October 21 and [...]]]> MASCULINITY, COMPLEX

a two-day symposium with Jessica Benjamin, Justin Vivian Bond, Judith Butler, Anne Cheng, Nancy Chodorow, Ken Corbett, Muriel Dimen, Jan Gaboury, Katie Gentile, Virginia Goldner, Francisco Gonzalez, Adrienne Harris, Ben Kafka, Tony Kushner, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Joe Rollins, Eyal Rozmarin, Avgi Saketopoulou, Gayle Salamon, Dean Spade, Warren Spielberg, Brett Stoudt

October 21 and 22, Friday and Saturday
2 to 8 pm and 10 am to 4 pm, respectively

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS CONFERENCE. ONLY THOSE REGISTERED WILL GAIN ENTRANCE.

more info: masculinitycomplex.com

Masculinity has finally become a site of inquiry: a problem the way femininity has been regarded for nearly a century. Masculinity, Complex sets out to reflect on the history of masculinity as it became perplexed via psychoanalytic and cultural discourses. We have brought together a renowned group of scholars, clinicians and artists, and are looking forward to what promises to be a memorable conference.

CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Avenue
between 34th and 35th Streets

Co-sponsored by Studies in Gender and Sexuality; Gender Studies Program, John Jay College of Justice; Center for the Study of Women and Society, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University.

for more information, please visit the Catalan Center website or click here for a pdf of the full program schedule.

Organized by NYU’s Catalan Center.

Keynote speaker: Josep-Anton Fernàndez-Montolí, [...]]]> BEYOND DON JUAN: RETHINKING IBERIAN MASCULINITIES

March 31 & April 1, Thursday & Friday
click here for pdf of program with all times and location

for more information, please visit the Catalan Center website or click here for a pdf of the full program schedule.

Organized by NYU’s Catalan Center.

Keynote speaker: Josep-Anton Fernàndez-Montolí, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Danny M. Barreto, Vassar College
Eduardo Barros-Grela, Universidade da Coruña
Marta Bosch, Universitat de Barcelona
Israel Burshatin, Haverford College
Angels Carabi, Universitat de Barcelona
José R. Cartagena-Calderón, Pomona College
Javier Lorenzo Castro, Universitat de Barcelona
Sergio Cobo, Universidad de Sevilla
Justin Crumbaugh, Mount Holyoke College
Jennifer Duprey, Rutgers University
Kathryn Everly, Syracuse University
Joseba Gabilondo, Michigan State University
Antonio García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Iker González-Allende, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Inmaculada Gordillo, Universidad de Sevilla Research Group
Virginia Guarinos, Universidad de Sevilla Research Group
John Hemingway, presenting his paper, “Ernest Hemingway, the False Macho”
Alberto Hermida, Universidad de Sevilla
Juan Herrero-Senés, University of Colorado at Boulder
Maja Horn, Barnard College
Jesús Jiménez-Varea, Universidad de Sevilla
John C. Landreau, The College of New Jersey
Travis Landry, Kenyon College
Amparo Lasen, Complutense University Madrid
María Liñeira, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra University
Fran López, Universidad de Sevilla
Joaquín Marín, Universidad de Sevilla
Jaume Martí-Olivella, University of New Hampshire
Helena Miguélez-Carballeira, Bangor College
Rosa-Àuria Munté, Universitat Ramon Llull
Manus O’Duibhir, Santiago de Compostela
Miquel Pérez-Gómez, Universidad de Sevilla
Susanna Perez-Pamies, University of Colorado at Boulder
Montserrat Piera, Temple University
Begoña Regueiro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
RETEVIS GROUP: Sue Aran-Ramspott, Pilar Medina-Bravo, Miquel Rodrigo-Alsina
Aurélie Vialette, University of Texas at Austin
Aishih Wehbe-Herrera, University of Edinburgh
Elena Valdez, Rutgers University
María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, Santiago de Compostela

Organizing committee:
Josep M. Armengol (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
Àngels Carabí (Center Women and Literature/UNESCO Chair “Women, Development, and Cultures”, Universitat de Barcelona)
Michael Kimmel (Men and Masculinities, SUNY at Stony Brook)
Mary Ann Newman (The Catalan Center, New York University)

Co-sponsors:
King Juan Carlos I Center, New York University
Office of the Dean for Humanities, New York University
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
Center for Galician Studies, CUNY’s Graduate Center
Center Women and Literature / UNESCO Chair “Women, Development, and Cultures,” Universitat de Barcelona
Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación al Desarrollo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

March 7, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 pm

Maria Malmström, CSGS Visiting Scholar

In this talk, Dr. Malmström will discuss constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank through [...]]]> CREATING PROPER MEN: MASCULINITIES, EMBODIMENT AND AGENCY IN THE WEST BANK

a Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Maria Malmström

March 7, Monday
12:30 to 1:45 pm

Maria Malmström, CSGS Visiting Scholar

In this talk, Dr. Malmström will discuss constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank through the prism of violence. She will highlight the importance of analyzing the body in such processes – both as agential and as victimized. To be able to move away from the sensationalist Western media that often portray Middle Eastern Muslim men as ‘violent’, and as terrorists, we need to understand the motivations and the meanings of violence. This talk will discuss constructions of masculinities in a complex interplay of violence, political Islam, suffering and loss. The method of analysis is to use a discourse-centered approach and to use experience-near ethnography that begins with men’s own practices and attends to how they understand themselves, how their bodies are involved in this process, and how they live out norms and ideologies in their everyday lives. Thereby we are able to understand how men’s realities and identities are interpreted, negotiated and constructed and how the body actively is involved in these processes. This approach is relevant since it is possible to analyze the singularity of experience, not only as a form of social interaction, but as linked to social structures and discourses, which implies negotiations of tensions, conflicts, and uncertainties.

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
41-51 East 11th Street, Room 741
between University Place and Broadway
(wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place, between 11th and 12th Streets)

Part of the Brown Bag Lunch Talk Series — bring your own lunch and we’ll provide beverages and dessert!

Maria Malmström is a Swedish anthropologist and her areas of interest are the MENA region, gender, body, sexuality, politics, violence, and security. She received her PhD from the School of Global Studies, Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg. Her dissertation examined how female gender identity is continually created and re-created in Egypt through a number of daily practices, of which female circumcision is central. The study explored how the subject is made through the interplay of global hegemonic structures of power and the most intimate sphere, which has been exposed in the international arena. She is today involved in the inter-disciplinary research project “Hamas between Sharia rule and Demo-Islam.” The study aims to investigate in what way Hamas will adopt to the new realities on the ground (together with Michael Schulz et al.). Additionally, Dr. Malmström is involved in ground research on sexual violence and armed conflict in a globalized world (together with Maria Stern and Maria Eriksson Baaz). Furthermore, she is a gender consultant (UNFPA and others), and member of several academic/policy networks, e.g. Think Tank for Arab Women.

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible (see wheelchair access information above).  If you need sign language interpretation services or other accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible.

For more information, please call 212-992-9540 or email csgs(at)nyu.edu.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6 to 8 PM

Presented by the A/P/A Institute at NYU

A/P/A Institute at NYU 41-51 East 11th Street 7th Floor Gallery between University Place and Broadway

Free and open to the public.

RSVP by Friday, October 30 — Online, via email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or call 212-992-9653.

Panelists:

Lady Pink [...]]]>

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
6 to 8 PM

Presented by the A/P/A Institute at NYU

A/P/A Institute at NYU
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor Gallery
between University Place and Broadway

Free and open to the public.

RSVP by Friday, October 30 — Online, via email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or call 212-992-9653.

Panelists:

Lady Pink
Sharp
Yasmin Ramirez

Moderated by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé

Artist Martin Wong was a major collector of Graffiti artwork and deeply immersed as a mentor and friend in the graffiti culture and artworlds of New York City. This panel discussion will take his work and life as a jumping point to explore issues of gender, race and graffiti culture with artists Sharp and Lady Pink, critic/scholar Yasmin Ramirez, and moderated by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, author of Queer Latino Testimonio Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails and Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Fordham University. With introduction by Gayatri Gopinath, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at NYU.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

For more information, please visit the A/P/A Institute website.