Nordic Conference on Research on Men and Masculinities to be June 4-6, 2014, at the University of Iceland

The next Nordic conference on research on men and masculinities with the theme “Emerging ideas in masculinity research: Masculinity studies in the North” will be held June 4-6, 2014, at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Suggested workshops are, for example: Economy/financial crisis, the affective turn and masculinity studies, relations between queer theory and masculinity studies, global [...]

Spring 2013 Issue of The Journal of Men’s Studies Features Papers from AMSA XX

The Spring 2013 issue of The Journal of Men’s Studies (Volume 21, No. 2) features selected articles based upon papers presented at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the American Men’s Studies Association, held in Minneapolis in 2012, whose theme was “Celebrating Twenty Years of Scholarship in Men and Masculinities.” After a brief introduction by the [...]

“Political Masculinties” Conference to Be in Vienna November 15-17, 2013

A international multidisciplinary conference on the subject “Political Masculinities: Structures, Discourses and Spaces in Historical Perspective” will take place at the University of Vienna, November 15th to 17th, 2013. The organizers welcome papers from all academic disciplines, focusing on conceptual questions as well as presenting empirical studies of structures of political masculinities.  The Conference description [...]

The Journal of Men’s Studies Features AMSA’s 20 Year History

Check out the Contents of Volume 21, Number 1 (Winter, 2013) of an official journal of the American Men’s Studies Association, The Journal of Men’s Studies. The issue features articles reflecting upon AMSA’s first 20 years. Articles about AMSA in this special issue include: “AMSA at 20: Where Have We Been? Where Should We Go? [...]

“American Masclinities” to be theme of The New York Metro American Studies Association’s Annual Conference

“American Masculinities” is the theme for the Annual Conference of The New York Metro American Studies Association to be held November 2, 2013 at Pace University’s Manhattan Campus. The annual conference provides a dynamic forum for area scholars, while attracting presenters nationally. NYMASA announces a call for papers for its 2013 annual one-day conference closing [...]

AMSA Awards Its 2013 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Jeffrey Yamashita

At its annual membership meeting at the 2013 American Men’s Studies Association Annual Conference, AMSA presented Jeffrey T. Yamashita with its 2013 Loren Frankel Student Scholarship. Yamashita is a graduate student in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The award honors a graduate student doing research on men’s studies who presents his research [...]

AMSA’s Twenty-Second Annual Conference to be in Tacoma, Washington, March 27-30, 2014

The Board of Directors of the American Men’s Studies Association has announced that AMSA’s Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities will take place at  the University of Washington – Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, on March 27-30, 2014. This will be AMSA’s first conference in the far western U.S. The Conference theme will be “Considering Culture: [...]

Call for Papers Extended for 2013 Meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

The Call for abstracts of papers for the 2013 Annual Meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality has been extended until April 1, 2013. The Conference with the theme “Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sexuality” will take place in San Diego, November 14-17, 2013. It intends to focus on facilitating discourse between a [...]

Proceedings of Quebec Conference on Policy & Research on Men & Masculinities Available

Men’s Studies Press has just released Future Perspectives for Intervention, Policy and Research on Men and Masculinities: An International Forum, the proceedings of the 2011 Quebec Conference on Men and Masculinities, which is co-edited by Gilles Tremblay and François-Olivier Bernard. “The Masculinities & Society research team is proud to present these proceedings coming out of [...]

Gary Barker to Be Scholar-in-Residence at AMSA XXI, April 4-7, 2013

Gary Barker, PhD, International Director of Promundo, a Brazilian NGO in Rio de Janeiro with offices in Washington, DC, and Rwanda, that works nationally and globally to engage men and boys in gender equality and violence prevention will be the Scholar-in-Residence at the Twenty-First Annual Men and Masculinity Conference of the American Men’s Studies Association, April [...]

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