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Call for Papers: Being & Thinking as an Academic Mother

October 19th, 2009

Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narrative
A One-Day Symposium
The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University will co-host a one-day symposium at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute on Thursday, April 08, 2010 on “Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Practice.”
ARM and [...]

NeMLA: Calls for Papers:

July 31st, 2009

The Northeast Modern Language Association
41st Anniversary Convention, Montreal, Quebec – Hilton Bonaventure, April 7-11, 2010
The 41st Annual Convention will feature approximately 350 sessions, as well as dynamic speakers and cultural events. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may [...]

The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life

February 19th, 2009

Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting a conference  February 28 entitled “The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life,” which will take up many of the questions that surround the increasing use of assisted reproductive technologies and adoption to build families. Propelled by changes in familial form, such as lesbian, gay, and [...]

CFP: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives: Motherhood Memoirs

January 28th, 2009

UPDATE: EXTENDED DEADLINE APRIL 15, 2009
Mothers Creating/Writing Lives: Motherhood Memoirs
As memoir continues to expand in popularity, motherhood memoir has become an increasingly prominent and lucrative subgenre for contemporary authors. As Michelle Herman points out in The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood, if forced to choose between her daughter and her writing, she would [...]

Can Work in Higher Education Be Family Friendly?

January 15th, 2009

Doctoral students at the University of California campuses think not, according to a survey released this week by Mary Ann Mason, former dean of the UC Berkeley graduate division and co-author of Mothers on the Fast Track; Marc Goulden, a researcher at the University of California; and Karie Frasch, manager of the UC Faculty [...]

NWSA 2009: Call for Roundtable Participants

January 13th, 2009

Mama, PhD:
Reflections on Parenting in the (Feminist) Academy
The 2008 book, Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life, offers a diverse set of perspectives on the challenges and rewards of combining parenthood with an
academic career. This proposal seeks to continue that conversation, particularly focusing on the experience of parenting as Women’s Studies (and [...]

Survey of Academic Mom Bloggers

November 25th, 2008

There is still time to participate in the survey of academic mom bloggers being conducted by researchers at the University of Connecticut Psychology Department, so make your voice heard!.  “We will be closing the survey to participants in about 2 weeks, and want to give everyone who was interested in participating a chance. Because the [...]

Call for Submissions: Dads in Academia

November 18th, 2008

The editors of Dads in Academia: Male Voices In and Out of the Ivory Tower invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection of creative nonfiction essays on the rewards and challenges of being both a father and an academic.  Much recent discussion about the juxtaposition of parenthood and the academy has focused on the difficulties that [...]

Study on Blogging and Academic Moms

November 5th, 2008

Are you a mom in academia who blogs? Make your voice heard in this survey!
“Your participation would involve the completion of an anonymous online survey.  The survey contains a mixture of multiple-choice and open-response questions, and should take less than an hour to complete. The survey does not have to be completed in one session.  [...]

Calling Arkansas and Montreal Mothers in Academe

November 4th, 2008

Dear ARM Members and Friends,
Andrea O’Reilly will be in Little Rock, AK for a conference Nov 4-8 and Montreal, QC for a Fellowship Nov 11- Dec 10.
While there, she should like to do some interviews for her research on being a mother in academe.
For more information on this study, please visit www.yorku.ca/arm
If you are interested [...]

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