Day 1 – Tuesday 15 May
09.00-09.30 REGISTRATION / COFFEE & TEA
09.30-09.45
Welcome by Johan De Smet (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent)
Introduction by Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University)
09.45-10.45
“Patriarchy, masculinity, and homosocial relations: Mapping the territories”
– Abigail Solomon-Godeau (UC Santa Barbara)
10.45-12.20
Session 1: Fraternal bonds: Mediating masculine intimacy. Chair: Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University Nijmegen)
“Brothers-in-law of the brush: The domestic dramas of Édouard Vuillard and Ker-Xavier Roussel”
– Rachel Sloan (Courtauld Gallery)
“The relationship between Gauguin and Laval: A re-evaluation”
– Joost van der Hoeven (Van Gogh Museum)
“Asher Durand’s Kindred Spirits and the homoerotics of transcendentalism”
– Alexis Monroe (New York University)
“’Les Stevens!’ Masculine family bonds and muscles in 19th-century Parisian art life”
– Tom Verschaffel (KU Leuven)
12.20-13.45 LUNCH + OPTIONAL VISIT OF THE MEDARDO ROSSO EXHIBITION
13.45-15.20
Session 2: Coercive bonds: Disciplining the male body. Chair: Katharina Pewny (Ghent University)
“Undressing the army: Health and hygiene on display in Eugène Chaperon’s La douche au Régiment”
– Sean Kramer (University of Michigan)
“Western art and same-gender sexual abuse of enslaved men”
– Thomas A. Foster (Howard University)
“Bazille, painter-Zouave: Homosociality and hypermasculinity at the dawn of the Franco-Prussian war”
– Mary Manning (independent scholar)
“An alliance of virtue: Masculinity, self-reformation, and public actors in Hungary in the Reform Age”
– Éva Bicskei (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
15.20-15.45 COFFEE + TEA
15.45-17.00
Session 3: Imperial bonds: Othering and the formation of masculine identities. Chair: Jenny Reynaerts (Rijksmuseum)
“‘Une race perfectible’: Black manhood and nudity in Arsène Matton’s Congolese sculpture”
– Thijs Dekeukeleire (Ghent University & University of Antwerp)
“Mystical Manhood: Whirling dervishes in the orientalist imaginary”
– Brigid Boyle (Rutgers University)
“Lions in the tigers’ den: Rival masculinities in the jungles of British India”
– Siddhartha V. Shah (Columbia University)
Day 2 – Wednesday 16 May
08.30-9.00 REGISTRATION / COFFEE & TEA
09.00-09.05
Welcome by Thijs Dekeukeleire (Ghent University & University of Antwerp)
9.05-10.05
“Zahrtmann’s Symposium: Ancient Greek desire in a modern Danish scandal”
– Michael Hatt (University of Warwick)
10.05-11.20
Session 4: Covert bonds: Queering the nineteenth-century man. Chair: Stefan Dudink (Radboud University Nijmegen)
“Binding and unbinding bodies: Simeon Solomon”
– Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (University of Louisville)
“Raphael, Jonah, and Antinoüs: Problems of male beauty and sexuality on the Grand Tour”
– Crawford Alexander Mann III (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
“Aesthetic of the closet: Robert de Montesquiou and the art of collecting”
– Damien Delille (Lumière University Lyon 2)
11.20-12.20
“Male bonding on the motif: Landscape painting and the formation of modern masculinities”
– Anthea Callen (University of Nottingham & Australian National University)
12.20-14.00 LUNCH + OPTIONAL VISIT OF THE MEDARDO ROSSO EXHIBITION
14.00-15.35
Session 5: Forged bonds: Competing for each other’s attention. Chair: Maite van Dijk (Van Gogh Museum)
“Strong, loyal, male: Artists as hunters”
– Maurice Saß (University of Hamburg)
“’The heart is like many instruments’: Technology, engineering, and invention in the circle of Edgar Degas”
– Michelle Foa (Tulane University)
“Everybody’s darling: A male artist society grasping for Loïe Fuller”
– Thomas Moser (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
“Difference and similitude: Gustave Caillebotte and the homosociality of stamps and yachts”
– Samuel Raybone (Leicester University)
15.35-16.00 COFFEE+TEA
16.00-16.30
Concluding remarks
– Henk de Smaele (University of Antwerp)
16.30-17.00
Discussion. Chair: Rachel Esner (University of Amsterdam)
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