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Call for Papers: Motherhood & Philosophy
November 1st, 2008CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
MOTHERHOOD & PHILOSOPHY:
WHAT PHILOSOPHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT MOTHERS AND
WHAT MOTHERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT PHILOSOPHY
Sheila Lintott (ed.)
Department of Philosophy
Bucknell University
Abstracts with titles are solicited for a new volume in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general series editorship of Fritz Allhoff. As with previous titles now subsumed under the series—Wine [...]
Call for Papers: Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering
October 16th, 2008Keynote Speakers: Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University
Eva Kittay, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Invited Speaker: Andrea O’Reilly, the Association for Research on Mothering, York University
Hosted by the University of Oregon and the Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering Research Group.
Sponsorship provided by the University of Oregon Graduate School, the Center for the Study of Women in [...]
ARM/Brandeis Conference on Mothers in Academia
September 24th, 2008The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the Brandeis Women’s Studies
Research Center are pleased to host a Day Symposium
@ Brandeis University
Boston, MA
February 27, 2009
The Maternal Wall in Academe:
Academic Mothers and Strategies of Resistance and Empowerment
Many women today, particularly those that are college educated,
middle-class and professional, may not encounter gender discrimination
until they become mothers and [...]
A room of their own for breastfeeding moms…
August 7th, 2008One of the many memorable moments in Mama, PhD is this, from Jennifer Eyre White’s essay, “Engineering Motherhood,” in which she recounts working toward a Masters in Engineering as a new mom:
“For the first six months I’d race to school for class and race home for the next feeding. Sometimes [my husband] Frank would bring [...]
Survey of PhDs in the Nonacademic Workforce
June 23rd, 2008 Listen up! Paula Chambers, of WRK4US, is conducting a survey of PhDs and ABDs who have left the academy and entered the nonacademic workforce.
“The purpose of the study is to provide a credible, research-based description of what those individuals feel, do and experience while transitioning into
post-academic careers. This information will be very [...]
Calling All Academic Moms In Arizona!
November 2nd, 2007Andrea O’Reilly will be in Tuscon, Arizona Wednesday November 7- Sunday, November 11, 2007.
While there, she hopes to conduct interviews with faculty and grad students on their experience of being a mother academic as part of her her SSHRCC funded research “On Being a Mother in the Academe”.
For full description of this project please visit [...]
Shortening the Road to the PhD
October 10th, 2007Princeton’s work on shortening the amount of time it takes to earn a PhD merited an article in the New York Times recently. Readers, what do you think of this? While I don’t think it’s useful for people to languish in graduate school, one drawback of this plan (and similar ones at other universities) is [...]
Calling All Academic Mothers
October 7th, 2007CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS…
Professor Andrea O’Reilly is beginning a three-year SSHRCC funded research project on the topic “Being a Mother in the Academe.” The project will be based on interviews with 50 mothers across Canada, the United States, and Australia.
The interview will be approximately 1-2 hours in length.
If you are interested in participating in the study, [...]
Time for Breastfeeding
September 28th, 2007From “Inside Higher Ed:”
“An appeals court in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that a breast-feeding mother who is a student at Harvard Medical School is entitled to extra time during a licensing exam so she can pump milk for her child, The Boston Globe reported.”
This story marks the first time I’ve been grateful for the format of [...]
Good News from Rutgers
August 21st, 2007We’re proud to note today that the university associated with our publisher, Rutgers, is making family life easier for their faculty:
Eight weeks paid leave from teaching and service obligations for both faculty and TA/GAs of any gender who become parents (biological or adoptive). For birth mothers, these eight weeks are in addition to the previous [...]
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