The Second Annual Conference on Male Studies:
Looking Forward to Solutions
New York Academy of Medicine
and
Simultaneous Online Webinar Broadcast to a global audience
Distinguished experts discussed the problems, challenges and solutions to the rapidly deteriorating status of men and boys in education, employment, mental and physical health, family structure and related areas. The conference covered the impact of males’ problems in the post-modern era, as well as their effect on both genders, and the presenters’ views on steps to reverse current trends.
The conference touched on virtually all areas defining contemporary life from advertising and education – to medicine, psychology and sociology – and represented a range of academic disciplines from anthropology, education and history – to medicine, government and psychology.
At the conference a poster section was on display. Those 12 selected submissions are available for viewing online by clicking here.
Co-Chairs of the event were:
Marianne J. Legato, MD and Thomas Mortenson
Dr. Marianne Legato is the founder and director of Columbia’s College of Medicine’s Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine, editor of the first text on gender medicine, and founder of the journal, Gender Medicine. Her most recent book is Why Men Die First. Dr. Legato will report on the male’s medical travails and the need for gender-specific medicine for the benefit of all.
Tom Mortenson is senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, editor and publisher of Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY, a monthly research letter devoted to analysis and reporting on the demographics, sociology, history, politics and economics of educational opportunity after high school, and 2010 recipient of the Walter O. Mason Award from the Council for Opportunity in Education. He will address the male’s shortfall in education and its impact on male employment prospects.
Other featured speakers at the conference and their topics were:
Gordon E. Finley, PhD is Professor of Psychology at Florida International University with research interests in fatherhood and divorce. His topic is how emerging current realities and anticipated future trends will affect the role of fathers in families and children's lives.
Michael Gilbert is the author of The Disposable Male and a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, at the University of Southern California, where he focuses on technology’s impact on gender and family issues. His presentation will deal with the current muddled state of gender affairs and the future challenges to males.
Dr. Paul Nathanson, PhD is a senior researcher at McGill University and is on the Faculty of Religious Studies. Dr. Katherine Young, PhD is James McGill Professor, also on the Faculty of Religious Studies. They are co-authors on four volumes dealing with misandry, the hatred of men or boys. Their presentation will be From Primeval to Postmodern Man: A Revolutionary Theory.
Matthew Willcox is the Director of Strategic Planning at Draftfcb, San Francisco. Draftfcb is one of the largest global advertising networks. Mr. Willcox was instrumental in helping Levi Strauss and Company brand Dockers, developing the “Wear the Pants” campaign that dealt with male roles and image. He and a colleague will address the advertising industry’s past and current depictions of males and their consequences.
The conference moderator was Guy Garcia, author of The Decline of Men, a former vice-president of AOL, and the winner of awards for journalism.
If you participated online and had any difficulties, please let us know. We plan to provide a video production of the conference in its entirety, as well as full transcripts.
For information, write to notovitz@malestudies.org.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers are being considered for the Third Annual Conference on Male Studies: 2012
The Foundation for Male Studies is actively seeking proposals for papers on any aspect of male studies, including the deep biology of the male, anthropological perspectives on the experience of being male, psychoanalytic study of boys and older males, history of the male, literacy and boyhood, boys' and men's well-being, depiction of males in literature and the media, males in a changing economy, global perspectives on the experience of being male, themes in the sociology of being male, public policy and health care, explicitly devoted to boys and older males, and the male experience in higher education.
Papers are welcomed from non-Anglophone countries and Independent Scholars.
This is not a gender studies or men's studies conference in the generally accepted sense.
Contact estephens@malestudies.org or enter your name, description and email address below if you are interested in submitting a proposal, and we’ll contact you.
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