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Tuesday, June 17
 

10:45am EDT

(Re)conceiving Pregnancy and Birth
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
213
1. Lynn Deboeck, “Re-Thinking the Trimester Structure” (online) 2. Jessica Killeen, “‘What Kind of Mother Can't Even Mother from the Beginning Stages?’: Intensive Mothering After Perinatal Loss” (online) 3. Chloe Mayne, “Birthing, Becoming, Belonging: An Ecological Poetic of Modern Matrescence”
Moderators
JG
SP
Speakers
LD
avatar for Jessica Killeen

Jessica Killeen

Associate Professor of Sociology, Johnson County Community College
Jessica Killeen is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. She holds a Bachelor Honors Degree in Sociology and Social Policy, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies, both from the University... Read More →
CM
Tuesday June 17, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

12:00pm EDT

Aestheticized Motherhood: Representations of Motherhood in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Tuesday June 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
213
Dóra Janczer Csikós (online) Éva Péteri (online) Franciska Linszky (online) Mubashara Khan
Moderators
CS
NW
Speakers
DJ
EP
FL
MK
Tuesday June 17, 2025 12:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, online

1:30pm EDT

Art Reflecting Life in the Maternal
Tuesday June 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
213
Becky Becker, “Theatre and Authoritarians: (Dis)Embodying Motherhood in Plays of the early 20th Century” (online) Katie James, “Looking Back to Look Forward: A Poetic Collage of Working Motherhood and Empowerment” (online) Janie Copple, “‘This stuff never embarrasses me’: Poetic (In)Tensions of Mothers Preparing Children for Menstruation”
Moderators
MG
KM
Speakers
BB
KJ
JC
Tuesday June 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

3:00pm EDT

Violence and Policing of Mothers
Tuesday June 17, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
213
Tammy Nyden,”The Making of the Unfit Mother: The Eugenicist and Euthenist History of Motherblame” Oge Chukwudozie, “Forced Sterilization of HIV Positive Women: A Violation of Reproductive Justice” Michelle Hughes Miller, “The Deficit is in the “Other”: Maternal Misogynoir and Intensive Governing of System-Involved Mothers”
Moderators
BD
KG
Speakers
TN
OC

Oge Chukwudozie

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vejAsiEKZCouaIqtfuAfIi42tRO9rBMwTwVsjN_kBs8/edit?usp=sharing
MH
Tuesday June 17, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

4:30pm EDT

Nursing-Feeding Dilemmas
Tuesday June 17, 2025 4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT
213

Galit Romanelli, “Warning: Label of Shame - How Formula-feeding Mothers Experience the Warning Labels on Infant Formula Packaging and Why it Matters”
Erin L. Nuckols, “Lactation Rooms as a Case Study for Centering Place-making in the Quest for Inclusion on College Campuses”
Moderators
MB
SP
Speakers
GR
EL
Tuesday June 17, 2025 4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid
 
Wednesday, June 18
 

8:45am EDT

The Unexpected Maternal
Wednesday June 18, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
213
Lindsey Abernathy and Erin Davis (co-pres?), “Embodiments of Matrescence: Autoethnographic Engagements with our Mother-Selves After Birth Trauma and Motherloss”
Juliet Hall, “Dyscluded Mothers” (online)
Laura Jane Nanni, “The Lived Experience of Childbirth and the Violence of the Biomedical Model” (online)
Moderators
MF
SP
Speakers
LA
JH
LJ
Wednesday June 18, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

10:15am EDT

Breaking the Mother Myth in Literature
Wednesday June 18, 2025 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
213
Lara Brändle, “Milk and Tears – Reinscribing the Maternal Body with Sexual Agency in Belinda Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage
Apolline Weibel, “‘Remember: You Are One’ – Matrilineal Abjection and ‘Fairytelling’ in Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (2024)
Sushree Routray, “The Good/Bad/Mad Mother: Feminist Killjoy and Empowered Mothering in All the Lives We Never Lived (2018) and Tomb of Sand (2018)”
Moderators
CT
ST
Speakers
LB
AW
SR
Wednesday June 18, 2025 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave

1:25pm EDT

Affinity Group: Black MotherScholars
Wednesday June 18, 2025 1:25pm - 2:00pm EDT
213
Moderators
JB
Wednesday June 18, 2025 1:25pm - 2:00pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  breakout groups, hybrid

2:15pm EDT

Bridging the Divides: Co-creating Webs of Intersectional Mothering and Activism  in a Political Hellscape
Wednesday June 18, 2025 2:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
213
Moderators
PB
CR
Speakers
MP
SH
Wednesday June 18, 2025 2:15pm - 3:30pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  roundtable, hybrid

3:45pm EDT

Mothers in Literature
Wednesday June 18, 2025 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
213
Andrea O’Reilly, “Gone Feral: Deviant Mothers, Defective Mothering, and the Undoing of Normative Motherhood in Katixa Agirre’s Mothers Don’t and Yewande B. Omotoso’s Unusual Grief”
Bianca Rita Cataldi, “Tracing Motherhood in Contemporary Transnational Italian Literature” (online)
Sheree Gregory, “A Room of One’s Own?: Reflections on ‘Reading Motherhood’ from the Europe−Australia IAMAS Motherhood Reading Group Network” (online)
Moderators
JA
Speakers
AO
BR
SG
Wednesday June 18, 2025 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid
 
Thursday, June 19
 

8:45am EDT

Lived Motherhood Beyond the Hegemonic Script
Thursday June 19, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
213
Ana Bravo-Moreno, “Biotechnologies and Reproductive Agency: An Ethnography of Solo Motherhood in Spain and the United Kingdom”
Kristine Crane, “Motherhood and Relocation” (online)
Amanda Tetrault, “‘Smiling through the Pain’: A Digital Arts-based Exploration of Mothering with Chronic Pain”
Moderators
MM
TW
Speakers
AB
KC
AT
Thursday June 19, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

10:15am EDT

Mentoring Motherhood Scholars
Thursday June 19, 2025 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
213
Join the IAMAS taskforce on University Life for a discussion of how to receive the mentoring you need, whether or not you are in an academic position that has formal mentoring built in. This session will allow you to consider the types of mentoring you most need and we will also share tools around career goal setting.
Moderators
avatar for Christa Baiada

Christa Baiada

Associate Professor of English, BMCC, City University of New York
RS
NW
Thursday June 19, 2025 10:15am - 11:30am EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  roundtable, hybrid

11:45am EDT

Celebrating Black Motherhood
Thursday June 19, 2025 11:45am - 1:00pm EDT
213
Maki Motapanyane, “Maternalism in Action: Public Disrobing and Cultural Cosmology in African Women’s Protests”
Myrah Brown Green, “Maternal Power and Inheritance: The Role of African Material Culture in Sustaining Generational Mother Wisdom”
Moderators
GB
WZ
Speakers
MM
MB
Thursday June 19, 2025 11:45am - 1:00pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

1:15pm EDT

Fireside Chat with Critical Whiteness Mother Scholar Cheryl Matias
Thursday June 19, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
213
Moderators
SH
Speakers
CM
CP
Thursday June 19, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  roundtable, hybrid
 
Friday, June 20
 

9:15am EDT

Motherhood and Food
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
213
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”
Moderators
JH
CR
Speakers
CS
RP
NW
Friday June 20, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

10:45am EDT

Historical (Mis-)Representations of Motherhood
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
213
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)
Moderators
GR
Speakers
JB
BD
LL
Friday June 20, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

1:30pm EDT

Mythology, Creation, Transformation
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
213
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)
Moderators
LA
MM
Speakers
JE
CR
MF
AA
Friday June 20, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid

3:00pm EDT

Motherhood and Politics: Recent Debates
Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
213
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”
Moderators
SG
ST
Speakers
LO
GB
avatar for Susie Fishleder
Friday June 20, 2025 3:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
213 725 Commonwealth Ave
  traditional, hybrid
 
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