Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing

INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH

School of Advanced Study • University of London

 

Friday 19 October 2018, 13:00-18:00

 

LGBT and Parenting: An Emerging Theme?

Room G37, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

 

Programme:

 

13:00     Registration and Welcome

 

13:10     Panel 1 – Chair: Shirley Jordan (Newcastle/CCWW)

Elizabeth Quirke (NUI Galway): Beyond ‘the Transgressor Mother’: Situating Non-Biological Lesbian Motherhood within Irish Poetry

Georg Huemer (Sorbonne): LGBT+ Parenting in Contemporary Austrian Children’s and Youth Literature

Robert Payne (Haute-Alsace): ‘Not All Families Are the Same’: Same-Sex Parenting in Children’s Literature in France

 

14:40     Tea & coffee

 

15:00     Keynote Address – Chair: Robert Payne (Haute-Alsace)

Myriam Blanc: The Women Had Lots of Children: The Story of a Same-Sex-Parent Family: Testimony or “Non-Fictional Novel”?

 

15:45     Short break

 

16:00     Panel 2 – Chair: Robert Payne (Haute-Alsace)

Jasmine Cooper (Newnham College, Cambridge): An Exploration of Queer Childlessness in Contemporary French Women’s Writing

Charlotte Ross (Birmingham): Melancholy and Mourning: Italian Literary Representations of LGBTQ Parenting

 

17:00     Concluding remarks

 

17:10     Wine reception

 

This seminar is generously supported by the Cassal Endowment Fund.

 

Registration required at: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/16449

Registration fee £10 | Students/unwaged £5

 

 

 

Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing

Institute of Modern Languages Research

School of Advanced Study | University of London
Room 239 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8738

http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk