ANU Free Public Forum
MOTHERS: CROSS CULTURAL DIALOGUES
Monday 2nd November 2009, 9.30-1pm
The Finkel Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Rd, ANU
This forum is free and open to the public, please register attendance with ANU Events. T: 02 6125 4144 E: Events@anu.edu.au
The diverse experiences of motherhood will be explored in this public forum hosted by ANU in association with Shared Spaces. It will bring together popular authors, researchers, dancers and policy-makers in a series of conversations to explore questions about the diversity of mothering today – working mothers, ‘stay-at-home’ mothers, single mothers. The forum will examine a series of questions: What is the value and visibility of mothering in contemporary Australia? How are the demands of work and life, consumerism and care negotiated within families and societies as a whole, and how might policy-makers respond? How do the changing experiences of mothers in Australia compare with those of mothers in India and in Papua New Guinea?
Program
Chaired by Professor Margaret Jolly, Gender Relations Centre, ANU College of Aisa and the Pacific
Choreographing Motherhood
Padma Menon, Choreographer and Director, Shared Spaces Incorporated
Becoming a New Mother: Work, Life & Dance
Dr Katerina Teaiwa, Lecturer & Pacific Studies Convenor, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
The ‘You Sexy Mother’ Story: Book, Catalyst & Connector
Jodie Hedley-Ward, author of You Sexy Mother and collaborator online Motherhood Study
Looking at Motherhood through the Eyes of Social Sustainability
Dr Angela Huntsman, Director of Australian Institute for Human Development, QLD
Time Limits: Work, Family & Mothering
Dr Lyndall Strazdins, Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health.
ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment
Mothering: Politics & Policy Issues
Senator Kate Lundy, ALP Senator for the Australian Capital Territory
Caste, Class & the Diversity of Women’s Responses to Changing Conditions of Maternity in India
Associate Professor Kalpana Ram, Head of Anthropology, Macquarie University
Maternity & Matriliny: Growing Babies in the Trobriands of Papua New Guinea
Dr Katherine Lepani, Lecturer, Social Foundations of Medicine
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