CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline 1 December 2012) - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY TO COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS WORKING ON MOTHERHOOD IN
ALL DISCIPLINES.
Motherhood in post-1968 European Women's Writing:
'Cross-cultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogues'
Thursday-Saturday 24-26 October 2013
Venue: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, U.K.
This
conference is the culmination of the AHRC-funded Motherhood in
post-1968 European Literature Network, and follows five thematic
workshops held between May 2012 and June 2013. The main aim of the
Network is to raise the profile of contemporary literature as a field of
study of motherhood in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural forum,
and to explore how insights from literary studies might contribute to
studies of motherhood in other disciplines.
The
conference aims to continue the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary
dialogue of the workshops around representations and narratives of
motherhood in women's writing from across Europe, and to open it up to a
larger group of participants. It is expected that each panel will be
interdisciplinary. Individual 20-minute papers, ready-made panels and
round-table sessions may be proposed. An author-reading event will be
held, and an exhibition will run alongside the conference.
Topic fields could include, but are not restricted to:
Changing Models of Motherhood; Motherhood and Death; Motherhood and Disability; Motherhood and the Economy; Motherhood and Europe; Motherhood and Exile; Motherhood and Fertility; Motherhood and the Law; Motherhood and Loss; Motherhood and the Media; Motherhood and Memory; Motherhood and Mental Health; Motherhood and Migration; Motherhood and Place; Motherhood and Religions; Motherhood and Sexuality; Motherhood and Technology; Motherhood and Violence; Motherhood and the Visual Arts; Motherhood and War; Motherhood and Work; Motherhood and Writing; Non-mothers; and Other-mothers
Round-table
sessions may also be proposed on methodological issues relative to
interdisciplinary dialogue, focusing on case studies relative to
motherhood.
Proposals
are welcomed from scholars of any European literatures and researchers
of motherhood from any discipline (which could include anthropology,
demography, education, history, law, media studies, philosophy,
politics, psychoanalysis, psychology, social policy, sociology, visual
arts, etc.). Proposals for contributions are also welcomed from
practitioners (e.g. therapists, social and health workers), activists,
community groups, policy-makers, charities, or reading groups.
There
may a small amount of funding available to contribute to the attendance
of scholars from European countries outside the UK. If you wish to be
considered, please specify cheapest travel costs when submitting your
proposal.
Please send your proposal
for individual papers, panels, round-tables or other ideas for
participation, in English, to Network Co-ordinator, Victoria Browne
(victoria.browne@sas.ac.uk) by the deadline of 1 December 2012. Please include a short bio-bibliography.
A publication drawn from the conference is planned.
For further information on the Network, http://www.igrs.sas.
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, http://www.igrs.sas.
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, http://www.igrs.sas.
For further information on the Network, http://www.igrs.sas.
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, http://www.igrs.sas.
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, http://www.igrs.sas.
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