MotherNet Final Conference 2024
Thinking through Motherhood:
Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time
January 23-25, 2024 | Vilnius, Lithuania
Conference Agenda
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Location: Room A7 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5. |
| Date: Tuesday, 23/Jan/2024 | |
| 4:45pm - 6:15pm |
Parallel session 2: Transgressive Motherhood Location: Room A7 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Loic Bourdeau The Never Good Enough Mother: Escaping Motherhood in Two Contemporary Novels University of Houston Clear Lake, United States of America 5:00pm - 5:15pm Of Mice And Women: Feral Motherhood In David Huebert’s “Cruelty” Vilnius University, Lithuania 5:15pm - 5:30pm The Monstrous Mother: Media and Artistic Representation in French and Francophone Culture 1: Maynooth University; 2: Vilnius University 5:30pm - 5:45pm “We Are Seriously Two Equals”: Lesbian Mothers-To-Be Reason About In/Equalities And Sharing Motherhood In Sweden Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Date: Wednesday, 24/Jan/2024 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Parallel session 6: When Real Moms Confront the "Ideal Mother": Maternal Resistance and Maternal Realities in Denmark, Russia and Lithuania Location: Room A7 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Ieva Bisigirskaitė Mothers’ Resistance Against ”Traditional Values” And The Russian War On Ukraine Södertörn University, Sweden 9:20am - 9:40am Mothers We Care For And Mothers We Care About: Maternal Activism In Lithuania Vilnius University, Lithuania |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Parallel session 10: Maternal Utopias and Dystopias Location: Room A7 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Rūta Šlapkauskaitė Imagining motherhood in a post-apocalyptic world: reifying and resisting normative motherhood in the climate-change novels Clean Air by Sarah Blake and The New Wilderness by Diane Cook York University, Canada 2:20pm - 2:40pm "Performing (M)others - The Performative Potential to Queer the Socially Idealized Image of the Mother" University of Arts Linz, Austria 2:40pm - 3:00pm The Modern Mother Is A Superwoman. Complex Definitions And Conflicting Norms Of Good Motherhood In Belgium University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium |
| Date: Thursday, 25/Jan/2024 | |
| 9:30am - 11:00am |
Parallel session 14: Motherhood and Creativity Location: Room A7 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar Addressing History through Maternal Experience: Healing Transgenerational Trauma in Joanna Rajkowska’s Born in Berlin and A Letter to Rosa University of Warsaw, Poland 9:50am - 10:10am Affective Materialities: Representation of Birth in Contemporary Art in Latvia Riga Stradins University, Latvia 10:10am - 10:30am Sketching the unknown: Pregnancy ambivalence illustrated in Maternasis (1967) and Ninja Baby (2021) 1: Vilnius University, Lithuania; 2: Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Parallel session 18: Motherhood and Media II Location: Room A7 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Valerie Heffernan Sociolect of Czech mothers on Facebook Masaryk University, Czech Republic 1:50pm - 2:10pm We Need to Talk about Motherhood – Breaking the Taboo of Difficult Motherhood in Contemporary Cinema University of Lodz, Poland 2:10pm - 2:30pm Spaces And Times Of Cinematernity In Québécois Cinema Durham University, United Kingdom |
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