With apologies for cross posting.
Call for
Papers
Men at
War: Masculinities, Identities, Cultures
2-day
International Conference, 10-11 September 2009,
GWACS
– Group for War and Culture Studies and JWCS - Journal of War and Culture
Studies
In
association with
GENCAS
– (Gender and Society)
MEICAM
– (Conflict and Memory)
The Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS) will hold this
year’s annual conference in association with research centres GENCAS (Gender
and Society) and MEICAM (Conflict and Memory) based at
Plenary
Speaker:
Graham
Dawson (
"Masculinity,
State Violence, and the Political Psychology of Military Extirpation:
Reflections of the Israeli Assault on
Themes of papers might include:
War Propaganda and Masculine
Identities Men’s Testimony
Soldiers or Warriors? Mythical Men at
War Military Masculinities in Visual Cultures
Conflict and Emasculation Disability
and Masculine Identities
Cultures of Homosexuality/Homosociality Fictional
Representations of Men at War
The ‘Language’ of Men at
War Terrorism and Masculine Identities
Please submit abstracts (100 words) to Helena Scott ([log in to unmask]) by March 1 2009.
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a themed
issue of the refereed Journal of War and
Culture Studies. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17526272
The conference will be held at the
http://www.wales.ac.uk/defaultpage.asp?page=e3000
Dr Brigid Haines
GB-SA2 8PP
Director, GENCAS (Centre for Research into Gender in Culture
and Society)
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/staff/haines.htm
01792 205678