Regulating Birth Symposium
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Overview
The Oregon Historical Quarterly,
in collaboration with Dr. Christin Hancock of the University of
Portland, will organize a fall 2015 symposium that promotes scholarship
on the broad subject of regulating birth, including from legal, social,
political, religious, and cultural perspectives. A special issue of the
journal will be drawn from the scholarship presented and is expected to
be published approximately one year after the symposium. Understanding
that birth is an experience shared by everyone, our goal is to foster
the production and public sharing of scholarship that explores themes
and questions including, for example: how ideas of morality impact
where, when, if, and how women give birth; how changes in scientific
understanding (including genetics) affect the medicines, advice, and
practices that attend pregnancy and childbirth; how professionalization
of the medical field has affected the work, training, and regulation of
midwifes and doulas; relationships between citizenship and birth; worker
protective legislation (or lack thereof) and connections to women as
child-bearers; relationships between religious beliefs and birth
practices; impacts of pesticides, herbicides, and other industrial
material on pregnancy, birth, and babies; and how experiences of
stillbirth, miscarriage, and post-partum depression are regulated.asdfsadf.
To Apply
Submit
a title and narrative of 350 to 500 words that outlines the proposed
subject of your paper to be presented at the symposium, as well as a
short CV (formatted as a pdf file), as an email attachment to eliza.canty-jones@ohs.org
with the subject "regulating birth." The narrative should make clear
the new information or scholarly analysis to be presented. While topics
should have clear relationship to the history of Oregon, broadly defined
as the historic Oregon Country, connections to broader regional,
national, and global histories are encouraged. The Oregon Historical
Society will have funds available to cover participants’ travel costs.
Timeline
The
proposal deadline has been extended to 8:00 am on Monday, January 5,
2015. We will communicate with all applicants about whether they are
invited to participate in the symposium by mid January. The symposium is
expected to take place in early November 2015, and the exact date will
be determined by participants’ schedules. Papers will be submitted to
organizers by mid-September 2015, and revised papers will be submitted
for consideration by the Oregon Historical Quarterly by mid-January 2016. |
