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
- Late Soviet “Playboy?” Masculinity and Sexuality in 1990 “Intim” Magazine, Ella Rossman – PhD candidate at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
- 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
- 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
- Queer cinematic Gypsy? Roma men in ‘Brothers of the Night’. Izabella Wódzka, final-year PhD student in Film Studies, University College London
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Military service and masculinity in Russia, Elena Racheva, Post-doctoral Researcher, ERC Project CrimGov, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
- Russian Masculinities and Empire, Marina Yusupova, Napier University
- Russian militarized masculinity through the lens of feminisms, Galina Miazhevich, FEMCORUS project, Cardiff University
- “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
- From Feelings to Emotions: Transformation of Discourses on Male Depression under Capitalism. Glukhova Maria, 3rd year PhD student, European University at Saint Petersburg
- Man, Woman, Family and State. Reimagining the Political in the Post-Socialist Slovakia, Matej Ivančík, PhD., Comenius University in Bratislava
- 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