Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

2:00 – 2:30 pm Opening Remarks

Isabel Heinemann (Uni Münster): Men and Masculinities in the 20th Century U.S. American Family

2:30 – 6:00 pm
Panel I: Youth and Masculinity

Michael Kimmel (Stony Brook University): Bros, Homes, Dudes -- or Just Guys? Mapping Young American Masculinities

Nina Mackert (Uni Erfurt): Of „Johnny Reb“ and „Violent Vandals“ – Juvenile Delinquency, Interdependent Masculinity and the Government of Families

Comment: Catherine E. Rymph (University of Missouri)

7:00 pm Dinner

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

9:00 – 12:30 am
Panel II: Masculinity and Ethnicity

Simon Wendt (Uni Frankfurt): Nationalist Women, the American Family, and the Perpetuation of Hegemonic Masculinity in the 20th Century: The Daughters of the American Revolution as a Case Study

Jürgen Martschukat (Uni Erfurt): „You can be a man if you can, Stan”: Families, Fathers, and the Black Community after the Civil Rights Movement

Comment: Michael Kimmel (Stony Brook University)

12:30 am – 2:00 pm: Lunch

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 afternoon

2:00 – 6:00 pm
Panel III: Social Experts on Fatherhood and Masculinity

Catherine E. Rymph (University of Missouri): Absent Fathers, Substitute Fathers: Understandings of Fatherhood in the Post-War U.S. Foster Care System

Tracy Penny Light (Waterloo University Ontario): “Healthy Men make Good Fathers: Masculine Health and the Family in 20th Century America”

Claudia Roesch (Uni Münster): The Social Experts' View on Machismo

Comment: Jürgen Martschukat (Uni Erfurt)

7:00 pm: Dinner

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel IV: Fatherhood in Popular Culture
Uta Fenske (Uni Siegen): "Men or Mice" - Fatherhood and Hollywood in the 1950s.

Andre Dechert (Uni Münster): Cultures of Fatherhood between Tradition and Change: US-American Movies and TV Series in the 1980s

Comment: Olaf Stieglitz (Uni Erfurt)

11:00 – 12:30 am: Final Discussion

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch