Early Modern Men: patriarchs, patriots and pricks in Europe, 1500 to 1800

Online interdisciplinary conference covering aspects of masculinity in the early modern period. 4 + 5 Feb 2022. Twitter: @emmenconference

FRIDAY 4 FEBRUARY

9:30 – 10:30 Panel 1

Victoria Munn - Beards and baldness: men's hair practices in early modern England

Bob Pierik - Masculinity on the move: Vehicles and urban space in Amsterdam’s long eighteenth century

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:00 Panel 2

Harriet Anne Palin - Paternal Catechising: Fatherhood & Religious Education in Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century England

Alice Whitehead - 'Run to the Midwife, Tom!': The experiences of expectant fathers in seventeenth-century England

12:00 – 12:30 Break

12:30 – 13:30 Panel 3

Sam Jermy - ‘A sweet face, a fine beard, comely corps, and a Carowsing Codpeece’: Performing Materiality, Manhood and Age in the Children of Paul’s Repertory

Timothy Somers - Masculinity and Jesting Culture, c. 1520s-1750s

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Panel 4

Anna Graham - Mama’s Boys: Men and Their Mothers in Early Modern Drama

Lucy Morgan - Single men's family ties in early modern England

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:00 Panel

Shauna O’Neill - ‘Schotlandt voor myn vaderlandt’: fictive kinship, the Covenant and Scottish nationality.

Aidyn Osgood - Cultivating Continence: Towards a Military History of Masculinity

17:00 – 18:30 Keynote

Catie Gill - ‘Aggressors [are] generally moved by ambition’: Quaker William Penn’s Gendered Defence of Peace

SATURDAY 5 FEBRUARY

9:30 – 10:30 Panel 6

Andrea di Carlo – ‘Je suis moy-mesme la matiere de mon livre’: Montaigne’s Volatile Masculinity and Sexuality

Anna Quercia-Thomas - Mobilising emotion through structures of male friendship in Shakespeare

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:00 Panel 7

Emily Robson - ‘More than a man’: Manhood and the Minister in Seventeenth Century England

Hannah Straw - 'Evil men wax worse & worse': Masculinity, Morality, and Moral Panic in Restoration London

12:00 – 12:30 Break

12:30 – 13:30 Panel 8

Oresta Muckute – Masculinity and petitioning for welfare in the British Civil Wars

Michael Broughton - ‘Manful Deeds’: Soldierly Expectation in Elizabethan Military Print

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 Panel 9

Riocárd Ó hOddail / Richard Huddleson - Corrupted Clergy, Calculating Cross-Dressers, and Careless Cuckolds: Transgressive Masculinities in Mallorcan Entremesos

Oliver Lewis – ‘When the man bleeds, is the genius good?’: The dark side of genius in Thomas Middleton's The Phoenix (1604) and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1604/1616)

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:00 Panel 10

Pelayo Fernández Garcia – I'll Make a Man Out of You: Masculinity in Marcenado’s war writings

Davide Martino - Art and gentility at odds: the case of Costantino de’ Servi (1554–1622)

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