Men and Masculinities in a Globalized World

Men and Masculinities in a Globalized World:

Hegemonic Masculinity – a Contested Concept

FREIA invites to an open research seminar

Wednesday 15/5 2014 FROM 13.00 – 17.00,

Kroghstræde 3, room 3.115, Aalborg University

13.00: Welcome by Diana Højlund Madsen, Assistant Professor and Lotte Bloksgaard, Associate Professor, both from FREIA.

13.10: Professor Jane Parpart, Institute of Political Economy, Ottawa, Canada and Honorary Professor at Aalborg University: ‘Soldiering On: Pushing militarized masculinities into new territory’.

Discussant: Diana Højlund Madsen, Assistant Professor, AAU

14.00: Professor Ann-Dorte Christensen, AAU & Associate Professor Sune Qvotrup Jensen, AAU: ‘Combining Hegemonic Masculinity and Intersectionality’.

Discussant: Birte Siim, Professor, AAU

14.50 Break: Coffee, tea, cake and fruit

15:05: Post.Doc Bjarke Oxlund, Copenhagen University: ‘Situated Masculinity: Challenges to the Concept of Hegemonic Masculinity from a Study of Love in Limpopo, South Africa’.

Discussant: Jane Parpart

15:55 Associate Professor Lotte Bloksgaard, FREIA, Aalborg University: ‘Changing Masculinity Ideals in a Danish Context?’.

Discussant: Bjarke Oxlund

16:45: Closing of seminar