The Ethics of Motherhood in Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Gender, Virtue, and Exemplary Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome

Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed¹, Nijolė Juchnevičienė²

1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania

Motherhood In The Work Of Marie NDiaye: Modernising Medea and Madonna

Pauline Eaton

Independent, United Kingdom

Vulnerability and Interdependence: Matrifocal Narratives in Contemporary Latvian Literature

Zita Kārkla

Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of University of Latvia, Latvia

Motherhood and the Transactional Body in the Modern Romanian Novel

Ioana Moroșan

University of Bucharest, Romania

Reclaiming Non-Motherhood: Representations of Childlessness in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature

Jenny Björklund

Uppsala University, Sweden

Exploring Non-motherhood in Spanish Graphic Narratives: No quiero ser mamá (Irene Olmo 2020)

Mercedes Carbayo Abengozar

Maynooth University, Ireland

Non-Motherhood and Surrogacy in Miguel de Unamuno’s Dos madres

María Sebastià-Sáez

Vilnius University, Lithuania

“Je Ne Veux Pas Enfanter Et C’est Mon Droit”: Radical Non-motherhood In Amandine Gay’s Une Poupée en Chocolat (2021)

Jasmine Dee Cooper

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Non-motherhood – An Alternative ‘Happy Life’? A Qualitative Study of Reproductive Age Women in Lithuania

Lina Šumskaitė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Socially Distributed Cognition and the Ethics of Motherhood in Contemporary French Autotheory: Shumona Sinha and Vanessa Springora

Diana Mistreanu

University of Passau, Germany

Writings on the Self in Movement: Mothers De(con)structed in Nelly Arcan’s, Sophie Calle’s and Emma Marsante’s Works

Vera Gajiu

University of Torino

There is No Such Thing as Maternal Instinct: Unwanted Pregnancy, Abandonment and Alienation in Fatou Diome’s The Belly of the Atlantic and Sedi Adeniran’s Imagine This

Aminat Emma Badmus

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

“Do you think Mammy’s alright?”- A interdisciplinary exploration of themes of Irish Motherhood in Anne Enright’s The Green Road.

Roisin Therese Freeney, Orlagh Woods

Maynooth University, Ireland

Pregnant Horror and Evil Babies: A Comparative Reading of Doris Lessing and Naomi Booth

Ida Aaskov Dolmer

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Rewriting the Myth: Costanza Casati “Clytemnestra”

Dina Eiduka

University of Latvia, Latvia

Mothers On the Poetic Map of Vilnius

Inga Vidugirytė-Pakerienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

The Trouble With Mothers: Exploring the Psychological Representation of Motherhood in Contemporary Domestic Noir Fiction.

Liz Evans

University of Tasmania, Australia

The White Space: Narrating the Loss of a Child, Motherhood, and the Liminal Space Between Life and Death

Bianca Rita Cataldi

University College Dublin, Ireland

Good Mother, Bad Mother: Experience of Motherhood in Teresa Wong’s Dear Scarlet

Athmika Tarun

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Historical Narratives of Motherhood in Swedish Popular Fiction

Lisa Matilda Grahn

Uppsala university, Sweden