Ann McGinley (UNLV) has passed along the details of a program to be held in Las Vegas next weekend. “Multidimensional Masculinities and Law: A Colloquium” is sponsored by UNLV Boyd School of Law and co-sponsored by Suffolk University Law School. The colloquium celebrates a new edited collection, Masculinites and Law: A Multidimensional Approach, edited by Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley. The book will be published by New York University Press in 2011. The Colloquium will also consider the direction of the field of Masculinities and Law.
Here’s the program:
Multidimensional Masculinities and Law: A Colloquium
Friday and Saturday, February 18 and 19, 2011
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday, February 18
9:00 – Continental Breakfast & Coffee
9:15 – Introductions
9:30 – 10:50 – Panel I: Theory I – Multidimensional Masculinities
Moderator: Elizabeth L. MacDowell
Panelists:
Athena D. Mutua: The Multidimensional Turn: Revisiting Progressive Black Masculinities
Juliet Williams: The Theory and Practice of Multiple Masculinities
Frank Rudy Cooper: The King Stay the King: Multidimensional Masculinities and Capitalism in The Wire
10: 50 – 11:10- Break and Refreshments
11:10- 12:30 – Panel II: Theory II – Feminism, Masculinities and Shifting Lenses
Moderator: Sylvia Lazos
Panelists:
Nancy E. Dowd,
Nancy Levit, and
Ann C. McGinley: Feminist Legal Theory Meets Masculinities Theory
12:30 – 2:00 – Lunch – Keynote Speakers— Devon W. Carbado and Russell K. Robinson, UCLA School of Law
2:10-3:30 Panel III: Masculinities, Work and Families: Empirical Observations
Moderator: Ann Cammett
Panelists:
Joan C. Williams: Caring in Secret
Beth Burkstrand-Reid: Masculinities and “Mr. Mom”
Leticia M. Saucedo: Border-Crossing Stories and Masculinities
3:30-3:45 – Break & Refreshments
3:50-5:10 – Panel IV: Masculinities and Legal Constructs
Moderator: Fatma Marouf
Panelists:
Kim Buchanan: E-race-ing Gender: The Racial Construction of Prison Rape
Dina Francesca Haynes, Masculinities and Child Soldiers in Post-Conflict Societies
Zachary Kramer: Of Meat and Manhood
6:30 – Dinner – sponsored by Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA (participants and invited guests only)
Saturday, February 19
9:00 – Continental Breakfast & Coffee
9:15 – Announcements
9:30 – 10:50- Panel V: Masculinities and Institutions
Moderator: Elaine Shoben
Panelists:
Joan W. Howarth: Masculinities and Institutional Strength
Deborah L. Brake: Sport and Masculinity: The Promise and Limits of Title IX
Jamie R. Abrams: Enlisting the Nineteenth Amendment as a Weapon for Political Equality
10:50-11:10 – Break & Refreshments
11:15- 12:35 – Panel VI: Masculinities and Relationships
Moderator: Terrill Pollman
Panelists:
Sam Jones: The Invisible Man: The Neglect of Men and Boys in the Publicity and Prosecutions Regarding Human Trafficking
Dwight Fee, Democratizing Masculinity?: Towards a Relational Ethic Among Men
Reginald L. Robinson: Dark Secrets II: Masculinity, Down-Low Phenomenon and the Myth of Mother-Son Love
12:45-2:15- Lunch – A Conversation— Developing the Discipline of Masculinities and Law: Where Do We Go from Here? – Library Reserve Room
Discussion Leaders: Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley
2:20- 3:40- Panel VII: International and Comparative Perspectives of Masculinities
Moderator: Rachel J. Anderson
Panelists:
Camille A. Nelson: Sexuality without Borders: Exploring the Paradoxical Connection between Dancehall and Colonial Law in Jamaica
Valorie K. Vojdik: Masculinities, Feminism and the Turkish Headscarf Ban: Sahin Revisted
Barbara Pozzo: Masculinities Italian Style
3:50- 5:00 – Dessert Reception – Reserve Room of the Wiener-Rogers Law Library, UNLV
There will be a book display in the Wiener Rogers Law Library on Saturday, February 19.
Looks like a great line-up!
-Bridget Crawford
