CALL FOR PAPERS
The Association for Research on Mothering Australia (ARM-A) and
the Association for Research on Mothering Canada (ARM)
invite the submission of abstracts for the
Fifth Australian International Conference on Motherhood
on the theme of
The Mother and History: The Past and Present
Thursday 2nd July 2009 – Saturday 4th July 2009
at
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Q 4072, Brisbane, Australia
Click here for more information on the conference and for registration details!
or
To register go to the Registration Link below:
http://www.uq.edu.au/secure/events/emsah2008/form/ers.htm?e=4&f=4
Abstracts Date Extension to May 31st, 2009
If you are interested in being a presenter, please send a 200 word abstract and a 50 word bio by April 30th, 2009 to: Dr Marie Porter (m.porter@uq.edu.au)
This conference is interdisciplinary.
The topic is broad and can include papers on the present which is influenced by the past, compared to the present and is creating the past
Other Possible Areas include:
How has your discipline dealt with Motherhood/mothering historically. Does that affect the mother in the present. If so, how?
The mother, violence and history; legal treatment of the mother;
cultural differences and the mother/s e.g.migrant mothers, Muslim and Asian Mothers, Indigenous mothers etc.
Pathology and the mother: the pregnant body in history; birth control; pregnancy; birthing. Textual images of the mother. Mothers and work, class influences, childhood etc.
Australian Presenters of papers must be/become members of ARM-A. Email: ja.jones@qut.edu.au
International presenters must be/become members of ARM
Email: arm@yorku.ca Website: www.yorku.ca/crm.
Sponsored by the Centre for Research on Women, Gender, Culture and Social change, School of EMSAH, The University of Queensland.
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement
140 Holland St. West,
PO 13022
Bradford ON L3Z 2Y5