• Wieland Schwanebeck (Dresden University, Germany): 'He's a Lover, not a Fighter!' Performing Political Masculinities in The Thick of It 

Contemporary Political Masculinities: Case Studies

• Rainer Emig (Hannover University, Germany): Political Masculinities Then and Now: Bully Gordon and Miss Westerwelle 

• Martin Meyrath (Vienna University, Austria): The Public Representation of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg as an Example of Neoliberal Hegemonic Masculinity 

Political Masculinities in the Press

• Jiri Nieminen (University of Tampere, Finland): Male Politicians and the Split of Hegemonic Masculinity in Tabloid Publicity 

• Laura Saarenmaa (University of Tampere, Finland): Politics and Politicians in 1970s Finnish Men’s (Sex) Magazines 

Political Masculinities in Literature

• Dominik Wallerius (Mainz University, Germany): Joyce, Parnell and the Contradictions of Irish Hegemonic Masculinity 

• Michael Rodegang Drescher (University of Heidelberg, Germany): The Black Revolutionary – The Representation of Afro-American Male Dissenters in William Wells Brown’s Clotel 

• Marion Löffler (Vienna University, Austria): The Ideal of a Masculinist State in Thomas Mann’s Novella Mario and the Magician