from 1 p.m.

Registration

2 p.m.

Kübra Özermiş (University of Potsdam): Welcoming remarks and introduction to “Men on the Margins”:

2.30 – 3.30 p.m.

Keynote 1:

Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Humboldt University Berlin): Queer Aesthetics of Unbelonging: Masculinity, Race and Negative Affects in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

3.30 – 4 p.m.

Coffee Break

4. 30 – 5 p.m.

Panel 1: Negotiating Race and Masculinities

Bisola Joy Ajibade (Humboldt University Berlin): Shifting Faces, Shifting Masculinities in Igoni Barrett’s Blackass and Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man

Karolina Kmita (University of Silesia): Unfolding the Margins: Reimagining Masculinity in Akwaeke Emezi's The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)

Eva Ries (University of Augsburg): Progressive Black Masculinities in Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water (2021) and Small Worlds (2023)

6.30 p.m.

Conference Dinner

9 – 11 a.m.

Panel 2: Arab and/or Muslim Masculinities

Esra Mirze Santesso (University of Georgia): Muslim Masculinities in Guantanamo Comics

Martina Balassone (Sorbonne University & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): Passing Through the Margins: Queer Arab Masculinities in Rabih Alameddine’s Fiction

Shafinur Nahar (Universiti Brunei Darussalam): The Intersection of Identity: Muslim Masculinities in Southeast Asian Anglophone Narratives

11 – 11.30 a.m.

Coffee Break

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

Keynote 2:

Rehana Ahmed (Queen Mary University of London): A kinship across relentless
divides’: Encountering British Muslim masculinities in recent work by Guy Gunaratne, Kamila Shamsie, and Preti Taneja

12.30 – 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 – 3.30 p.m.

Panel 3: Irish Masculinities

Dane Holt: Son(Son)nets (Trinity College Dublin): The Familial Elegy in the Work of Tony Harrison and Seamus Heaney

Scott McKendry (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘I can / Never become your he-man’: Troubled Masculinity in the Poetry of Padraic Fiacc

Matthew Rice (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘The night is proletarian’: Writing Masculinity and the Factory Poem

3.30 – 4 p.m.

Coffee Break

4 – 4.30 p.m.

Conclusion

5 – 6 p.m.

Poetry Reading with Ozan Zakariya Keskinkiliç