M.O.M. Conference
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Museum Of Motherhood
401 East 84th St. New York City (lower level. Corner of 1st Ave) NYC, 10028
Wednesday May 1, 2013
Daytime viewing 2-5 PM Private Auction 7 PM
View and Bid on Beautiful and Provocative Works of Art Related to Motherhood
Champagne cocktails; Music by Stacy Robin; Book signing by Ali Smith
Proceeds to Benefit the Museum and its Programming
RSVP by April to 212.452.9816 or 877.711.MOMS (6667) or MOMmuseum@gmail.com
Conference Programme
A “New” Motherhood?: Evolving Policies, Practices, and Families
May 2, 3, 4
9:00 – 9:30 am |
Thursday May 2nd, 2013 Welcome and on site registration |
| 9:30 – 10:30 am |
Keynote Presentation Anticipating and experiencing birth: Men, essentialisms, and reproductive discourses by Dr. Tina Miller (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK) author Making Sense of Fatherhood: Gender, Caring, and Work Cambridge University Press (2011) Introduction by Lynda Ross |
| 10:30 – 10:45am |
BREAK |
| 10:45 – 11:45 am |
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| 3:00 – 3:45 pm |
Panel: Defining identity in modern motherhood Chair: Eileen Ain a) Renata Ferdinand (United States) – Things I tell my daughter: An auto-ethnographic mother writing b) Barbara Lavi (United States)– Why mothers need to keep dreaming as role models for their children
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Thursday May 2nd, 2013 (continued) |
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| 3:45 – 4:45 pm |
Panel: Neoliberalism and the marketing of motherhood Chair: Shauna Wilton a) Lesley Patterson (New Zealand) – ‘A trap’ or ‘an interlude’? Exploring the experience of lone motherhood over time b) Gillian Anderson (Canada) – Mompreneurship: A meme of modern motherhood c) Laura Tropp (United States) – The pregnancy industrial complex: Marketing pregnancy in the 21st century |
| 4:45 – 6:00 pm |
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION |
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm |
Keynote Presentation Work and motherhood in the 21st century by Ann Crittenden (Washington, DC) author If You’ve Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything Penguin Books (2004) Introduction by Laura Tropp |
| 7:00 – 7:30 pm |
RECEPTION CONTINUES |
8:30 – 9:00 am |
Friday May 3rd, 2013 Welcome and on site registration (continues) |
| 9:00 – 10:00 am |
Keynote Presentation Matroreform: Evolving to a “new” motherhood by Dr. Gina Wong (Athabasca University, AB, Canada) author Mom’s Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness, Oppression and Resistance Demeter Press (2012) Introduction by Lynn Kuechle |
| 10:00 – 11:00 am |
Panel: Healthy mothers, healthy others Chair: Leigh Anne O’Connor a) Ellyne Skove (United States) – Broken bonds in the maternal-infant dyad b) Elyse Weiner (United States) – Understanding psychiatric issues in the pregnant and postpartum woman c) Allayna Pinkston (United States) – Womb of doom? Negotiating self-less-ness in the transition to motherhood |
| 11:00 – 11:15 am |
BREAK |
| 11:15 – 12:00 pm |
Performance Queering motherhood with respect to mom (an experiential piece) by Lori Johnstone (Canada) |
| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:15 – 2:15 pm |
Panel: Other mothering pathways Chair: TBA a) Janina Glaeser (Germany) – Responsible strangers in intimate contexts b) Martha Satz (United States)– The Epistemology of Motherhood: Mysterious origins in adoption, reproduction, and Ellen Ullman’s by Blood c) Mariana Mazur, Alexandra Jordan, Aurelie Athan, & Lisa Miller (United States) – Awakening maternal identity in homeless adolescent mothers |
| 2:15 – 3:15 pm |
Panel: Challenging norms Chair: TBA a) Claire Feeley (United Kingdom) – Why do some women choose freebirth? b) Rumyana Kudeva (United States) – Disenfranchised grief: A qualitative inquiry into women’s lived experience of the loss of the dreamed of birth c) Risa Cromer (United States) What to expect when you’re not expecting |
| 3:15 – 4:15 pm |
Panel: Race, Place intersecting with motherhood Chair: Martha Satz a) Jennifer Chandler (United States) – White mothers of biracial sons & daughters: Colliding, colluding, & contending with white privilege b) H. Bindy K. Kang (Canada) – Learning racism from the womb onward: An authoethnographic journey of one ‘mother-of-colour’ c) Natalia Chernyaeva (Russian Federation) – Contested models of normative motherhood in post-socialist Russia |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm |
BREAK |
| 4:30 – 5:15 pm |
Performance Boobies and other Bodily Functions by Lisa Trank (United States) |
8:30 – 9:00 am |
Saturday May 4th, 2013 Welcome and on site registration (continues) |
| 9:00 – 10:00 am |
Panel: Performing motherhood and maternal ideologies Chair: Lisa Trank a) Mireille Lalancette & Patricia Germain (Canada) – Performing motherhood: Work-life balance in the eyes of two Canadian parenting magazines b) Emilie Zaslow (United States) – Historical motherhood meets new motherhood: Representations in the American Girl book series c) Roksana Budruddoja (United States)– Contesting maternal ideology and the Yonic Myths of Motherhood: An autoethnography |
| 10:00 – 10:45 am |
Panel: Challenges and maternal well being Chair: TBA a) Susan Davis & Marianne Findler (United States) – Finding, maintaining, and re-asserting our “self” b) Leigh Anne O’Connor (United States) – Current cultural and social structures which challenge the normal course of breastfeeding |
| 10:45 – 11:00 am |
BREAK |
| 11:00 – 1:00 pm |
Film “Lost in Living” by Mary Trunk (United States) |
| 1:00 – 1:15 |
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| 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
Panel: Mothering in modern Russia Chair: TBA a) Tatiana Tregubova (Russian Federation) – Large families as a priority of social policy in Russia b) Farida Mukametzyanova (Russian Federation) – The teen-age mothers support policy: Prevention and rehabilitation c) Anna Bagirova & Oksana Shubat (Russian Federation) – Stereotypes about motherhood of Russian pregnant women |
| 2:15 – 2:30 pm |
CLOSING COMMENTS |
Featured Keynote Speakers:
Ann Crittenden is an award winning journalist, author and lecturer. Ann’s most recent book “If you have raised kids, you can manage anything” has received critical praise and was featured in People magazine. An earlier book, “The price of motherhood,” is already being called a classic. Ann will be speaking on work and motherhood in the 21st century.
Dr. Tina Miller, professor of sociology at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom, has an international research, publication and consulting profile. Tina’s most recent book “Making sense of fatherhood: Gender, caring and work” is based on a qualitative longitudinal study examining men’s experiences of anticipating and witnessing the birth of their first child. This study will form the basis of her invited presentation.
Lisa Ann Ross is a theatre artist, educator and community arts practitioner and creator of Solo Chicken Productions. Lisa is currently based in Fredericton New Brunswick Canada. She will be performing a one-woman cabaret exploring some of the explosive themes surrounding motherhood.
Dr. Gina Wong, associate professor of psychology at Athabasca University in Canada, has been a valued invited speaker at past M.O.M. Conferences in NY City. Her recently published edited collection “Moms gone made: Motherhod and madness, oppression and resistance” emerged from the success of the 2009 Conference. Gina will be discussing how mothers are able to reform past notions of “motherhood.”
Other keynote speakers and performers will be announced as they are confirmed!
A “New” Motherhood?: Evolving Policies, Practices, and Families Conference asks: What factors, past and present, inform our “new” ways of understanding motherhood, fatherhood, and notions of family? Conference presenters will share papers that provide critical insights into mothering, fathering and family issues; that draw direct links between theories and/or research findings; or that offer practical approaches to issues facing contemporary mothers and families. The overarching goal of this conference is to provide an environment to explore new ideas and approaches for tackling issues that concern mothers as well as important others who fill a care giving role in the family. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to: global reproduction; birth practices and rituals; histories of family formation; the “new” fatherhood; changing public policy on maternal care; co-parenting ideologies; activism and motherhood; cross-cultural perspectives on the meanings of motherhood; literary and media representations of the changing figure of the mother; and public health perspectives on motherhood and pregnancy.
We have accepted submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. We have also encouraged a variety of types of submissions including individual academic papers from all disciplines, proposals for panels, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts, film, music, audio and other alternative formats.
All submissions have been peer reviewed. Following the conference, a selection of papers will be considered for a published, edited collection.
DEADLINE HAS PASSED but conference attendance is open to the public: The proposal form can be found on the Museum of Motherhood website: http://www.mommuseum.org/apply/ All submissions must include a title, and a maximum 250-word abstract for individual papers, panels, other submission types (e.g., performance, media, music). Additionally, panel submissions must add short (50-100 word) abstracts of the individual papers that will be included in the panel. Conference registrants are invited to submit ONE presentation proposal.
Conference will be held at: Museum of Motherhood, 401 East 84th Street, New York, NY
Fee to participate: $150 (payment link)
Tech Info For Conference Presenters:
We have a projector, screen and TV (plays DVDs) for sharing your work. Please bring your computer and an adaptor to best share your presentations.
Local Resources:
Accommodations near M.O.M.:
Conference Organizing Committee:
If you have any questions about the upcoming conference, please feel to email your query to any one of us on the academic conference organizing committee.
Aurelie Athan – MA Program Director, Full-time Lecturer, Department of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, US. [Athan@exchange.tc.columbia.
Lynn Kuechle – Coordinator, Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota, US. [momscholar@gmail.com]
Lynda Ross (Chair) – Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB, Canada. [lyndar@athabascau.ca]
Laura Tropp – Associate Professor and Chair, Communication Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY, US. [ltropp@mmm.edu]
Joy Baum, M.S.Ed., P.D.; Founding Director of Education and Consulting at LearnLive and Arts In Education Teacher Supervisor at Queens College in NYC. nahvah@gmail.com
Joy Rose – Founding Director M.O.M. Museum Of Motherhood MOMmuseum@gmail.com
