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Dear colleagues,
Could you please circulate the following Call for papers? It will be of
interest to colleagues and students working on motherhood in all
disciplines.
CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline 1 December 2012)
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
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 ([log in to unmask]) 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.ac.uk/research-fellowships/ahrc-post-1968-motherhood-european-literature-network
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing,
http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/
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Dr Adalgisa Giorgio
Senior Lecturer in Italian
Italian Language Convenor
Coordinator: Year Abroad in Italy, Assistantships Abroad, Incoming
Erasmus and Visiting Students
Chair Equalities & Diversity Network
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
University of Bath
BATH BA2 7AY - UK
Tel: 0044 (0) 1225 386171
Office number: 1WN 2.3
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