Motherhood Podcasts
The AHRC and Future Developments
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Christopher Smith, Executive Chair of the AHRC
Tuesday 8 June 2021
National Poetry Day Translation Summit The Future of Poetry Translation: Pathways and Practices
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Thursday 4 October 2018
Mediating Literature
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Friday 23 March 2018
Motherhood and Memory
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Alison Rice, French, Notre Dame, Federica Kaufmann Clementi (Jewish Studies, South Carolina), Katie Stone (German, Cambridge), Nathalie Ségeral (French, Virginia Tech)
Saturday 26 October 2013
Thinking about Mothers and Others through Literature and Social Science
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Gayle Letherby (Sociology, Plymouth), Chair: Gail Lewis, (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck)
Saturday 26 October 2013
Epigenetics and New Perspectives of Inheritance - Motherhood in post-1968 European Women’s Writing
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Gill Rye (French, IMLR) , Clare Hanson (English, Southampton), Gabriele Griffin (Women’s Studies, York) & Ruth Cain (Law, Kent)
Friday 25 October 2013
Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime - Motherhood in post-1968 European Women’s Writing
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Chair: Gill Rye, French, IMLR, Christine Battersby (Philosophy, Warwick)
Friday 25 October 2013
Cassal Trust Author Reading Event - Motherhood in post-1968 European Women's Writing
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Susan Sellers, English, St Andrews, Eliette Abécassis and Birgit Vanderbeke
Thursday 24 October 2013
Last Will and Testament: Potatoes and Poetry - Motherhood in post-1968 European Women's Writing
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Ana Luísa Amaral (Poet/Comparative Literature, Porto), Chair: Claire Williams, (Portuguese, St Peters, Cambridge)
Thursday 24 October 2013
Featured text -- Marie NDiaye, Rosie Carpe (2001) - Respondent
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Sarah-Jane Page (Sociology, Aston)
Friday 9 August 2013
'Experiences of "Motherhood" and "Voluntary Non-Motherhood" in Women's Contemporary Christianity'
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Dawn Llewellyn (Theology and Religious Studies, Chester)
Friday 28 June 2013
'Rosie and the Virgin Mary -- A Modern Model for Motherhood?'
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Pauline Eaton (French, Birkbeck)
Friday 28 June 2013
Featured text -- Marie NDiaye, Rosie Carpe (2001) - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio, Italian, Bath
Friday 28 June 2013
Literature discussion - Biddy Jenkinson 'Liombó' ('Limbo')
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Samantha Langsdale (Study of Religions, SOAS)
Friday 28 June 2013
Literature discussion - Éliette Abécassis, Un heureux événement (2005) (A Happy Event)
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Eleanor Tiplady Higgs (Study of Religions, SOAS)
Friday 28 June 2013
Literature discussion - Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Life is a Caravanserai
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Roberta Guerrina (Politics, Surrey)
Friday 28 June 2013
Literature discussion - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): chair: Victoria Browne, Philosophy, IGRS
Friday 28 June 2013
Maternal and Religious Disappointment in Contemporary German Women's Fiction
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Sheridan Marshall (Translator)
Friday 28 June 2013
Motherhood, Religions and Spirituality: Contexts, Experiences and Narratives - Respondent
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Rachel E.Jones (Philosophy, George Mason)
Friday 28 June 2013
(Featured text): 'The Mothers' Silence' (2004), an essay/memoir by Dalia Staponkuté - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Gill Rye (French, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies)
Friday 26 April 2013
(Featured text): 'The Mothers' Silence' (2004), an essay/memoir by Dalia Staponkuté - Respondent
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Respondent: Anastasia Christou (Sociology, Middlesex)
Friday 26 April 2013
Distant Mothering: Migration, Ambivalence and New Media
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Mirca Madianou (Media and Communication, Leicester)
Friday 26 April 2013
In Dialogue about Self and the World: Cape Verdean Migrant Pregnancy
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Challinor (Social Anthropology, Minho)
Friday 26 April 2013
Madre piccolo (2007) [Little Mother] - Summariser Elena Marcevska
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Elena Marcevska
Friday 26 April 2013
Motherhood In Between: Julia Franck's Lagerfeuer (2003) [Campfire]
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Andrea Hammel (German, Aberystwyth)
Friday 26 April 2013
Motherhood, Migration and Exile: Contexts, Experiences and Narratives - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Abigail Lee Six (Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway)
Friday 26 April 2013
Motherhood, Migration and Exile: Contexts, Experiences and Narratives - Respondent
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Letizia Mencarini (Demography, Turin)
Friday 26 April 2013
Motherhood, Migration and Exile: Literature Discussion - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Emily Jeremiah (German, Royal Holloway)
Friday 26 April 2013
Mothering in a Foreign Language: Silent and/or Multilingual Mothers
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Egle Kackute (Geneva)
Friday 26 April 2013
Suna (2012) - Summariser Maria Luisa Coelho
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Maria Luisa Coelho (History of Art, Reading)
Friday 26 April 2013
The Effects of Migration on Motherhood: A Focus on Linguistic and Cultural Identities
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Ana Souza (Culture, Communication and Media, Institute of Education)
Friday 26 April 2013
‘En français dans le texte’ (1995) [‘In French in the original’] - Summariser Elizabeth Challinor
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Challinor (Social Anthropology, Minho)
Friday 26 April 2013
Rachel Cusk, Aftermath (divorced mother) - Summariser Jill Armstrong
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Jill Armstrong (Sociology, Sussex)
Monday 18 February 2013
A Sociological Story about Intellectual Disability, Mothering and Care Work
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chrissie Rogers (Sociology, Aston)
Friday 18 January 2013
Changing Concepts and Practices of Motherhood - Respondent
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Sigal Spigel (Centre for Gender Studies, Cambridge)
Friday 18 January 2013
Changing Models of Motherhood and Mother-Blame: Plus ça change...
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Abigail Lee Six (Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway)
Friday 18 January 2013
Changing Models of Motherhood: Feedback from breakout sessions - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio, European Studies, Bath
Friday 18 January 2013
Coffin Trust Author Reading - Eleonora Mazzoni (Italy)
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Eleonora Mazzoni (Italy)
Friday 18 January 2013
Coffin Trust Author Reading - Karine Reysset (France)
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Karine Reysset (France)
Friday 18 January 2013
Mothering and Child Disability - Q&A Session
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Claire Williams, Portuguese, Oxford
Friday 18 January 2013
Mothering and Child Disability - Respondent: Sara Ryan
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Sara Ryan (Health Experiences Research Group, Primary Health Care, Oxford)
Friday 18 January 2013
New Father, New Mother?
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Katarina Carlshamre (French, Stockholm)
Friday 18 January 2013
Oedipus Interrupted: Changing Models of Metaphorical Motherhood within Feminist Discourse
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Victoria Browne (Philosophy, Hertfordshire/IGRS)
Friday 18 January 2013
The Kinning of the Transnationally Adopted Child in Contemporary Norway
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Signe Howell (Social Anthropology, Oslo)
Friday 18 January 2013
Tomasa Cuevas, Presas - Summariser Diane Negra
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Diane Negra (Film Studies, University College Dublin)
Friday 18 January 2013
Éliane Girard, Mais qui va garder le chat? - Summariser Roberta Guerrina
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Roberta Guerrina (Politics, Surrey)
Sunday 13 January 2013
An Essay about the Cult of Motherhood and about my own Experience with it
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Summary by Lisa Baraitser (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck)
Friday 26 October 2012
Breakout Sessions to discuss extracts from literature - Discussion
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Discussion - Chair: Clare Hanson (English, Southampton)
Friday 26 October 2012
Featured Text: 'Tempo parziale' ('Part-Time') by Carmen Covito - Discussant and Q&A
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Discussant: Caroline Gatrell (Management, Lancaster) Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio (European Studies-Italian, Bath)
Friday 26 October 2012
Letter from You Love Me Not. You Love Me: The Curiosities of Maternal Love
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Summary by Victoria Browne (Philosophy, Liverpool & IGRS)
Friday 26 October 2012
Losing Eugenio
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Summary by Ruth Cain (Law, Kent)
Friday 26 October 2012
Mothering and Work in Britain, Past and Present
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Pat Thane (Contemporary British History, KCL) - Read by Gill Rye
Friday 26 October 2012
Mothering, Narration and Subjectivation: The Example of Kerstin Ekman's Skraplotter
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Helena Forsås-Scott (Scandinavian Studies, UCL/Edinburgh)
Friday 26 October 2012
Precarity and the Reinvention of Motherhood: A Reading of "Tempo parziale"
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Monica Jansen (Modern Languages-Italian, Antwerp and Utrecht)
Friday 26 October 2012
The Care of the Baby: A Family Affair in Italy
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Sonia Bertolini (Sociology, Turin)
Friday 26 October 2012
The Narration of "Choices" around Returning to Work after Becoming a Mother
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Tina Miller (Sociology, Oxford Brookes)
Friday 26 October 2012
Working Mothers: Trends and Issues - Discussant
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Discussant: Janneke van Mens-Verhulst (Clinical & Health Psychology, Utrecht)
Friday 26 October 2012
Working Mothers: Trends and Issues - Q&A
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Gill Rye (French, IGRS)
Friday 26 October 2012
Extract from Gut Genug (Good Enough) Discussion
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Summariser: Amber Jacobs (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
Extract from Lo Raro es Vivir (Living's the Strange Thing) Discussion
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Summariser: Victoria Browne (Philosophy, University of Liverpool)
Friday 11 May 2012
Gender, Ideology & the Political Economy of Austerity: The Mother War Continues...
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Roberta Guerrina (Politics, University of Surrey)
Friday 11 May 2012
General Discussion for Featured book: Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Godela Weiss-Sussex (German, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
General Discussion of Passages from Literature: Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Cláudia Pazos Alonso (Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford)
Friday 11 May 2012
Infanticide, Ambivalence, Desperation: The Mother's Voice in Véronique Olmi's Beside the Sea
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Gill Rye (French, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
Maternal Texts and Subtexts
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Clare Hanson (English Literature, University of Southampton)
Friday 11 May 2012
Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - General discussion
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Abigail Lee Six (Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Interdisciplinary Panel Discussant
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Deborah Cameron (Linguistics, University of Oxford)
Friday 11 May 2012
Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Interdisciplinary Panel General Discussion
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Chair: Adalgisa Giorgio (Italian Studies, University of Bath)
Friday 11 May 2012
Motherhood: Theories, Methods and Narratives - Introduction
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Gill Rye (French, IGRS, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
Panel Discussant for Featured book: Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Discussant: Eija Sevón (Education, University of Jyväskylä)
Friday 11 May 2012
Poem from Imagias ('Only A Bit Of Goya: Letter To My Daughter') Discussion
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Summariser: Pat Thane (Contemporary History, King's College London)
Friday 11 May 2012
The Maternal in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Feminist Thought
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): Lisa Baraitser (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)
Friday 11 May 2012
Veronique Olmi's Beside the Sea: Law, Psychiatry and the Moral Dilemmas of Filicide
Institute of Modern Languages Research
Speaker(s): uth Cain (Law, University of Kent)
Friday 11 May 2012