Native Mothers, Colonial State and the Dreams of Nation-building: Legislating Maternity Benefits in Late Colonial India

Prarthana Dutta

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Hybrid Citizenship Of Migrant Mothers In Sweden: When Real Life Meets Ideological Expectations

Soheyla Yazdanpanah

Södertörn University, Sweden

“Suddenly They Are Grown Up, Move Out And You Ask Yourself: What Now?”. A Life Course Perspective On Motherhood

Marie-Kristin Döbler

University of Tübingen, Germany

Another Burden For Mothers, One Less Responsibility for Governments: How The Press in Brazil, The United States and UK Portrays Maternal Burnout

Mariana Della Barba

PUC-SP Brazil (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Brazil

Muslim Mothering

Sofia Ahmed

York university, Canada

A New Motherhood: Does Surrogacy End Or Reinforce Patriarchy?

Elisa Baiocco

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

"I Turned My Pen Inward to Map the Shifting Tectonic Plates of My Life": Matricentric Feminism in Recent Graphic Memoirs

Carolina Toscano

Saint Louis University (Madrid Campus), Spain

Narratives of Motherhood: Georges de Peyrebrune's Victoire la Rouge as a Counterpoint to Natalist Ideals

Marie Martine

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Experience and Exploration: Mother Anyway and MotherNet

Margaretha Fahlgren, Anna Williams

Uppsala University, Sweden

"To Change the World, We Must First Change the Way the Babies Are Being Born": Differences and Similarities Within Childbirth Activism in Europe

Dulce Morgado Neves

CIES-Iscte, Portugal

The Never Good Enough Mother: Escaping Motherhood in Two Contemporary Novels

Lori Arnold

University of Houston Clear Lake, United States of America

Of Mice And Women: Feral Motherhood In David Huebert’s “Cruelty”

Rūta Šlapkauskaitė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

The Monstrous Mother: Media and Artistic Representation in French and Francophone Culture

Julie Rodgers¹, Vitalija Kazlauskiene²

1: Maynooth University; 2: Vilnius University

“We Are Seriously Two Equals”: Lesbian Mothers-To-Be Reason About In/Equalities And Sharing Motherhood In Sweden

Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch

Stockholm University, Sweden

Alt-Maternalism: Exploring Expressions of (White) Maternal Power in Digital Influencer Cultures

Ashley Ann Mattheis

Dublin City University, Ireland

Mum, Work in IT ! How to Enter The Game And Not Fall Out Of It

Agnieszka Karoń

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Mother, Nature: Exploring the Intersection of Motherhood and Nature in Recent Screen Media

Olivia Badoi

Saint Luis University Madrid, Spain

“I Never Thought About How Much of a Juggle it Would Be”: Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Lithuanian and Irish Creative Industries

Anne O' Brien¹, Sarah Arnold¹, Jelena Šalaj², Lina Kaminskaite³

1: Maynooth University, Ireland; 2: Vilnius University, Lithuania; 3: Department of History and Theory of Art, LMTA in Lithuania.

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

Words Fail: Textual Encounters with Ob/Gyn Violence

Loic Bourdeau

Maynooth University, Ireland

Women’s Birth Narratives in the Hungarian Obstetric Care. Introduction to a Qualitative Study

Orsolya Udvari

Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Pavee Mothering during Covid-19

Ciara Bradley

Maynooth University, Ireland

Transfiguring ‘Negative Spaces’: Encounters With Motherhood In Contexts Of Loss And Absence

Claire Flahavan

National Maternity Hospital, Ireland

Mothers’ Resistance Against ”Traditional Values” And The Russian War On Ukraine

Yulia Gradskova

Södertörn University, Sweden

Mothers We Care For And Mothers We Care About: Maternal Activism In Lithuania

Ieva Bisigirskaitė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Reframing Violence Against Women as Violence Against Motherhood and Mothering

Jolanta Malažinskienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Solo Motherhood By Choice – Literature and Policy

Christie Louise Margrave

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

The Official Discourse and Social Construction of Motherhood and the Irish Workhouse System of the Late-Nineteenth-Century.

Judy Bolger

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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

Why the Ideology of Intensive Mothering is Oppressive?

Živilė Oertelė

Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania

Many Faces of Intensive Motherhood: Mothering Practices and Ideologies of Czech Mothers

Hana Hašková, Radka Dudová

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

The Adverse Impact of the Lithuanian Motherhood Script on Migrant Mothers’ Well-being and Harmonious Bilingualism

Inga Hilbig, Eglė Kačkutė, Vitalija Kazlauskienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Motherhood Under Attack: How The Archetype Of The ‘Good Mother’ Shapes Responses To Child-To-Mother Abuse

Laura Louise Rite

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

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

Andrea O'Reilly

York University, Canada

"Performing (M)others - The Performative Potential to Queer the Socially Idealized Image of the Mother"

Linda Luv

University of Arts Linz, Austria

The Modern Mother Is A Superwoman. Complex Definitions And Conflicting Norms Of Good Motherhood In Belgium

Laëtitia Marie Dominique Bideau

University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium

Spectral Mothers and Daughters of Contemporary Trauma Fiction

Daniela Johanna Lillhannus

Uppsala University, Sweden

Experiences of Mothers of Preterm Babies from the Medical Humanities Perspective: Presentation of the Study Design

Rūta Morkūnienė¹, Diana Ramašauskaitė², Atėnė Mendelytė³

1: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania; 2: Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania; 3: Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Solomon Judges Medea: Experiences Of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities Whose Children Were Removed

Eglė Šumskienė, Violeta Gevorgianienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Exploring Feminist Mothering Through The Phenomenological Reflections Of Urban Indian Mothers

Ketoki Mazumdar

FLAME University, India

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

Motherhood in the Light of the Portuguese Revolution: Reflections on an Ongoing Project

Dulce Morgado Neves¹, Ana Rita Monteiro², Tatiana Matos³

1: CIES-Iscte; 2: CIES-Iscte; 3: CIES-Iscte

A Hidden Wound: Women's Perceptions and Experiences of Abortion in Soviet Lithuania, 1950s-1970s

Agnė Pakšytė

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

The Changing Profile of Single Mothers at Childbirth in Belgium: Exploring the Role of Socioeconomic Characteristics and Proximity to Parents

Denise Musni, Christine Schnor

Center for Demographic Research - University of Louvain, Belgium

Addressing History through Maternal Experience: Healing Transgenerational Trauma in Joanna Rajkowska’s Born in Berlin and A Letter to Rosa

Justyna Wierzchowska

University of Warsaw, Poland

Affective Materialities: Representation of Birth in Contemporary Art in Latvia

Jana Kukaine

Riga Stradins University, Latvia

Sketching the unknown: Pregnancy ambivalence illustrated in Maternasis (1967) and Ninja Baby (2021)

Dovilė Kuzminskaitė¹, Maja Bodin²

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

Mothers in Family Memories of the Difficult Past

Liucija Vervečkienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Ignoring Breastfeeding: The Iconographic Confusion of the 16th Century and its Modern Reminiscences

Tomas Riklius

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Each of Us Must Decide—A Wizard or a Mother: Non-Motherhood, Agency, and Identity in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

Agnieszka Agata Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Failing Mother Ireland: Alternative Representations of Motherhood in Ireland

EL Putnam

Maynooth University, Ireland

“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

Unpacking the Career Narratives of Skilled Migrant Mothers

Marian Crowley-Henry

Maynooth University, Ireland

Working Mothers: How Does Working Environment Disempower Young Mothers to Reach Work-Life Balance?

Vilana Pilinkaitė Sotirovič

Lithuanian Centre for Social Research, Lithuania

"What a Cliché, Right?" Insights from Mothers Opting for Part-time Employment in Germany

Irina Hertel

Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany

Lithuanian Social Policy after Childbirth: mothers' experiences

Daiva Skučienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Sociolect of Czech mothers on Facebook

Jana Pelclová

Masaryk University, Czech Republic

We Need to Talk about Motherhood – Breaking the Taboo of Difficult Motherhood in Contemporary Cinema

Emilia Garncarek

University of Lodz, Poland

Spaces And Times Of Cinematernity In Québécois Cinema

Billy Errington

Durham University, United Kingdom

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