Katja Sabisch, Änne Söll, Jule Fischer, and Christian Wandhoff, Institute of Art History, DFG project „Viscourses of Adolescent Masculinities in the Global North since 1960“, Ruhr Univ. Bochum (RUB) (Web)
Time: 10.-12.06.2026
Venue: Kunstsammlungen der RUB/Situation Kunst – KUBUS
Registration by: 31.05.2026
Since the 1960s, emancipated, pluralistic and independent youth cultures are on the rise. Even though they are mostly male-dominated, questions of masculinity have rarely been explored until now. Our aim is to close this gap by connecting sociological knowledge with visual culture which seem to be closely and ambivalently related. Therefore, we would like to examine how, when young men are concerned, sociology and visual culture interact. The international conference brings together experts to evaluate the sociological and photographic discourses of adolescent masculinities, their function in creating knowledge about male adolescence and its visual representation. How do scientific knowledge and artistic/visual knowledge on male adolescents relate to one another? How do they differ?
Programme (PDF)
Wed. 10.06.2026
- Keynote: Christoph Ribbat (Univ. of Paderborn): Against Adolescence: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and Diane Arbus
Thur. 11.06.2026
- Änne Söll & Katja Sabisch (RUB): Introduction
- Jule Fischer (RUB): Photography and Visual Research as a Sociology of Adolescent Masculinity
- Julia Wustmann (TU Dortmund) & Paul Eisewicht (Univ. of Münster): Visual Clusters of Homosocial Masculinity: A Comparative Study of Scene-Based Adolescent Male Figurations Continue reading

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