Events

Masculinity and Postsocialism

Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CEEES)

Event location: Room 4121, Murray Building (58), Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Friday 8 September 2023, 08:45-18:00 and on Zoom

Registration for in-person or online attendance

Call for papers here

Full programme

8:45-9:00 – Welcome and Introduction

9:00-10:30 – Dominant and subversive masculinities in the late socialist period

  1. Late Soviet “Playboy?” Masculinity and Sexuality in 1990 “Intim” Magazine, Ella Rossman – PhD candidate at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.  
  2. Viktor Tsoi and the new masculinities of perestroika. Caroline Ridler, PhD Candidate, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham
  3. The Transgressive Masculinity of Jerzy Nasierowski. Jack J. B. Hutchens, PhD, Fulbright Fellow, Wydział Anglistyki, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland

10:30-10:50 – Coffee 

10:50-12:40 – Queer, bi and trans masculinities after socialism

  1. Queer cinematic Gypsy? Roma men in ‘Brothers of the Night’. Izabella Wódzka, final-year PhD student in Film Studies, University College London 
  2. Alternative Masculinities and the Self-Fashioning of Transgender Men in Russia: From Escapism to Activism through Subculture (1990s-2022). Anna Eroshenko, Research fellow (Poletayev institute), Activist (T-Action)
  3. Bisexual Masculinities: The Gendered Construction of Male Bisexuality in Russia’s Gay Press of the 1990s and Early 2000s. Charlotte Dowling, DPhil Student • Dept. of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford
  4. Fatherhood under homophobia: experiences of queer fathers in Russia. Olga Doletskaya, PhD student, UCL-SSEES

12:40-1:40 – Lunch

1:40-3:30 – Military masculinity and neoimperialism

  1. Military service and masculinity in Russia, Elena Racheva, Post-doctoral Researcher, ERC Project CrimGov, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
  2. Russian Masculinities and Empire, Marina Yusupova, Napier University
  3. Russian militarized masculinity through the lens of feminisms, Galina Miazhevich, FEMCORUS project, Cardiff University
  4. “I feel at home here”: Masculinity, hostility, and belonging among Russians in Tbilisi. Talia Kollek, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

3:30-3:50 – Coffee 

3:50-5:20 – Masculinity and neoliberalism: re-making men for new economies

  1. From Feelings to Emotions: Transformation of Discourses on Male Depression under Capitalism. Glukhova Maria, 3rd year PhD student, European University at Saint Petersburg
  2. Man, Woman, Family and State. Reimagining the Political in the Post-Socialist Slovakia, Matej Ivančík, PhD., Comenius University in Bratislava
  3. Chopping carrots and becoming a ‘real’ man: Producing domestic masculinities through household work among Uzbek boys in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Yang Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate (Anthropology), University of Queensland

5:20-5:40 – Concluding thoughts: an agenda for the study of masculinities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

6:00 – Dinner