The Second Workshop of ‘Central European Masculinities’

Second International Workshop:
Central European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective

International workshop organized by CEFRES in the frame of the Central European Masculinities research project, with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR, PARCECO Program), in collaboration with the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚČL AVČR) & the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University (ÚČLK FF UK).

Location: CINiBA, ul. Bankowa 11a, 40-007 Katowice
Date: 14–15 November, 2024
Languages: English
OrganizersWojciech Śmieja (IL WNH UŚ), Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne), Iwona Kurz (IKP WP UW), Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR), Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK), Ivana Taranenková (ÚSL SAV).

Program

14th of November

9:30-10:00       Registration

10:00-10:30     Opening session

Adam Dziadek, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice

Mateusz Chmurski, Director of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague

10:30-11:15 – Keynote lecture: Ivan Jablonka (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) – What to Do with Men?

Chair: Wojciech Śmieja (University of Silesia in Katowice)

11:30-13:00   Methodologies 1.

Chair:  Filip Mazurkiewicz (University of Silesia in Katowice)

Andrei Kostin (Université Grenoble-Alpes) – Landscapes beyond borders: shaping the cooperative early history of Central/Eastern-European queer and masculinities

Tomasz Tomasik (Academy of Pomerania in Słupsk) – Troubles with Modernity. Notes about History of Polish Masculinities.

Mariusz Kalczewiak (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) – Rethinking Jewish Masculinities in 1920s and 1930s Poland

Discussion

13:30-14:30 – Methodologies 2.

Chair: Wojciech Śmieja (University of Silesia in Katowice)

Przemysław Górecki (University of Warsaw) – In search of a methodological framework: exploring masculinities in contemporary Polish literature

Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová (Charles University, Prague) – Masculinity and the Anthropocene: Some Thoughts on Petromasculinity from within the Czech Republic

Discussion

14:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:00 – Circulations 1.

Chair: Tomasz Tomasik

Ivana Taranenková (Slovak Academy of Sciences) – Transformations of the Don Juan archetype in Slovak literature

Ewa Róża Janion (University of Warsaw) – “A combination of aesthete and clerk”: The homosexual masculinity of C.P. Cavafy in Polish literary criticism.

Martina Péterová (Slovak Academy of Sciences) – Proletarian dreams and (social) reality. Representation of masculinity in the communist revolutionary project in the interwar period.

Discussion

19:00 Dinner

15th of November

10:00-10:45 – Keynote speaker: Florence Tamagne (Université de Lille) – Historical perspectives on the Repression of Male Homosexuality in France: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards

Chair : Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES – French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences / Sorbonne Université)

11:00-12:30 – Circulation 2.

Chair: Josef Šebek (Charles University, Prague)

Darko Ilin (University of Nova Gorica) – What Kind of Man Does That: Anti-Social Queer Masculinities in Brane Mozetič’s Early Prose

Stanisław Godlewski (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Tears on Satin. Polish homosexual theater – some initial recognitions

Marcin Bogucki (Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw) – Masculinity in Contemporary Polish Drag: Between Rejection and Empowerment

Discussion

13:00-14:30 – Traditions 1.

Chair: Ludmiła Janion (University of Warsaw)

Václav Smyčka (Czech Academy of Sciences) – Men can only live in the sunshine. Women’s fictions about men in the bourgeois epoch

Nicolas Aude (Sorbonne Université) – On the Borderlands of Masculinity: Imagining Isaac Babel’s Failure

Antoni Zając (University of Warsaw) – From the “Princess of Israel” to the “Father of Polish Conservatism”. Queer Trajectories of Polish-Jewish Masculinity in the Twentieth Century – The Case of Paweł Hertz.

Discussion

14:30-15:30 – Lunch

15:30-17:00 – Traditions 2.

Chair: Ivana Taranenková (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Richard Müller (Czech Academy of Sciences) – Passing by the brothel: On the cultural techniques of collective experience and Brod’s/Kafka’s experimental travelogue Richard und Samuel

Josef Šebek (Faculty of Arts, Charles University) – Pink Logarithms: Tropes of Non-normative Masculinity in Czech Literature and Film from the Period of State Socialism

Jan Matonoha (Czech Academy of Sciences) – Central European masculinities in extreme liminal topoi: from the critique of Václav Havel to appraisal of Bruno Schulz and Miron Białoszewski

Discussion

17:00-18:00 – Closing remarks