{"id":21320,"date":"2017-09-15T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=21320"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:52","slug":"masculinity-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=21320","title":{"rendered":"Global Heel Marko Duman\u010di\u0107 \u201910 Ph.D. Explores Conceptions of Masculinity in Eastern Europe and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite growing up in Croatia, attending high school and college in the Northeast United States, and teaching at universities in Ohio and Kentucky, when Marko Duman\u010di\u0107 returns to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a public talk this fall, he feels like he will be coming home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent eight or nine years in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Part of me feels like I never left,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Duman\u010di\u0107\u2019s talk, which will take place in room 4003 at the FedEx Global Education Center on Wednesday, September 20, will focus on a topic he has been interested in since he was a teenager: masculinity in Russia and Eastern Europe. In his talk, entitled \u201cStonewall Never Happened: Conceptualizing Queer History and Rights in Russia and Eastern Europe<\/a>,\u201d Duman\u010di\u0107 will explore LGBT rights movements in Russia and Eastern Europe. He will discuss how these movements differ\u2014and should differ\u2014from movements in the United States and Western Europe, where incidents like the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked major changes in policies and perspectives.<\/p>\n

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Despite having traveled around the globe, UNC alum Marko Duman\u010di\u0107 says returning to Chapel Hill still feels like coming home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen we look at Eastern European history and Eastern European gay rights movements, we always imagine that it\u2019s going to look exactly like the American story,\u201d Duman\u010di\u0107 said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have a version of Stonewall and pride parades and fights for legal rights, and if it doesn\u2019t look more or less like the American model, then something has gone wrong. My talk is going to be about how to understand Eastern European gay rights movements by removing the need to look at Stonewall and the American model as the one to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duman\u010di\u0107 has been intrigued by the concept of masculinity since he read an article on the subject in\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>when he was 16 years old. He had recently moved from Croatia to the United States with his mother, who was pursuing her master\u2019s degree in bilingual education at Boston University.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really fascinated by the processes by which men start thinking of themselves as men, and how you go about behaving \u2018as a man\u2019 and what goes into that kind of performance,\u201d Duman\u010di\u0107 said.<\/p>\n

After graduating high school in Boston and earning his undergraduate degree from Connecticut College, Duman\u010di\u0107 decided to pursue his interest in masculinity studies in a doctoral program in UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s Department of History. In 2006, he traveled to Russia for research on his dissertation, a study of how perspectives on gender roles changed after the death of Stalin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld War II changed conceptions of femininity so that it became more possible for women to be members of the workforce and vote,\u201d Duman\u010di\u0107 said. \u201cI wanted to see if the death of Stalin actually impacted Soviet lives and Soviet understanding of what it meant to be a man and a woman in a similar kind of fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n

After completing his dissertation and graduating from UNC, Duman\u010di\u0107 went on to teach at Oberlin College in Ohio for three years. Now, he is an assistant professor and director of graduate studies for the history department at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.<\/p>\n

In his courses on the Cold War, modern Russia and Eastern Europe, he argues that masculinity, including homophobia, is socially constructed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to identify the problems, but I also try to give my students a sense of perspective in that people change, cultures change, and so ideas about masculinity can also change to be more positive and productive,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Duman\u010di\u0107 says that homophobia is often viewed as inherent in Eastern European cultures, and part of his interest lies in figuring out where that homophobia comes from. He connects ideas of masculinity with social issues such as domestic violence, homophobia and hate crimes, and says that understanding how these perspectives arise is key to solving those problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think violence committed by men against women and other men is kind of a pandemic,\u201d he said. \u201cUnderstanding why men behave the way they do and where our ideas about how masculinity is supposed to be acted out come from\u00a0is hugely important if we\u2019re going to try to solve a range of social ills, starting with domestic violence and ending with hate crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it seems imperative for all kinds of social issues to understand how men behave, why men behave the way they do and where these ideas come from.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By Katie King \u201915<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNC alumnus Marko Duman\u010di\u0107 returns to Chapel Hill this fall to deliver a talk on conceptions of masculinity and LGBTQ rights movements in Russia and Eastern Europe. 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