Session Overview |
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10:00am - 1:00pm |
ESR Symposium Location: Room 92 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5.) Chair: Rūta Morkūnienė |
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10:00am - 11:00am |
Virtual session I Location: Virtual (Zoom) Chair: Jennifer Redmond ZOOM link: Meeting ID: 853 5367 1370 Native Mothers, Colonial State and the Dreams of Nation-building: Legislating Maternity Benefits in Late Colonial India Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India 10:15am - 10:30am Hybrid Citizenship Of Migrant Mothers In Sweden: When Real Life Meets Ideological Expectations Södertörn University, Sweden 10:30am - 10:45am “Suddenly They Are Grown Up, Move Out And You Ask Yourself: What Now?”. A Life Course Perspective On Motherhood University of Tübingen, Germany |
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11:00am - 11:10am |
Break Location: Virtual (Zoom) |
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11:10am - 12:10pm |
Virtual session II Location: Virtual (Zoom) Chair: Elina Nilsson ZOOM link: https://fsf-vu-lt.zoom.us/j/85353671370?pwd=6agum30Z1obeMx7aXPQqV61LcFenuQ.1 Meeting ID: 853 5367 1370 Another Burden For Mothers, One Less Responsibility for Governments: How The Press in Brazil, The United States and UK Portrays Maternal Burnout PUC-SP Brazil (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Brazil 11:25am - 11:40am Muslim Mothering York university, Canada 11:40am - 11:55am A New Motherhood: Does Surrogacy End Or Reinforce Patriarchy? Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
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1:00pm - 6:00pm |
Registration Location: Lobby of Auditorium Aula Parva (Main university building, Universiteto str. 3) |
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2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Opening session Location: - Welcome by:
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2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Keynote I: Professor Pragya Agarwal "The Otherhood in Motherhood: From the Margins of Motherhood" Location: - Chair: Julie Rodgers |
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4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee break Location: Lobby of Auditorium Aula Parva (Main university building, Universiteto str. 3) |
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4:30pm - 4:45pm |
Walk to Faculty of Philology (Universiteto str. 5) |
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4:45pm - 6:15pm |
Parallel session 1: Theories of Motherhood Location: - Chair: Andrea O'Reilly "I Turned My Pen Inward to Map the Shifting Tectonic Plates of My Life": Matricentric Feminism in Recent Graphic Memoirs Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), Spain 5:00pm - 5:15pm Narratives of Motherhood: Georges de Peyrebrune's Victoire la Rouge as a Counterpoint to Natalist Ideals University of Oxford, United Kingdom 5:15pm - 5:30pm Experience and Exploration: Mother Anyway and MotherNet Uppsala University, Sweden 5:30pm - 5:45pm "To Change the World, We Must First Change the Way the Babies Are Being Born": Differences and Similarities Within Childbirth Activism in Europe CIES-Iscte, Portugal |
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 |
Parallel session 3: Motherhood and Media I Location: Room 122 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Atėnė Mendelytė Alt-Maternalism: Exploring Expressions of (White) Maternal Power in Digital Influencer Cultures Dublin City University, Ireland 5:00pm - 5:15pm Mum, Work in IT ! How to Enter The Game And Not Fall Out Of It Jagiellonian University, Poland 5:15pm - 5:30pm Mother, Nature: Exploring the Intersection of Motherhood and Nature in Recent Screen Media Saint Luis University Madrid, Spain 5:30pm - 5:45pm “I Never Thought About How Much of a Juggle it Would Be”: Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Lithuanian and Irish Creative Industries 1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania; 3: Department of History and Theory of Art, LMTA in Lithuania. |
Parallel session 4: Motherhood and Literature I Location: Room A9 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: María Sebastià-Sáez The Ethics of Motherhood in Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Gender, Virtue, and Exemplary Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome 1: Uppsala University, Sweden; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania 5:00pm - 5:15pm Motherhood In The Work Of Marie NDiaye: Modernising Medea and Madonna Independent, United Kingdom 5:15pm - 5:30pm Vulnerability and Interdependence: Matrifocal Narratives in Contemporary Latvian Literature Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of University of Latvia, Latvia 5:30pm - 5:45pm Motherhood and the Transactional Body in the Modern Romanian Novel University of Bucharest, Romania |
6:30pm - 8:00pm |
Welcome reception Location: MO Bistro at MO Museum (Pylimo str. 17) |
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8:30am - 2:00pm |
Registration Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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9:00am - 10:30am |
Parallel session 5: Motherhood and Health Sciences Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Rūta Morkūnienė Words Fail: Textual Encounters with Ob/Gyn Violence Maynooth University, Ireland 9:15am - 9:30am Women’s Birth Narratives in the Hungarian Obstetric Care. Introduction to a Qualitative Study Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary 9:30am - 9:45am Pavee Mothering during Covid-19 Maynooth University, Ireland 9:45am - 10:00am Transfiguring ‘Negative Spaces’: Encounters With Motherhood In Contexts Of Loss And Absence National Maternity Hospital, Ireland |
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 |
Parallel session 7: Motherhood and Marginality Location: Room 122 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Pragya Agarwal Reframing Violence Against Women as Violence Against Motherhood and Mothering Vilnius University, Lithuania 9:20am - 9:40am Solo Motherhood By Choice – Literature and Policy University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 9:40am - 10:00am The Official Discourse and Social Construction of Motherhood and the Irish Workhouse System of the Late-Nineteenth-Century. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Parallel session 8: Roundtable: Negotiating Non-motherhood Location: Room A9 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Julie Rodgers Reclaiming Non-Motherhood: Representations of Childlessness in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature Uppsala University, Sweden 9:10am - 9:20am Exploring Non-motherhood in Spanish Graphic Narratives: No quiero ser mamá (Irene Olmo 2020) Maynooth University, Ireland 9:20am - 9:30am Non-Motherhood and Surrogacy in Miguel de Unamuno’s Dos madres Vilnius University, Lithuania 9:30am - 9:40am “Je Ne Veux Pas Enfanter Et C’est Mon Droit”: Radical Non-motherhood In Amandine Gay’s Une Poupée en Chocolat (2021) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 9:40am - 9:50am Non-motherhood – An Alternative ‘Happy Life’? A Qualitative Study of Reproductive Age Women in Lithuania Vilnius University, Lithuania |
10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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11:00am - 12:20pm |
Keynote II: Professor Valerie Heffernan "Representing Maternal Regret" Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Eglė Šumskienė |
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12:20pm - 12:30pm |
Margaretha Fahlgren "Mothernet Mentoring programme" Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Parallel session 9: Oppressive Motherhood Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Ieva Bisigirskaitė Why the Ideology of Intensive Mothering is Oppressive? Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania 2:15pm - 2:30pm Many Faces of Intensive Motherhood: Mothering Practices and Ideologies of Czech Mothers Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic 2:30pm - 2:45pm The Adverse Impact of the Lithuanian Motherhood Script on Migrant Mothers’ Well-being and Harmonious Bilingualism Vilnius University, Lithuania 2:45pm - 3:00pm Motherhood Under Attack: How The Archetype Of The ‘Good Mother’ Shapes Responses To Child-To-Mother Abuse University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
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 |
Parallel session 11: Motherhood and Mental Health Location: Room 122 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Ciara Bradley Spectral Mothers and Daughters of Contemporary Trauma Fiction Uppsala University, Sweden 2:15pm - 2:30pm Experiences of Mothers of Preterm Babies from the Medical Humanities Perspective: Presentation of the Study Design 1: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania; 2: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania; 3: Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania 2:30pm - 2:45pm Solomon Judges Medea: Experiences Of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities Whose Children Were Removed Vilnius University, Lithuania 2:45pm - 3:00pm Exploring Feminist Mothering Through The Phenomenological Reflections Of Urban Indian Mothers FLAME University, India |
Parallel session 12: Depictions of Motherhood in Contemporary French Literature: Ethics and Poetics Location: Room A9 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Dovilė Kuzminskaitė Socially Distributed Cognition and the Ethics of Motherhood in Contemporary French Autotheory: Shumona Sinha and Vanessa Springora University of Passau, Germany 2:20pm - 2:40pm Writings on the Self in Movement: Mothers De(con)structed in Nelly Arcan’s, Sophie Calle’s and Emma Marsante’s Works University of Torino 2:40pm - 3:00pm 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 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee break Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Keynote III: Lucy Jones "Matrescence & Matroecology" Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Jenny Björklund |
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7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Conference dinner Location: Restaurant "Trinity" (Vilniaus str. 30) |
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9:00am - 2:00pm |
Registration Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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9:30am - 11:00am |
Parallel session 13: Motherhood and Time Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Diana Ramašauskaitė Motherhood in the Light of the Portuguese Revolution: Reflections on an Ongoing Project 1: CIES-Iscte; 2: CIES-Iscte; 3: CIES-Iscte 9:50am - 10:10am A Hidden Wound: Women's Perceptions and Experiences of Abortion in Soviet Lithuania, 1950s-1970s University of Oxford, United Kingdom 10:10am - 10:30am The Changing Profile of Single Mothers at Childbirth in Belgium: Exploring the Role of Socioeconomic Characteristics and Proximity to Parents Center for Demographic Research - University of Louvain, Belgium |
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 |
Parallel session 15: Maternal Experiences and Representations Location: Room 122 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Violeta Gevorgianienė Mothers in Family Memories of the Difficult Past Vilnius University, Lithuania 9:45am - 10:00am Ignoring Breastfeeding: The Iconographic Confusion of the 16th Century and its Modern Reminiscences Vilnius University, Lithuania 10:00am - 10:15am Each of Us Must Decide—A Wizard or a Mother: Non-Motherhood, Agency, and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Jagiellonian University, Poland 10:15am - 10:30am Failing Mother Ireland: Alternative Representations of Motherhood in Ireland Maynooth University, Ireland |
Parallel session 16: Motherhood in Literature II Location: Room A9 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Lisa Matilda Grahn “Do you think Mammy’s alright?”- A interdisciplinary exploration of themes of Irish Motherhood in Anne Enright’s The Green Road. Maynooth University, Ireland 9:45am - 10:00am Pregnant Horror and Evil Babies: A Comparative Reading of Doris Lessing and Naomi Booth University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 10:00am - 10:15am Rewriting the Myth: Costanza Casati “Clytemnestra” University of Latvia, Latvia 10:15am - 10:30am Mothers On the Poetic Map of Vilnius Vilnius University, Lithuania |
11:00am - 11:30am |
Coffee break Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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11:30am - 12:30pm |
Keynote IV: Eglė Kačkutė "Vilnius University Motherhood Studies in Europe: Present and Future" Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Valerie Heffernan |
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12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Location: Lobby of Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |
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1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Parallel session 17: Mothers in Workplace Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Anne O' Brien Unpacking the Career Narratives of Skilled Migrant Mothers Maynooth University, Ireland 1:45pm - 2:00pm Working Mothers: How Does Working Environment Disempower Young Mothers to Reach Work-Life Balance? Lithuanian Centre for Social Research, Lithuania 2:00pm - 2:15pm "What a Cliché, Right?" Insights from Mothers Opting for Part-time Employment in Germany Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany 2:15pm - 2:30pm Lithuanian Social Policy after Childbirth: mothers' experiences Vilnius University, Lithuania |
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 |
Parallel session 19: Motherhood in Literature III Location: Room A9 (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) Chair: Jenny Björklund The Trouble With Mothers: Exploring the Psychological Representation of Motherhood in Contemporary Domestic Noir Fiction. University of Tasmania, Australia 1:45pm - 2:00pm The White Space: Narrating the Loss of a Child, Motherhood, and the Liminal Space Between Life and Death University College Dublin, Ireland 2:00pm - 2:15pm Good Mother, Bad Mother: Experience of Motherhood in Teresa Wong’s Dear Scarlet Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 2:15pm - 2:30pm Historical Narratives of Motherhood in Swedish Popular Fiction Uppsala university, Sweden |
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3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Closing session Location: Auditorium Krėvės (Faculty of Philology, Universiteto st. 5) |