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ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS:
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email us your 250 wd presentation abstract and 50 wd bio to arm@yorku.ca
Association for Research on Mothering
(ARM)
12th Annual Conference
Mothering, Violence,
Militarism, War,
and Social Justice
(with embedded Motherhood Movement Conference)
October 23-26, 2008
Click
here for a the conference program in PDF.
Click here for the
conference flyer (PDF).
Click
here for a conference poster (PDF).
We
are still accepting abstracts for the conference. Please see the guidelines
below:
We welcome
submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, NGOs, community
agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research
in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged.
We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from
all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling,
visual arts, and other alternative formats.
Topics
can include (but are not limited to):
Nationalism, militarism, and motherhood; violence against mothers and children;
mothers and war across history and culture; motherhood and terrorism; mothers
and human rights; peace building and peace/anti-militarism activism by mothers;
peace keeping strategies of mothers; mothers against militarism; marriage,
motherhood, and pregnancy in the military; Maternal Thinking; the Ethics of
Care/the Politics of Peace; women writers and the critique of war; rhetoric of
masculinity and violence against mothers; teaching social justice in the
classroom as mothering for peace; educating children about war; parenting in
war; teaching non-violence to children; mothers’ roles in post-conflict reconstruction;
state violence against mothers; racism, ethnicity, and peace; impact of
prolific small arms and light weapons on women; female suicide-bombers; women's
contributions to (formal) peace agreements; suffering and survival of mothers
in war; mothers and the dismantling of apartheid; mothers as activists in
violent conflicts or militarized zones; roles of mothers in conflict; mothers
as journalists during wartime; impact of violent conflict on mothers as
refugees (asylum seekers and/or internally displaced persons); mothers of sons
and/or daughters who serve in the military; gender-based violence of women in
war and conflict; mothering and loss (of husbands/children); children and loss
of mothers; mothers and children left behind in military communities: mothers
who kill; domestic violence against mothers; the war on mothers; rape and/as
terrorism; aboriginal mothers/children and residential schooling; social
justice organizations for mothers (from MADD to Mothers Against War); patriotic
mothering; activist mothering; representations/images of mothers and violence,
war, and social justice issues; public policy and mother activists; legal
responses to mother activists; reproductive violence; mother activists within
indigenous communities; LBGT mothers and social justice issues; victims of
violence in the military.
STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS:
*Please email us your 250 wd presentation abstract and 50 wd bio to arm@yorku.ca
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Flavia
Cherry, National
Chairwoman of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research
and Action (CAFRA)
Gertrude Fester, Commissioner
on the Commission of Gender Equality South Africa
Sara Ruddick, author
of Maternal Thinking: Toward
a Politics of Peace
Tiisetso Russell,
Comparative, International and Development Education, University of Toronto
Audette Sheppard,
Founder, United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere (UMOVE)
Click here to download this
information on a PDF.
Click here for a preliminary
conference program (PRELIMINARY PROGRAM - STILL ACCEPTING ABSTRACTS)
One must be an ARM member to present
at the conference. For information on how to become a member of ARM, please see
our membership form.
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766
Email: arm@yorku.ca
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