Thursday, 8 October 2020, 9:15 am – 4:30 pm (all times are Central European Time)
9:15 – 9:30 am Welcome & Introduction
9:30 – 10:45 am The History of Masculinities 1
Jürgen Martschukat (University of Erfurt): The Politics of Masculinity and Whiteness in Recent American History
Comment: Claudia Opitz-Belakhal (University of Basel)
11:15 am – 12:30 pm The History of Masculinities 2
Erica L. Fraser (Carleton University): Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union
Comment: Carmen Scheide (University of Bern)
2:00 – 2:30 pm Film discussion
The Prefab People (Panelkapcsolat), Béla Tarr (Hungary, 1982). Introduced by György Kalmár (University of Debrecen)
3:00 – 4:30 pm Family and Medicine
Chair: Brigitte Studer (University of Bern)
Natalia Jarska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): Women’s Work and Men. From Breadwinning to Consumption and Emancipation
Amanda Williams (University of Leeds): « The Influence of the Husband »: Men’s Roles in Reproductive Politics in Soviet Russia, 1936–1968
Friday, 9 October 2020, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
9:30 – 11:00 am Military Masculinities
Chair: Régis Schlagdenhauffen (EHESS, Paris)
Magali Delaloye (University of Basel): Heal and Serve. Performing Soviet Military Masculinity during the Afghan War (1979–1989)
Wojciech Śmieja (University of Silesia, Katowice): Memoirs of Disabled Veterans. Communist Poland and the (Re-)Construction of Crippled Bodies
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Youth, Love, and Sexuality
Chair: Alexandra Oberländer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Brendan M. McElmeel (University of Washington, Seattle): Don Juan and Comrade Ivan: Love and Masculinity in the Soviet Urals, 1953–1964
2:00 – 3:30 pm Coloniality and Violence
Chair: Julia Richers (University of Bern)
Cristina Diac (University of Bucharest): Behind the Close Doors. The Private Life of the Petty-Activists of the Romanian Communist Party, 1945–1960
Marina Yusupova (Newcastle University): Coloniality of Gender and Masculinity: Rethinking Contemporary Russian Masculinities in Light of Post- and Decolonial Critique
4:00 – 4:30 pm Final discussion
Concluding remarks by Ivan Simić (Charles University,
Prague)