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