Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

This multidisciplinary symposium will discuss the sometime unconsidered facets of gender that effect men and masculinity in the context of multiple identities, cross-sections, social conventions and sexual practices.

Moderated by Prof. Trysh Travis, Associate Professor and Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor, Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research

Participants:

Dr. Gilad Padva, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Haifa University, Israel

Mary Lou‘s Glee: Screening Young Gay Men’s Musical Odyssey in Israeli and American TV Musicals

Prof. William Marsiglio, Professor of Sociology and Criminology & Law

Men, Masculinities, and the Culture of Nurturance:  Transforming Identities and Relations with Children

 Dr. Dror Abend-David, Dept. of Language, Literatures and Cultures

Philip Roth, Amos Oz, and What They Know about Men

Monday, April 22 during periods 5^th and 6^th (11:45 to 1:40), in Pugh 302. For more details contact Dr. Dror Abend-David at dabend@ufl.edu