Friday, January 27, 2012

News From Past AMSA Conferences

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS & REVIEWERS: AMSA’s Annual Review, Volume III CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS & REVIEWERS: AMSA’s Annual Review, Volume III

American Men’s Studies Annual Review, Volume III (Men, Masculinities and the Common... 


AMSA XIX: 2011 Frankel and Board Scholarship Winners Announced AMSA XIX: 2011 Frankel and Board Scholarship Winners Announced

The Loren Frankel Student Scholarship Fund was established in 2005 to support students... 


AMSA XIX – Discounted Registration Available Until March 30 AMSA XIX – Discounted Registration Available Until March 30

The deadline for the advance discounted conference registration rate is March 30.... 


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Men's Studies News

Making Justice Our Business, New Book from AMSA’s Stephen Boyd Making Justice Our Business, New Book from AMSA’s Stephen Boyd

Making Justice Our Business: The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work... 


“Depression Over the Adult Life Course for African American Men” Article by AMSA Board Member “Depression Over the Adult Life Course for African American Men” Article by AMSA Board Member

AMSA Vice President Daphne C. Watkins, Assistant Professor in the School of Social... 


AMSA XX: Harry Brod and Shaun R. Harper to Provide Plenary Addresses AMSA XX: Harry Brod and Shaun R. Harper to Provide Plenary Addresses

Two of the plenary speakers for the American Men’s Studies Conference in Minneapolis... 


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Resource News

Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School, New Book by AMSA Member Kevin J Burke Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School, New Book by AMSA Member Kevin J Burke

AMSA member and Faculty of Supervision and Instruction Fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, Kevin J. Burke is the author of the new book, Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School We get our fixed – or malleable – notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of... [Read more]


Now Available in Print and On-line – The Journal of Men’s Studies XIX, No. 3 Now Available in Print and On-line – The Journal of Men’s Studies XIX, No. 3

Check out the Contents of Volume 19, Number 3 (September 2011) of an official journal of the American Men’s Studies Association, The Journal of Men’s Studies. Featured articles in this issue include: “Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Afflicted Fathers and Endangered Daughters in Russell Banks’s The Sweet Hereafter” by... [Read more]


AMSA Member Produces Documentary About Fathers, Sons & Ending Abuse AMSA Member Produces Documentary About Fathers, Sons & Ending Abuse

House Devil, Street Angel by AMSA member Fivel Rothberg is a very personal documentary film about the filmmaker’s experience as a father, son, abuse survivor and former abuser.  As part of a social change project, House Devil, Street Angel will generate needed conversations about intimate partner violence, fatherhood and masculinity as viewers watch... [Read more]


Call for Papers: “Masculinities in Contemporary Societies” at the 2012 Southern Sociological Society Call for Papers: “Masculinities in Contemporary Societies” at the 2012 Southern Sociological Society

Joslyn Brenton is organizing a session titled “Masculinities in Contemporary Societies” at the 2012 Southern Sociological Society meeting in New Orleans (March 21-24). The session is co-sponsored by the Sociologists for Women in Society-South (SWS-S); however, anyone attending the session is welcome to submit a paper. Papers might address how traditional... [Read more]


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