Call
Goes Out For Papers
for AMSA's 17th Annual Conference
on Men and Masculinities,
April 3-5, 2009
The American Men's Studies Association invites
papers, panels, and undergraduate and general roundtable discussions
for AMSA's 17th Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities scheduled
for April 3-5, 2009 in Montreal. The conference theme
is "Beyond Borders: Masculinities and Margins." Presentations
should reflect on the construction, reconstruction, and effects of
borders of all types as well as the men and the practices of masculinities
that fashion, feel, respond to, and seek to cross from the margins
over these divides. Other academic papers on masculinities are
also welcome. Submissions are due by November 21, 2008.
Events
will be held at
McGill and Concordia Universities.
The Complete Call for Papers
The conference will
feature keynote addresses, pre-conference men’s studies workshops,
and presentations by over 50 scholars, practitioners and activists.
AMSA’s annual conference continues to be the largest annual men's
studies conference in the United States, drawing an international group
of participants 
representing
a broad range of academic disciplines and interests. An open
and affirming event featuring scholarship and respectful dialogue on
the critical study of men and masculinities, anyone with an interest
in this emerging field of study is welcome to participate.
More Conference Details Will Be Available Soon.
AMSA Awards Its 2008 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Chien-Chen Kung
The American Men's Studies Association presented the 2008 Loren Frankel Scholarship to Chien-Chen Kung at the annual banquet of its 2008 Annual Conference at Wake Forest University on April 4th. Kung is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Department at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. He is in the Social and Philosophical Foundations Program with a concentration in the Sociology of Education.
The Frankel Scholarship is awarded to the student submitting the most promising paper for presentation at the annual conference. Chien-Chen Kung's paper was titled: "Masculinities and leisure: The middle age men's car culture of American white working class."
Kung grew up in a fishing family in a rural town in Taiwan and has been a certificated art teacher for two years (1996; 1999) in an elementary school of a working-class area of Taipei County, Taiwan.
AMSA is committed to supporting new scholars and students, and limited scholarship money is available for full-time students through The Loren Frankel Scholarship Fund.
AMSA
Holds its 16th Annual Conference
Masculinities and Institutions:
Mapping the Connections
At Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
April 4th-6th, 2008
Ninety-seven scholars and practitioners participated in the 2008 AMSA Conference on Men and Masculinities, Masculinities and Institutions: Mapping the Connections, April 4th through 6th at Wake Forest University. The conference featured two keynote addresses, pre-conference men’s studies workshops, and presentations by over 50 scholars, practitioners and activists. AMSA’s conference continues to be the largest annual men's studies conference in the United States, drawing an international group of participants representing a broad range of academic disciplines and interests. An open and affirming event featuring scholarship and respectful dialogue on the critical study of men and masculinities, anyone with an interest in this emerging field of study is welcome to participate.
More on this and past conferences
AMSA Conference 2008 in Photos
-- as they are submitted
The
American Men's Studies Association On Wikipedia
Thanks to the work of AMSA Board Member Richard Pitt, the American Men's Studies Association is now referenced by an article on the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
AMSA Announces The Men's Studies Syllabus Project
As part of its goal to promote
the academic study and teaching of men and masculinities, AMSA is making
available syllabi used in Men's 
Studies
Courses for download. Access the
current available syllabi.
What's New in the Latest Issue of
The Journal of Men's Studies?
Check out the Contents of Volume 16, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) .
An Official Journal of the American Men's Studies Association