{"id":1895,"date":"2009-07-27T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:18:46","slug":"conference-men-at-war-masculinities-identities-cultures10-11092009-newtown-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Men at War: Masculinities, Identities, Cultures,10.-11.09.2009, Newtown, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 2-day international <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/politics\/Research\/Conferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference on war and masculinities<\/a> includes panels on disability, marginalised masculinities, memoirs, veterans, and masculinities in visual cultures, film and literature. The conference is a collaborative event hosted by the Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS) and the Callaghan Centre for the study of Conflict, Power and Empire at the University of Swansea.<br \/>\nThe conference will be held at the University of Wales Conference Centre, Newtown, Mid Wales on 10-11 September 2009.<br \/>\n<strong>Programme<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday 10 September<\/strong><br \/>\n12.30 Arrival and Registration<br \/>\n2.30 <strong>Plenary: <\/strong>Graham Dawson: Masculinity, State Violence, and the Political Psychology of Military Extirpation: Reflections on the Israeli Assault on Gaza, 27 December 2008 &#8211; 17 January 2009.<br \/>\nTea<br \/>\n<strong>Parallel Panels<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Panel 1: Mobilising Masculinities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Jane Tynan: Tailoring in the Trenches: Clothing the British Army      during the First World War<\/li>\n<li>Bex Lewis: Men at Work: Visible and Invisible Men in Second World      War Posters<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel 2: Masculinities in Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Daisy Neijmann: &#8218;A Fabulous      Potency&#8216;: Masculinity in Icelandic Occupation Literature<\/li>\n<li>Frauke Matthes: Witnessing the Bosnian War from Abroad: Aleksandar      Hemon and Sasa Stanisic<\/li>\n<li>Sophie Smith: Weapons of War: Sexual Violence in Pat Barker&#8217;s <em>Double Vision <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Drinks Reception and Book Launch: <\/strong>Ana Carden Coyne, <em>Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War <\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2009)<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Exhibition: <\/strong>Christine McCauley &#8218;Bedtime Stories&#8216;<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\nConference Dinner<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Friday 11 September<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Panel 3: British Men and the Military Memoir<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Emma Reilly: Masculinity and Men&#8217;s Bodies in WW2: The Transition      from Civilian to Soldier<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Woodward and Neil Jenkings: Representations of Military      Masculinities in Contemporary British Military Memoirs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel 4: Masculinities in Film<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Richard Godfrey: Virtual Heroes: Military Masculinity in Hollywood      Film<\/li>\n<li>John Ayres: The Pleasure Culture of War and 1950s British Film      Posters<\/li>\n<li>Mark Straw: All We Are Doing is Watching: Male Protagonists and the      Ethics of Spectatorship in Contemporary American War Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coffee<br \/>\n<strong>Panel 5: Marginalised Masculinities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Arthur McIvor, Juliette Pattinson and Wendy Ugolini: Masculinities      Challenged? Men      in the Reserved Occupations in Second World War Britain<\/li>\n<li>Maria Fritsche: Wimps or Heroes? Masculine Self-Perceptions of      Deserters in the German Army in WW2<\/li>\n<li>Fatma Oya Aktas: Being a Conscientious Objector in Turkey:      Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity in a Militaristic Nation-State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel 6: Visual Cultures and Military Masculinities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Claudia Siebrecht: Portrayals of Battlefield Masculinity from the      Wars of Liberation to the Second World War<\/li>\n<li>Peter Hughes Jachimiak: Aarrgghh!! It&#8217;s Art?: Sequential Media,      Cover Art and the Glorification of the Allied Soldiers of WW2<\/li>\n<li>Rukmini Dahanukar: Money Talks: Men at War<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><br \/>\nLunch<br \/>\n<strong>Panel 7: Veterans<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Martina Salvante: Italian Disabled Veterans between Reality and      Propaganda<\/li>\n<li>Michael Maier: Postwar Masculinities: Demilitarisation,      Repatriation and Reassimilation of former Austrian Wehrmacht soldiers      after World War Two..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel 8: Reconfiguring Military Masculinities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Claire Duncanson: Do Forces for Good contain Real Men? Military      Masculinities in the British on Operations Other than War.<\/li>\n<li>Steven Gardiner: The Warrior Ethos: Reinventing Soldierly      Masculinity after 9\/11<\/li>\n<li>Jarna Soilevuo Gronnerod: Transitions between Warfare and Pleasure      Industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tea<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Plenary Panel: Heroic Performances: War, Disability and Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Julie Anderson: Stoics: Creating Identities at St Dunstan&#8217;s      1914-20.<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Gagen: Not Another Hero: The Eastern Telegraph Company&#8217;s      Creation of the Soldier Hero and Company Man<\/li>\n<li>Ana Carden-Coyne: Reconstructing the Body: Overcoming Disability      and Sexual Heroism for Ex-Servicemen and Civilians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><br \/>\nConference End<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/politics\/Research\/Conferences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><br \/>\nFor further information please contact:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Anne Edwards (Registration and Accommodation) a.edwards#swan.ac.uk<\/li>\n<li>Helena Scott (GWACS) h.scott#westminster.ac.uk<\/li>\n<li>Professor Nicola Cooper (Director, Callaghan Centre for the study      of Conflict, Power and Empire) n.cooper#swansea.ac.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 2-day international conference on war and masculinities includes panels on disability, marginalised masculinities, memoirs, veterans, and masculinities in visual cultures, film and literature. 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