Symposium: on a (m)other’s watch

on a (m)other’s watch

Saturday 11th April 11:00 to 18:00

Goldsmiths University of London
Lewisham Way
SE14 6NW London
United Kingdom

‘on a (m)other’s watch’ Symposium – Tickets FREE but please RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-a-mothers-watch-tickets-16075987712

Please note that children are welcome at this event.

‘on a (m)other’s watch’ is a collaboration between curator Samantha Lippett and mother artist Eti Wade and has been supported by coordinator of the Women’s Art Library, Althea Greenan. The project comprises of two public ‘interventions’ within the Goldsmiths campus of previously unseen works by Eti Wade entitled Joscasta and 57 Baths. The project is supported through an accompanying symposium.

10.30am – Introduction by curator Samantha Lippett

11.00am – Talk by Dr. Elena Marchevska, The last place where we were together

11.30am – Talk by Dr. Lisa Baraitser, Psychoanalysis and the new public culture of childbirth

12.30pm – Lunch (Eti Wade will be available between 1.15pm and 1.30pm by the installation ‘Joscasta’ for a brief talk about the work)

1.30pm –  Video presentation and talk by Eti Wade ‘The inappropriateness of 57 Baths’

2.30pm – Screening of Lyla Rye’s 2000 piece, Byte and Amy Jenkins 2002 work The Audrey Samsara which will be introduced by curator Samantha Lippett. Both works were policed and censored in the early 2000s, the stories of which will be used as case studies for the following debate.

3.00pm – Panel discussion between Dr. Elena Marchevska, Eti Wade, Dr. Lisa Baraitser and Samantha Lippett debating the censorship of maternal art, child as subject and the new heightened visability of maternal intimacy. Followed by a Q&A.

5.00pm – Complementary drinks ceremony and a chance to view the installations with the artist.

6.00pm – A table has been booked for further discussion over drinks and food at the New Cross House pub, which is only a minutes walk from the Goldsmiths Library.

Motherhood events in London – Senate House

Wednesday 4 February, 4-6 pm, room 243, Senate House, University of London 

IMLR Director’s Seminar:

Natalie Edwards (Adelaide and CCWW/IMLR Visiting Fellow): ‘Voicing voluntary childlessness: narratives of non-mothering in contemporary France’

http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/16443/Voicing+Voluntary+Childlessness%3A+Narratives+of+Non-Mothering+in+Contemporary+France

All welcome

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The Spring term meeting of the Contemporary  Women’s Writing in French seminar will be held on Saturday 21 February 2015, 2.30-4.30 pm 

Room G.34, Senate House, University of London

Topic: Non-motherhood in contemporary women’s writing in French

Speakers:

Natalie Edwards (Adelaide/CCWW Visiting Fellow): ‘Voicing Voluntary Childlessness in Contemporary French Women’s Writing’
[N.B. Natalie’s paper will be different from her 4 February IMLR seminar paper]

Julie Rodgers (Maynooth): ‘The Truth about Otherhood: Choosing to be Childfree’

[Texts for advance reading, if possible: Jane Sautiere, _Nullipare_ (Paris: Verticales/Phase deux (Gallimard), 2008) ; Lucie Joubert, _L’Envers du landau_ (Montreal: Triptyque, 2010); an extract from the latter will  be available in advance to attendees of the seminar]

http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/17196/Non-Motherhood+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing+in+French

ALL WELCOME

Please advise Gill Rye (gill.rye@sas.ac.uk) if you wish to attend

N.B. A few postgraduate student travel bursaries are available for this seminar. Please contactgill.rye@sas.ac.uk by 8 February if you wish to apply, giving details of travel expenses (cheapest possible), institutional affiliation and name of supervisor.

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Wednesday 11 March 2015,  4-6 pm, room 246, Senate House, University of London

IMLR Director’s Seminar

Claudia Karagoz (Saint Louis/IMLR-CCWW Visiting Fellow): ‘New Perspectives on Motherhood in Italian Women’s Writing and Cinema’

ALL WELCOME

http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/16442/New+Perspectives+on+Motherhood+in+Italian+Women%27s+Writing+and+Cinema

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Friday 20 March 20152-6pm, room G.34, Senate House, University of London

CCWW Cross-Cultural Seminar on New Perspectives on Mother-Daughter Relations in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Speakers:

Claudia Karagoz (Italian, Saint Louis/CCWW-IMLR): “The ‘Return of the Mother’ in Italian Women’s Writing: Elena Ferrante’s _La figlia oscura_ (2006) [The Lost Daughter]”

[N.B. Claudia Karagoz’s paper will be different from the one she presented at 11 March event]

Robert Payne (French, Leicester): “Reconfiguring Normative Mother–Daughter Relationships in Axelle Mallet’s _Le Choix de la reine_ (2009) [The Queen’s Choice]”

Katie Stone (German, University of Maynooth): “Memory as the Lynchpin of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Contemporary German Family Narratives”

Viola Parente-Čapková (Finnish, Turku: “‘Mother, Mother, Let’s Go Back’: Perspectives on the Mother–Daughter Relationship in Contemporary Prose by Finnish Women Writers”

For further information, including Programme and Abstracts, see  http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/17328/New+Perspectives+on+the+Mother-Daughter+Relationship+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing

All welcome – please advise Gill Rye (gill.rye@sas.ac.uk) if you wish to attend

N.B. A few postgraduate student travel bursaries are available for this seminar. Please contactgill.rye@sas.ac.uk by 20 February if you wish to apply, giving details of travel expenses (cheapest possible), institutional affiliation and name of supervisor.

Biomedical Sciences and the Maternal Body – One day free symposium

Biomedical Sciences and the Maternal Body

One day free symposium organised by the Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network (PGCWWN)

University of Southampton, 21st February 2015.

This one day FREE symposium seeks to examine the relationship between biomedical science and the maternal body as represented in the works of contemporary women writers. The pregnant body has always been a site for much debate, particularly when placed in dialogue with feminist issues of autonomy and subjectivity. When considered alongside biomedical science, these debates are further complicated by women’s ambivalent attitudes towards both the freedoms and the constrictions that modern scientific developments bring. In exploring the relationship between women and nature, biology, science and technology, contemporary women writers go some way towards addressing the questions raised by such discussions.

In order to encourage transdisciplinary participation, the PG CWWN wishes to expand its usual focus from contemporary women’s writing to include papers from a variety of areas of research. We hope to foster a dialogue between literature and the sciences, with the aim of achieving a more holistic understanding of this fascinating subject.

Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):
• Pregnancy, subjectivity and autonomy
• Contemporary conceptions of motherhood
• Women’s relationship with their own biology
• Choice, control and power
• Binarisms regarding ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’
• Maternal embracing or rejection of scientific interventions
• Reproductive technologies and roles within reproduction

Additionally, we are delighted to confirm Professor Clare Hanson as the keynote speaker for the event. Her research interests lie in the relationship between medicine and culture, with a particular emphasis on theoretical and fictional responses to new reproductive technologies and the cultural implications of modern genetic science.

Please submit a 200-word abstract for 15 minute papers, along with a brief biographical note toinfo@pgcwwn.org by 6th February, 2015. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us via this email address or through Twitter and Facebook. The event is also open to non-presenting delegates.

We are also delighted to be able to offer one £50 bursary to cover the travel costs for attending the event. In order to qualify for this bursary, the speaker must produce a review of the event (by 7th March) for publication on the PG CWWN blog. Please state in your email if you are interested in applying for this opportunity, and why you think you should be chosen.

Call for Abstracts – The Kristeva Circle

The Kristeva Circle

Third Annual Meeting, September 10-12, 2015
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Keynote Speakers
Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University)Ewa Ziarek (SUNY Buffalo)

 Please submit abstracts (500-750 words) on any topic related to the work of Julia Kristeva, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. We welcome submissions from across all disciplines. Abstracts should be suitable for peer review: include a separate document with name, paper title, affiliation, and contact information.The deadline for abstract submissions is January 30, 2015.The Kristeva Circle supports research on or influenced by philosopher, psychoanalyst and novelist Julia Kristeva. Our mission is to establish and advance Kristeva scholarship nationally and internationally. For more information about the Kristeva Circle please visit our website: www.kristevacircle.org

Call for papers: Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled “Mothers and Daughters”

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled:
Mothers and Daughters
Editors: Dannabang Kuwabong,
Janet MacLennan, and Dorsía Smith Silva
Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2015
This anthology will explore the multifaceted connections between mothers and daughters. We welcome submissions that analyze new fields of inquiry in this area, examining discourses about mothers and daughters through academic writing, narrative essays, and creative work. We specifically encourage offerings that address the identity and experiences of mothers and daughters from within an interdisciplinary framework, which includes cultural, biological, socio-political, relational and historical perspectives. Therefore the uniqueness of this collection revolves around a fluidity in blending not just work from across academic disciplines, but also the forms in which this work is presented: academic inquiry and critique as well as creative and narrative explorations.

 

Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Mother-daughter relationships and how they are shaped by race, ethnicity, class, religion, immigrant status, gender, and sexuality; motherhood, loss and grief; intensive mothering; adoption; mothering and adult children; grand-mothering; men as “mothers” and daughters; motherhood and disability/special needs; childcare and domestic labor; mothers and daughters and digital media; mothers and daughters and codependency; pregnancy; adaptive mothering; surrogacy; reproductive choices; mothers and daughters and public policy; mothers and daughters and literature; mothers and daughters and disability/special needs; mothers and daughters and the body; mothers and daughters and illness; mothers and daughters and mothers in the workplace; mothers and daughters and Third Wave Feminism; mothers and daughters in global and transnational contexts; changing roles and identities of mothers and daughters; matrilineal heritages and narratives; maternal narratives; relational (auto)biographies, creative writing and mother-daughter dyadism; maternal sexualities; mother/daughter and “other mothers” relationships; mother/daughter relationships in blended families; mother/daughter home and the mother(land); maternal absence; long distance mothering; cross-cultural mothering; the mad/depressed mother and/or daughter; maternal silences and mother tongues; sexual, physical, psychological and emotional abuse; trauma, memory and mothers and daughters; mothers and daughters and agency; cultural traditions of mothers and daughters; mothers and daughters and popular culture; mothers and daughters and education; mothers and daughters and language; mothers/daughters and generational binaries; teenage daughters as mothers; mothers/daughters and war; sex work and mother-daughter relationship; healing narratives between mothers and daughters; narcissism, individualism and mother-daughter relations.

 

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts/Proposals: 500 words. Please include a 50-word biographic note. Due April 30, 2015
Acceptances made by May 31, 2015
Completed manuscripts (15-18 pages double-spaced; contributors are responsible for ensuring that submission adheres to the MLA style) will be due September 1, 2015
Creative work (completed according to guidelines specified by editors at time of acceptance) will be due September 1, 2015
Please send inquiries and abstracts to editors:
 Dannabang Kuwabong, Janet MacLennan,
and Dorsía Smith Silva at MothersAndDaughters2015@yahoo.com
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Submissions now opened for the bi-annual award of The Birth Rites Collection

Submissions now opened for the Bi-annual award of The Birth Rites Collection!
The Birth Rites Collection is the first and only collection of contemporary artwork dedicated to the subject of childbirth. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media, documentary and experimental film. It is housed between the Royal College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians in London and Salford University Midwifery Department.Artwork can be submitted in any media form and will be judged by our panel including Althea Greenan, Women’s Art Library, Special Collections, Goldsmiths University.
The winner will be showcased at Media CityUK and will receive a residency at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University, London plus a stipend and winning work to be included in the Birth Rites Collection, Salford University.
This project is in association with the University of Salford Art Collections, The Women’s Art Library, Special Collections, Goldsmiths University and Salford University School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Care.
Please email born@birthrites.org.uk with any queries.
Birth Rites Collection is open to the public
Public tour -16th January 2015 11am.

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics – Special Issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics – Special Issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2014

Introduction

Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72intro

Essays

‘National self-sufficiency in reproductive resources: An innovative response to transnational reproductive travel’

Dominique Martin, Stefan Kane

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M1

‘At the intersections of emotional and biological labor: Understanding transnational commercial surrogacy as social reproduction’

G. K. D. Crozier, Jennifer L. Johnson, Christopher Hajzler

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M2

‘Exploitation in cross-border reproductive care’

Angela Ballantyne

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M3

‘Merit and Money: The situated ethics of transnational commercial surrogacy in Thailand’

Andrea Whittaker

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M4

‘Feminist issues in domestic and transnational surrogacy: The case of Japan’

Jennifer Parks

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M5

‘Eggs and euros: A feminist perspective on reproductive travel from Denmark to Spain’

Charlotte Kroløkke

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M6

‘Achieving national altruistic self-sufficiency in human eggs for third-party reproduction in Canada’

Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M7

‘Cross-border sex selection: Ethical challenges posed by a globalizing practice’

Rajani Bhatia

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M8

 

Commentaries

‘A Hague convention on contract pregnancy (or “surrogacy”): Avoiding ethical inconsistencies with the Convention on Adoption’

Carolyn McLeod, Andrew Botterell

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M9

‘Breaking the ice: Young feminist scholars of reproductive politics reflect on egg freezing’

Alana Cattapan, Kathleen Hammond, Jennie Haw, Lesley A. Tarasoff

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M10

Reviews

‘Breeders: A Subclass of Women? Directed by Jennifer Lahl and Matthew Eppinette’ (review)

L. Syd M Johnson

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M11

‘Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis by Mark Wicclair’ (review)

Lori Kantymir

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M12

‘Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights’ by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka (review)

David Speetzen, Patrick Clipsham

>> http://bit.ly/IJFAB72M13

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IJFAB is the leading forum in bioethics for feminist thought and debate. IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences, or to the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. All submissions are subject to anonymous peer review.

IJFAB is sponsored by the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB). A subscription to IJFAB, in print, electronic, or combined print/electronic format, is a benefit of membership. The journal is published twice yearly in March and October.

Please visit the IJFAB website for full submission guidelines: http://www.ijfab.org/style_guidelines.html

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Motherhood and creative practice: Maternal structures in creative work – First Announcement and Call for Papers

June 1-2, 2015

Centre for Media and Culture Research, School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University

Confirmed Key Note Speakers:

  • Prof Bracha L. Ettinger, Marcel Duchamp Chair & Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at the European Graduate School
  • Professor Mary Kelly Distinguished Professor and Head of the Interdisciplinary Studio Area in the Department of Art at UCLA
  • Professor Faith Wilding Professor Emerita of Performance at SAIC; and a Visiting Scholar at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Research at Brown University, Providence, RI

Motherhood and creative practices: Maternal structures in creative work is an international and interdisciplinary conference that addresses ongoing debates about hospitality, solidarity and encounter as concepts in creative practice, and how they relate to contemporary issues of mothering. Mothering involves commitment to creative balance and combining everyday chores. We are interested how practitioners combine art and mothering, activism and mothering, academia and mothering, science and mothering, mothering and allomothering. The conference will look at practices where the creative exploration, writing and theory about the mOther cannot be separated from one another. Ettinger reveals the intricate connections between critical theory on maternal and creative practice. According to Vigneault, the porous spaces of work that engages with the maternal as concept presents passageways which allow the viewer and reader to move through and between the various levels of text and image, theory and art, in a constant shift between modes of production (2009:69). There is a gradual, yet sustained increase in creative practices which, starting from the challenges posed by the above concepts, explore the maternal in various encounter-event formations. The conference will also look into diametrically opposed female experiences and sexual lifestyles and explore the encounters of infertility, medical intervention, adoption and fostering, queer mothering and childlessness by choice or not. We invite scholars and artists to also explore the creative embodiment of intergenerational trauma and the complex territory of mother-daughter relationships, and bring into dialogue social, scientific and artistic perspectives.

The conference will also encompass the exhibition “Alternative Maternals” curated by Laura Gonzalez, a curated performance section led by Faith Wilding’s performative reading of her memoirs, and a post-graduate discussion room. The post-graduate room will be enriched with performative texts, films, visual and audio works.

This conference aims to reflect on theoretical, methodological and artistic work that may throw light on mOthering as/and creative practice. We welcome submissions from scholars, students, artists, mothers and others who research in this area. Cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and comparative work is encouraged. We are open to a variety of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines and creative submissions including visual art, literature, and performance art/performative lectures. We invite papers in English of 15 minutes length, with possible topics including but are not restricted to the above description.

We welcome abstracts and proposals for practice-based,creative presentations (300 – 400 words + up to 3 images for practical presentations) on a broad range of approaches to the above and related topics. Abstract and Proposals are to be submitted no later than February 20th, 2015, to Dr Elena Marchevska using the following email: marcheve@lsbu.ac.uk.  Proposers will be informed by 5 March 2015 whether their proposal has been accepted.

Conference Registration

Registration for conference will open online on 20 February 2015.

Full Conference Early Bird (by 1 May) £120.00

Full Conference £180.00

Full Conference Postgraduate/Unwaged £65.00

Day Rate Monday 1st June only £80.00

This conference is supported by the Center for Media and Culture Research and the School of Arts and Creative Industries at London South Bank University.

Call for Papers: Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality

CALL FOR PAPERS 
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled

Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality 
Editors: Michelle Walks and Joani Mortenson
Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2015

Mothers are often not seen or appreciated as sexual beings, aside from their procreative capacities. The purpose of this collection is to explore the taboos and lived experiences of mothers’ sexuality as it relates to asexuality, abstinence and celibacy, as well as to straight, lesbian, bisexual, queer, autoerotic, monogamous, and polyamorous activities. This collection will also explore mothers’ experiences with relation to their children’s sexuality.

As an academic volume, this anthology will include chapters from a variety of disciplines including but not limited to: biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, social work, cultural studies, education, health sciences, law, criminology, and political science.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Sexuality as it relates to pregnancy, post-partum, and trying-to-conceive; sexuality among single mothers, monogamously partnered and polyamorous mothers; sexuality of mothers after divorce or death of a spouse or co-parent; teen mothers’, older mothers’, and grandmothers’ sexuality; loss of sex drive with parenthood; being a sexually active parent; sexuality and breastfeeding; popular culture (media, celebrities, music, new stories); trans, butch, and genderqueer mothers’ sexuality; mothers coming out as queer and children’s coming out to mothers as queer; immigrant mothers’ sexuality and indigenous mothers’ sexuality; incarcerated mothers’ sexuality; sexuality among mothers with disabilities; sexuality and religion; technology and sexuality (including cyborgs, online sex, sexting, phone sex, sex lines, social media, pornography); mothers and sexuality with respect to colonization and war; incest; sexual abuse; talking to children about sex and sexuality; mothers experiences in relation to sex work; mothers’ sexuality in relation to socio-economic class, race/ethnicity, and age; hormone changes; sex education; BDSM; how mothers’ sexuality relates to her work and workplace.

Submission Guidelines: 
Abstracts/Proposal (250-400 words) with 50-word bio due: June 1, 2015
Acceptances made by: July 31, 2015
Accepted & completed papers (15-18 pp. double-spaced including references, MLA format) due: December 1, 2015

Please send inquiries and abstracts to editors:
Michelle Walks and Joani Mortsenson at: MothersSexAndSexuality@gmail.com

DEMETER PRESS 
140 Holland St. West, P.O. Box 13022 Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5, Canada 

http://www.demeterpress.org info@demeterpress.org