2023 Conference Programme

This year’s annual conference will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on July 7th, 2023. This will be an in-person conference and we would love to see as many colleagues and friends as possible!

Proposals are welcomed from scholars at any stage of their career, as well as those active in relevant civil society groups. Call for proposals is now closed.

Panels

This year’s four panels will focus on:

  • Reproduction and Motherhood During Slavery
  • Body Politics
  • Cultural Activism
  • Bodily Autonomy, Reproduction, and Law in the Americas

Location

This year’s conference is being held at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School. Closest railway stations are Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly, which are both a short walk away.

Programme

9:00am – 9:30am

Registration and refreshments

9:30am – 9:45am

Conference welcome

Marie Molloy, SHAW Chair, Manchester Metropolitan University

9:45am – 10:45am

Panel One: Reproduction and Motherhood During Slavery

Chair: Marie Molloy, Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Community-based gynaecological care and involuntary motherhood in the Antebellum South, Andrea Livesey, Liverpool John Moores University
  • Freedom and Motherhood under Enslavement, Hannah Simmons, Northwestern University

10:45am – 11:05am

Break

Room 3:16N

11:05am – 12:50pm

Panel Two: Body Politics

Chair: Sinead McEneaney, Open University

  • Battlefield Bodies: Embodying the Borderland in Colonial Chile, Marin Aguilera, Liverpool University
  • She Said, He Said, He Said, He Said: Narrative destruction in a New York City Rape Case, 1916-1917, Mara Keire, Oxford University
  • The Response to Roe v. Wade among University Students in the Bible Belt: Examining Religious, Political, and Social Reactions to a Landmark Supreme Court Decision, Emma Bowker, University
    College London
  • Protecting Pregnant Teens: Mothers Against Minors’ Abortions and the Campaign for Parental Consent, Isobel Bloom, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:50pm – 1:50pm

Lunch

Room 3:14N

1:50pm – 2:50pm

Panel Three: Cultural Activism

Chair: Mara Keire, Oxford University

  • Negro Theatre Workshop (NTW) and the Kuumba, Alexandrea Keith, Northwestern University
  • Rethinking the Matricidal Praxes at the Basis of the Negrocene: Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day (1988), Marika Ceschia, University of Leeds

2:50pm – 3:15pm

Break

Room 3:14N

3:15pm – 4:50pm

Plenary: Bodily Autonomy, Reproduction and Law in the Americas

Chair: Hélène Charlery, University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès

  • Michell Chresfield, Cornell University.
  • Rebecca Ogden, University of Kent
  • Rachell Sánchez-Rivera, Cambridge University
  • Genevieve Johnson-Smith, Newcastle University

4:50pm – 5:00pm

Closing comments

Marie Molloy, SHAW Chair, Manchester Metropolitan University

5:00pm

Conference ends

Conference dinner

The optional conference dinner will be held at HOME restaurant at 6pm. Refer to their website for menu information. Please note, the dinner will incur an additional cost, on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Registration

Registration for this year’s conference has now closed.

Social media

Attendees are encouraged to post about the conference on social media using the hashtag #shawconf23. Our Twitter account @shawsociety can also be tagged in,

Places to stay

This is not a residential conference, and we encourage attendees to book accommodation that suits their budget. There are several hotels within a short distance of the venue. Premier Inn Portland Street and Ibis Princess Street are nearby, and other affordable accommodation can be found via Booking.com.

Wi-fi

Visitors may connect to the _BTWi-fi_ManMet network free of charge.

Programme

A PDF copy of the conference programme is available to download.