Call for Papers - Foundation for Male Studies Conference

Proposals for papers are being accepted on any aspect of male studies, including the deep biology of the male, anthropological perspectives on the experience of being male, psychoanalytic study of boys and older males, history of the male, literacy and boyhood, boys' and men's well-being, depiction of males in literature and the media, males in a changing economy, global perspectives on the experience of being male, themes in the sociology of being male, public policy and health care explicitly devoted to boys and older males, the male experience in higher education.

Papers are welcomed from non-Anglophone countries. Papers are welcomed from Independent Scholars. This is not a gender studies conference. It is not a men's studies conference in the generally accepted sense. This is the more detail-oriented email that went out to friends of male studies (thanks to Durwin Foster for forwarding this to me). Wagner College will host the first annual Conference on Male Studies, on Friday and Saturday, October 1-2, 2010. Six themes representing several disciplines will be addressed by panels and individual presenters:

▪ The deep biology of the experience of being male (genetics, biology, psychoneuroendocrinology, paleoanthropology);

▪ Literacy and education of boys and college males (pedagogy, sociology);

▪ Socioeconomic factors leading to males' over-involvement in the criminal justice system, underemployment and limited opportunities as fathers, resulting from changes in child custody law (economics, forensics, law, public policy);

▪ Misandric representations of boys and mature males in the media and advertising (media studies including cinema, television and internet, and advertising);

▪ Accounts of the experience of being male (history, literature, autobiography);

▪ Pressing issues related to the emotional well-being of boys and older males, most notably depression and suicide (clinical psychology, medicine and psychiatry, social work).

Proceedings of the conference will be published in the first issue of a new journal, Male Studies, in 2011. Please submit your proposal as a (1) single authored paper, (2) panel (naming colleagues who would be willing to participate with you), or (3) a workshop. The two-day conference will be interdisciplinary and international in scope. In your proposal, indicate the specific discipline(s) your proposal represents. Include current contact information.

As a reminder, as mentioned on the Call for Papers, please send your documents to mgroth@wagner.edu. Also, please forward this message to other scholars with whom you work or have worked. Proposals will be accepted until August 31.

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