From Laura Battini <[log in to unmask]>:
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - RAI 69th -
Workshop: "Another Look at Motherhood in Ancient Western Asia”
Helsinki, July 8-12
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2024
Submissions (abstract of 200-400 words): https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/69th-rencontre-assyriologique-internationale/call-papers
Despite decades of gender studies, motherhood remains a marginal subject, even in feminist studies. Little is said about women as mothers, their role, their status and their work, and even less about the psychological and emotional aspects and the gaps between the normative representation and the actual practice of motherhood, the difference between biological mothers and feelings of attachment to nannies and other mother figures.
This workshop aims to analyze motherhood in Ancient Western Asia from different perspectives in order to rethink relationship with maternity and break free from a stereotypical view of motherhood. Motherhood was a compulsory state for almost every woman in the ancient world, which is also the most feared, death during or after childbirth being the greatest cause of female mortality. We would like to explore a broad definition of Motherhood: as a biological state, but also a psychological, symbolic, social, or legal issue, as a source of vulnerability and/or empowerment. The subject could be approached from the divine, mythological, historical, human and non-human spheres, or at the intersections between these realities.
We welcome contributions from textual, archaeological and iconographic sources, with no restrictions in terms of chronology or geography.
This workshop is part of the research project Ama-Mater [https://www.meshs.fr/page/ama-mater]
Feel free to contact the workshop organisers : Sonia Mzali ([log in to unmask]) and Laura Battini ([log in to unmask] )
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Regards,
Pete
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