I am flying to Toronto to present my research project 'Remembering Australia's Forgotten Mothers: Identity and Colonial History' at the MIRCI international conference Mothers and History: Histories of Motherhood, hosted by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, York University on the 10-12th May. My trip is generously supported by the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, where I am a Lecturer.
At the same time the Mamapalooza Sydney festival that I have been involved in for the past few months, runs from 8-13th May. I will be there in spirit and with images from my photographic series, Last Things, in the exhibition.
Festival coordinator and film-maker Vee Malnar has suggested filming a video-talk of my presentation to show at Mamapalooza Sydney during the festival; if not quite as good as teleportation nonetheless this would seem not a bad way of being in two places at once- a feat I often dreamt of as a busy working mother .
