Männlichkeiten, Militär und Gewalt im Wandel

Public Keynote

Colonel Dr. Frank Hagemann (Commander of the ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)

Gender Identity and Violence in Authoritarian Times: Reflections on Transgender Military Service

Prof. Dr. Aaron Belkin (San Francisco State University)

Moderation

Prof. Dr. Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Welcome and Introduction

Colonel Dr. Frank Hagemann (Commander of ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)

Prof. Dr. Dr. Alaric Searle (Senior Scientist and Head of Research, ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)

Prof. Dr. Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MKGD)

Introductory Keynote: Masculinity, War, and Genocide: State and Perspectives of Historical Inquiries

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne (Clark University, Worcester, MA)

Moderation

Dr. Heiko Biehl (ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr)

Panel 1

The Development of Early Modern Constructions of Military Masculinity

Prof. Dr. Catherine Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Interpersonal Violence and Sixteenth-century Italian Military Masculinity: the Cases of four Papal Paptains-General

Barbaros Köksal, MA (University of Potsdam, DFG-Project Military Cultures of Violence)
Masculinity, Violence, and Legitimacy: Gendered Perceptions and Violent Practices in Ottoman Military Culture during the Great Turkish War, 1683–1699

Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels (Stanford University, Hoover Institution)
Normalizing the Mercenaries: Masculinity and the Ordinary Lives of Soldiers in Seventeenth-Century Central Europe

Dr. Ilya Berkovich (Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies)
The Domestication of the Common Soldier: Plebeian Military Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Moderation

Prof. Dr. Isabelle Deflers (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)

Panel 2

Competing Concepts and Practices of Military Masculinities in the long Nineteenth Century

Jan-Martin Zollitsch, MA (Humboldt University of Berlin, DFG-Project Military Cultures of Violence) “Now, however, all this is changed. The soldier has to be gentle, as well as brave.” The Franco-Prussian War as a Turning Point in Military Masculine Sensibilities?

Prof. Dr. Maciej Górny (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences)
Male Role Models in the Polish 1863 Uprising and the American Confederacy

Puck de Boer, MA (University of Groningen)
Marching to their own beat: Cultural Dynamics of Italian Soldier Resistance from the 1870s to the 1890s
 

Daniel Gunz, MA (University of Vienna)
Male Same-Sex Desire and the Absence of Gender in the Armed Forces of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1855–1918

Moderation

PDPrivatdozent Dr. Anke Fischer-Kattner (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)

Panel 3

Conflicted Military Masculinities in the Time of World War I

Prof. Dr. Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University)
‘I’ve Fallen Deeply in Love with My Fokker Triplane:’ Masculinity and German Aviators in the First World War

Prof. Dr. Jiří Hutečka (University of Pardubice)
War as a Struggle for Masculine Control in Czech Soldiers´ Individual Experience, 1914–1918

Prof. Dr. Brian K. Feltman (Georgia Southern University)
A Common Thread: Manhood, Surrender, and Cultural Continuities in the First World War

Oscar Owen, MA (University of Wolverhampton)
The British Captive as a Subordinate Form of Masculinity in the First World War

Moderation

Dr. Jasper Heinzen (University of York)

Panel 4

Masculinities and the Military in the Interwar Period

Prof. Dr. Martina Salvante (University of Nottingham)
Fractured Bodies, Contested Masculinities: Disabled Veterans and the Politics of Rehabilitation in Post-World War I Italy

Carolin Kaiser, MA (ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)
Same Old, Same Old? Continuities and Discontinuities in Soldierly Images of Masculinity in the Reichswehr

Viktoria Wind, MA (University of Graz)
Negotiating Military Hierarchies and Masculinity through Disciplinary Matters in the Austrian Bundesheer, 1920–1933

Dr. Friederike C. Hartung (ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)
Horsepower – A (Natural) ‘Masculinity Extender’? The Cavalry of the Reichswehr and the Mechanization of Warfare

Moderation

PDPrivatdozent Dr. Christin Pschichholz (University of Potsdam, DFG-Project Military Cultures of Violence)

Panel 5:

 Variants of Masculinity and Politics in the Age of World War II

Prof. Dr Edward B. Westermann (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)
The Intoxication of Genocidal Camaraderie: Masculinity and Community Forming Violence in Nazi Germany

Dr. Agustin Cosovschi (École française d’Athènes)
The Making of the Antifascist Man: Reading the Memoirs of Yugoslav Partisans through the Lens of Masculinities

Dr. Katharina Seibert (University of Tübingen)
Stubborn Noble Heroes in White: Changing Concepts of Masculinity from Republican to Franco Spain, 1936–1945

Dr. Timothy Ellis-Dale (Teesside University, Middlesbrough)
“Neutrality?” The Gendered Debate over Neutral Ireland’s Place in the Second World War

Moderation

Dr. Frank Reichherzer (ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)

Panel 6: Military Masculinities, Violence and Sexuality during and after the World Wars

Coline Gérard, MA, and Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Debruyne (Université catholique de Louvain)
Two Iterations of ‘Virile Belgium’: Head-shavings and Masculinity in the Diaries of liberated Belgians, October-November 1918 and September 1944

Prof. Dr. Patrick Farges (Université Paris Cité) and Prof. Dr Elissa Mailänder (Université Sciences Po, Paris)
‘Interstitial Archives’ of Queer Nazi Military Masculinities? Looking for Traces of World War II at the Schwule Museum Berlin

Dr. Naama Shik (The International Institute for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem)
Army, War, and Men Who Rape: Ideology, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence as Genocide – From the Holocaust to October 7th

Moderation

Prof Dr. Anne-Laure Briatte (Sorbonne Université)

Final Discussion

Prof. Dr. Christa Hämmerle (University of Vienna)

Prof. Dr. Dr Alaric Searle (ZMSBwZentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam)

Moderation

Prof. Dr. Isabel Heinemann (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich / Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich/Berlin)