Fashioning Masculinity, which we spoke of a few weeks ago, is ready to roll in. The event will take place on Tuesday 16 August 2011, 8h30 to 17h00, at the Medical Research Council in Parow, Cape Town. An interdisciplinary event hosted by UNISA's Institute for Social and Health Sciences in collaboration with the MRC-UNISA Safety and Peace Promoion Research Unit, the event is meant to be a stage to kindle some new and less despairing thinking about masculinities and the way in which manhood is fashioned, created, styled, imagined, challenged, enlarged, reworked - you name it. Another set of thoughts I hope will come through is on traditions: what are the traditions of thinking about and fashioning masculinities. After all, this event is part of the Changing Traditions Project. Regardless, the programme so far is highly promising. Proposed topics include 'what defines men'; 'female masculinities'; 'metrosexuality'; 'Zimbabwean masculinities in exile'; 'black rage and Baldwin, Biko, Malcolm, Mbeki, and Malema'; 'masculinities in the police'; 'masculinities in the army', 'rugby'; 'blindess', 'male-biased architecture'. I'm looking forward to some ideas about men and traditions of masculine self-fashioning, representation and stylization coming through. I think there is still space. If you are around Cape Town, then, make contact either with Kharnita Mohamed kmohamed@mrc.ac.za 021 938-0398 or Candice Rule crule@mrc.ac.za 021-938-0535.
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