Programme

Thursday 3rd of November 2022 (GMT+2)

10:30-11:00

Opening of the Conference

Opening words by the Chair of the Organising Committee Dr. Hanna Ojala, Finnish Association for Men’s Studies and Tampere University

Greetings from the Council for Gender Equality (Tane), the Chair Jirka Hakala

11:00-12:00

Keynote 1

Andrea Waling: Understanding Cisgender Heterosexual Men, Sex, and Intimacy: New Theoretical and Empirical Directions

Chair: Dr. Hanna Ojala

12:00-13:00

Break and General Assembly of Nordic Association for Research on Men & Masculinities

As part of the conference the Ordinary General Assembly meeting of NORMAS (Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities). This will be the first General Assembly since the last Nordic Conference on Masculinity Research was held in Örebro in 2017. The agenda for the general assembly is laid out in the Statues for NORMAS (see agenda here [opens in a new tab]). The general assembly will be chaired by Arnar Gislason, Ole Nordfjell and Claus D. Hansen.

13:00-15:00

Thematic Groups I

Theoretical Perspectives on Men and Masculinities Studies I

Incel Culture and Manosphere

(See papers of the groups here)

15:00-15:30

Break and Online Coffee Room

15:30-17:00

Thematic Groups 2

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life I

Politics and Activism

(See papers of the groups here)

17:00-17:15

Break

17:15-18:00

Keynote 2

Henri Hyvönen: Are Caring Masculinities Caring After All? Considering the Potential Gap Between the Concept of Caring Masculinity and the Ascending Public Discourse of “Toxic Masculinity”

Chair: Dr. Hanna Ojala

18:00-19:00

Virtual Get Together

The Virtual Get Together is a place for meeting people informally. We will have six breakout rooms from which the participants can choose. Themes of the rooms are 1) Theory, 2) Future Collaboration, 3) Activism, 4) Knowledge-based Policy-making, 5) Teaching Men Studies, and 6) Reflections from Keynotes of the Day. The rooms are based on self-regulated informal discussion. Participants can move from one room to another as often they want and also leave whenever they want.

Friday 4th of November 2022 (GMT+2)

10:00-11:00

Keynote 3

Kadri Aavik: Contesting Anthropocentric Masculinities through Men’s Veganism

Chair: Dr. Henri Hyvönen

11:00-11:45

Keynote 4

Marja Peltola: Young Masculinities and White Innocence. Multiethnicity in 12–15-year-old White Finnish Boys’ Narratives

Chair: Dr. Henri Hyvönen

11:45-12:45

Break

12:45-15:00

Thematic Groups 3

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life II

Body Politics

Fathers and Fatherhood

Masculinities across Global Contexts

(See papers of the groups here)

15:00-15:15

Break

15:15-17:15

Thematic Groups 4

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life III

Theoretical Perspectives on Men and Masculinities Studies II

Men, Masculinity and Violence

(See papers of the groups here)

17:15-17:30

Thanks, Concluding Remarks and Closing Words

Closing words by the Chair of the Organising Committee Dr. Hanna Ojala, Finnish Association for Men’s Studies and Tampere University