Past scholarship on masculinity has demonstrated that masculinity,
understood as a system of practices and far from being a monolith, is
subjected to both historical change and to culturally dependent expressions (Connell 2015, 2016). The study of masculinities has successfully investigated previously unexplored aspects of specific cultures and contexts (Hadley 1999, Neal 2008, Song 2004) and how they changed in time (Asikainen 2018, Holt 2010, McNamara 1994).
In this workshop we aim to build on previous research on masculinities during intercultural contacts and in colonial contexts
(Broomhall 2023, Strasser 2020, Alter 2004, Teltscher 2000, Beckles
1996, Sinha 1995), to engage with encounters between different masculinities. We look forward to receiving contributions on any region of the pre-modern world, from all disciplines and fields of
Humanities and Social Sciences. We particularly welcome papers on
the religious and/or the emotional and affective dimensions of encounter.

Possible topics of discussion include:
- how did men understand masculinities that were embodied by
other cultures?
- how did masculinities produced by different cultural contexts
engage with each other?
- how could contrasting ideas of masculinity influence one another?
- what kind of hybrid masculinities could emerge from intercultural
contacts?

Please send an abstract of 200 words and a short bio in English, by 3rd June 2024, to linda.zampoldortia@acu.edu.au. We aim to publish selected papers in the conference proceedings.