XIII: Gendering Men 
Monday June 21 
Auditorium, University Library
Capacity: 138
 
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker
Aud. University Library 
Michael Kaufman (Kaufman): Men and Women Working Together for Change
 
 2nd. Session
Men’s Relations to Feminist Demands in the Public World
Chair/Coordinator: Jeff Hearn (UK/Finland)
Jeff Hearn (UK/Finland): Men, Feminism, Political Arenas, and Organising
Robert Connell (Australia): Masculinity Politics, Worldwide
Robert Morell (South Africa): Gender Politics in Transformation: Masculinities and Femininities in the New South Africa
Bob Pease (Australia): Partnership or Domination in Men’s Politics and Practice? The Discursive Production of Men’s Interests
 
 3rd Session
Men and Violence: Men’s Power/Men’s Pain and the Causes of Men’s Violence
Chair/Coordinator: Michael Kaufman (Canada)
Michael Kaufman (Canada): Men’s Power/Men’s Pain: Pathways to Ending Men’s Violence 
Jeff Hearn (UK/Finland): The Violence of Men: Men Doing, Talking and Responding to Violence to Women
 
 4th. Session
Men and Violence: New Approaches to Treatment and Education
Chair/Coordinator: Michael Kaufman (Canada)
Marius Raakil (Norway) and Dale Hurst (Australia): Counselling Men Battering Their Partners: Main Principles and Thoughts on Change
Smita Vir Tyagi (Canada): Canadian Initiatives for Men Who Batter: Overview of Community-Based Interventions and Programs
 
 
 5th. Session
Gendering Men around the World
Chair/Coordinator: Thomas Michael Walle (Norway)
Thomas Michael Walle (Norway): Conflicting Values of Hegemonic Masculinity in Lahore, Pakistan
Baris Bora Kilicbay (Turkey): The Construction of Masculinity in the Turkish Popular Cinema
Trine Hamran (Norway): ‘Open Places, Hidden Rooms’: Homosexual Men and Gay Identity in Contemporary Rome
Jo Helle-Valle (Norway): Male Identities in a Kalahari Village
Le Thi Nham Tuyet (Vietnam): Gender Characteristics in Development in Vietnam 
 



 
 
 XIII: Gendering Men 
Tuesday June 22 
Auditorium, University Library
Capacity: 138
 
U2, University Library
Capacity: 56
 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker  

 
 2nd. Session
Fatherhood and Social Change
Chair/Coordinator: Øystein Gullvåg Holter (Norway)
Øystein Gullvåg Holter (Norway): Changing Fatherhood ? Changing Society?
Loise Silverstein (USA): Deconstructing the Essential Father
Berger Hareide (Norway): Equality and Marital Life
John L. Hart (USA): Fathering Groups for Young Afro-
American and Latino Men
Engendering the Workplace
Chair/Coordinator: Rannveig Dahle (Norway)
Rannveig Dahle and Lise Widding Isaksen (Norway): Body Work and the Making of Men
Ewa Gunnarson (Sweden): The Meaning of Body and Emotion in the Construction of Gender in Telework
Susanne Andersson (Sweden): The Construction of Masculinities in the Swedish Community Police
 
 3rd Session
Fatherhood and Social Change (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Øystein Gullvåg Holter
Richard Schmitt (USA): Proud to be a Man?
Elin Kvande and Berit Brandth (Norway): Does ‘Enforced Fathering’ Lead to Equality?
Deena Mandell (Canada): Divorced Fathers and Child Support: Discourse and Subjectivity
Engendering the Workplace (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Herng-Dar Bih (Taiwan)
Herng-Dar Bih (Taiwan): A Study on the Formation of Gender Consciousness in Taiwan
Graciela L Hopkins (USA): Not all Children in the Same Boat: Literature-Based Materials and Heterogeneous Groups for Reading and Writing Instructions for Fourth-Grade Boys and Girls
Marie Nordberg (Sweden): Constructing Masculinity in Women’s Worlds: Men in Female Occupations
 
 4th Session
History of Masculinity
Chair/Coordinator: Jørgen Lorentzen 
Jørgen Lorentzen (Norway): Masculinity in History and History of Masculinity
Knut Kolnar (Norway): Identity and Violence in the Development of Modern Masculinities
Uta Klein (Germany): The Zionist Ideal of Manliness as a Reaction on Persecution and It’s Shaping through Israeli Reality
 
 5th Session
History of Masculinity (Continued) 
Chair/Coordinator: Jørgen Lorentzen (Norway)
Kajsa Ohrlander (Sweden): Politics of Freedom and Masculinity: The Swedish Welfare State and the Modernization of Gender in Early 20th Century
Berit Johnsen (Norway): The Meaning of Male Prisoners’ Muscular Bodies