Research Activities

Feminist Boys Studies Research Group

Research Presentations: Conferences, Seminars, Public Lectures, Symposia & Podcasts

2022

  • Hayes, H.; Laughren, F.; Sharkey, G.; Graham, S.(2022) Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies Panel I: Formations of Masculinity [Conference Panel, Chair, S. Tang]. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference, RMIT Melbourne.
  • Driscoll, C. & Grealy, L.; Black, P.; Laurie, T. & Driscoll, C.(2022) Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies Panel II: Some Dominant Parameters of Boyhood [Conference Panel, Chair, L. Grealy]. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference, RMIT Melbourne.
  • Driscoll, C., Black, P., Laurie, T., Steains, T., Kean, J., Sharkey, G. & Laughren, F. (2022) Can there be an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies? [Seminar Panel] Fay Gale Lunchtime Seminar Series. University of Adelaide.
  • Laughren, F. (2022). Who’s Responsible? The Question of Men’s Agency in Feminist Critiques of Consent Culture [Conference Paper]. Australasian Association of Philosophy conference.
  • Laurie, T. (2022) Growing Up, Growing Sideways, Not Growing At All: The Role of Cinema in Study of Boys [Conference Paper]. Seminar Series for the FASS Diversities and Social Inclusion Research Group, University of Technology Sydney.
  • Laurie, T.; Laughren, F.; Tang, S., Kean, J., Sharkey, G., Laughren, F. & Driscoll, C. (2022) Feminisms in Boys Studies: Affirmation, Repair, Critique [Conference Panel]. ‘Bodies in Flux’: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference, Perth.
  • Laurie, T., Sharkey, G., Laughren, F., Graham, S., Hayes, H. & Black, P. (2022–) Boy Trouble [Podcast series]. Forthcoming.

2021

  • Driscoll, C. (2021) Stranger Things: Boys and Feminism [Public Lecture]. Department of Sociology, Australian National University.
  • Driscoll, C. (2021) Arrested Development: The temporality of boyhood. [Seminar Presentation] Gender/Sexuality/Culture Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, University of Melbourne.
  • Driscoll, C.; Laurie, T.; Sharkey, G.; Steains, T. (2021) Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies [Conference Panel]. ‘Unknowing Institutions’: Decolonisation and Critical Intersectional Practice. Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association conference.
  • Driscoll, C.; Tang, S.; Laurie, T.; Sharkey, G. (2021) Researching Australian Boyhood [Seminar panel]. Department of Sociology, Australian National University.
  • Graham, S. (2021) Transnational Blackness, Indigeneity, and Solidarity in Sydney [Conference Presentation]. TASA Critical Indigenous Studies Symposium.
  • Laughren, F. (2021) The Inverted Mirror of Online Misogyny: Irigaray and the Manosphere [Conference Presentation]. Australian Society for French Studies.
  • Laurie, T. (2021) The Boys Who Look: Previewing Masculinities through Boyhoods on Screen [Public Lecture]. Association for Cultural Studies Virtual Lecture Series.
  • Tang, S. (2021) Imagining New Futures: Provocations in Gender and Sexuality Studies. [Keynote Panel] Deakin University HDR/ECR Symposium on Gender and Sexuality.
  • Steains, T. (2021) Nikkei Australian Identity and Hafu Boyhood. [Invited Speaker] Australian New Zealand Literary Society of Japan.

2020

  • Driscoll, C.; Tang, S.; Laurie, T.; Sharkey, G.; Kean, J. & Steains, T. (2020) Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies [Seminar panel]. Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney.
  • Graham, S. (2020) Transnational Black Solidarities [Conference Presentation]. Strong Sistas, The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures.
  • Laurie, T. (2020) The Serialisation of Masculinity in Cinema: Animal Kingdom and Snowtown [Conference Paper]. Dial S for Screen Studies, Annual Conference for the Sydney Screen Studies Network.

2019

  • Driscoll, C.; Grealy, L.; Tang, S.; Sharkey, G.; Steains, T. & Kean, J. (2019) Boys: Learning from Feminist and Gender Studies for Research on Boyhood [Conference Panel]. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia conference.
  • Driscoll, C., Grealy, L., Tang, S., Sharkey, G., Steains, T., Kean, J., Pascoe, CJ, Nayak, A. & Latham, J. et al. (2019) Can There be an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies? [Symposium]. University of Sydney.
  • Graham, S. (2019) Affect Aliens: Experiencing Blackness and Indigeneity in Australian University Classrooms [Conference Presentation]. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference.

Pedagogy

2022

  • Driscoll, C., Laughren, F., Tang, S., Kean, J., Sharkey, G., Steains, T., Laurie, T., Grealy, L., Graham, S., Black, P. (2022) GCST4211/5211 Boys and Girls: Gendered Forms of Youth [Coursework Unit]. University of Sydney, Gender and Cultural Studies.
  • Driscoll, C. (2022) Boys Will be Boys? [Lecture] GCST2612 Youth and Youth Culture. University of Sydney, Gender and Cultural Studies.
  • Hayes, H. (2022-2026) Masculinities and Consent – A critical analysis of secondary consent education programs designed for boys and young men. PhD research supervised by Kean, J. & Sharkey, G.
  • Kean, J. (2022) Troubled Masculinities? [Lecture] GCST1602 Sex, Gender, Culture. University of Sydney, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies.

2021

  • Graham, S. (2021-2025) Learning from girls studies for African American and Australian Indigenous boys studies. PhD research supervised by Tang, S. & Kean, J.
  • Laughren, F. (2021-2025). Beyond a Zero-Sum Game Ontology. PhD research supervised by Driscoll, C & Kean, J.
  • Tang, S. Transgender Boyhood [Guest Lecture]. INGS4002 Identity, Politics, Globalisation. School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry.

2020

  • Tang, S. Transgender Boyhood [Guest Lecture]. INGS4002 Identity, Politics, Globalisation. School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry.

Workshops

2022

  • August 26, 9:00 – 11:00. Facilitators: Catherine Driscoll & Zac Seidler. Topic: Thinking about Teachers of Boys at the Intersection of Psychology and Feminist Cultural Studies.

2021

  • July 12, 10:00 – 12:00. Guest facilitator: Victoria Rawlings. Topic: Cultures of gender, sexuality, and violence in school communities. Reading: Carmody, M. (2015) Sex, Ethics, and Young People. Palgrave Macmillan US. Chapter 6.
  • August 20, 10:00 – 12:00. Guest facilitator: Anna Hush. Topic: Offline Misogyny and Immaturity. Reading: Nash. (2019) Pedagogies of Desire. Differences, 30(1), 197–227.
  • September 17, 10:00 – 11:00. Guest facilitators: Zac Seidler, Simon Rice & Michael Wilson from Orygen mental health research institute. Topic: Psychology of Men and Boys.
  • October 15. 11:00 – 12:30. Guest facilitator: Andrea Waling. Topic: Sexuality, masculinity and technology: men and intimacy in the digital age.
  • November 19, 2021. 11:00 – 12:00. Guest facilitators: Cristyn Davies & Kerry Robinson. Topic: Trans childhoods and gendered health.

Reading Groups

2022

  • June 17, 11:00 – 1:00: Bryan, N. (2021) Remembering Tamir Rice and Other Black Boy Victims: Imagining Black PlayCrit Literacies Inside and Outside Urban Literacy Education. Urban Education, 56(5), 744-771; France, A. & Roberts, S. (2017) Youth and Social Class: Enduring Inequality in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Chapter 5.

2021

  • January 22, 10:00 – 11:00: Corbett, K. (2009) Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities. In Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities. Yale University Press. Chapters 3 & 4.
  • February 12, 11:00 – 12:00: Connell, R. (2020) Making The Men and the Boys. Boyhood Studies, 13(2), 9–; Connell, R. (2008). Masculinity construction and sports in boys’ education: a framework for thinking about the issue. Sport, Education and Society, 13(2), 131–145.
  • March 5, 10:00 – 12:00: Chu, J.Y. (2014) “Socialization and Its Discontents”, in When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity. New York: New York University Press; Luttrell, W. (2012) “Making Boys’ Care Worlds Visible.” Boyhood Studies 6 (2): 186-202.
  • April 23, 10:00-12:00: Frosh, S., Phoenix, A. & Pattman, R. (2002) Ethnic identity, ‘race’ and young masculinities. In: Young Masculinities. Palgrave, London; Howard, J. (2019) Just Playin’: Black mixed-race boys and the injustices of boyhood. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 1–19.
  • May 18, 10:00 – 12:00: Hodapp, C. (2017) Men’s rights, gender, and social media. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Chapter 4; Harvey, A., Ringrose, J., & Gill, R. (2013) Swagger, Ratings and Masculinity: Theorising the Circulation of Social and Cultural Value in Teenage Boys’ Digital Peer Networks. Sociological Research Online, 18(4), 57–67.
  • June 18, 10:00 – 12:00: van de Ven, I. & van Gemert, T. (2020) Filter bubbles and guru effects: Jordan B. Peterson as a public intellectual in the attention economy. Celebrity Studies, DOI: 1080/19392397.2020.1845966, 1–19; Witt, T. (2020) “If i cannot have it, i will do everything i can to destroy it.” the canonization of Elliot Rodger: “Incel” masculinities, secular sainthood, and justifications of ideological violence. Social Identities, 26(5), 675–689.

Grants

2022

  • Driscoll, C., Tang, S. & Kean, J. (2022) School of Humanities Research Support: Engaging with Primary-School Teachers of Boys.
  • Driscoll, C. (2022) SSSHARC James Visiting Fellowship in Social Sciences: Dr Zac Seidler.
  • Driscoll, C., Tang, S. & Kean, J. (2022) SOPHI Research Support: Outreach for the Feminist Boys Studies Research Group.
  • Kean, J. (2022) FASS Covid Kickstart Fund.
  • Tang, S. (2022) FASS Covid Kickstart Fund.
  • Tang, S. (2022) Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair of Sexuality Studies: Professor Srila Roy.

2021

  • Driscoll, C. (2020-21) SSSHARC Gilbert Visiting Fellowship in Humanities: Associate Professor CJ Pascoe.
  • Driscoll, C. (2021) SOPHI Research Support: Feminist Boys Studies Research Group – Boys Schools Thematic.
  • Driscoll, C. (2021) Australian National University, Department of Sociology, Visiting Scholar.
  • Driscoll, C. & Tang, S. (2020) FASS Postgraduate Research Support Program: Hannah Hayes [PhD Scholarship, 2022-2026].

2020

  • Driscoll, C., Grealy, L. Tang, S., Laurie, T. & Kean, J. (2020) Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem. ARC Special Research Initiative: Australian History and Culture.
  • Driscoll, C., Tang, S. & Kean, J. (2020) FASS Postgraduate Research Support Program: Finola Laughren & Sarah Graham [2 x PhD Scholarships, 2021-2025].
  • Buiten, D. & Kean, J. (2020) Men, masculinity and gender equality: Young men’s perceptions, responses and negotiations. University of Johannesburg Research Collaboration Grant. [Collaboration between University of Notre Dame Sydney, University of Sydney, and University of Johannesburg.]

2019

  • Driscoll, C. (2019) SSSHARC Huddle Funding: Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies.
  • Driscoll, C. (2019) FASS Research Support: Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies.
  • Driscoll, C. (2019) SOPHI Research Support: Boys: Learning from Feminist and Gender Studies for Research on Boyhood.