{"id":3650,"date":"2025-12-24T00:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/conference-rituals-of-mothering\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:13:15","slug":"conference-rituals-of-mothering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/conference-rituals-of-mothering\/","title":{"rendered":"Rituals of Mothering in the Middle Ages – International Conference at the University of Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Rituals of Mothering in the Middle Ages”
\nInternational Conference at the University of Cyprus<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CeMAR<\/a>) of the University of Cyprus invites you to the International Conference entitled \u201cRituals of Mothering in the Middle Ages\u201d, which will take place on 15 and 16 January 2026. The conference will be held in a hybrid format at the Learning Resource Centre, University of Cyprus Library \u2018Stelios Ioannou\u2019, Room LRC 019 and via the Microsoft Teams platform.<\/p>\n

The conference aims to advance research on motherhood and breastfeeding through the systematic study of practices and rituals associated with motherhood, the position of the mother, and perceptions of maternal roles during the Middle Ages. All conference papers will be delivered in English.<\/p>\n

The conference forms part of the activities of a two-year research project entitled \u201cMaternal Milk: Breastfeeding in Middle and Late Byzantium (8th\u201315th centuries)\u201d, with the acronym MaternalMilk (EXCELLENCE\/0524\/0012). The project is coordinated by Prof. Stavroula Constantinou through the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CeMAR) of the University of Cyprus. The research team comprises scholars from the University of Cyprus as well as researchers from universities abroad.<\/p>\n

The MaternalMilk project is implemented within the framework of the Cohesion Policy Programme \u201cTHALEIA 2021\u20132027\u201d, co-funded by the European Union through the Research and Innovation Foundation.<\/p>\n

The conference is open to the public. Pre-registration is required, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the conference programme and abstracts, please click on the links below:<\/p>\n

PROGRAMME<\/a> | ABSTRACTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information, visit our website: https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CeMAR) of the University of Cyprus organises the International Conference \u201cRituals of Mothering in the Middle Ages\u201d (15\u201316 January 2026). The conference explores rituals, practices, and perceptions of motherhood and breastfeeding during the medieval period, highlighting social roles and symbolic meanings. The event will be held in a hybrid format and is open to the public with prior registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":3642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,46,69,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-news-and-events","category-press-releases-2","category-press-releases"],"modified_by":"pavlosmi","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 18:01:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/motherbreast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}