BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Anthropology Department and the Migration Working Group wel come Elena Borisova to deliver her lecture\, “Caring Masculinities: Men's Lived Experiences in Eurasia.”Taking an anthropological perspective\, this project explores the lives of men and examines the limits and costs of ca ring masculinities in three countries—Uzbekistan\, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhst an—vis-à-vis global capitalist transformations and the spread of discourse s about gender equality. Eurasia is being actively incorporated into the c ircuits of global capitalism through mobility of labor\, the emergence of tourism\, the rise of large-scale infrastructures\, and new logistical rou tes. This is accompanied by efforts to condemn gender-based violence and p romote gender equality that have very recently become mainstream within of ficial governments' discourses in these countries\, a change that has spar ked heated public discussion. While women's struggles are gaining more att ention\, the perspectives of men remain largely absent from these debates. This study will break new theoretical ground by bringing together critical studies of men and masculinities and anthropological approaches to care. By exploring various facets of men's experiences—their interpersonal relat ionships\, modes of inhabiting the environment\, spiritual worlds\, and un derstandings of the self—the project aims to advance the concept of caring masculinities from an anthropological perspective and leverage it to enco urage men's engagement in gender equality.Elena Borisova is a \;Leverh ulme Early-Career Fellow for the Department of Anthropology at the Univers ity of Sussex\, UK. DTEND:20250319T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T222127Z DTSTART:20250319T150000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Caring Masculinities: Men's Lived Experiences in Eurasia UID:RFCALITEM639142068877506874 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Anthropology Department and the Migrati on Working Group welcome Elena Borisova to deliver her lecture\, “Caring M asculinities: Men's Lived Experiences in Eurasia.”

Taking an anthrop ological perspective\, this project explores the lives of men and examines the limits and costs of caring masculinities in three countries—Uzbekista n\, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan—vis-à-vis global capitalist transformations and the spread of discourses about gender equality. Eurasia is being activ ely incorporated into the circuits of global capitalism through mobility o f labor\, the emergence of tourism\, the rise of large-scale infrastructur es\, and new logistical routes. This is accompanied by efforts to condemn gender-based violence and promote gender equality that have very recently become mainstream within official governments' discourses in these countri es\, a change that has sparked heated public discussion. While women's str uggles are gaining more attention\, the perspectives of men remain largely absent from these debates.

This study will break new theoretical gr ound by bringing together critical studies of men and masculinities and an thropological approaches to care. By exploring various facets of men's exp eriences—their interpersonal relationships\, modes of inhabiting the envir onment\, spiritual worlds\, and understandings of the self—the project aim s to advance the concept of caring masculinities from an anthropological p erspective and leverage it to encourage men's engagement in gender equalit y.

Elena Borisova is a \;Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex\, UK.

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