More info: Symposium on Male Studies at Wagner College, NY (USA)‏

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A gathering of academicians drawn from a range of disciplines will meet on April 7, 2010, at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, to examine the declining state of the male, stemming from cataclysmic changes in today’s culture, environment and global economy. The live teleconferenced colloquium will be co-chaired by Judith Kleinfeld, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Boys Project at the University of Alaska, and Lionel Tiger, PhD, Rutgers University Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology. It will encompass a broad range of topics relevant to the study of boys and men in contemporary society ranging from their roles in the family and workforce, as well as their physical and emotional health, to the growing problem of misandry—the hatred of males, an unacknowledged but underlying socio-cultural, economic, political and legal phenomenon endangering the well-being of both genders.

The goal of the April colloquium is to consider the nature and structure of male studies programs designed for institutions of higher education. It follows on the current experience of the On Step Institute (OSI), which supports graduate fellowships at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development. It will seek to generate a cross-disciplinary community of scholars in male studies and establish a series of networks enabling scholars to become acquainted with each other’s work. The Chair of OSI, Edward Stephens, MD, who has organized the consortium, finds that while a handful of schools now sporadically offer courses dealing with males in traditionally unrelated departments – for example, literature, history, anthropology, psychology and sociology – the courses are unequal to providing effective insight into the immense problems confronting males in the 21st century which requires an integrated approach incorporating a multiplicity of academic disciplines.

The panel will include leading authorities on males and masculinity, including: Rocco Capraro, PhD, Associate Dean and Director, The Program for Men’s Studies at Hobart William Smith College; Gar Kellom, PhD, Director of the Men’s Center for Leadership and Service at Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, and editor of Developing Effective Programs and Services for College Men; and Katherine Young, PhD, and Paul Nathanson, PhD, both of McGill University, co-authors of Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture; Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against Men; Sanctifying Misandry: Goddess Ideology and the Fall of Man; and the forthcoming Transcending Misandry: From Feminist Ideology to Intersexual Dialogue.

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For more information about the April 7 Consortium, email: wagnerconference-at-malestudies.org.