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Exploring Masculinities: 
A South Asian Travelling Seminar 
 
Date: 13-14 February 2007 
Time: 9:30 to 6:00 
Venue: Department Of Sociology, University of Delhi
(North Campus) 
 
The concept of 'masculinities', informed by recent
feminist thought and the women's movement, has emerged
as a means of renewing feminist discourse by
encouraging a more relational approach to
masculinities and femininities. This also allows for
the investigation, problematisation and interrogation
of masculinity equally with femininity. Not
withstanding these enabling possibilities, however,
"gender" is still essentially deployed in contemporary
social science discourse as a synonym for women, its
relational aspect obscured and the invitation to
interrogate masculinities largely ignored. This is
unfortunate because a textured understanding of the
diversity of South Asian men's experiences, attitudes,
beliefs, practices, situations, sexualities and
institutions is essential to not only challenging the
social dominance of men over women but for building a
more humane world. 
 
The travelling seminar on masculinities has been
conceived from the position that the study of
masculinities is important in that it is
'simultaneously a place in gender relations, the
practices through which men and women engage that
place in gender, and the affects of these practices in
bodily experiences, personality and culture.' (Connell
R.W, 1994:71). The seminar is both an academic
exercise in generating interest for further research
on masculinities as well as a campaign to form a
network of university communities that are willing to
take up issues of gender equality. 
 
Organised by Aakar (www.southasianmasculinities.org),
the seminar, as the title suggests, will travel to ten
universities across south Asia. Conceived as a cross
disciplinary event, the seminar comprises of academic
papers; personal and activist narratives and;
films/theatre/art on the theme of masculinities. The
seminar at each location is held in collaboration with
a university department. In Delhi, the Department of
Sociology, University of Delhi is the co-organiser of
the seminar. Dr. Deepak Mehta from the Department is
co-ordinating the seminar. 
 
The speakers and discussants at the seminar to be held
on 13/14 Feb 2007 in Delhi include: 
Dr. Jani De Silva, International Centre For Ethnic
Studies, Colombo: Naradha's narrative: constructing
subjectivity and masculinity through student politics.

Dr. Rubina Saigol, Lahore Pakistan: Nation and
Masculinity Superman Imagery in Muslim Nationalist
Poetry 
Imtiaz Saikh, Department of Women and Gender Studies,
University of Dhaka: Learning By Doing: Masculinities,
Healthy Behaviour and Young Men’s sexual
practices in Dhaka 
Rubina Khilji, Department of Gender Studies,
University of Peshawar, Peshawar: Discussant 
Dr. Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Economic Growth,
Delhi: Discussant 
Dr. Mary E John, Centre For Women’s Development
Studies, New Delhi: Discussant 
Dr. Shail Mayaram, CSDS, Delhi: Discussant 
Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University, Melbourne:
Pedestrian Desires: ‘Footpath
Pornography’, Masculinities cultures, and the
Aesthetic of fluid species 
Dr. Nivedita Menon, Department of Political Science,
University of Delhi: Discussant 
Dr. Radhika Chopra, Department of Sociology,
University of Delhi: Title Awaited 
Dr. Deepak Mehta, Department of Sociology, University
of Delhi: Words that wound: Affects publics and the
production of Hate in Bombay. 
Shudhabrata Sengupta, Sarai, Delhi: Discussant 
Shankar Ramaswamy, University of Chicago: Togethering
Contra Othering: Male Hindu-Muslim Inter-Relations In
Proletarian Delhi 
 
For more information contact: 
Dr. Deepak Mehta 
Email: Deepak.em at gmail.com 
Rahul Roy: khel at vsnl.com
www.southasianmasculinities.org 
9810395589


		
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