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Subject: 29.4992, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Socioling/United Kingdom

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:32:23
From: Richard Whitt [richard.whitt at nottingham.ac.uk]
Subject: Born Yesterday: Cross-Disciplinary Investigations into Birth, Midwifery and Childhood

 
Full Title: Born Yesterday: Cross-Disciplinary Investigations into Birth, Midwifery and Childhood 

Date: 05-Sep-2019 - 06-Sep-2019
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Richard Whitt
Meeting Email: bornyesterday2019 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://bornyesterday2019.weebly.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

An interdisciplinary conference welcoming abstracts covering all historic and
contemporary aspects of childbearing and child rearing. Held in conjunction
with De Partu, History of Childbirth and Midwifery Research Group.
 
Topics are expected to include, but not be limited to, the following subject
areas:

History:

investigations into witchcraft; bastardy; contraception; the framing of
childbirth in the hospital and the home; free-birthing; parenthood; the
changing role of doctors, midwives and carers; the history of birth in local,
national and international contexts
Medicine: insights into birth trends, the rise of obstetrics, fertility,
infertility, assisted fertility, miscarriage, abnormalities, still-birth

Art History: 

the varied depiction of childbirth, parenting and reproduction across the ages
Literature and Anthropology: literary representations of midwives, births,
babies, mothers and fathers in different socio-cultural spheres, as well as
within different historical periods

Linguistics and Discourse Analysis: 

analysis of texts and discourses surrounding childbirth, maternity and
midwifery
Social Policy: analysis of maternity services and policy and its impact on
women's choice; the changing role of the midwife and obstetricians;
suggestions for new ways forward; issues surrounding criminality and
punishment as they relate to childbirth and maternity care

Sociology and Feminist Studies: 

social constructs of motherhood across the ages; attitudes to unlawful
pregnancy, parenthood and surrogacy; debates surrounding single and same-sex
parenthood; the exploration of BME and mixed race birth and parenting
experiences

Midwifery: 

the role and reputation of midwives across the ages, and in different cultural
spheres; analysis of regulation and professionalization; solutions to infant
mortality; ideas of acceptable risk; fluctuating concepts of 'normal' birth;
the importance of choice

We are pleased to announce the following have kindly agreed to give keynote
talks:

Julia Allison, Honorary Professor of Midwifery and Vice President of the Royal
College of Midwives (The University of Nottingham)
Laura King, Associate Professor of History (The University of Leeds)
Tania McIntosh, Principal Lecturer of Midwifery (The University of Brighton)

​Conference e-mail address: bornyesterday2019 at gmail.com

Organisers:

Kim Russell (Chair), Associate Professor of Midwifery
Anna Greenwood, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Health
Humanities
Richard J. Whitt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Julia Allison, Honorary Professor of Midwifery and Vice President of the Royal
College of Midwives


Call for Papers:

Presentations should be prepared for 20 minutes delivery, with an additional
10 minutes for questions.  The deadline for submission of abstracts (no more
than 300 words) is 5pm on Thursday 28 February 2019.  All abstracts should be
accompanied by a short CV (no more than 2 pages) and should be submitted to
bornyesterday2019 at gmail.com.

It is expected that decisions on papers will be made by the end of April 2019.




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