FRIDAY, AUGUST 5
9:30-10:00 Coffee/Refreshments
10:00-10:30 Welcome
Kevin Floyd
Kent State University
Timothy S. Moerland
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Kent State University
10:30-12:15 Handle With Care
Seth Friedman (DePauw University)
Constructing the Perfect Cover: Gender Performance and Narrative Agency in the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film
Kerry Luckett (Purdue University-Calumet)
“In Just Seven Days”: The Frankenstein Image in Zombie and The Silence of the Lambs and the Making of Queer Identity through the Male Body
Merri Lisa Johnson (University of South Carolina-Upstate)
The Other Protest Psychosis: Borderline Personality Disorder and Black Masculinity in Mainstream U.S. Hip Hop
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:30 Scripting Manliness
Erik Pietschmann (University of Tubingen, Germany)
Violence as a Male Narrative: Confessional First-Person Narratives of Generation X
Raili Marling (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Working Bodies, Dislocated Identities: Contesting Hegemonic Masculinities in American and British Film
Keisha Lindsay (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Neoliberalism, Feminism, and Ethnic Authenticity in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Black Men’s Crisis Narratives
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00- 5:15 Gendered Inversions
Nadyne Stritzke (Justus-Liebig-University, Germany)
"The Manly Art of Pregnancy": Male Pregnancy as a Narrative, Socio-Cultural, and Subversive Phenomenon
Mirjam M. Frotscher (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
Gaining Visibility/Undoing Maleness: Non-Normative Masculinities since the 1990s
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6
9:30-10:00 Coffee/Refreshments
10:00-11:45 Pater Familias
Sonja Schillings (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Hypermasculine Fatherhood and the Public-Private Divide: Absent Fathers and Outlaw Dynasties in Pirates of the Caribbean
Natalia Georgieva (Kent State University)
Fatherhood and Fight Club
Daniel Lukes (New York University)
The Omega Male: Fatherhood in Contemporary British and U.S. Fiction
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-3:00 Drama Queens
Wieland Schwanebeck (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
The Ripley Renaissance: Confident Masculinities for the New Millennium
Charity Fox (University of Baltimore)
At Home in the Battlefield: Mercenaries and Paramilitary Patriotism in The A-Team, 1983-87
E. Anna Claydon (University of Leicester, UK)
Masculinity and the Crime Drama in Britain and the U.S.: The Transnationality of the Detective and His Nemesis
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:15 Manning the Nation
Davinia Thornley (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Out of the Blue: A Case of “National Genre Confusion”?
Ed Madden (University of South Carolina-Columbia)
Intimacy, Affect, and Masculinity in Ireland, 1998-2001
Shirin Saeidi (Cambridge University, UK) Gendering an Islamic Republic: U.S. Depictions of Iranian Masculinities since 1979
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7
9:30-10:00 Coffee/Refreshments
10:00-11:45 Transnational/Transactional
Leigh Clare La Berge (University of Chicago)
Financial Masculinity and Financial Knowledge
Deborah Cohen (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Sex and Betrayal: The Long Arm of Patriarchy in a Transnational U.S.-Mexican Social World
William Whalen (University at Albany-SUNY)
Beyond Gender: Praxis, (Post) Marxist Aesthetics, and Tarantino’s Death Proof
11:45-1:00 Concluding Roundtable