Conferences 

Immer BeweGENDER. Tranformationen (in) der Geschlechterforschung, 22./23.06.2012

International Conference
Bodies–Systems–
Structures
Masculinities in the UK and the US, 1945 to the Present 13 to 15 June 2012
SLUB, Vortragssaal
Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher (Dresden)
Prof. Kevin Floyd (Kent)

This international conference, the last of a
series of three funded by the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation and Kent State University,
will encourage scholarly movement in a direction
that both builds on recent work in the
field of Masculinity Studies and moves past it,
towards more comparative kinds of analysis. It
intends to explore the relations between different
abstract and corporeal, metaphorical and
metonymical manifestations of masculinity as
well as masculinity as an idea or a concept that
operates across, or at least in relation to, a distance/
difference that may or may not be bridgeable:
between the systemic and the corporeal,
the abstract and the concrete. Therefore, the
conference focuses on theoretical, cultural or
literary analyses of masculinities in the US and/
or the UK since World War II – a period in which
differentiated masculinities have proliferated
for specifically national and transnational reasons,
including global waves of decolonization,
changing patterns of migration, the emergence
of 'new' subaltern subjects demanding social,
cultural, and political recognition, as well as
conservative reactions against these developments.