Events
“All those sleepless nights and dirty diapers and baby food in your hair–where’s the discursive construction of motherhood when you need it?”
–Catherine Newman
Higher Education could be an enormously family-friendly environment, a model for other workplaces, but the academy is failing, and women are leaving. Join contributors to Mama, PhD in readings and conversation about the challenges and joys of trying to reconcile body and brain as they navigate academic careers.
Cleveland, OH, Joseph-Beth Booksellers
December 3rd, 6:00-9:00pm
Rosemarie Emanuele and Natalie Kertes Weaver reading
Bethlehem, PA, The Moravian Book Shop
December 4th, 6:30pm
Elrena Evans signing books
Valley Forge, PA, Barnes & Noble
December 18th, 7:00pm
Elrena Evans signing books
Chicago, Women & Children First bookstore
February 13, 7pm
Caroline Grant reading (with other Literary Mama editors)
St. Mary’s College of Maryland: Tenth Annual Women Studies Colloquium
March 24, 8pm
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Della Fenster and Libby Gruner reading
Richmond, VA, University of Richmond
April 8th, 4 pm
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Della Fenster, Caroline Grant, and Libby Gruner reading
Mama, PhD will also be at the following conferences:
Association for Jewish Studies
December 21–23 2008, Washington D.C.
Modern Language Association
December 27-30 2008, San Francisco, CA
American Historical Association
January 2-5 2009, New York, NY
American Society for Environmental History
February 25-March 1 2009, Tallahassee, FL
Organization of American Historians
March 26-29 2009, Seattle, WA
Past Events
Valley Forge, PA, Barnes & Noble
October 11, 1:00pm
Elrena Evans reading with Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz
San Francisco, LitCrawl
October 11, 7:15pm
Caroline Grant reading (with Literary Mama columnists) at Beauty Bar
New York City, Bluestockings Bookstore
October 20, 7pm
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Nicole Cooley, Elrena Evans, Caroline Grant, and Susan O’Doherty reading
New York City, KGB Bar
October 21, 7:15pm
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Nicole Cooley, Elrena Evans, Caroline Grant, and Susan O’Doherty reading
San Francisco, City Visions Radio
October 27, 7:30pm
Caroline Grant in conversation with Joan Williams and Mary Ann Mason
University Park, PA, Penn State campus
October 28th, 11:30-12:30pm
Brown bag lunch and discussion, 132 Engineering East
Elrena Evans, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, and Sheila Squillante
University Park, PA, Penn State Bookstore
October 28, 1:00-3:00pm
Elrena Evans, Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Sheila Squillante
Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University
October 28, Reception 5:00pm, Panel 5:30-7:30
Elrena Evans, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, and Anjalee Deshpande Nadkarni
Berkeley, University Press Books
November 13, 6:00pm
Caroline Grant, Lisa Harper, Jennifer Eyre White and Irena Smith reading
