<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Tiedoksenne.<div class="">MV</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><u class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><br class=""></span></u></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><u class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">Call for Papers</span></u><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">: </span></font><i style="line-height:16.5pt;text-align:center" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Growing up
Motherless in Antiquity: A Conference on Mother Absence in the Ancient Mediterranean</font></span></i></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><u class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">Organizers</span></u><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">:</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span lang="DE" style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Prof. Dr. Sabine R.
Huebner, Universitaet Basel, Switzerland</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Dr. David M. Ratzan, New York University</font></span></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><u class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">Location</span></u><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">:</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""> Basel, Switzerland</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><u class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">Date</span></u><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">: 26 – 28 May 2016</span></font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><u class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">Deadline for the submission of abstracts</span></u><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class="">: October 15,
2015 </span></font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">The last forty years have witnessed a vast reclamation project
in ancient history, as scholars have worked to recover the lives of
historically muted groups, particularly those of women and children. The result
is an impressive body of work collecting the traces ancient women and children have
left behind, as well as a sophisticated epistemology of the biases, gaps, and
silences in the historical record. From this perspective, the absence of
ancient mothers has represented an ineluctable reality and a methodological
hurdle, but rarely a subject of study in its own right. Yet the evidence
suggests that mother absence was not merely a secondary artifact of bias or
artistic and historiographical conventions; it was also a primary condition of
antiquity, one whose root causes, social articulations, and psychological
effects have never been fully described or explored, even as it had a profound
effect on ancient family life and the experience of childhood. </font></span></div><p style="line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">In approaching
the causes, forms, and effects of ancient mother absence we now stand to
benefit not only from the last four decades of research into the ancient and
pre-modern family (including a growing bibliography on ancient mothers, e.g.,
the recent collection of Petersen and Salzman-Mitchell (eds.), <i class="">Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece
and Rome</i> [Univ. Texas Press, 2012]), but also from recent research into
contemporary mother absence. The root cause of ancient mother absence, of
course, was death, with the result that a significant proportion of ancient
children grew up without their biological mothers. In the contemporary West, by
contrast, mother absence is increasingly the product of the number of working
and career mothers (now two-thirds to three-quarters of all mothers in Germany,
Switzerland, France, and the U.S.), a social revolution that is rapidly
transforming the practices, economics, ideals, and politics of mothering. Cameron
Macdonald’s <i class="">Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au
Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering</i> (Berkeley 2011), for example,
investigates the ways in which mother-work has been commoditized, outsourced,
and negotiated between mothers and “shadow mothers” over the last two decades.
Macdonald’s account of the economics, class tensions, and strategic postures shaping
the relationships between contemporary mothers and a quasi-professionalized
class of surrogates is a thought-provoking read for anyone acquainted with the
various “shadow mothers” of antiquity. This and similar research suggests that ancient
historians should attempt to see the phenomenon of ancient mother absence as a
continuum, ranging from its obvious manifestation in the total absence caused
by maternal death, to the partial absences of various forms of maternal
separation brought about by economic necessity, divorce, slavery, social
conventions, and perhaps even choice on occasion. It also provides us with a potential
framework to understand the ways in which different parties or groups cognized
and responded to maternal absence, from the children who grew up without their
mothers to varying degrees, to those who stepped in, were employed, or
commanded to mother them, a patchwork cast of stepmothers, family members, wet
nurses, and domestic slaves—and perhaps we may even extend this analysis to the
absent mothers themselves, to the extent that we can recover or reconstruct
their experiences.</font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">We invite scholars to reconsider the absence of ancient mothers in
terms of ancient mother absence (cf. Huebner & Ratzan (eds.), <i class="">Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity</i> [Cambridge,
2009]) and seek papers on any aspect of ancient mother absence in the ancient
Mediterranean, from any period, subfield, or methodological approach, including
(but not limited to) the following themes:</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class="">- The demography
and sociology of ancient mother absence, including forms of mother absence not
occasioned by death</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class="">- The
relationship of the cultural ideals of “good” and “bad” mothers to the
realities of mother absence, and the cultural construction and deconstruction
of mothers, including reflections and refractions of mother absence in various
rejections of motherhood (e.g., cults of virginity or chastity, medical
theories minimizing maternal contribution to conception, myths of male
pregnancy and birth, etc.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class="">- The
anthropology, economics, ideology, status, and micropolitics of ancient
mother-work and those who performed it (mothers, shadow mothers, stepmothers,
etc.) and the effects or outcomes on children</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class="">- The
psychology, emotional life, identities, and strategies of absent mothers, the
children who lived apart from or survived them, and those who filled the
persistent familial gap (mothers, shadow mothers, stepmothers, etc.)</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16.5pt" class="">- Visual or
poetic representations of or engagements with mother absence and the discourse
of mother absence in epitaphs, eulogies, personal correspondence, religion,
cult, forensic rhetoric, politics, law, or medicine</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Abstracts should be no more than 400 words (exclusive of title
and biographical note), describing a 20-minute paper to be delivered in
English. Please include the full title<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of
your paper and a brief biographical note on your academic affiliation and
previous<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>research. Qualified junior
researchers and recent PhD graduates are encouraged to apply. The deadline for
full consideration is Oct. 15, 2015.</font></span></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Please<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>submit your
abstract by email to: </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="color:rgb(73,72,72)" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:david.ratzan@nyu.edu" class="">david.ratzan@nyu.edu</a> OR </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,72,72);line-height:16.5pt" class=""><a href="mailto:sabine.huebner@unibas.ch" class="">sabine.huebner@unibas.ch</a>.</span></div>
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