Programme

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

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

Chair: Dr. Hanna Ojala

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.

Theoretical Perspectives on Men and Masculinities Studies I

Incel Culture and Manosphere

(See papers of the groups here)

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life I

Politics and Activism

(See papers of the groups here)

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

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.

Kadri Aavik: Contesting Anthropocentric Masculinities through Men’s Veganism

Chair: Dr. Henri Hyvönen

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

Chair: Dr. Henri Hyvönen

Men, Masculinities, and the Working Life II

Body Politics

Fathers and Fatherhood

Masculinities across Global Contexts

(See papers of the groups here)

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)

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