Contexts of Breastfeeding & Breastfeeding across Contexts
Brief Summary
The symposium brings together healthcare professionals and academics from different disciplines to explore breastfeeding through diverse historical, medical, public health, bioethical, and cultural lenses.
Organised by Eirini Kampriani, Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia Medical School and Stavroula Constantinou, Professor and Founder of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CEMAR) at the University of Cyprus, the symposium is held within the framework of the two-year research project ‘Maternal Milk: Breastfeeding in Middle and Late Byzantium (8th–15th c.)’, implemented by CEMAR under ‘THALIA 2021–2027’.
The event, which is supported by the UNIC Medical School Research Office and chaired by Prof. Zoi Dorothea Pana (Associate Dean for Research, UNIC Medical School), features two interdisciplinary roundtables.
The first, Contexts of Breastfeeding, explores historical approaches, perinatal and child health perspectives, and local moral frameworks that shape breastfeeding experiences and health practices. The second, Breastfeeding across Contexts, focuses on the applications and challenges in different domains and examines the facilitators, barriers, and representations of breastfeeding in clinical practice, nursing education, community interventions, and the arts.
PROGRAMME
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance
For further information, you may visit the project website ( https://www.ucy.ac.cy/motherbreast/ ) and contact Stavroula Constantinou ([email protected]) and Eirini Kampriani ([email protected] ).