9am - 4:30pm GMT
Friday 22 March 2024
Journeys of Masculinity: Bodies, Identities, Wellbeing and the Life Course
This online symposium explores men’s pathways through different phases of the life course and, particularly, their negotiation of transitions and challenges with respect to bodies, responsibilities, relationships and wellbeing.
The event is organised by the BA/Leverhulme Journeys of Hair Loss project, based at the University of Surrey, and the project’s findings will feature as part of the programme.
The symposium places the project’s work within a broader set of discussions about research, thinking and practice relating to masculinities and men’s negotiation of issues and challenges they may face through different stages of the life course.
View full event programme, including all abstracts (or see below for programme in brief)
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Programme in Brief
(full pdf programme, with abstracts, is here)
| 9.15 - 9.25 | Welcome |
| 9.25-10.25 | CARE & CARING (Chair: Ranjana Das) Trajectories of Care: Tracing the social genesis of men’s participation in low paid care work Steven Roberts & Riikka Prattes
Young fathers as caregivers: hegemonic masculinity versus caring masculinities Chloë Cottrell
Help-seeking as relationship-saving: opposing perspectives within the intimate relationship when fathers suffer from postnatal depression Caroline Davenport |
| 10.30-11.30 | GETTING OLDER (Chair: Rob Meadows) Later-life masculinities: (re)forming the gendered lives of older men Gareth M. Thomas & Thomas Thurnell-Read
“I think you hit a realisation that if you try to fix everything yourself, you’re not going to": The impact of biographical disruptions on men's emotional practices in later life. Brittany Ralph
Fragility in Resilience of Ageing Men Iva Šmídová, Světlana Nedvědová & Daniea Rendl |
| 11.35-12.35 | JOURNEYS OF HAIR LOSS FINAL REPORT: DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDINGS, RESPONSES AND IDENTITIES Paul Hodkinson & Matt Hall |
| 12.40-13.00 | INTERVENTIONS Future Men - Messages from practice supporting marginalised boys and men Owen Thomas (Head of Programmes, Future Men) |
| 13.30-15.10 | BODY IMAGE Constructed (Un)Masculine: The Bald Hero in Bollywood Priyam Sinha
‘Am I good-looking enough?’: Masculinity performances in a looksmaxing community Matteo Botto & Lucas Gottzén
Making the Male Body: The Construction of Digital Masculinities in the Emerging Landscape of Self-improvement Culture Jwana Aziz
Global South Perspectives on Young Men’s Bodies, Anxieties and Identities Shannon Philip
How evidence-based information may help rebut men’s baldness’ pathologization Glen Jankowski, Dirk Kranz & Josip Razum
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| 15.15-16.15 | SUPPORT & SUPPORT SEEKING (Chair: Richard Green) Mental health, masculinities, and ageing: Supporting older men through community support groups Alex Vickery
‘The scales fell from my eyes’: responsibility, wellbeing and politicisation on men’s support-seeking journeys Tom Chadwick
Issues in Support Seeking: Emotional Management and Masculinity during the Organ Donation Process Stephanie Parsons |
