The Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2024 featured international multi-disciplinary artists including: performance, poetry, painting, collage, sculpture & interactive installations in addition to academic presentations. Video Presentations from the Conference can be viewed HERE on our YouTube Channel.
WORKSHOPS: Friday 6-7PM 3/22/24 (FREE): Tokens of Resistance Embroidery & Conversation in person at Heiress Gallery Friday
Saturday Noon 3/23/24: Crochet circle with Madison Hendry & presentations with Judy Lyons Schneider & Alice Harrison (the Bag Ladies).
6-7:30PM 3/23/24 (FREE): The People’s Clinic for Reproductive Empathy in person at Heiress Gallery Saturday
| FRIDAY | MARCH 22 | MIXED ZOOM & IN-PERSON PRESENTATIONS |
| 9:30 AM | Coffee at MoM | |
| 10:00 AM | Martha JOY Rose | Why we’re here: Intro – Martha Joy Rose Welcome with suggestions, ground rules, intro Brittany DeNucci & Courtney Kessel ‘Fabric of Life’ Build |
| 10:30 AM | Chelsea Robinson | Smash the Mom Rage -The power of a Smash Room in supporting mothers in feeling into their anger. (Zoom) |
| 11:00 AM | Avery Delany | How Empathy is our greatest tool to deconstruct the institution of normative motherhood and intervene with “bad” and “monstrous” mothering (Zoom) |
| 11:30 AM | Blessing Gbemisola Ogunyemi | Matricentric Feminism and the Liberating Power of Unmasking Motherhood: Unknotting Maternal Grief and Shame in Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief (Zoom) |
| 12:00 PM | Fly Jamerson | Resisting Mother-Villain Narratives in Performance and Media through Adaptation Conference Themes and Topics (Zoom) |
| 12:30 PM | Mariana Della Barba | How news coverage on ‘maternal burnout’ exacerbates the unrealistic perception of motherhood and leaves mothers feeling even more guilty, exhausted and sick (Zoom) |
| 2:00 PM | Agnes Howard | Echoes of the Primal Scream: American Motherhood during COVID (Zoom) |
| 2:30 PM | Emma Tam | Defining Daughterhood (Zoom) |
| 3:00 PM | Victoria Trinko, Julia Sarewitz & Aurelie Athan | Applied Matrescence: A Paradigm Shift in Postpartum Care (Zoom) |
| 3:30 PM | Sonia Meerai | Navigating maternal regret in the context of infertility: Intersectional and intergenerational |
| 4:00 PM | Miranda J. Brady | Munchausen by Proxy: On a cultural fascination with selfish motherhood |
| 4:30 PM | Mariona Visa | Revising the castrating mother figure from Psycho to Bates Motel. |
| 5:00 PM | Merle Bombardieri | “Should I have another Child?” |
| 5:30 PM | Vanessa Hansen | You Are Not Alone |
| 6-7:00 PM | Vanessa Marr | Tokens of Resistance/A Mothers Work is Never Done: Embroidery Circle |
| SATURDAY | March 23 | |
| 9:30 AM | Amalie Vacanti | Shout Your Abortion: Signs of Change: The Impact of Billboards on the I-55 Abortion Access Route |
| 10:00 AM | Alicia Delima | Recognizing Mother Work and Sex Work as Work under Neoliberalism |
| 10:30 AM | Jill M. Wood | Birth(ing) Justice: Using a Birth Plan Undergraduate Writing Assignment as a Feminist Pedagogical Tool |
| 11:00 AM | Ieva Bisigirskaitė | Challenging ‘Safe’ Birth: A Feminist Perspective on Maternal Activism in Lithuania |
| 11:30-12:30 | Madison Hendry, Bag Ladies, etc.– crochet circle | The Womb Project; threads of connection and the roots of the Mother Tree crochet collaboration with Judy Lyons Schneider & Alice Harrison (the Bag Ladies) intergenerational conversation |
| 1:30 PM | Keynote: Courtney Kessel | From witches to the weather, from maternalism to manifesto, from Talking Heads to tarot, this interactive performance lecture will wind, warp, and weave, tracing the umbilical through generations of feminist art, writing, and theory. |
| 2:00 PM | Christine Carrig | Proudly Shamed in the USA – Art Installation w/ invitation for community collaboration |
| 2:30 PM | Lakshmi Seshadri | Mindful Motherhood Meditation |
| 3:00 PM | Cyntoria Meaderds | Being The Mother You Are Told to Be: a Qualitative Analysis on Mothers In Recovery |
| 3:30 PM | Megan Welch | Othering the Mother : An In-depth Psychological Exploration of Mothering through an Ecofeminist Lens |
| 4:00 PM | Elizabeth Charles | Thirdspace Feminist Practices for Embodying Motherhood in Academia |
| 4:30 PM | Meredith Gringle, Amber Welborn, Tracy Nichols | “…you know, bad news travels fast”: A narrative case study of caring for mothers and infants experiencing substance exposed pregnancy (Zoom) |
| 5:00 PM | Nathalia Martinez-Baca | Mamá; My grandmother, eight children, and Mexican healthcare outcomes |
| 6:00-7:30 PM | Emily Fitzgerald and Molly Sherman | The People’s Republic for Reproductive Empathy Workshop |
| SUNDAY | MARCH 24 | |
| 10:00 AM | Victoria Bailey | All The Ways, Always–An Ode to Mother Blame (Zoom) |
| 10:30 AM | Loïs van Albada | Nightbitch, the Bad Mother, and the Monstrous-Maternal |
| 11:00 AM | Heather E. Dillaway | I Did Not Plan on This: Abrupt Shifts in Motherhood |
| 11:30 AM | Batya Weinbaum | MOTHER: Shame Blame and Pain; the Impact of Resistance and Healing |
| 12:00 PM | Freshta Ahmadzai | Decolonizing Mothering and Care; Labour mama was skilled, her labour had value & she was a trying m(other) (Zoom) |
| 12:30 PM | Sushree Routray | Whispers of Rebellion: Matricentric Feminist Insights into Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Indian Fiction (Zoom) |
| 2:00 PM | Frésange Maleka | Maternal Vaccine Hesitation and the HPV Vaccination: Exploring the Complex Interplay of Loss Aversion, Emotion-Laden Choices, and the Impact of Normative Motherhood (Zoom) |
| 2:30 PM | Alicia Campos Massó | Women Cultural Agents and the Extermination of the Beguines, the Caring Mothers. |
| 3:00 PM | Collin Xia | Black Motherhood and resistance in the Pre-Emancipation British Caribbean (Zoom) |
| 3:30 PM | Sylvie Cote | A Matrifocal Reading: Monstrous Motherhood in Domenica Ruta’s Addiction Memoir With or Without You (2013) (Zoom) |
| 4:00 PM | Closing Keynote: Andrea O’Reilly | Towards a Literary Theory and Criticism of Matricritics: Begin with the mother in her own right” to deliver “new meanings of motherhood and transform maternal thinking itself (Zoom) |
Art Exhibitions: MoM Conference Artists (and full conference schedule) 2024
Conference Videos: Links
Thank you to Heiress Gallery, the MoM Team, the Academic Committee, our presenters and Brittany DeNucci organization and tech help and installation assist from Liliana Beltran.
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