Events and Activities

Forthcoming

National

Fifth biennial Australian International conference, The Mother and History: Past and Present at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2009 on Thursday, 2nd July, through to Saturday, 4^th July.

We are planning a sixth biennial conference in Perth in 2011. The theme and dates still to be decided.

QLD

Regular seminar series to coincide with our meetings. This would give members an opportunity to present their work to an informed group.

Past National

Fourth conference: The Mother: Images, issues and Practices
held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in 2007
A selection of these papers will be found in Mother Texts: .Narratives and Counter Narratives.To be edited by Julie Kelso and Marie Porter and published by Cambridge Scholars Press this year.

Third conference, Representing and Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane 2005. A selection of these papers can be found in Representing and Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities (2008). Edited by Julie Kelso and Marie Porter. Newcastle On Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Second conference, Performing Motherhood: Ideology, Agency and Experience. 4-6 July 2002, held at La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2002.

First biennial conference, Power/Oppression, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in 2001.
A selection of these papers can be found in Motherhood: Power and Oppression (2005). Edited by Marie Porter, Andrea O’Reilly and Patricia Short. Toronto: Women’s Press.

Contact   Dr Marie Porter, m.porter2uq.edu.au