The American Men's Studies Association

01/28/2026

Dear colleagues,

A brief reminder about the upcoming AMSA Masculinity conference, in case it may be of interest.

The conference will take place on 25–27 June 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

The CFP, abstract link, registration information, and the developing programme can be found here: https://www.masculinities.online/about-9

The abstract submission deadline is 6 February 2026. If you need more time to submit, please contact the Conference Organizing Committee: [email protected]

The conference organising committee looks forward to a wide range of contributions and conversations at the conference.

With best wishes,

Chris

Masculinities, Care, and Community: Grounded in Care, Powered by Community, Inspired by Joy Annual Meeting of the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) June 25-27th, 2026 | Cleveland, Ohio

01/28/2026

Dear colleagues,

A brief reminder about the upcoming AMSA Masculinity conference, in case it may be of interest.

The conference will take place on 25–27 June 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

The CFP, abstract link, registration information, and the developing programme can be found here: https://www.masculinities.online/about-9

The abstract submission deadline is 6 February 2026.

If you need more time to submit, please contact the Conference Organizing Committee: [email protected]

The conference organising committee looks forward to a wide range of contributions and conversations at the conference.

With best wishes,

Chris

Masculinities, Care, and Community: Grounded in Care, Powered by Community, Inspired by Joy Annual Meeting of the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) June 25-27th, 2026 | Cleveland, Ohio

11/08/2025

🌟 Join the AMSA Team – Help Shape the Future of Men’s Studies! 🌟
It’s been a little quiet since our online conference, but a lot has been happening behind the scenes! We’re thrilled to share that plans for our next in-person AMSA conference are well underway — and an official announcement is coming very soon.

As we build momentum for both the organisation and the conference, we’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us bring the AMSA website to life. This is a great opportunity to get involved and help share the incredible work happening across masculinity studies.

We’re especially looking for people who can help with:

- Highlighting members’ research and publications

- Sharing events, calls for papers, and job opportunities

- Curating resources and news about men and masculinities

You don’t need to be a tech expert — just organised, proactive, and passionate about the field! This is a voluntary role, but it’s a fantastic way to get involved in AMSA’s future, collaborate with the Board, and help strengthen our growing community.

If you’re interested, message us here or email [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!

Let’s keep building momentum together
— The AMSA Board

06/16/2025

🌍 Now Live: Penultimate Week of the AMSA Digital Conference 🌍
📅 Public Viewing: 16–21 June
🎥 Free access for members of the whole programme: https://www.masculinities.online/
We’re excited to launch two powerful new streams exploring how masculinities intersect with colonization, race, embodiment, and intimacy across global contexts. Don’t miss these rich and thought-provoking presentations:
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🔶 Theme 5: Racialization and the Consequences of Colonization
🧠 Decolonizing Masculinities Studies in India: Towards an Embodied Approach
📍 Dr. Sohini Saha, St. Xavier's College (Kolkata)
A call for a shift from symbolic to material and embodied understandings of masculinity through indigenous gym culture, semen control, breathwork, and diet among Hindu men in Kolkata. Grounded in the work of Mfecane and Kasim, this paper challenges Western epistemologies and recenters local knowledge.
🎧 RETURNING TO SELF: Culturally grounded methodology in work with African Men
📍 Dr. Baba A.O. Buntu, SHABAKA – Men of Afrika (South Africa)
An immersive audio-visual journey into culturally rooted healing for African men affected by the legacies of colonialism and Apartheid. Featuring indigenous philosophy, initiation, poetry, and photography, this presentation highlights how cultural reconnection can support restorative justice and self-empowerment.
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🔷 Theme 6: Intimacies, Bodies and Subjectivities
💃 Bodily Subjectivation of Men in Dance for Two
📍 João Paulo Marques, UEM-Brazil / Newcastle University
What happens when men dance together? Drawing on embodied experiences from Brazilian ballroom dancers, this paper explores how movement destabilizes hegemonic masculinity and opens new possibilities for intimacy, reflexivity, and resistance through the body.
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This week’s programme is an invitation to rethink how power, intimacy, and cultural knowledge shape masculinities — and how we might imagine otherwise.
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American Mens Studies Association is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the critical studies of masculinities.

06/09/2025

Week Two of the Digital Masculinities Conference Is Live!

We're proud to launch two rich, thought-provoking themes now open for public viewing (7–14 June). These presentations span continents, disciplines, and stages of life — all anchored in the urgent questions surrounding masculinity, education, identity, and inequality.

Become a member of AMSA for free and have access to all the presentations in this season of talks: https://www.masculinities.online/

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💡 Theme Three: Education, Learning and Spaces of Masculinity

What does it mean to learn, teach, or simply exist as a man in spaces where masculinity is both marginal and monitored?
🔹 John Parkin explores how male Primary Education Studies students build male-only online groups to support one another through a feminised degree. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnparkin10/
🔹 Ryan Jones examines how the label “toxic masculinity” shapes affective atmospheres in classrooms, potentially excluding those it seeks to reform.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-jones-25b7141a4/
👉 These papers invite us to rethink how belonging, care, and critique operate in education — and how spaces for men in learning contexts can be both protective and transformative.
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🔍 Theme Four: Narratives of Age, Masculinity and (In)equalities

Masculinity is not fixed — it is learned, lived, and interrogated across the life-course.
🔸 Steven Dashiell examines how Black boys in Baltimore, labelled “squeegee kids,” take on adult roles in precarious street labour, revealing complex tensions between survival and wellbeing. https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-dashiell/
🔸 Iva Smidova offers critical reflections on how Czech men age into or out of privilege and entitlement, based on a large-scale qualitative study. https://www.linkedin.com/in/iva-smidova-36652227/
🔸 Shafinur Nahar analyzes how Muslim masculinities are formed through literature, showing how cultural and religious expectations shape boys’ early understandings of power and gender. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shafinur-nahar-825b5964/
👉 From boyhood to old age, these papers explore masculinity through the lenses of race, religion, care, and resilience.
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📢 Dive into the talks and share your reflections using .
Let’s keep the conversation growing, globally. 🌍

06/02/2025

NOW LIVE: Two Powerful Video Presentation Themes Exploring Masculinities, Belonging, and Digital Resistance from the “Future of Masculinity Studies: Expanding Horizons, Transformative Directions and Critical Reflections” Digital Conference: https://www.masculinities.online/

🗓️ Public Viewing: Saturday 31st May – Saturday 7th June
Join us online for this compelling showcase of cutting-edge research

Theme One: Performing Power and Force

Explore how masculinity is shaped, challenged, and expressed across digital, military, and ideological spaces.

🔹 Stu Lucy (University of Southampton) presents "Construction and Expression of Masculinities in the Incel Network" – a deep dive into the digital performance of incel masculinities across a three-tiered online ecosystem.
🔹 Arnoldas Ignatčikas (Utrecht University) presents "Hegemonic Masculinities: The Construction of the Militarized Masculine Body in the EU" – investigating how military imagery, power, and gender norms intersect and reproduce hegemonic masculinities. https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoldas-ignatcikas-837a0514b/

Theme Two: Q***r Belonging, Family, and Digital Intimacies

A set of presentations that centre resistance, care, and connection across personal and political terrains.

🔹 Lina Šumskaitė (Vilnius University) explores "Fathers’ Silent Support for their LGBTQ+ Children in Lithuania’s Parents’ Movement" – reflecting on emotional labor, silence, and the gendered dynamics of parental advocacy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lina-%C5%A1umskait%C4%97-b7a47617/
🔹 Manoj Jinadasa (University of Kelaniya) shares "LGBTIQ+ Activism, Rural Sri Lankan Young Men, and Facebook" – a powerful analysis of how young men in rural Sri Lanka use Facebook to claim space, identity, and agency amidst cultural and legal repression. https://www.linkedin.com/in/manoj-jinadasa-92b8022a/

Don’t miss this dynamic series of presentations that interrogate power, resistance, and identity across borders, bodies, and platforms. Join AMSA for FREE and have access to all presentations from the conference. Sign up here: https://www.masculinities.online/
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American Mens Studies Association is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the critical studies of masculinities.

05/21/2025

Over the coming weeks, the American Men’s Studies Association will host a series of digital events involving academics, practitioners, policymakers and those whose work engages with masculinities. With participants from all over the world, a season of online events will be showcased as a way of helping to shape our knowledge and understanding of men and masculinities.

Submissions cover a wide range of areas including Incel Communities, Militarized Masculinities, Toxic Masculinities, Men and Dance, Masculinities and Childhood, Education and Masculinities, Masculinity studies in India, LGBTQIA+ and Facebook in South Asia and much more.

Each week, we will be showcasing each presentation for two to three days, but to view the whole programme of events and have access to all of the videos, join AMSA for free and view them all on the website's members-only space

Join now to have access to contemporary work in the field of masculinities:
https://lnkd.in/diBiwYHE

Showcasing and access to videos begins on 31st May 2025

01/13/2025

Hello Everyone!

This is a call for papers for a season of digital events! Under the call - The Future of Masculinity Studies – the American, Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) welcomes the submission of formal presentations, art, poetry, films, music, podcasts or any medium, that provides a commentary on masculinity studies. We also welcome submissions that cover any area of work with masculinity.

We also welcome submissions that are used in the exploration of masculinity – for example, teaching resources, the use of software or AI, or advice and guidance about navigating academia, policy or practice!

We want to produce a season of digital events that will become part of a new archive for AMSA, becoming a touchpoint for future conferences and discussions.

The programme will have keynote speakers, roundtables and performances. As in previous years, we will be hosting the Sam Femiano Keynote Lecture and Loral Frankel awards for overall best presentation, the best graduate presentation and the best undergraduate presentation. We will also be awarding prizes for the Mark Justad Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

Alongside this, we will be encouraging members to submit articles for either the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities and Masculinities and/or the Journal for Boyhood Studies and seek proposals for a special edition of the journal.

Finally, we hope that the successfully submitted abstracts will be published in a special conference proceedings.

Participation is free - you will be provided with a six-month free trial membership (cancel anytime), meaning that you will have access to the conference and all of the AMSA resources for free should you wish to cancel. Membership thereafter is £25.

The full call for papers is attached but can also be found here:
https://www.masculinities.online/2025-digital-conference

The link to submit a proposal can be found here:
https://forms.office.com/e/znyWaks7eU

On behalf of the AMSA Board of Directors, we look forward to hearing from you.

Dr Chris Haywood
President of AMSA

10/04/2024

Fantastic time had at the (Un)Doing Masculinities Summit 2024. Thank you to Michael Kehler and Gabriel for warmth, care and amazing hospitality.

07/16/2024

Just a quick thank you message to those who attended our recent conference in Plymouth State University last month.

02/24/2023

10/26/2022

Congratulations to Steven Dashiell! Loren Frankel Award recipient, who recently published in "Deconstructing Gender Capital Involving Conversations of Male Military Sexual Trauma on Reddit." Sexuality & Culture (2022): 1-17.