9.30 Welcome Prof. Andreas Gestrich (GHI London) & Dr. Maria Fritsche (University of Southampton)

9.45 Keynote Prof. Michael Roper (University of Essex)

10.10 – 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30 – 12.00 Session 1 – Chair Prof. Neil Gregor (University of Southampton)

- Chris Dillon (Birkbeck College) ‘Toughness against oneself’. The construction of masculinity in the Dachau concentration camp SS

- Joan Tumblety (University of Southampton)
Physical culture and the problem of masculinity in France , 1918-1940

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 Session 2 – Chair Dr. Yohai Hakak (University of Portsmouth)

- Maria Fritsche (University of Southampton)
What power do masculine ideals have? Using oral history interviews to analyse masculine identities of deserters in the Wehrmacht.

- Kim Wünschmann (Birkbeck College)
Issues of masculinity among Jewish concentration camps prisoners in the aftermath of the November pogrom 1938

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee Break

15.00 – 16.00 Session 3 – Chair Dr. Sean Brady (Birkbeck College)

- Neil Penlington (Birkbeck College)
Queering normality: masculinity and ‘normal’ sexuality in interwar Britain

16.00 – 17.00 Concluding Discussion