The research project “Making Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide” organizes an event on masculinity together with University of Tampere, and the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas. “Masculinities on Borders: Films and Talks on Male Realities and Images in Finland and in Russia” takes place 3-4 December in the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas and Lenin Museum.
See the programme below and register by 25 November here.
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Masculinities on Borders: Films and Talks on Male Realities and Images in Finland and in Russia
3–4 December 2016 Venues: The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, and Lenin Museum, Tampere
Sat 3 Dec 10.00 –16.15, the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, address Väinö Linnan aukio 8
Topic I: Memories of War and Peace, and Masculinities
10.00–10.15 Opening
10.15–10.45 Film: Post-War Dreams. Director Juhani Haukka, Aalto University
10.45–11.15 Comments: Juhani Haukka, Aalto University: Towards Another, Remembering Together – Documentary Film as a Potential Space of Memory
11.15–11.45 Aleksandrina Vanke, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Masculine Memory and Emotions: A Case of Afghanistan War Veterans
11.45–12.15 Ville Kivimäki, University of Tampere: Nocturnal Memories: War and Violence in Nightmares
12.15–13.15 Lunch break
Topic II: Politics of Gender and Sexuality
13.15–13.45 Jiri Nieminen, University of Tampere: Male Politicians’ Performativities of Masculinities and Femininities in Media Publicity
13.45–14.15 Cai Weaver, University of Helsinki: Being Gay and Being a Man: Negotiating Belonging and Identity in Russia
14.15–14.45 Tatyana Ryabova, Ivanovo State University: Clash of Masculinities? ‘Putin vs. Obama’ in Contemporary Russian Anti-Americanism
14.45–15.15 Coffee break
15.15–15.45 Comments: Juhana Suoniemi, Green League: Masculinities in Politics – Experiences of A Male Politician
15.45–16.15 Masha Godovannaya, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Saara Särmä, University of Tampere: Explorations into Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Finland and Russia through Art-based Methods
Sat 3 Dec 17.00–18.15, Lenin Museum, address Hämeenpuisto 28
17.00–17.45 Svetlana Shuranova, Memorial, Moscow: Memorial: Not Guilt, but Civic Responsibility
17.45–18.15 Guided Tour in Lenin Museum
18.15 Reception, Lenin Museum
Sun 4 Dec 12.00 –16.30, the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas, address Väinö Linnan aukio 8
Topic III: Fatherhood
12.00–13.00 Film: Boys from Freedom Street. Director Elena Pogrebizhskaya, Moscow
13.00–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.00 Film: Daddy Loves You. Director Ninni Rokosa, Tampere
15.00–15.20 Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow: Constructing Fatherhood in the Absence of Prescribed Roles
15.20–15.40 Ilana Aalto, University of Turku: Fatherhood and Masculinity – Dismantling the Circular Definitions
15.40–16.30 Roundtable discussion with Ilana Aalto, Elena Pogrebizhskaya, Elena Rozhdestvenskaya. Host: Iiris Ruoho, University of Tampere
Contact: Essi Katila, essi.katila@uta.fi
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