International Conference on Mothering, Motherhood and Education
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Mothering, Motherhood and Education
featuring an embedded conference on
Motherhood Studies:
Developing and Disseminating a New Academic Discipline for a New Century
October 20-23, 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2011!
We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, workers, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We are open to a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines; presentations by community activists, health care professionals, and social service workers; creative submissions (performances, films, storytelling, readings of poetry and fiction, visual arts displays); workshops; and other alternative formats.
This conference will explore the relationship between mothering, motherhood, and education, examining the countless ways in which women have been affected by, view, and/or challenge existing educational ideologies and policies and/or develop new theories, practices, identities, and meanings from the multiple locations of teacher, learner, and mother/othermother/surrogate mother.
Topics may include but are not restricted to:
Normative & disruptive discourses about motherhood and education; pedagogical othermothering & midwifery; mothering in the academy; teaching & learning from mothers at the margins (mothers of color, teen mothers, First Nation/aboriginal/Native American mothers, low-income mothers; adoptive mothers, queer and transgendered mothers…); maternal pedagogies; empowered mothering & teaching; mothering, education, & disability; education & infertility; men, mothering, & education; mothering & homeschooling; mothering, education, & activism; education & the public/private split; mothers’ historical experiences of education; teaching one’s actual or surrogate children; navigating cultural expressions of “good” and “bad” mother/ing; second/third shift responsibilities & education; transmitting maternal knowledges; motherhood & online teaching; problematizing the motherly teacher; literary/artistic/pop cultural representations of motherhood & education; teaching and/or learning parenting skills; educating public policy makers about mothering/motherhood; challenges to patriarchal and/or imperialist educational ideologies and practices; motherhood, education,& health; feminist motherlines & education; teaching/learning about mothering/motherhood through new media
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Kim Anderson, University of Guelph, author of Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood
Nancy Naples, University of Connecticut, author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis and Activist Scholarship
Jane Ward, University of California, Riverside, Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations
Other Keynotes TBC
If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 word
abstract and a 50-word bio by April 1, 2011 to info@motherhoodinitiative.org
One must be a member of Motherhood Imitative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) to submit an abstract for this conference.
http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI)
140 Holland St. West, PO Box 13022
Bradford, ON, L3Z 2Y5 (tel) 905-775-5215
http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org info@motherhoodinitiative.org