PROGRAMME

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009
(Rektorat, Festsaal)

16:00    Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literary Studies, and Cultural Studies
Brigitte Georgi-Findlay

16:15    Opening of the Conference
Stefan Horlacher


16:45    KEYNOTE LECTURE
"Men and Masculinities: An Introduction to Masculinity Studies"
Harry Brod (Northern Iowa)

17:45    Reception

20:00    Conference Dinner

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Thursday, 18 June 2009
(SLUB, Vortragssaal)

10:00    KEYNOTE LECTURE
"Masculinity and the Law"
Richard Collier (Newcastle)

11:00    "Masculinity Studies and Queer Studies"
Kevin Floyd (Kent State)

11:45    Break (SLUB Foyer)


12:00    "Robin, Gamelyn and Medieval Masculine Escapism"
Andrew James Johnston (FU Berlin)

12:45    Lunch (Mensa)

14:15    "Violence and Masculinity in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur"
Christoph Houswitschka (Bamberg)

15:00    "Masculinities in Early Modern England: John Donne and John Milton"
Thomas Kühn (Dresden)

15:45    Break (SLUB Foyer)

16:00   "Images of Masculinity in Texts of Early Modern Women: Cavendish, Fanshawe and
              Bradstreet"
Gabriele Rippl (Berne)

16:45    "Augustan Manliness and Its Anxieties: Shaftesbury and Swift"
Isabel Karremann (Munich)

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Friday, 19 June 2009
(SLUB, Vortragssaal)

10:00    "The Male Gaze vs. Sexual Ventriloquism: Masculinities in Daniel Defoe's Novels"
Laurenz Volkmann (Jena)

10:45    "Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mac-kenzie's The Man of Feeling (1771)"
Rainer Emig (Hannover)

11:30    Break (SLUB Foyer)

11:45    "Concepts of Masculinity in Victorian Crime, Detective and Gothic Fiction"
Ralf Schneider (Bielefeld)

12:30    Lunch (Mensa)

14:00    "The Props of Masculinity in Victorian Adventure Fiction"
Susanne Scholz and Nicola Dropmann (Frankfurt/Main)


14:45    "'A Man Could Stand Up': Masculinities and the Great War"
Silvia Mergenthal (Constance)

15:30    Break (SLUB Foyer)

15:45    "Conceptions of 'Fluid' Masculinities in John Cowper-Powys"
Claudia Lainka (Mannheim)

16:30     "From Working Class Loser Boy to Male Role Model: The Rise of the Angry Young Man"
Sebastian Müller (Mannheim)

20:00    Dinner

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Saturday, 20 June 2009
(SLUB, Vortragssaal)

10:00    "The Crisis of Masculinity in the Fiction of Nick Hornby, John O‘Farrell and Tim Lott"
Andrea Ochsner (Basel)

10:45    "Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Gay Men and Romance in Novels by E.M. Forster, Tom
              Wakefield and Alan Hollinghurst"
Berthold Schoene (Manchester)

11:30    Break (SLUB Foyer)

11:45    "'Filiarchy' and the Male Principle in the Work of Ian McEwan"
Fatemeh Hosseini (Dresden)

12:30    Concluding Roundtable

13:30    Farewell Lunch (SLUB Foyer)

15:00    Stroll Through Dresden City Centre