Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics and the Anthropocene, was a four day colloquium (May 11-14) organized by Natalie Loveless and Sheena Wilson
The four days of the conference were spent exploring feminist art and maternal ethics as they inform our thinking around anthropogenic climate change and energy transition.
The maternal has become a “hot-button” issue in contemporary feminist art and theory, and the subject of numerous recent conferences, exhibitions, and publications. UAlberta’s Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory, together with the Kule Institute for Advanced Study hosted a colloquium that featured many events, including an exhibition, a film screening, a literary salon, and a keynote address on feminist art, ecology, and the maternal from– all open to the public. As part of the event, the CoLABoratory launched the third in a New Maternalisms exhibition series, New Maternalisms Redux.