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Dear colleagues,

Registration for the three-day conference of the AHRC Motherhood in  
Europe Network is now open.

'Motherhood in post-1968 European Women?s Writing: Cross-Cultural and  
Interdisciplinary Dialogues' will be held at the IGRS in London, 24-26  
Ocober 2013.

Please see below for programme and information on how to register.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Adalgisa Giorgio
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Motherhood in post-1968 European Women?s Writing:
Cross-cultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogues

Thursday-Saturday 24-26 October 2013

AHRC-funded Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature Network
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women?s Writing, Institute of  
Germanic & Romance Studies,
Senate House, University of London

Keynote Speakers
Ana Luisa Amaral (Poet/Comparative Literature, Porto)
Christine Battersby (Philosophy, Warwick)
Gayle Letherby (Sociology, Plymouth)

Panels include:
Maternal Subjectivities and Becomings
Epigenetics and New Perspectives of Inheritance
Maternal Taboos and Transgressions
Maternal Temporalities
Pregnancy, Labour and Birth
Motherhood and Death
Motherhood and Disability
Motherhood as Resistance in a Reality of War
Motherhood in Literature, Theatre and the Blogosphere

To view the programme, see here:
https://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/AHRC%20Motherhood%20Network/Motherhood%20Conference%20Programme%20(19-07-13).pdf

To register, please download the registration form (follow the link  
below), and send to Jane Lewin at the address provided, by Friday 11th  
October:
http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/AHRC%20Motherhood%20Network/Motherhood%20Closing%20Conf%20Registration%20Form%20(18-07-13).pdf

Note: the Student rate will also be available to those who are unwaged.

Please direct all queries to the Network Coordinator, Dr. Victoria  
Browne: [log in to unmask]

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/

-- 
Dr Adalgisa Giorgio
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies
Italian Language Convenor
Coordinator Incoming Erasmus Students, English Language  
Assistantships, Italian Year Abroad
Chair University Equality & Diversity Network

Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY - UK
Tel: 0044 (0) 1225 386171
Office Number: 1WN 2.3

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