You find the Call or Chapters here (PDF).

If you would like to propose a chapter, please submit an abstract of max. 250 words and a short (200 word) academic bio by 30 April 2022 to: masculinitieshandbook@gmail.com.

Call for Contributions:

The handbook is structured along six sections:

1.) Theoretical framings on gender, masculinities, conflict and peace (including questining binaries of conflict/peace, examining queer and de-colonial perspectives)

2.) Masculinities, negotiating peace and managing conflict (e.g. masculinities in disarmament processes, ceasefire monitoring or peace negotiations)

3.) Masculinities and dealing with everyday long-term impacts of conflict (e.g. masculinities and conflict-related trauma or disabilities)

4.) Masculinities, protracted conflict and ‘neither war nor peace’ (e.g. masculinities under military occupation, masculinities and endemic armed violence, indigenous masculinities and settler colonialism)

5.) Transforming masculinities (e.g. working with men to prevent violence and promote gender equality)

6.) Policy and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding (e.g. masculinities in Women, Peace and Security policy or foreign policy)

Submissions for chapter proposals are expected to directly speak to and engage with these thematic subject areas. We welcome a broad range of proposals on a range of issues related to the overall theme of masculinities, peacebuilding and conflict, and are specifically looking for chapters that focus on the following topics:

-        Indigenous masculinities

-        Men, masculinities and conflict-related trauma

-        Masculinities and conflict-related disabilities

-        Masculinities and protracted occupation

-        Civilian resistance and masculinities

-        Masculinities and remnants of war

-        Privileged masculinities and peace settlements

We are particularly interested in receiving submissions with a focus on and written by scholars from the Global South, including regions often under-represented in conflict and peace research, such as Oceania/Pacific, the Caribbean or Central Asia. We also strongly encourage Global North authors to collaborate with Global South colleagues.

If you would like to propose a chapter, please submit an abstract of max. 250 words and a short (200 word) academic bio by 30 April 2022 to: masculinitieshandbook@gmail.com.

Decisions will be made and communicated by mid-May 2022. Chapters are expected to be around 6000 words (including references); first chapter drafts are due by 1 October 2022. There will be an author workshop, preliminary scheduled for November/December 2022, and final chapters are due by 1 March 2023. The handbook is expected to be published in early 2024.

On Thursday, 25th February 2021, 06:30 p.m., Philipp Schulz will launch his new book 'Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda' (2021), published with University of California Press.

Log-in details can be found on the event organizer's page, the Graduate Institute Geneva.

The book is available open access via this link.

About the book: Although wartime sexual violence against men occurs more frequently than is commonly assumed, its dynamics are remarkably underexplored, and male survivors’ experiences remain particularly overlooked. This reality is poignant in northern Uganda, where sexual violence against men during the early stages of the conflict was geographically widespread, yet now accounts of those incidents are not just silenced and neglected locally but also widely absent from analyses of the war. Based on rare empirical data, this book seeks to remedy this marginalization and to illuminate the seldom-heard voices of male sexual violence survivors in northern Uganda, bringing to light their experiences of gendered harms, agency, and justice.

Starting Dec. 15, 2020, the digital exhibition "Covid-19: A Mosaic. Politics of Life in Times of the Corona Crisis" can be visited:www.covid19-mosaik.de. 

The basic concept of the exhibition was developed during a seminar on perspectives from political theory on the Corona crisis offered by Gundula Ludwig in the summer semester at the Institute of Political Science. The students' podcasts and presentations are now being made publicly available. The theoretical discussion is complemented by contributions from activists and civil society actors such as the Black Community Foundation Bremen, Ende Gelände, FAU Bonn, Mission Lifeline, Seebrücke, Together we are Bremen and many others. Thus, a multifaceted mosaic on the Corona crisis emerges, bridging activist and academic-critical knowledge and making visible the multi-layered aspects of the unequal politics of life in the Corona crisis.

The project was funded under the special call "Corona Crisis and the Humanities" of the interdisciplinary collaborative research platform "Worlds of Contradiction" at the University of Bremen. The project was led by Gundula Ludwig and Philipp Schulz, with Gunnar Bantz, Renée Gerber and Sara Kirch as collaborators.

If you have any questions about the exhibition and the development of the project, please contact pdl2020@uni-bremen.de.

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More information about the book and free download options can be found on the University of California Press website.

Within the framework of the special call for proposals 'Corona Crisis and the Humanities' of the research platform World of Contradictions (WoC) at the University of Bremen, Dr. Gundula Ludwig, Dr. Philipp Schulz and Prof. Nadine Rose from the Faculty 12 - Pedagogy and Educational Sciences - have received funding for the implementation of a new project. The project, starting on June 1, 2020, aims to create a virtual exhibition entitled 'Politics of Life in Times of the Covid 19 Pandemic', in close cooperation with students from seminars from Political Science as well as Pedagogy and Educational Sciences.

The project is based on the premise that the current "corona crisis" is a comprehensive social crisis in which already existing political, economic and social contradictions are condensed. It is therefore the task of the humanities and social sciences to show the extent to which current political measures on the "corona crisis" generate contradictory effects and consolidate already existing structures of inequality and mechanisms of discrimination.

The aim of the project is to create a digital exhibition entitled "Policies of Life in Times of the Covid 19 Pandemic" that presents these contradictions and debates in a sustainable and creative way. The exhibition is to be conceived along various focal points, to each of which a thematic exhibition space will be dedicated. The contents of the exhibition in different formats - text, audio and video - will be developed in close cooperation with students from seminars held by the three project leaders and supplemented by contributions from civil society actors.

The virtual exhibition is scheduled to open at the beginning of the winter semester 2020/2021.

In this new episode of the OpinionPeace Podcast from the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) at the University of Tromsø, our colleague Philipp Schulz, together with Heleen Touquet from the University of Antwerp, speaks about the need to go beyond binaries in research about conflict-related sexual violence against men. Philipp and Heleen speak about a range of issues and questions inherent to debates about gender, peace and security in general, as well as about their two latest publications on sexual violence against men in Security Dialogue and International Affairs.

The podcast is available here. (52 min).

CfP as PDF

Call for Papers: Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice
insights also intend to investigate the multiple possibilities of the intersections between gender, sexualities, vulnerabilities and power, which often lie at the core of post-conflict processes of dealing with the past. Queer perspectives also aim to envision and to sharpen our imagination for possible alternatives to dominant – often institutionalized, (neo-)liberal and hetero-patriarchal – TJ toolkit approaches.
We therefore seek to critically explore and position these masculinities and queer perspectives within feminist inquiries regarding the roles of gender in social, cultural and political structuring more widely. Rather than only making men and sexual minorities visible in transitional settings, we instead seek to explore structural issues regarding the persisting exclusion and potential inclusion of masculinities and queer analyses. As per this approach, our intention for this edited volume is underpinned by and geared towards a relational understanding of gender. Topics to be explored and questions to be raised and answered include, but may not be limited to:
- How can masculinities and queer perspectives enhance and complexify our understandings of the intersections between gender, armed conflict and post-conflict transitions?
- What are the lived realities of men and of sexual and gender minorities in post-conflict and transitional spaces, and how can (or cannot) diverse transitional justice mechanisms engage with and respond to these experiences?
- How do identities defined by inter alia gender, sexualities, class and ethnicity intersect, and how do these intersections shape individuals’ post-war experiences?
- What are potential challenges associated with bringing more attention towards men’s gendered experiences in transitional settings?
We welcome chapter submissions which seek to address and uncover these and multiple associated questions in a variety of different post-conflict and transitional case study contexts, as well as from diverse disciplinary, theoretical and methodological backgrounds. In the edited volume, we thus aim to combine contributions that address diverse geo-political regions, from across different historical episodes and that touch upon different conflict dynamics, to illustrate the diversity of transitional and post-conflict contexts where masculinities and/or queer perspectives offer new insights into understanding, disrupting and/or complexifying these processes.
We intend to submit the edited volume to the Series on Transitional Justice published by Intersentia; we are in touch with the editors of the book series, who have indicated their interest and commitment in working with us on such an edited volume. We also intend to organize a one-day workshop for contributors to the edited volume, tentatively scheduled for March 2020, either in Antwerp, Belgium or alternatively in Bremen, Germany. At the workshop, authors will present and receive detailed feedback on their draft Chapters, before preparing the manuscripts for final submission to the editors/publisher. The workshop thereby aims to ensure internal coherence between the Chapters included in the book.
If you are interested in contributing a Chapter for this edited volume, please send a brief abstract (of 200-250 words), accompanied by a short bio (100 words) to Philipp Schulz, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), University of Bremen: pschulz@uni-bremen.de, by 15 September 2019.
The tentative timeline looks as follows:
15 September 2019: CfP deadline for chapter abstracts
1 October 2019: Notification of selected chapters
1 March 2020: Deadline for first draft chapters (to be presented at one-day workshop)
March 2020: One-day book workshop
June 2020: Final chapters to be submitted to edited volume editors
August 2020: Final manuscript to be submitted to the book series editors / publishers

The programme as PDF.

Contakt: Dr. Philipp Schulz, pschulz@uni-bremen.de.

The Call for Papers as PDF

Questions to be explored in the workshop can include, but are not limited to:
- What are the different ways in which conflict-affected communities experience gendered harms and vulnerabilities, both during war and in post-conflict transitions? 
- How must the empirical and conceptual relationships between gender, victimhood vulnerabilities and/or agency be understood?
- What conceptualizations of gender and victimhood can yield a more productive debate about survivors' experiences of harms?
- How do survivors and war-affected communities exercise varying forms of agency to engage with their gendered conflict-related experiences?
We invite paper proposals from early career researchers (PhDs and Post-Docs) across various disciplines. In-depth case study analyses alongside theoretical explorations and empirically-grounded papers are welcome. The workshop will be interactive and participatory; participants are expected to present a research paper on the theme of the workshop, but will also be assigned another paper for discussion, and are expected to actively contribute to the discussion throughout the workshop.
If you would like to propose a paper, please submit an abstract of max. 250 words and a short academic bio by 15 November 2018 to Dr. Caterina Bonora (bonora@uni-bremen.de) and Dr. Philipp Schulz (pschulz@uni-bremen.de). There is no participation fee.

The Conflict Research Society (CRS) has awarded the Cedric Smith Prize 2018 to our colleague Dr. Philipp Schulz. The Cedric Smith Prize is awarded annually to the best research paper in peace and conflict research by a PhD student at an institution in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. The award is specifically for Philipp's recent paper on 'Displacement from Gendered Personhood: sexual violence and masculinities in northern Uganda', published in International Affairs. In awarding the prize, the CRS jury emphasized that:

'The contribution of this research goes beyond the scholarship on wartime sexual violence against men: By critically challenging the dominant terminologies in his field, Philipp is able to offer a lens that can help us understand the impact of sexual violence on male, female and gender non-confirming survivors. The jury was very impressed by the reflective, ethical and conscientious way this research was conducted in a very challenging setting, as well as the careful treatment of concepts and nuanced argument.'

The award-winning article can be accessed here, and the announcement by the Conflict Research Society can be found here.

International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 5, 1 September 2018, Pages 1101–1119