Masculinity and Popular Culture
Postgraduate Conference
Hosted by Film Studies at the University of
Southampton with support from the MeCCSA-PGN and the ADM-HEA.
Saturday 4th March 2011
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
This one-day postgraduate conference provides an
interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate
students and early career researchers to discuss
images of masculinity in popular culture,
including literary fiction, cinema, television,
radio, theatre, and music, and journalism. We
welcome proposals from a range of theoretical
perspectives and encourage submissions from
researchers across the humanities and social sciences.
Submissions of abstracts of 250-300 words for
papers of 20 minutes in length are invited and
participants will be invited to submit their
papers to be considered for publication in the
MeCCSA-PGN journal Networking Knowledge.
Possible topics for papers include, but are by no means limited to:
? Audio-visual or written representations
of masculinity and the male body
? Representations of significant male
figures, historical or fictional, within popular culture
? Masculine archetypes or stereotypes
? The masculine authorial voice within narrative art forms
? Modes and traditions of masculinity
specific to particular ethnic or national groups
Abstracts should be submitted via email to
Victoria Kearley (vlk204 /at/ soton.ac.uk) by 1st January 2011.
Victoria Kearley
Outreach Officer, MeCCSA-PGN
PhD Candidate in Film, University of Southampton
(vlk204 /at/ soton.ac.uk)
http://soton.academia.edu/VictoriaKearley
