a cura di Tatiana Crivelli e Laura Lazzari
intervalla: special volume 1, 2016
To Be or Not to Be a Mother: Choice, Refusal, Reluctance and Conflict. Motherhood and Female Identity in Italian Literature and Culture.
Essere o non essere madre: scelta, rifiuto, avversione e conflitto. Maternità e identità femminile nella letteratura e cultura italiane.
Editors: Laura Lazzari and Joy Charnley
di Laura Lazzari, con un'introduzione di Virginia Cox, Leonforte, Insula, 2010.
Caldwell Hall Auditorium
9:00-9:30 am - Breakfast
9:30-9:45 am - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Claudia Bornholdt, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Catholic University of America
Laura Lazzari, Catholic University of America
Nathalie Ségeral, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
9:45-10:45 am - Motherhood in a Global Context
Chair: Nathalie Ségeral, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Zeynep Cakmak, American University, Elif Shafak’s Black Milk and Dynamics of Motherhood Ideals
Maya Aghasi, American University of Sharjah, UAE, Postmemory and the Madonna: Identity, Loss, and the Mother in Atom Egoyan’s Ararat.
Discussion
10:45-11:10 am - Coffee break
11:10 am-12:25 pm - Roundtable: Of “Bad Mothers” and “Childless Women”
Chair: Laura Lazzari, Catholic University of America
Laura Lazzari, Catholic University of America, Introduction: Questioning Stereotypes and Taboos in the Experience of (Non)-Motherhood.
Alexandra Kimball, Magazine Journalist, Toronto, If Not Mother, then Monster: Barren Women in Ancient Myth and Culture
Nicoletta Nesler, Filmmaker, Italy. The “Lunàdigas;” or Concerning Childless Women
Giulia Po DeLisle, UMass Lowel Representations of Postpartum Depression in Contemporary Italy
Discussion
12:25-1:30 pm - Lunch break
Lunch will be offered to panelists and conference organizers
1:30-2:45 pm - Motherhood in Francophone Literature and Culture
Chair: Maya Aghasi, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Katherine Roseau, University of Lynchburg, “Unmasking" Motherhood with Vulgarity and Hyperbole in Marie-Sissi Labrèche's Autofiction.
Nathalie Ségeral, University of Hawai’i at Manoa,“Faire un bébé toute seule”: Challenging France’s Patriarchal Reproductive Laws in Single Mothers’ Blogs and Discussion Groups
Holly Runde, University of Miami, The Complications of the Anti-Maternal Pregnant Body in “Diane a les épaules” (Gorgeart 2017).
Discussion
2:45-3:30 pm - Coffee break
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Maloney 203 - Busch School of Business
6:00-7:30 pm - Film Screening
Lunàdigas; or Concerning Childless Women, by Nicoletta Nesler and Marilisa Piga.
Q&A
7:30-8:00 pm - Reception
With the support of: