Saturday, October 22, 2022 - All Day Event
Building Supportive Communities for New Parents: Sat., Oct 22 (3:30-5:30) WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
Mother’s Milk: Breastfeeding from Metaphor to Practice
Fri., October 21 - Sun., October 23
University of New Hampshire and Online (ET)
CLICK HERE FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
The conference is generously funded by the UNH Center for Humanities, the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies.
Saturday, October 22
11am-12:30pm Nursing as Private, Nursing as Public: Italy, A Case Study (Zoom)
Shannon McHugh (University of Massachusetts Boston): Orpheus Lactans: Nursing in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry
Simona di Martino (University of Warwick): Quality Milk and Nursing Bodies in Luigi Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno
Diana Garvin (University of Oregon): Breastfeeding in Political Propaganda from Fascism to Neo-Fascism
Amy Boylan (University of New Hampshire), Chair and Respondent
1:00-3:00 pm Roundtable on Breastfeeding and Lactation Scholarship Across Disciplines: Retrospective and New Directions (Zoom)
Linda Blum (Northeastern University), author of At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (2000)
Ifeyinwa Asiodu (University of California San Francisco), Principal Investigator of Motivating Interdisciplinary Lactation Knowledge (MILK) Research Lab
Courtney Jung (University of Toronto), author of Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy (2015)
Rachel Trubowitz (University of New Hampshire), author of Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (2012)
Jennifer Borda (University of New Hampshire), Chair
3:30-5:30 pm Building Supportive Communities for New Parents: A Workshop with Practitioners Around the Seacoast (Hybrid: UNH-Durham Campus and Livestream)
Registration Required - Register Here
Alyssa O’Brien, Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of New Hampshire, Moderator
Stephanie Crawford, Propa City Community Outreach and Belle Joie Doula Services
Shilpa Darivemula, Aseemkala Initiative and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ananda Lowe, Boston Doula Circle
Krista Maltais, Relief Parenting
Janet Perkins, Garrison Women’s Health Center and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
Isha Parupudi, Aseemkala Initiative and Columbia University
Sunday, October 23
11am-12:30pm Milky Mothers: Pure and Impure (Zoom)
Christopher Richards (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University): The Virgin Mary Breastfeeds: Theorizing Materiality and Images
Samantha Katz Seal (University of New Hampshire): “Yeve the Child to Sowke:” On (Not) Breastfeeding the Infant in Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale
Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto): Black Mothers, White Children: Expressions of Subaltern Identities in Fascist East Africa
Laure Barillas (University of New Hampshire), Chair and Respondent
12:30-1 pm Reflections (Zoom)
Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University) and Anna Wainwright (University of New Hampshire)
2-5 pm, Artist Conversation and Reception: Birthing Bodies/Birthing Art (Hybrid: UNH-Durham Campus and Livestream)
Registration Required - Register Here
Loudon Wainwright III (recording artist): “Rufus is a Tit Man” (recorded performance)
Tirtzah Bassel (School of Visual Arts in New York City and Chashama Workspace Program): Canon in Drag
Katie Umans (University of New Hampshire): Milk as Metaphor: A Look at Contemporary Poetry
Shilpa Darivemula and Isha Parupudi (Aseemkala Initiative): Exploring the Mythology Around Breastfeeding and Wet Nurses: A Dance-Discussion on Pūtanā
