International and Interdisciplinary Symposium:

NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP: CONCEPTS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY
IN THE CREATION OF MODERN WESTERN POLITICAL CULTURE

Sponsored by the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation and the Volkswagen-Foundation

University of Trier, July 3-5 2003

Conference Location:

July 3, 2003: Volkshochschule im Palais Walderdorff, Vortragssaal
(Domfreihof 1, D-54290 Trier)

July 4-5, 2003: University of Trier, Room A 9/10 (Universitaetsring
15, D- 54296 Trier)

The rise of the study of political culture, in both its theoretical and
substantial aspects, over the last twenty years has led to major
innovations in the analysis of modern politics and its history. This
conference project intends to further develop the study of modern
political culture by connecting it to two other innovative fields, the
study of masculinity and the newly emerging field of the study of visual
culture. It will be organized around the question how concepts of
masculinity have shaped - and have in their turn been shaped by - modern
political culture and its transformations in the formatting period of the
18th and 19th centuries. The element of modern political culture central
to the project is the specific - gendered - notion of citizenship that was
constructed in the age of democratic revolutions and cast long shadows
over modern political life. This notion presented modern citizenship as
both universal and male, at once abstract and concretely gendered. The
struggle over the promise of full and inclusive citizenship that this
notion inspired and its visual representations are the central theme of
the symposium.

More information on the conference website:
http://www.unitrier.de/uni/fb3/geschichte/neueste/hm/index.html

Registration:

The registration fee is 15 Euro, or 10 Euro for graduate students
with proof of student status. The registration fee covers coffee
breaks and three lunches.

The deadline for registration is June 27, 2003. A registration form
is available on the conference website

Please send the registration form by fax or email to the Conference
Assistant Simone Zimmler: Fax: +49 (0)651 - 201 3908, Email:
<zimmlergmx.de>

Program:

Thursday, July 3, 2003:

2:15-7:00 pm
Concepts and Representations of Masculinity and Citizenship in Modern
Western Political Culture: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections

Chair and introduction: Dr. Stefan Dudink and Prof. Karen Hagemann
Comment: Prof. Susanne v. Falkenhausen (Humboldt-Universitaet zu
Berlin, Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte)

2:45-4:00 pm
Prof. Sonya Rose (The University of Michigan, Department of History,
Sociology and Women's Studies)
Citizenship and masculinity. Historical and theoretical considerations.

4:15-5:30 pm
Prof. Dror Wahrman (Indiana University, Department of History)
Concepts of masculinity in modern Western political culture.

5:45-6:15 pm
Prof. Abigail Solomon-Godeau (University of California, Santa
Barbara, Department of Art History)
Representations of political masculinity in Modern art. A European panorama.

Friday, July 4, 2003:

9:15 am 12:15 pm
Masculinities and Citizenship in the Age of the first Democratic
Revolutions: Britain and North America

Chair and introduction: Prof. Helga-Schnabel-Schuele
Comment: Prof. Jane Rendall (The University of York, Centre for
Eighteenth Century Studies)

9:30-10:45 am
Prof. Anna Clark (University of Minnesota, Department of History, USA)
Concepts and representations of masculinity and politics in late 18th
century Britain.

11:00-12.15 am
Prof. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Department of History)
Concepts of citizenship and masculinity in Revolutionary North America.

2:00-6:15 pm Masculinities and Citizenship in the Period of the
Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars: France, the Netherlands and
Prussia

Chair and introduction: Prof. Andreas Gestrich (University of Trier,
Department of History)
Comment: Dr. Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius (Art historian, Berlin)

2:15-3:30 pm
Prof. Joan Landes (The Pennsylvania State University, Department of History)
Images of masculinity in Revolutionary France.

3:45-5:00 pm
Prof. Karen Hagemann
The first citizen of his state. Representations of monarchic
masculinity in early 19th century Prussia.

5:15-5:45 pm
Dr. Stefan Dudink
Representations of moderate masculinities. Dutch liberalism in early
19th century.

Saturday, July 5, 2003:

9:15 am -12:15 pm
Representations of Political Masculinities in the Age of Nation
States, Empires and Imperialism: Britain, France, and Germany

Chair and introduction: Prof. Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (University
of Trier, Department of Art History)
Comment: Prof. Ute Frevert (University of Bielefeld, Department of History)

9:30-10:45 pm
Prof. Alexander Potts (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department
of Art History)
The male body in sculpture: The classical ideal and images of
masculinity in late 19th century British and French art.

11:00-12:15 am
Prof. Silke Wenk (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Department
of Art and Medias, Germany)
Representations of political masculinity in late 19th century German Art.

2:00 pm-6:00 pm
Masculinities and Citizenship in the Age of Nation States, Empires
and Imperialism: the British, the Dutch and the Austrian Empire

Chair and introduction: Dr. Stefan Dudink
Comment: Prof. Detlef Hoffmann (University of Oldenburg, Department
of Art and Medias, Germany)

2:15-3:15 am
Prof. Catherine Hall (University College London, Department of History)
The birth of liberal man? Britain and its empire in 19th century.

3:30-4:30 am
Prof. Christa Haemmerle (University of Vienna, Department of History, Austria)
Military and masculinities in the Austrian empire, 1868 - 1914.

4:45-5:45 pm
Prof. Frances Gouda (University of Amsterdam, The Belle van Zuylen
Institute The Netherlands)
Imperialist masculinites. Representations of the Dutch citizen and his others.

6:00-7:00 pm
Rewriting the 'general': Concepts and images of masculinity in Modern
Western political culture

Prof. Mrinalini Sinha (The Pennsylvania State University, Department
of History)

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Prof. Karen Hagemann, Universitaet Trier, Gastlehrstuhl fuer
Internationale und Interdisziplinaere Frauen- und
Geschlechterforschung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
<hagemannkgw.tu-berlin.de>
Dr. Stefan Dudink, The University of Nijmegen, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Prof. Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff, Universitaet Trier, FB III -
Kunstgeschichte
Prof. Helga Schnabel-Schuele, Universitaet Trier, Fachbereich III -
Neuere Geschichte

Universitaet Trier, Fachbereich III - Neuere Geschichte, D-54286
Trier, Germany, Phone.: +49 (0)651- 201 2186, Fax: +49 (0)651 - 201
3908, Email: <roobuni-trier.de>