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----Dear SHAKSPEReans:
As many of you know, the Department of English at the University of Helsinki will be organizing the fifth ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) conference, 25-29 August, 2000. ESSE5 will include a number of workshops or seminars run on a format similar to the one used at the American SAA meetings, including some on Shakespeare or related topics (e.g. Francois Laroque, "Fin de Siècle Shakespeare;" José Ramón Díaz- Fernández and Anthony Davies, "The Other Great Tradition of Shakespeare on the Screen;" Balz Engler, "Translating Metaphors and Symbols: Shakespeare as a Medium of Cultural Exchange;" and Joanna Montgomery Byles, "Shakespeare and War."
Technically the deadline for submitting abstracts has passed (and I apologize to the organizers named above if this missive causes them problems), but I still have room in my own seminar on the politics of motherhood (description below). Please contact me directly if you'd like to participate. We would need preliminary abstracts by December 15; longer abstracts will be posted on the conference homepage sometime next Spring, and completed papers will be circulated among participants some months before the conference. If you would like more information about the conference or my seminar, please contact me. You can find the complete ESSE5 program as well as registration information at:
http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/doe/ESSE5-2000/index.html
Please pass this Call for Abstracts on to others who might be interested. Helsinki in August can be a marvelous place, if the weather cooperates (recently it has).
Thanks, Nely
Seminar, "The Politics of Motherhood (1500-1799) ESSE5 Helsinki Conference (25-29 August, 2000)
Ideas about mothers and mothering generated a great deal of cultural anxiety in the 16th-18th centuries. These debates broadly coalesced around questions of birth and birthing rituals, midwifery, the socialization of children, language acquisition, and most importantly breastfeeding and "unnatural" motherhood, which increasingly helped to define dominant models of "natural" motherhood. In the early modern period women were beginning to authorize themselves as subjects precisely through their status as mothers; these struggles over maternal agency and authority continued throughout the 18th century. Reproductive politics were increasingly informed by the political and economic demands of imperialism, and class made all the difference to narratives of maternal virtue. The middle- class mother was "professionalized" but confined to the private sphere. By bringing into conversation both female- and male-authored depictions of mothers and/or uses of maternal imagery, the seminar aims to understand the ideological processes affecting the construction of motherhood.
Convener's address: Nely Keinanen, Department of English, University of Helsinki. P.O. Box 4 (Yliopistonkatu 3), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Tel. +358.9.191-22139. Fax. +358.9.191-23072. E-mail: nely.keinanen@helsinki.fi
Co-convener: Amanda Gilroy, Department of English, University of Groningen. P.O. Box 716, 9700AS Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel. +31.50.3635850. Fax.
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