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.
Riverside, CA, UC Riverside
May 20th, 3-6 PM
Room 367 of the HUB (Highlander Union Building, formerly known as the commons)
The presentation will be followed by pizza, book signing, and information booths on campus resources for parents (child development center, student health center insurance, counseling center, TA union, health insurance for children)
Mama, PhD will also be at the following conferences:
American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)
April 23-26, 2009, Cleveland, OH
American Sociological Association (ASA)
August 8-11, San Francisco, CA
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
October 15–19, 2009 Pittsburgh, PA
American Studies Association (ASTA)
November 5-8, 2009, Washington, DC
History of Science Society (HSS)
November 19-22, 2009, Phoenix, AZ
American Society of Criminology (ASC)
November 4-7, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
December 2-6, Philadelphia, PA
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)
December 20-22, 2009, Los Angeles, CA
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
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
Mama, PhD at the Modern Language Association Conference
Sunday, December 28th after 3:15 P.M.
and Monday, December 29th from 2-3 P.M.
Drop by the Inside Higher Ed booth, where Caroline Grant will be handing out buttons and talking about the book.
Chicago, Women & Children First bookstore
February 13, 7pm
Caroline Grant reading (with other Literary Mama editors)
St. Mary’s College of Maryland:
Caution: Women At Work (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
Brown-Alley Room
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Della Fenster, Caroline Grant, and Libby Gruner reading and discussing issues raised by the book.
Durham, NC, Duke University
April 9th and 10th, noon-1:30 PM
0014 Westbrook
Join Caroline Grant, Alissa McElreath, Susan O’Doherty, and Jean-Anne Sutherland for a reading and panel discussion. For more information, please visit the Duke website.
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