[Commlist] CFP: Menopause: New Perspectives, New Beginnings

  Menopause: New Perspectives, New Beginnings

In-person symposium

University of Sussex, UK

19^th  June 2024

Menopause has long been understood and portrayed in Western culture as 
an ending: of fertility, femininity, and visibility.  Yet testimony from 
women is often contradictory, positioning it as the beginning of a new 
phase of freedom in women’s lives.  Recent years have seen increased 
popular interest in menopause and menopausal women and greater public 
discourse around issues of women, ageing and representation.  Menopause 
has become a category of cultural production and menopausal women a 
target for the marketing of a huge range of ‘menopause’ products and 
services.  In many ways ‘menopause’ as a concept has seen a new beginning.


This symposium aims to bring together researchers and stakeholders from 
a range of disciplines within the arts and humanities to ignite 
conversations about menopause and build a network of interest to develop 
and pursue both academic and practice-based work.  It is the second 
event organised by the Scholarly Association of Menopausal Studies, 
established in 2023, with the aim of connecting multiple disciplines 
within Arts and Humanities to further understanding of what it means to 
be menopausal, how menopause is and has been represented, its history 
and its place in different cultures.


We welcome abstracts for papers, panels, workshops, and creative 
practice.  Topics might include:


Menopause in music, art and film

Histories of menopause.

Creativity and the menopause

Menopause and Class, Race and/or Sexuality.

Humour and the menopause

Representations of menopause.

Women and ageing in the Arts and Humanities

Narratives of menopause.

Tackling menopause through the arts.

Menopause, technology and the humanities.

Menopause in different cultures.

Please send a title, 200-word abstract and short biographical statement 
to the symposium organiser, Dr Jill Kirby ((j.kirby /at/ sussex.ac.uk)), by 
Friday 23 February 2024.


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