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Speakers from across world discuss motherhood at UNT event
What: Representing the Maternal -- A speaker series presented by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design to discuss representations of motherhood and related work/life issues. When/Where: 3 p.m. Feb. 3 (Tuesday) -- Imogen Tyler, lecturer in sociology at Lancaster University in England, and Jennie Klein, assistant professor and chair of the art history department at Ohio University, discuss representations of motherhood and work/life issues. Room 43/47 in the UNT Gateway Center on North Texas Boulevard between Eagle Drive and Highland Street. 7 p.m. Feb. 10 (Tuesday) -- The Guerrilla Girls talk about their work, philosophy of activism and campaign against a lack of ethics in the art world. UNT Gateway Center ballroom. 4 p.m. Feb. 18 (Wednesday) -- Andrea O'Reilly, associate professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto and founder of the Association for Research on Mothering, discusses representations of motherhood and work/life issues. UNT Gateway Center ballroom. Cost: Free Contact: Denise Baxter, UNT assistant professor of art history, at denise.baxter@unt.edu DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Images of motherhood abound from magazine covers to works of art -- and a speaker series from the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design brings together university scholars and anonymous female artists in gorilla masks to talk about maternal issues. The speaker series, called "Representing the Maternal," features speakers from Canada, England and across the United States talking about women's issues and motherhood, followed by discussions about balancing work and home life. All of the events are free and open to the public. "As an art historian, I am acutely aware of how visual representations both reflect and shape people's ideas about the world," said Denise Baxter, UNT assistant professor of art history. "The representation of the maternal role is no different. My goal for these events is to bring people together in a series of public dialogues about representations of the maternal in order to investigate how people perceive of the maternal role and, stemming from this, what possibilities we might conceive of as a university community for some sort of balance between the often conflicting obligations of family and professional life." The series begins at 3 p.m. Feb. 3 (Tuesday) with a dialogue between Imogen Tyler, lecturer in sociology at Lancaster University in England, and Jennie Klein, assistant professor and chair of the art history department at Ohio University. Tyler serves on the editorial board of the journal Studies in the Maternal and has published several essays on the topic of maternal bodies, including "Skin Tight: Celebrity, Pregnancy and Subjectivity" and "Reframing Pregnant Embodiment." Klein has co-curated and written catalogue essays for the exhibit Maternal Metaphors: Artists/Mothers/Artwork. Their lecture will take place in Room 43/47 in the UNT Gateway Center on North Texas Boulevard between Eagle Drive and Highland Street. The Guerrilla Girls, a group of artists who appear in public anonymously in gorilla masks, will use facts, humor and visuals to talk about sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture. As the authors of stickers, billboards, posters and books, the Guerrilla Girls will discuss their work, their philosophy of activism and their campaign against a lack of ethics in the art world. Their lecture will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 (Tuesday) in the UNT Gateway Center ballroom. The series ends with Andrea O'Reilly, associate professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto and founder of the Association for Research on Mothering, discussing motherhood and work/life issues at 4 p.m. Feb. 18 (Wednesday) at the UNT Gateway Center ballroom. O'Reilly has written or co-authored 12 books on motherhood. Her current work includes a research project called "Being a Mother in Academe: Challenges, Possibilities and Change." The event is sponsored by the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design, UNT Department of Art Education and Art History, UNT Women's Studies Program, UNT Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, UNT Division of Art History and Southern Methodist University.
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