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Home → Blog → CALL FOR PROPOSALS for Upcoming Men and Masculinities Conference

Conference Call for The Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities

Posted by Tara Fannon 41pc on August 25, 2014

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On March 6-8, 2015, the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (CSMM) will host the International Conference on Masculinities: Engaging Men and Boys for Gender Equality, in New York City. The Conference is timed to immediately precede the meeting of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations. Twenty years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the CSW will hold its annual two-week meeting, March 9-27, 2015, in New York. Thousands of participants from UN agencies, NGOs and national governments will discuss the progress made towards greater gender equality over the past two decades.

Those twenty years have also witnessed unprecedented efforts to engage men around gender equality. The CSMM conference aims to bring together more than 500 activists, practitioners, and academic researchers from around the world who are working to engage men and boys in fulfilling the Platform for Action adopted by the CSW in Beijing. It will review the success of programs to engage men and boys, share research-in- progress, discuss new and possible policy initiatives, and chart research needs for the future.

The Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities was established at Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 2013. The Center is dedicated to interdisciplinary research on boys, men, masculinities and gender. Its mission is to bring together researchers with practitioners and activists to develop and enhance social reform projects focusing on boys and men.

For this conference, CSMM has partnered with the American Men's Studies Association, and the MenEngage Network to build opportunities for dialogue, critique and inspiration across three days of presentations, panels, workshops, and trainings. The twin goals of the conference are: (1) To infuse men's activism in support of gender justice with the rigor and insights of the most up-to-date research; (2) to increase cooperation and ties between academic researchers who address various gender issues, and feminist activists, practitioners, and advocates.

CSMM invites all those committed to engaging boys and men in these global efforts to promote gender equal- ity to share their ideas, programs, projects, and research.

Some basic themes of the conference will include: boys' healthy development and education; involved fatherhood;
balancing work and family life; men's friendships; promoting men's health, reducing health risks and HIV, and supporting women's reproductive health and rights; joining the global struggle against men's violence against women, sexual assault, trafficking, and harmful traditional practices; engaging men in policies to promote gender equality in education, employment, social life, and the political arena.

Some specific issues might include: transforming fatherhood; working with boys and young men; challenges of reaching men in post-conflict settings; preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS; men and aging, disability, impairment, and illness; diverse masculinities; multicultural coalition building; challenging homophobia; un- derstanding and preventing gang-rapes and mass-murders by boys and men; engaging religious authorities; boys' education; challenging bullying, harassment, and domestic abuse; working with abusive & violent men; men and child-custody issues; campus programs for preventing sexual violence; men in prisons; men and the military; men and prostitution; gender-linked alcohol and drug abuse; depression and suicide, and other topics.

Presentations can cover research, policy, interventions, and activist work. Presentation formats may include: 3 -5 person panels, short one-person talks (with Q-&-A), workshops, films, art, poster presentations, informal roundtable discussions, music, and performances. We will accept formal academic papers but at the conference we will ask that presenters not read papers but to be more informal and interactive, within the context of language possibilities. The premium at each session will be on discussion.

The working language will be English. Sessions completely in Spanish, French, Arabic, and Chinese may be accepted but the conference unfortunately cannot provide the resources for translation.

Conference costs will be kept low to enable widespread participation, and some limited financial support may be available to those in need, especially from the Global South.

Proposals may be submitted online at: http://www.jotform.us/AMSA/CSMM_2015 and any questions about the proposal process may be directed to [email protected]. The deadline for proposal submission is October 31st, 2014.

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Doug Lefelhocz commented 2014-09-18 20:22:09 +0100
@derek Hilton The conference is getting put on by the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (CSMM). Have a look at their board of directors: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/csmm/board.html
Derek Hilton commented 2014-09-17 22:42:47 +0100
You seem to be against men and boys with this institutionalised stereotyping. It would seem that you would be better off joining a feminist movement rather than engaging in men`s and boys rights with this guff!
Doug Lefelhocz commented 2014-09-17 21:50:27 +0100
Women’s reproductive rights include abortion rights as well as opting out of parenthood via adoption. In other words, women’s reproductive rights includes the right to legal parental surrender. There isn’t anything about men’s rights to legal parental surrender implied here. Would a proposal concerning that issue get accepted for this conference? I will note that with respect to men’s right to legal parental surrender now deceased once President of the National Organization for Women Karen DeCrow did believe in this right…

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/06/nyregion/paternity-suit-focuses-on-feminism-and-freedom.html

Would any proposal for a presentation talking about female perpetrators of rape get accepted? Both the 2010 and the 2011 NISVS, as well as earlier, smaller studies, shows that they exist in surprising numbers. I will recommend Tamen’s blog http://tamenwrote.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/nisvs-2011-released-increased-male-victimization-and-rape-is-still-not-rape/ and the Toy Soldiers blog for further reading on this topic, as well as Phillip Cook and Tammy Hodo’s When Women Sexually Abuse Men: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0313397295/ref=asc_df_03133972953181412?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=pg-1583-86-20&linkCode=df0&creative=395097&creativeASIN=0313397295

I agree that men are statistically more likely to come as the perpetrators of violence (though not aggression). That said, they are also statistically more likely to come as the victims of violence (this is an understatement). Would this conference accept any proposal for a talk that pointed this out?

Would a proposal for talking about DNA paternity testing, or paternity fraud get accepted for this conference?

Would a proposal for talking about how women now work in male prisons, and how some of those women rape their male prisoners get accepted for this conference?

Since gender equality in education might get discussed, would a proposal talking about what men as minorities as students in academia implies get accepted? Would a proposal even hinting at a question like the following http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/25949/what-books-biographies-or-survival-guides-are-helpful-for-men-in-education-in get accepted at this conference?
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