Friday 13 June | 8.30am - 4pm | MMSH (amphitheatre)

Hybrid format: contact nathalie.chapon@univ-amu.fr

Day organised by Nathalie Chapon and Gérard Neyrand

with the collaboration of Sylvia Girel

What does it mean to be a man today? The post-modern society in which we live has shaken up the place of men and the way they interact with women in all their roles, as spouses, parents, professionals, etc. Masculinity seemed to be taken for granted, but in recent decades we have seen the limits of this model of sexual identity and the shift towards a new identity for men, offering greater harmony between the sexes, even if its contours are still uncertain.

During this study day, we will be drawing on various disciplines in the human and social sciences - sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis and sexology - to explore the tensions, paradoxes and, ultimately, the different facets of man today, challenging many of our traditional models of thought.

After #MeToo, on gender fluidity, how can you still be a man today? What does it mean to be a father? Do we need a new masculinity?

The study day invites researchers from different backgrounds to combine their views and explore the idea of masculinity. Do we need to reinvent a new, plural masculinity, free of the dust of domination? What does research have to say on the subject?

The aim is to explore the different facets of the human being from a social, political, cultural and sexual point of view, in a creative dimension. The day is open to anyone interested in this subject, including researchers, students and social workers.

Programme :

8h30. Welcoming participants

9h00. General introduction to MESOPOLHIS/IRTS Day, by Nathalie Chapon, Agathe Petit and Gérard Neyrand

Chairing the morning session Nathalie Chapon

9h30. GERARD NEYRAND, Man is no longer a given, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toulouse, CIMERSS, Bouc-bel-air

10h00. ABDELHAFID HAMMOUCHE, "You are not born a man, you become one". Les dynamiques de redéfinition de la masculinité en France depuis les années 1960 au prisme des situations d'interculturalité, Professor Emeritus at the University of Lille, researcher at Clersé-CNRS (UMR 8019), Deputy Director of Maghtech

10.30am-10.45am. Break

10h45. RAPHAEL LIOGIER, The descent into the heart of the male, University Professor, Sophiapol Laboratory, Nanterre.

 11h15. DANIEL COUM, Man and the question of the father, Some anthropological and psychoanalytical considerations, Psychologist-Clinician, Brest (remote)

11.45 a.m.-12.15 p.m. Questions and Discussions

12.15pm-1.45pm. Lunch

Chairing the afternoon session Gérard Neyrand

14h00. CELINE CAUSSE, Men's sex: between power, silence and vulnerabilitySexologist and psychoanalyst, Paris.

14h30. NATHALIE CHAPON, Men in so-called female professions in social work, University Professor, MESOPOLHIS, Aix-en-Provence

15h00. SYLVIA GIREL, Masculine/Feminine in Contemporary Art, University Professor, MESOPOLHIS, Aix-en-Provence

15h30. LILA NEUTRAL, Man as model through photographyPhotographer, Teacher-researcher

3.30pm-4pm. Questions and Discussions

This day will be accompanied by Nancy Grünka painter who will be creating a work on the theme of " Man today "The conference will be based on the speakers' presentations.

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