GEXcel Symposium: Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, power and deconstruction

By Katherine Harrison on 24 Apr | 0 comments

A one-day GEXcel Symposium on "Men/masculinities, Transnational, Spatial, Virtual: Hegemony, Power and Deconstruction" will be held at Temcas room, T Building-Linköping University, Tuesday 5 May, 2009.  The event is organized as part of GEXcel Theme 2, "Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence" (for more information) with a special focus on transnational and transdisciplinary studies of gender relations, intersectionalities and embodiment at which the following current GEXcel scholars present their work:

Dr. Chris Beasley, University of Adelaide, Australia: "The Challenge of Pleasure: Let's Talk about Sex in Gender Masculinity Studies"
Dr. David Bell, Leeds University, UK: "The Gays and the Geeks"
Nil Mutluer, Central European University Budapest, Hungary: "The Role of Transnational and National Networks in Internally Displaced Men's Everyday Life"
PK Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi University, India: "The RSS and the Cultivation of the National Man"

To participate, please register with Alp Biricik (alpbi@tema.liu.se) before April 30, 2009.