Program

DAY ONE Thursday, March 14

12:30 - 13:00
Opening Remarks

13:00 - 14:00
Panel I: Concepts and Theories
Chair: Barbara Schaff

Susanne Lettow (Berlin): Troubling Antigone. Hegel and the 'Crisis of Kinship'

Sophie Silverstein (Utrecht): 'I don't' - Desire for new intimacies and a new social order

Christine Maria Klapeer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen):
Neoliberal governmentality and articulations of (homo-)normative citizenship in German and Austrian LGBTIQ* politics

13:00 - 14:30
Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30
Panel II: Inter- and Trans-Perspectives on Adoption
Chair: Lena Solveig Hansen

Silke Hackenesch (Köln): Redefining Kinship through International and Transracial Adoptions

Chandra Kala Clemente Martinez and Diana Marre (Autonomous University of Barcelona): Kinship in Spanish Adoptive Families, Searches for Origins

Patricia E. Sawin (North Carolina): Adoptee and Adoptive Parent Stories - Complementary Contributions

16:30 - 16:45
Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:15
Keynote
Margaret Homans (Yale): Sisters and Brothers, Twinsters and Identical
Strangers: Siblings in Adoption Narratives

18:30
Conference Warming at Bremers Weinkellerei am Wall

19:30
Dinner at Apex

DAY TWO Friday, March 15

9:00 - 10:30
Keynote
Elizabeth Peel (Loughborough): Stories from Kinship at the Margins

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30
Panel III: Beyond the Human
Chair: Kirsten Sandrock

Konstanze Hanitzsch (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): The Goddess and the Cyborg: non-human ethical relations and otherkin in Björks Utopia

Magda Garlinska (Viadrina): Kinship between women and animals.
Critical perspective on rise of nationalism in Poland

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Breack

14:00 - 15:30
Panel IV: Politics of Kinship
Chair: Nikolaus Linder

Christof Bex (Ghent): The politics of re-kinning with ‘families of origin’ in transnational adoption from Bolivia

Rosemarie Peña (Rutgers): Black Germans: Coming Home to Self and Community

Maria Pia Guerra (Brasília): Kinship in authoritarian regimes:
Foreigners, families and the Brazilian Supreme Court

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30
Panel V: Kinship Practices and Technologies
Chair: Avrina Jos Joslin Thambi

Silke Schicktanz (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Reciprocity and reciprocal duties of a caring kinship? Considerations about aging families between nature and nurture

Anna Smajdor (Oslo): Redefining reproduction

Annika Spahn (Basel): Uterus transplantation - medical constructions of gender and kinship

17:30 - 17:45
Coffee Break

17:45 - 18:45
Panel VI: Kinship, Violence and Gender
Chair: Gulşin Çiftçi

Ashitha Mandakathingal (MPIMMG Göttingen): State, Kinship and Sexual Violence against Adivasi Women in India

Dragana Pejovic (Novi Sad): Referring to Kinship in order to annul the Danger from Domestic Violence

19:00
Conference Dinner at Kartoffelhaus

DAY THREE Saturday, March 16

9:30 - 11:00
Panel VII: Imagined Relations
Chair: Inge Kroppenberg

Romain Pasquer (Cornell): The Death of the Father in French Psychoanalysis and Theater

Corinna Assmann (Heidelberg): The Genealogical Imagination in Diasporic Family Identity Construction

Kirsten Sandrock (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Failing
Families: Modernist Challenges to Kinship as Blood Relations

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00
Panel VIII: Kinship Across Time and Place
Chair: Katharina Nambula

Regina Schäfer (Mainz): Doing family - the 'frunde' between family and friends

Lovitoli Jimo (Ambedkar): Theorising Gendered Kinship and Marriage:
The Sumi Naga Tribe of Northeast India

Anna Avdeeva (Helsinki): Attachment parenting in Russia: how kinship might be challenged and transgressed by mothering essentialisation

13:00 - 13:30
Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks