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Picture credit: I. Toidze, \u201cIn The Name of Peace\u201d (1959)<\/p><\/div>\n

Professor Muireann Maguire and Dr Egl\u0117 Ka\u010dkut\u0117\u00a0will co-convene a two-day online conference “Radiant Maternity”<\/strong>\u00a0 on\u00a0January 28th and 29th, 2022<\/strong> to launch the Slavic and East European Maternal Studies Network. See below for a full programme.<\/p>\n

We hope this event will boost and consolidate networking initiatives and knowledge exchange between scholars of Slavic and East European Studies (SEES) and non-SEES Maternal Studies academics, and we invite established Maternal Studies scholars from the latter group to act as mentors and peer supporters to SEES specialists who are entering this field. Panel topics include but are not confined to literature (maternal fictions), various fields of cultural studies, history, and sociology.\u00a0Anyone wishing to attend as a non-speaking delegate should contact\u00a0SEEMSmaternal@exeter.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0by January 21st, 2022, to register their interest. The language of the conference is English and all times are given in GMT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vilnius University Main Court – the original location for this\u00a0conference, before circumstances compelled\u00a0us to go virtual<\/b><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Distinguished historian Professor Natalia Pushkareva (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) will deliver the keynote lecture, “Bearing with Birth: A History of Childbearing in Russia as a Subject of\u00a0 Academic Research”.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0There will also be several optional non-academic sessions open to delegates, including a Maternal Journal<\/a> session from creative artist Laura Godfrey-Isaacs. To promote networking and knowledge exchange, established non-SEES Maternal Studies researchers will chair each of the panels. In addition to aligning SEES Studies scholars with peers and mentors in wider disciplinary fields, we hope to use this conference to identify research themes to be further refined (in collaboration between SEES and non-SEES scholars) at our one-day in-person Exeter symposium<\/a> to be held on July 9th, 2022 and ultimately published as an Open Access edited volume.<\/p>\n

Conference dates: January 28th<\/sup>-29th<\/sup>, 2022 (online)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organizers:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Egl\u0117 Ka\u010dkut\u0117 (Vilnius University)\u00a0egle.kackute-hagan@flf.vu.lt<\/a>\u00a0and Professor Muireann Maguire (University of Exeter) muireann.maguire@exeter.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Conference contact email: <\/strong>SEEMSmaternal@exeter.ac.uk<\/p>\n

Funded by \u2018Salt Babies: Narrating Maternity in Russian and Comparative Literature,\u2019 a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Networking Grant awarded to Dr Muireann Maguire at the University of Exeter, 2021-22<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conference Theme:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cRadiant Maternity\u201d is a two-day virtual conference intended<\/p>\n

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  1. to survey the field of contemporary Slavic and East European Maternal Studies scholarship, spanning sociology, history, literature, gender and cultural studies;<\/li>\n
  2. to integrate motherhood scholars from Slavic and East European studies with Maternal Studies academics from other language areas and disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Key information:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. This conference will take place online over two days. Separate Zoom links for each day will be released to delegates shortly in advance of the conference. Non-speakers are welcome to attend both academic and non-academic activities if registered in advance, so please share this programme widely to your networks.<\/li>\n
    2. To accommodate speakers from different time zones and to avoid parallel panels, this conference runs all day, both days. No delegate is expected to take part for the whole day; please come to the panels and sessions you find most interesting.<\/li>\n
    3. The language of the conference is ENGLISH. All times are GMT.<\/li>\n
    4. The panels are organized within four main \u2018streams\u2019: Cultures of Maternity, Literature, Cinema, and Medico-Social Histories. Each panel has two co-chairs\/co-discussants, at least one of whom is a Motherhood Studies scholar NOT connected with Slavic and Eastern European Studies (SEES).<\/li>\n
    5. There are FOUR optional non-academic activities delegates are encouraged to attend: an online debate about new maternal fictions from the SEES region, a talk about breastmilk donation in contemporary Russia, a maternal journaling session, and a virtual art exhibition. All are free to attend.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      FRIDAY 28TH<\/sup> JANUARY<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

      8.15 am (preliminary remarks by the organisers, Egl<\/strong>\u0117<\/strong> Ka\u010dkut\u0117 and Muireann Maguire)<\/strong><\/p>\n

      8.30am-10am: MEDICO-SOCIAL HISTORIES STREAM (1): Maternal Health Care in Central and Eastern Europe <\/strong><\/p>\n

      CHAIRS: Melanie Ilic <\/strong>(University of Gloucestershire) and Julie Rodgers <\/strong>(Maynooth University)<\/p>\n

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      1. Ilona Kappanyos<\/strong> (ELTE Budapest): \u2018Instructors in Motherhood: The Visiting Nurse System in State Socialist Hungary\u2019.<\/li>\n
      2. Anastasia Novkunskaya<\/strong> (European University at St. Petersburg) and Yulia Agapova<\/strong> (Department of Maternity and Childhood Protection, Inozemtsev Academy): \u2018\u201cPositive\u201d and Actual Childbirth Experiences in Facility-Based Maternity Care in Russia\u2019.<\/li>\n
      3. Ljiljana Pantovi\u0107<\/strong> (University of Belgrade): \u2018Collective (Ir)responsibility: How is Maternal Care Provided Within the Serbian Health Care System?\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n
      4. Jessica Lovett<\/strong> (Nottingham): \u2018Prophecies, Hysteria, and Disappointments: Motherhood of Only Children in late-Soviet Propaganda and Discourse\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        10.15am-11.45pm: LITERATURE STREAM (1): Examining Motherhood in Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

        CHAIRS: Eliana Maestri<\/strong> (University of Exeter) and B.J. Epstein<\/strong> (UEA)<\/p>\n

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        1. Linara Bartkuvien\u0117<\/strong> (Vilnius University): \u2018Milk, Mutilation and Memory in Nora Ikstena\u2019s Novel Soviet Milk<\/em> (2015)\u2019.<\/li>\n
        2. Birut\u0117 Avi\u017einien\u0117<\/strong> (Modern Literature Department, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania): \u2018The Concept of Motherhood in Ona Pleiryt\u0117-Puidien\u0117\u2019s Literary Works and Diary\u2019.<\/li>\n
        3. Dovil\u0117 Kuzminskait\u0117<\/strong> (Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, Institute for Literary, Cultural and Translation Studies): \u2018Dark Side of Motherhood: Mothering in the Poems of Lina Buividavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117\u2019.<\/li>\n
        4. Dmitrii Sergeev<\/strong> (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual European Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) \u2018Single Motherhood in Postwar Soviet Russia: Cultural Code and its Literary Implication\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          12pm-1.30pm Professor Natalia Pushkareva: Keynote Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Bearing With Birth: The History of Childbirth in Russia as an Object of Sociological and Academic Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Chair: Muireann Maguire<\/strong><\/p>\n

          Following the keynote, there will be an intermission for lunch until 2pm.<\/em><\/p>\n

          2pm-3.30pm<\/strong> CULTURES OF MATERNITY STREAM (1): Motherhood in Contemporary Russian Mass Media and Pop Culture <\/strong><\/p>\n

          CHAIR: Valerie Heffernan <\/strong>(Maynooth) and Rachel Morley<\/strong> (UCL SSEES)<\/p>\n

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          1. Diana Dukhanova<\/strong> (College of the Holy Cross) and Zosha Winegar-Schultz<\/strong> (UMN): \u2018Ideologies and Aesthetics of Pronatalism Among Russian Instagram Influencers\u2019.<\/li>\n
          2. Jill Martiniuk<\/strong> (The University of Buffalo): \u2018Marketing Motherhood: Maternity and Motherhood as Marketing Tools on Instagram\u2019.<\/li>\n
          3. Katarzyna Pasternak<\/strong> (Independent Scholar): \u2018Soviet Woman – Mother and Worker. Implementation of the Soviet Gender Contract in the Contemporary Russian Series The 80s <\/em>(\u0412\u043e\u0441\u044c\u043c\u0438\u0434\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0442\u044b\u0435<\/em>)\u2019<\/li>\n
          4. Elena Marchevska<\/strong> (London South Bank University): \u2018\u201c\u041c\u043e\u0458\u043e\u0442 \u043c\u0430\u0436\u201d: Maternal discourse in Macedonian literature and theatre\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            3.45pm-5.15pm CINEMA STREAM (1): Interrogating Maternity on Screen<\/strong><\/p>\n

            CHAIRS<\/strong>: Kasia Lech <\/strong>(Canterbury Christ Church University) and <\/strong>Sarah Arnold<\/strong> (Maynooth University)<\/p>\n

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            1. Salome Tsopurashvili<\/strong> (Ilia State University): \u2018Reimagining Revolution as an Oedipal Drama: Transformation of the Mother Figure in 1920s Soviet Revolutionary Films\u2019.<\/li>\n
            2. Serian Carlyle<\/strong> (UCL): \u2018\u201cYou have no right to decide these matters for yourself\u201d (\u201cTy ne vprave reshat\u02b9 eti voprosy samostoiatel\u02b9no\u201d): Young Women and Motherhood in Brezhnev-Era Films for Young People\u2019.<\/li>\n
            3. Melissa Miller<\/strong> (Notre Dame): \u2018Alternative Visions of Motherhood in I\u2019ll Be Around<\/em>\u2019.<\/li>\n
            4. Rachel Morley<\/strong> (UCL): \u2018Cinematernity: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Russian Women\u2019s Cinema\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              5.30pm -7pm: LITERATURE STREAM (2): Memoirs of Motherhood<\/strong><\/p>\n

              CHAIRS: Parley Ann Boswell <\/strong>(Eastern Illinois University) and Valerie Worth <\/strong>(Oxford)<\/p>\n

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              1. Elaine Mackinnon<\/strong> (University of West Georgia): \u2018Motherhood and Memory in the Stalinist Gulag\u2019.<\/li>\n
              2. Sara Dickinson<\/strong> (Universit\u00e0 di Genova): \u2018Pregnancy and Parturition in the Memoirs of Catherine and Dashkova\u2019.<\/li>\n
              3. Natalya Sukhonos <\/strong>(Zayed University): \u2018Motherhood, Math, and Posthumous Creativity in Lara Vapnyar’s Russian-American novel Divide Me by Zero<\/em>\u2019.<\/li>\n
              4. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova<\/strong> (University of Kansas): \u2018The Sequel as a Marker of Developmental Arrest in Michal Viewegh\u2019s and Irena Douskova\u2019s Coming-of-Age Novels and their Continuations\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                7.30pm-9pm: Online discussion of contemporary maternal fictions from the SSEES region, free registration via Eventbrite. Open to the general public<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

                Motherhood, Gender, Translation and Censorship in Eastern European Women\u2019s Writing: <\/strong>An Online Discussion with Svetlana Satchkova<\/strong>, Ula Chowianec<\/strong>, Justyna Wierzchowska<\/strong>, and Egl\u0117 Ka\u010dkut\u0117<\/strong>.\u00a0Register at<\/p>\n

                https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/motherhood-translation-and-censorship-in-eastern-european-womens-writing-tickets-239366320107<\/a><\/p>\n

                SATURDAY 29TH<\/sup> JANUARY<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

                8.30am-10am: CULTURES OF MATERNITY STREAM (2): Motherhood in Folklore and Traditional Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

                CHAIRS: Florence Pasche-Guignard<\/strong> (Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec) and Catherine Rider<\/strong> (Exeter)<\/p>\n

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                1. Lubov Golubeva <\/strong>and Sofya Kupriian<\/strong> (Propp Centre for Humanities-based Research): \u2018The Practice of Baby Bathing as Maternity Initiation in the Russian North\u2019.<\/li>\n
                2. Kaarina Kailo<\/strong> (Oulu University): \u2018The Golden Woman: Zolataja Baba as the Ancient Great Mother of the North\u2019.<\/li>\n
                3. Anna Lazareva<\/strong> (Russian State University for the Humanities): \u2018Mothers\u2019 Dreams About Children: Folklore Motifs And Semantics\u2019.<\/li>\n
                4. Jurga Sivickait\u0117-Sadauskien\u0117<\/strong> (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore): \u2018The Concept of Motherhood and Femininity after the Second World War: The Experience of Musteika Village\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  10.15am-11.45am: ROUND TABLE ON CULTURES OF MATERNITY: ADOPTION AND DISPLACEMENT (15 minutes per paper, up to 5 papers)<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  CHAIRS: Lotte Francoise Maria Houwink ten Cate (<\/strong>Columbia) and Dr Beatrice Scutaru <\/strong>(Maynooth University)<\/p>\n

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                  1. Irina Antoshchuk <\/strong>(PhD candidate in Cultural Sociology at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam): \u2018The burden of having children: motherhood experiences of female migrant academics from the former Soviet Union\u2019.<\/li>\n
                  2. Svetlana Ruseishvili <\/strong>(PhD, Sociology Department, Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos, Brazil): \u2018Birth Mobilities of Russian-speaking Women in Brazil\u2019.<\/li>\n
                  3. Natalia Chernyaeva<\/strong> (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia): \u2018<\/strong>Normalizing \u2018Cultural Anomaly\u2019: Popular Narratives of Surrogate Motherhood in Russian Mass Culture and Media\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n
                  4. Maria V. Zolotukhina<\/strong> and Natalia S. Galushina<\/strong> (Russian State University of Humanities): \u2018\u201cLove does come, but it is ok if it doesn\u2019t\u201d: Narratives of Love and Kinship among Adoptive and Foster Mothers in Russia\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                    1. Ieva Bal\u010di\u016bn\u0117<\/strong> (Vilnius University): \u2018\u201cWoman with a pillow on her belly\u201d: Adoption Practices and Their Social Context in Soviet Lithuania\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      12pm-2pm: Optional non-academic talk and creative session, open to all delegates<\/strong><\/p>\n