The Medieval Study Group meets under the auspices of the Medieval Studies Certificate Program, sponsoring a reading/discussion group and lectures, seminars, and conferences.

The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study provides a space for the group's meetings, as well as a library of resources in medieval studies for the use of students.

On March 17, 2006, The Medieval Study Group will sponsor a conference on Medieval and Early Modern Masculinities. The call for papers follows:

MASCULINITIES IN THE LONG MIDDLE AGES

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center

March 17, 2006

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University).

From peasants to kings and from knights to merchants, ideas about masculinity were varied and complex during the medieval era. For this one-day conference, we invite papers from all academic disciplines that probe questions surrounding male-ness and masculinities from late antiquity through the early modern period.

"Masculinities in the Long Middle Ages" is an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Medieval Studies Certificate Program and the CUNY-Medievalists Pearl Kibre Library at the CUNY Graduate Center. This conference seeks to bring into conversation various theories and viewpoints about the ways masculinities were constructed, as well as the ways in which various constructions of masculinity intersected with ideas of class, race, and religion.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

mysticism and masculinity
religious and monastic masculinity
female masculinity
performative masculinity
knighthood
queer readings
homosociality
literary masculinity
hagiography
heroic masculinity
chivalry
gendered violence
racialized masculinity
patristic masculinity
artisanal masculinity

Please submit abstracts of 250 words with "Medieval Masculinities" in the subject line to
medievalmasculinities@gmail.com by Feb. 1, 2006.