Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to two events relevant to anyone with an interest in maternal fictions (literature regarding maternity and motherhood) and/or currently researching in Maternal Studies.
The first event is an online seminar, free and open to the general public, Soviet Milk: Translating Motherhood in Contemporary Literature. It is organized with the support of the University of Exeter and an AHRC Networking Grant to the organiser, Muireann Maguire. Soviet Milk is an online seminar celebrating, and exploring, the symbolism of breastfeeding in literature – specifically in fiction from Latvia and the former Soviet Union, but also in Swedish and English-language writing.
Speakers include the award-winning Latvian author, Nora Ikstena, whose 2015 novel "Mâtes piens" (published by Peirene Press in the UK as "Soviet Milk") follows three generations of Latvian women connected by mothers’ milk; B.J. Epstein (University of East Anglia), a scholar, translator and author of 'Portrayals of Breasts and Breastfeeding in Literature' (forthcoming with Anthem Press, 2022); Maddie Rogers, the publishing assistant at Peirene and the host of the Borderless Book Club for fiction in translation; and Meike Zeirvogel, founding editor of Peirene Press and author of several novels with motherhood themes, including her acclaimed "Magda" (2013) and most recently "Flotsam" (2019).
You can register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/soviet-milk-translating-motherhood-in-contemporary-literature-tickets-181674893497
I am also pleased to share the Call for Papers for "Radiant Maternity", the Inaugural Conference of the new AHRC-funded Research Network in Slavic and East European Maternal Studies (SEEMS). This will be an online conference held over two days on January 28th-29th, 2022. Proposals of not more than 300 words on any aspect of motherhood/maternal research within Slavic and East European Studies (SEES) should be sent to the organisers at [log in to unmask] by November 29th, 2021. Successful applicants will be advised in early December. The language of the conference is English.
Please find more information on the SEEMS website here:
https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/slavicmaternitystudies/academic-conferences/virtual-conference/
The organizers are very eager to invite established Maternal Studies scholars who do NOT work on Slavic or East European Studies to act as chairs/discussants/papers, or simply to register to take part in some or all of the conference. This is in order to help integrate SEES scholars with the wider field of Maternal Studies, and so that mainstream Maternal Studies scholars have the opportunity to mentor and/or network with SEES researchers.
Please recirculate widely to your networks - a PDF version of the CfP is available on request.
Muireann Maguire (University of Exeter)
Dr Muireann Maguire
Senior Lecturer in Russian, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Exeter Slavonic Editor for Modern Language Review
My books: Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature [co-edited with Timothy Langen]
White Magic: Russian Emigre Tales of Mystery and Terror
Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature
Red Spectres: Russian 20th-Century Gothic-Fantastic Tales
Principal Investigator on ERC-funded research project “The Dark Side of Translation: 20th and 21st Century Translation from Russian as a Political Phenomenon in the UK, Ireland, and the USA” (Horizon 2020, Grant Agreement No. 802437) http://rustrans.exeter.ac.uk/
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https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/staff/maguire/
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