Schedule
Reimagining Birth 2nd & 3rd July, 2013
International Research Symposium
Humanities Institute, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
Co-Convenors: Doreen Balabanoff & Martina Hynan
Day 1 July 2
Coffee and Registration 8:30 - 9:30
Set up/uploading files
Welcome and Introductions 9:30 – 9:45
Doreen and Martina
Guest Speaker 1
Pauline Cummins Becoming Beloved 9:45 - 10:20 (30 + 5 min)
Paper 1
Emma Finucane Collaborative Art Project: Wicklow 10:20 - 10:35 (15 min)
Short Break 10:35 - 10:45 (10 min)
Paper 2
Lisemarie Johnson The Civil Unrest Essay 10:45 - 11:05 (20)
Paper 3
Marilyn Cash The portrayal of childbirth in the mass media 11:05 - 11:25 (20)
Film:
Anna Bosanquet Women in Stirrups: The Dark Side of Midwifery 11:25 - 11:40 (15)
Lunch 11:40 - 12:45 (65 min)
Guest Speaker 2
Maralyn Foureur Neuroscience and Birth Environment 12:45 - 1:20 (30 + 5 min)
Paper 4
Eve de Grosbois Visual and Sensory Aspects of 1:20 - 1:40 (20)
Birthing Houses: Seizing the Birth Experience
Paper 5
Susan Crowther Attuned Space: birth-space and birth-place 1:40 - 2:00 (20)
Paper 6
Franscesca de Luca (Eu) Somos. A narrative of birthing 2:00 - 2:20 (20)
Afternoon Break 2:20 - 2:35 (15 min)
Paper 7
Ghislaine Howard A Shared Experience? 2:35 - 2:55 (20)
Paper 8
Cathrine Dunin-Woyseth Communicating Childbirth Experiences 2:55 - 3:15 (20)
Through Image-Making
Paper 9
Gloria Lee Tyranny of [American] Numbers : 3:15 - 3:35 (20)
Two pieces of visual work
Short Break 3:35 - 3:45 (10)
Film
Irene Lustig The Motherhood Archives (feature length) 3:45 - 5:15 (90 min)
Wrap up/Info 5:15 - 5:30 (15 min)
(shared transport back to hotels to be facilitated –
shared cost by participants)
Dinner in town pre-booked (sign up at registration) 7:45 pm
Schedule Day 2 July 3
Coffee and meet/greet 8:30 - 9:30
Set up/uploading files
Paper 10
Anna Bosanquet ‘Meteors of Fancy’ or ‘humble maids of nature’ 9:30 - 9:50 (20)
writings of pioneering midwives from 17th & 18th century London
Paper 11
Anna Hennessey Birth Art and the Transformation of Religious Imagery: 9:50 - 10:10 (20)
Representations of Birth and Motherhood as
Contemporary Forms of The Sacred
Paper 12
Tina Kinsella Maternal Taboos and the Feminine Real: The Artwork 10:10 - 10:30 (20)
of Frida Kahlo and the Matrixial Theory of Bracha L. Ettinger
Break 10:30 - 10:45 (15 min)
Paper 13
Hermione Wiltshire The Birth of the Image 10:45 - 11:05 (20)
Paper 14
Janet Couloute The Monstrous Maternal: Its Application and 11:05 - 11:25 (20)
Limitations in Challenging Our Received Constructs
of the Pregnant Image
Guest Speaker 3
Jo Murphy-Lawless 11:25 - 12:00 (30+5)
Good Birth, Safe Birth for All Women
Lunch 12:00 - 1:10
Film
Franciszka Jagielak The Childbirth Seat-Support: Design Process 1:10 - 1:25 (15)
Paper 15
Hazel Katherine Larkin Master: An Exploration of the Images 1:25 - 1:45 (20)
that Terminology Suggests
Paper 16 1:45 - 2:05 (20)
Susannah Sweetman Birth Fear and the Subjugation of Women’s
Strength: towards a broader conceptualisation of femininity in birth
Paper 17
Malgorzata Stach Understanding Technology, Imagining Birth: 2:05 - 2:25 (20)
non-expert understandings of birth technology
Paper 18 2:25 - 2:45 (20)
Magdalena Ohaja Western Obstetric Practice (s): implications
for safe motherhood in the developing world
Break 2:45 - 3:00 (15)
Tea / coffee
Film
Angela Cockayne Birth Scrolls / Shark Nurse 3:00 - 3:15 (15)
Film
Janet Merewether Maverick Mothers and Healthy Births – 3:15 - 4:15 (60 mins)
The Performance of Solo Motherhood and the Representation of
Normal Birth in the Feminist Documentary
Presentation 4:15 - 4:30 (15)
Marie Brett Collaborative Works: Anamnesis
Presentation
Emily Burns Home Birth: Placenta Burial and Discourses of 4:30 - 4:45 (15)
Mourning and Memory
Presentation 4:45 - 5:00 (15)
Marianne Wobcke (Slideshow) Perinatal Dreaming
Break 5:00 - 5:15 (15)
Guest Speaker 4
Helen Knowles Birth Rites Collection, Youtube Portraits 5:15 - 5:50 (30 +5)
and Native American perspectives on public birth
Wrap Up / Comments / Plenary 5:50 - 6:10 (20)
Dinner/Celebration for all who can stay evening
(sign up at registration)