from 1 p.m.

Registration & Lunch

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

2 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks and introduction to “Men on the Margins”: Kübra Özermiş

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

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

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

3.30 – 4 p.m.

Coffee Break

4 – 5.30 p.m.

Panel 1: Negotiating Race and Masculinities

Chair: Karoline Strauch

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)

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

6.30 p.m.

Conference Dinner

Chay Long

Hasenheide 50

10967 Berlin

9.30 – 11 a.m.

Panel 2: Arab and/or Muslim Masculinities

Chair: Matilda Jones

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

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

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

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

12.30 – 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 – 3.30 p.m.

Panel 3: Irish Masculinities

Chair: Marie Menzel

Dane Holt (Trinity College Dublin): Son(Son)nets: 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

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

3.30 – 4 p.m.

Coffee Break

4 – 4.30 p.m.

Conclusion

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)

5 – 6 p.m.

Poetry Reading with Ozan Zakariya Keskinkiliç

L115, Seminarzentrum (Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26)