FASS Researchers and workshop organisers are currently attending the inaugural International Workshop on Masculinities in Asia. The workshop is jointly organized by the Asia Research Institute (ARI) and FASS (the Asian Studies Division, the Gender Studies Minor Programme and the ‘Doing Asian Studies’ Reading Group).

In the opening and welcome remarks by Prof Prasenjit Duara (Director of ARI and ODPRT ) and A/P Robbie Goh (FASS) it was noted that gender studies has become one of the most productive areas within the academic study of Asia. However, the analytical category of ‘men/masculinities’ remains largely underexamined and under-theorized in gender studies of Asia.

More than 30 academics from across Asia, Europe and the Americas are speaking on very diverse issues covering class, ethnicity, religion,  sexual identity, family, nationalism and the male body. As such the workshop addresses the need for a regional, comparative and interdisciplinary dialogue to establish new frameworks for anlaysis and interpretation.

For the full programme click here: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/showfile.asp?eventfileid=649