MASCULINITIES IN TIMES OF (POST)WAR: THE GERMAN CASE

Convenors

Patrick Farges université sorbonne nouvelle Elissa Mailänder sciences po Stefanie Schüler-Springorum Zentrum für antisemitismusforschung tu-berlin in collaboration with MAX KRAMER BARUCH COLLEGE , CUNY Personne responsable Patrick Farges (CEREG) et Elissa Mailänder (CHSP)

Panelists

Paula Diehl, Patrick Farges, Geoffrey Giles, Lara Hensch, Gal Hertz, Max Kramer, Thomas Kühne, Josie McLellan, Elissa Mailänder, Regina Mühlhäuser, Marie Muschalek, Armin Nolzen, Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre, Claire Trojan, Hélène Quanquin, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Sarah Speck

Date

November 27-28, 2015

Contacts

patrick.farges@univ-paris3.fr elissa.mailander@sciencespo.fr

PROGRAM

Friday, 27 November 2015

Location: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 «Censier» 13 rue Santeuil 75005 Paris Room 410

9h

Welcoming and Presentation

Section 1: Masculinities in Times of (Post)War: A Longue Durée Perspective

9h30-10h10

AM Thomas KÜHNE (Clark University), Tender and Tough: German Soldiers and Protean Masculinity in the 20th Century

10h10-10h40

Discussion

10h40-11h00

Coffee Break

11h-12h

Marie MUSCHALEK (Universität Freiburg) Masculine Honor, Sexual Violence, and the Police in Post-Genocide German Southwest Africa Max KRAMER (Baruch College, CUNY) The George Circle as a Literary Männerbund Gal HERTZ (Tel Aviv University, TU-Berlin) “We are Both Smith and Flashing Steel:” Ernst Jünger and Walter Flex on Desire, Masculinity and Trauma Sarah SPECK (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Soziologie) “Der soziale Mutterschoß” - Post-WWII Rearrangements of Gender Relations

12h-12h10

Short Break

12h10-13h10

General Discussion

13h10-14h15

Lunch break

Section 2: Shifting Masculinities: Between Empowerment and Subordination

14h15-15h

Stefanie SCHÜLER-SPRINGORUM (Technische Universität Berlin, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung) , Soft Heroes – Tough Fighters? On German-Jewish Masculinities in the Long 19th Century

15h-15h30

Discussion

15h30-16h15

Hélène Quan quin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) From “Woman’s Rights Men” to “Allies” Male Feminists in the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century Ugo PAVAN DALLA TORRE (Università degli Studi di Torino) Love, Sex, Masculinity during and after the First World War in Italy: the Disabled Ex-Servicemen Claire TROJAN (Université de Rennes) Masculinity Challenged by Deportation. Being a German Refugee in the Soviet Occupation Zone (1945-1949)

16h15-16h45

Coffee Break

16h45-17h15

Patrick FARGES (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Pioneers? German- Jewish Masculinities in Mandate Palestine / Israel Josie MCLELLAN (University of Bristol) Fighters, Fathers and Fairies: A Brief History of East German Masculinities

17h15-17h30

Short Break

17h30-18h30

General Discussion

20h

Dinner

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Location: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 «Institut du Monde anglophone» 5 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine 75005 Paris Room 12

Section 3: Male Bonding and Intimacy in Military Settings

9h30-10h

Geoffrey GILES (University of Florida), Kameradschaft, Masculinity and Same-Sex Intimacy in Germany, 1870-1945

10h10-10h40

Discussion

10h40-11h

Coffee Break

11h-12h

Lara HENSCH (Freie Universität zu Berlin) “For We Are Political Soldiers”: Concepts of Masculinity in Self-Descriptions of Early Nazi Stormtroopers Paula DIEHL (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Between Sublimation and Attraction: Nudity and Sexuality in Nazi Germany Regina MÜHLHÄUSER (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung) Between Domination and Obedience. Conflicting Roles of German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in Poland and the Soviet Union, 1939–1945 Elissa MAILÄNDER (Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po) Collective Amusement? Sexual Violence as Social Performance on the Eastern Front

10h-12h10

Short Break

12h10-13h10

General Discussion

13h10-14h15

Light break The convenors would like to thank Armin NOLZEN (Ruhr-Universität Bochun) for agreeing to compose the conference report.