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Friday, June 20
 

9:15am EDT

Motherhood and Food
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
Carrie Schultz, “Teaching 1950s American Motherhood through Food”
Rocio Palomeque Recio, “Vegan, Mom, Influencer: From Intensive Mothering to Political Activism”
Nicola Waldron, “Fighting for Our Lives: Eating Disorder as Patriarch and the Power of the Mother Bear”
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave

9:15am EDT

Motherhood on Screen
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
Asmi Basu, “Ungrateful Mothers: Understanding Mothers Beyond Motherhood with Reference to Selected Indian Films of Late 20th and 21st Century” (online?)

Marta Miquel-Baldellou, “Revisiting the Multiple Identities of the Monstrous Mother through the Patriarchal Gaze in Matt Sobel’s Goodnight Mommy” (online), Sarah Knor, “Interrogating Maternal Rhetorics (online)
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
203 725 Commonwealth Ave

9:15am EDT

Mothering in International Contexts
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
Shabeera Kolakkaden, “Conceptualizing Postpartum: Agency, Care and Sexuality among the Mappila Muslim Mothers of Malabar”
Suvarna More, “Resisting Dual Burdens: Dalit Women’s Challenges to Patriarchy and Caste Oppression”
Lorina Alfred, “The Invisibilization of Peasant Women in Haitian State Health Policies”
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
224 725 Commonwealth Ave

10:45am EDT

Historical (Mis-)Representations of Motherhood
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Julye Bidmead, “Monstrous Mothers and Demonesses in the Ancient World”
Bronwyn DiPeri, “Unpoisoning the Well: Interrogating Internalized Mother-Erasure in Western Fairy Tales”
Laura Lafrance, “‘The Greatest of Arts’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Complex Maternal Psyche in ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ and Herland (online)
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave

10:45am EDT

History of Motherlines
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Madhurima Guha, “‘Ae Hero Dega? [Hey Hero! Wanna give it to me?]’: Understanding the New Language of Dissent of the Vulnerable Grotesque Grandmother in Devashish Makhija’s Ajji (2017)”
Katherine Wardi-Zonna, “Theorizing and Narrativizing the Motherline” (online)
Soulafreda Hantes, “Behind the Crisis: A Historical Analysis of Maternal Employment and Childcare in the United States”
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
203 725 Commonwealth Ave

10:45am EDT

Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Alyssa Perez
Thea Jones (online)
Erynne M. Gilpin
Carolina Toscano (online)
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
224 725 Commonwealth Ave

10:45am EDT

Taking Care of Mothers
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Jessica Samples, “Beyond Self-Care: Relational Mindfulness Circles for Maternal Well-being”
Sarah McCarthy, “A ‘Meitheal’ for Mothers: Maternal Communal Singing as a Conduit to Social Connection and Empowerment” (online)
Heather K. Olson Beal, “Snapshots of (Un)Wellness: An Exploratory PhotoVoice Study on Barriers to Health and Wellbeing for Mother-Educators”
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
216 725 Commonwealth Ave

1:30pm EDT

Maternal Memory, Maternal Silencing
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
McKenna Middleton, “The Phantasmagoria of Maternal Memory in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Lo raro es vivir”
Karisa Shiraki, “A Labor of Love: Memory Work and Storytelling in the Home” (online)
Mariona Visa, “Voices of a Silenced Generation: Older Women’s Untold Stories of Motherhood”
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
203 725 Commonwealth Ave

1:30pm EDT

Matrescence and Mental Health 
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Giverny Lewis, “Mother(Fucker): Exploring Women's Experiences of Sexual Subjectivity in Matrescence”
Rainbow Goddess, “Overdue Interconnections: Linking the Transpersonal with Matrescence” (online)
Katie Flemming, “Motherhood and Mental Health: A Crisis”
Claudia Zucca, “Unstable Mothering: the Effects of Mental Illness on Mothers and Daughters”
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
224 725 Commonwealth Ave

1:30pm EDT

Mythology, Creation, Transformation
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Jennifer Eva Sirel-Pillau, “Matriarchy, Mothering, and the Communal Hearth: Roots-to-Branches Social Transformation for People and Planet”
Coralie Raffenne, “The Mother Earth Figure and Legal Personhood: The potential and Limits of Rethinking Nature’s Rights Through Maternal Imaginaries”
Moona Fazal and Ali Ab UI Hassan, “Ripples of Creation Visualizing Motherhood Through Motion and Light” (Video)
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave

1:30pm EDT

Narrating Maternal Ruptures 
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Anna Kennedy, “Mother and Work Identities – Complement or Conflict: How Identity Meanings Influence Action to Address Role Strain” (online)
Jennifer Heisler, “‘Can I still email you?’ Faculty Memories of Students’ Comments about their Pregnancy and Leave”
Grace Love, “Birthing Futures: Co-conspiring with the Great Cosmic Mother” (online)
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
216 725 Commonwealth Ave

3:00pm EDT

Learning and Motherhood
Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT

Jillayna Adamson, “The First Lesson of a Collective Dream: Moms are Dreaming their Way to Basic Needs, Envisioning a Future that Supports Mothering”
MJ Cortes, “I Came Here with Books You’ve Never Heard of: On being a Latin American Feminist in a Canadian Women’s Studies Graduate Program”
Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
203 725 Commonwealth Ave

3:00pm EDT

Motherhood and Politics: Recent Debates
Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, “Contemporary Motherhood and Politics: Making Sense of Mayor Michelle Wu’s Maternal Politics”
Ginger Bihn-Coss, “Empathy for the Shooter? Exploring Matricentric Feminism’s Offerings in Response to the Public Reaction of the Murder of United HealthCare CEO” (online)
Susie Fishleder, “Leading Like a Mother: Matricentric Leadership as a Revolutionary Framework”
Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
 
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