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Host: Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House
Homepage: http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs/Events/Conferences%2001-02/Heroes/Heroes%20Brawlers%20Pimps%20Paupers.html
Email: irs@sas.ac.uk
Organizers: Abdool Karim Vakil (Kings London and Institute of Romance Studies)
Description:
This interdisciplinary conference proposes to explore the articulation between representations of masculinity, ideology and
politics in twentieth-century Portugal through a focus on marginality and marginalisation. The perspectives adopted will
range from the overview of particular generic discourses to detailed study of the shifting figuration of particular types: the
Catholic priest, the fascist male, the indigent pauper, the war mutilated, the sex criminal, the homosexual and the libertine.
This conference will be of interest not merely to those in the field of Portuguese studies, but to all with a comparativist
interest in contemporary European history, gender studies and the articulations between social representations, ideology
and politics.
Date received: November 20, 2001
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