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Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities (CROMM) University of Wollongong November 28th – 30th 2012 Conference: Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality Host: Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities (CROMM), University of Wollongong Date: November 28 – 30, 2012 Location: Wollongong Venue: Building 67 – McKinnon Building Acknowledgment We would like to acknowledge the Dharawal people, the traditional custodians of the land on which the University of Wollongong stands. Conference Organisers Michael Flood Richard Howson Contacts: Michael Flood: Phone 0415 082 733 Email [email protected] Thanks We would like to thank the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, and particularly the Institute for Social Transformation Research (ISTR), for seed funding and administrative support. We also thank the student volunteers who have assisted in the running of the conference. The information in this booklet can be downloaded from the conference website http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/research/cromm/workshops/UOW134355.html Please consult the website for late changes. 2 Program Wednesday 28th November Building 67 Foyer 7.30 – 8.30pm Conference Reception and Drinks Thursday 29th November Building 67 Room 101 8.00 – 9.00am Registration Welcome and Overview 9.00 – 9.30am Michael Flood Richard Howson Keynote address: Jeff Hearn – Uses and Abuses of the Political 9.30 – 10.30am Category of “Men” in Activism, Policy and Theorising 10.30 – 11.00am Morning tea – (all breaks will be in the Building 67 Foyer) Keynote address: Christine Beasley – Caution! Hazards Ahead: Considering the potential theory/practice gap between 11.00 – 12.00pm men/masculinities theorising and practical pro-feminist interventions Stream A Stream B Streams Building 67 - Room 101 Building 67 - Room 102 12.00 – 1.00pm Engaging Men in Ending Men’s Work and Workplaces Violence Against Women Endless Journey to Engage Men Mining With(out) Masculinity: In Ending Violence Against Gender and sexuality in the 12.00 – 12:30pm Women in Nusa Tenggara mining industry (Dean Indonesia (Nur Hasyim) Laplonge) Engaging Men and Boys to Gendering Change: How to Reduce Violence Against engage men with women in 12:30 – 1.00pm Women (Abu Sufian) building gender equality in masculinist workplaces (Susan Harwood) 3 Thursday 29th November 1.00 – 2.00pm Lunch Stream A Stream B Streams Building 67 - Room 101 Building 67 - Room 102 2.00 – 3:30pm Health Engaging Men in Ending Men’s Violence Against Women Men’s Involvement in Engaging Men in the Struggle to Reproductive Health: An Eliminate Violence Against 2.00 – 2.30pm Indonesian Muslim context Women (Dorothy Oben) (Rachmad Hidayat) “We’ve got to break down the Living and Dying at the Sexual shame”: Critiquing portrayals of Abyss’ Border: Questions about 2.30 – 3.00pm men’s disparate mental health gender-based violence and outcomes in news media (Brett masculinities in Mexico’s Ciudad Scholz) Juarez (Veronica Oxman) Sexual Dysfunction as Both The Violence Prevention Gender Cause and Outcome of Rural and Audit Tool – A tool for 3.00 – 3.30pm Remote Australian Men’s Health examining men’s engagement (William O’Hehir) in preventing violence against women (Tracy Castelino) 3.30 – 4.00pm Afternoon tea Stream A Stream B Streams Building 67 - Room 101 Building 67 - Room 102 4.00 – 5.00pm Working with Men Men and Gender Equality in Post- war and Post-colonial contexts Working with Men to ‘Nothing is clear now’: Undermine Male Privilege: Negotiating equality and 4.00 – 4.30pm Possibilities and limitations colonialism through the lives of (Stephen Fisher) twelve Acehnese men (David Duriesmith) “No Man is Allowed to be Vulnerable”: Fitting the rape of 4.30 – 5.00pm men in armed conflict into feminist analysis of wartime sexual violence (Sara Meger) 5.00pm Finish Conference Dinner: Halong Bay Vietnamese Restaurant. 7.30pm 52 Crown Street Wollongong 4 Friday 30th November Building 67 Room 101 8.00 – 9.00am Registration Keynote address: Bob Pease – Disengaging Men from Patriarchy: 9.00 – 10.00am Rethinking the man question in Masculinity Studies Keynote address: James Lang – Men’s Use and Experiences of 10.00 – 11.00am Violence in Asia and the Pacific: Closing the gap between research and practice 11.30 – 11.30am Morning tea Stream A Stream B Streams Building 67 - Room 101 Building 67 - Room 102 11.30 -1.00pm Engaging Men in Ending Men’s Boys and Childcare; Workplaces; Violence Against Women Fathers Selling Change: Social Engaging Boys in Building marketing to prevent men’s Gender Equality: Reflections 11.30 – 12.00pm violence against women (White from primary school research Ribbon Foundation – Kate (Clare Bartholomaeus) Alexander) Workshop: Fishbowl: Violence Male Kindergarten Teacher against women as a workplace Assistants’ Perceptions of issue (White Ribbon Caring Practice: Moving away 12.00 – 12.30pm Foundation – Brooke Cromar) from the misery rationale to build gender equality in childcare education (Leif Askland) The Social Construction of Men as Caring Fathers – Implications 12.30 – 1.00pm for gender equality (Graeme Russell) 1.00 – 2.00pm Lunch 5 Friday 30th November Stream A Stream B Streams Building 67 - Room 101 Building 67 - Room 102 2.00 – 3.00pm Men, Gender, and Culture Working with Men 2.00 – 2.30pm Men and Caring: Towards Workshop: Terms of ecological masculinism (Paul Engagement – Some practical Pule) tools and techniques for involving men in building 2.30 – 3.00pm “The Problem Is That He’s A gender equality in our Man, Not That He’s Bisexual”: Bi workplaces (Susan Harwood) men by women (Maria Pallotta- Chiarolli) 3.00 – 3.30pm Afternoon tea Stream A Stream B Streams Building 67 - Room 101 Building 67 - Room 102 3.30 – 5.00pm Men, Gender, and Culture Men and Sexism Risky Masculinity: Exploring the FILM: The Bro Code: How relationship between young Contemporary Culture Creates 3.30 – 4.00pm men, hegemonic masculinity, Sexist Men (Joseph Salemi) and risky practices (Adam Presentation and group Rogan) discussion The Man-Shed: Weekend work, 4.00 – 4.30pm the garage and modern capitalism (Thomas Birtchnell) Rugby League Against Violence – Changing Conceptions of 4.30 – 5.00pm Masculinity Through Sport (Adam Everill) 5.00 – 5.30pm Wrap up, conclusions, and where to next Building 67 Room 101 5.30pm Conference closes 6 Titles, abstracts, and bionotes Please note that the following table is organised in alphabetical order by presenters’ surnames. Leif Askland Male Kindergarten Teacher Assistants’ Perceptions of Caring Practice: Moving away from the misery rationale to build gender equality in childcare education [email protected] Abstract: Leif Askland is an assistant professor at the Oslo and Akershus University College of Through an analysis of how a group of male kindergarten teacher assistants perceive Applied Sciences, Norway. He lectures in themselves as caring persons, this paper explores issues of gender equality in childcare pedagogy in Early Childhood Education and education. The discourses that have dominated the early childhood education domain works also in projects aiming to recruit men have traditionally been guided by a female-male dichotomy, which marginalises men for work in kindergartens. He has written through a so-called ‘misery rationale’. Discussions have conventionally focused on the several books on this topic. He is much used overrepresentation of boys and men in violence statistics, prison and special education for gender and gender equity courses in (Raundalen 1998); however, little attention has been afforded to the actual practices, kindergartens. identities and relations that underpin masculinities within this traditionally female domain. In this paper, I will address this gap through an analysis of texts written by male kindergarten teacher assistants about their caring practices. I aim to illustrate how discrimination towards and misconceptions of men’s complex caring practices rests upon stereotypes rather than actual caring practices. The paper aims to trigger discussions about strategies to enhance vocational training, by which male kindergarten teacher assistants may be given an opportunity to reflect upon their own practices and, subsequently, develop more advanced and nuanced caring practices. Subsequently, it addresses questions of programs and policies that relate to gender equality in the domain of men and women caring for children. 7 Clare Bartholomaeus Engaging Boys in Building Gender Equality: Reflections from primary school research [email protected] Abstract: Dr Clare Bartholomaeus recently completed her PhD at The University of Adelaide, This paper examines boys’ understandings of gender equality, drawing from research in where her thesis examined how gender two South Australian primary schools with students aged 6-7 and 11-13. This paper (with a focus on masculinities) was centres on the views and practices of boys which could be seen as beneficial to building understood and constructed by boys, girls, gender equality. This includes an examination of how some boys were already aware of teachers, and parents in primary school. gender (in)equality and the ways in which boys supported gender equality, such as by opposing violence against women. Possibilities for engaging boys in gender equality via classroom activities are also discussed. The paper concludes with an examination of some of the barriers to engaging primary school boys in gender equality work. Christine Beasley Caution! Hazards Ahead: Considering the potential theory/practice