call for papers

Leadership, Power and Masculinity: from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

Autorité Politique Pouvoir et Masculinité – Web

University of London Institute in Paris, 5^th and 6^th September 2014

Convenors: Sean Brady (Birkbeck College, University of London), Christopher Fletcher (Université de Paris 1 Sorbonne), Rachel Moss (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck/European University Institute, Florence).

The historical study of high politics, power, authority and government remains largely, and almost uniquely untouched by questions of masculinities and gender. It is in an effort to challenge this last bastion of ‘gender blindness’ that the University of London Institute in Paris presents its groundbreaking conference ‘Leadership, Power and Masculinity: From Antiquity to the Contemporary World’, and invites scholars interested in exploring new approaches to these fields and/or in applying a gender analysis to the study of high politics, to submit abstracts for consideration as a paper for this…