Navigating the Boundaries of Kinship and Politics

Navigating the Boundaries of Kinship and Politics

Veranstalter
Eric Hounshell (Los Angeles), Jeannett Martin (Bayreuth), Nathalie Büsser (Zurich), Andre Thiemann (Halle/S.), Astrid Baerwolf (Vienna) Workshop in the context of the ZiF Research Group "Kinship and Politcs"
Veranstaltungsort
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Foschung (ZiF) der Universität Bielefeld, Methoden 1, 33615 Bielefeld
Ort
Bielefeld
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
08.05.2017 - 10.05.2017
Deadline
03.05.2017
Von
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Foschung (ZiF)

Modern liberal self-understanding draws a distinction between kinship and politics. This divide is inscribed not only in public debates and political practice but also in the disciplinary division of labor, key theories, and master narratives within the social sciences. With the development of “modern” societies and states in the West, earlier kinship structures supposedly lost their significance, leaving only the “nuclear” family as a unit of social reproduction and object of scholarly inquiry. This dominant view relegated kinship and specifically its relevance to politics not only to Europe’s past but also to “non-modern” societies outside of Europe and America or to minority populations within Western societies. The resulting disciplinary formation of the social sciences reproduced this view and perpetuated its blind spots. Recent critical examination of the theoretical bases and empirical support for the dominant narrative has opened up new perspectives on kinship and politics, past and present.

This international conference brings together anthropologists, historians, and social scientists from neighboring fields who study kinship and politics from early modern Europe to the recent past and the global present. Some scholars will examine the political implications of scientific, legal, and popular conceptions of kinship and family. Others take the inverse perspective by examining the practical execution of politics through kinship. In addition to lectures by individual scholars, roundtable discussions will deepen the engagement with problems and prospects of interdisciplinary work on kinship and politics.

Seating capacity is limited. Please contact Karin Matzke (karin.matzke@uni-bielefeld.de / Tel. +49 521 106-2793) to reserve a seat by May 3.

Programm

PROGRAMME

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/FG/2016Kinship/Events/05-08-Hounshell_Programm.pdf

ZIF RESEARCH GROUP WORKSHOP
Navigating the Boundaries of Kinship and Politics

Convenors: Eric Hounshell (Los Angeles)
Jeannett Martin (Bayreuth)
Nathalie Büsser (Zurich)
Andre Thiemann (Halle/S.)
Astrid Baerwolf (Vienna)
Coordinator: Jennifer Rasell (Bielefeld)

May 8 – 10, 2017

SUNDAY, MAY 7
18:00 Informal get-together with light refreshments (ZiF Fellow Room)

MONDAY, MAY 8
09:00–09:15 Coffee
09:15–09:30 Welcome address (ZiF Plenary Hall)
09:30–10:45 Opening Keynote Lecture
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (Anthropology, Halle/S.)
Kinship and Politics: A Legal Anthropological Perspective
Chair: Andre Thiemann (Anthropology, Halle/S.)
10:45–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–13:00 Area 1 – Property and Kin Relations I
Chair: Andre Thiemann (Anthropology, Halle/S.)
Patrick Neveling (Anthropology, London/Bern)
Corporate Interregna: Kinship Politica, Joint Ventures, and Embedded Exploitation in the Making of a Mauritian Multinational Enterprise Since 1786
Julia Heinemann (History, Zurich)
Owning the State? Conceptions of Kinship and Monarchy in the Letters of the French Royal Family in the 16th Century
Comment: Michaela Hohkamp (History, Hanover)
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–16:30 Area 1 – Property and Kin Relations II
Chair: Nathalie Büsser (History, Zurich)
Margareth Lanzinger/Janine Maegraith (History, Vienna)
Kinship Ties and Wealth: The Limits on the Disposal of Property and its Consequences
Roberta Zavoretti (Anthropology, Halle/S.)
Being the Right Woman for “Mister Right”: Marriage and Household Politics in Presentday
Nanjing
Comment: Stef Jansen (Anthropology, Manchester)
16:30–17:00 Coffee and Cake
17:00–18:15 Roundtable Discussion
Exploring Kinship and Politics from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Problems and Prospects
Participants: Jeanette Edwards (Anthropology, Manchester), Michaela Hohkamp
(History, Hanover), Staffan Müller-Wille (History and Philosophy of Science, Exeter),
Simon Teuscher (History, Zurich), Tatjana Thelen (Anthropology, Vienna)
Chair: Franz-Josef Arlinghaus (History, Bielefeld)
19:00 Dinner at ZiF

TUESDAY, MAY 9
09:00–11:00 (Long-Table Room)
Area 2 – Negotiating the Limits of the Nuclear Family I
Chair: Eric Hounshell (History, Los Angeles)
Anna Ellmer (Anthropology, Vienna)
“Educational Partnership” and its Paradoxes: Relationships and Boundaries Between
Public Day-Care Institutions and Diverse Families in Vienna (Austria)
Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (American Studies, Bordeaux)
Study and Sanction: How U.S. and French “Experts” Construe Queer Parenting in Legal
Debates
Comment: Margareth Lanzinger (History, Vienna)
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:30 Keynote Lecture
Heike Drotbohm (Anthropology, Mainz)
Migrant Families Undone: Rethinking Kinship, Care and New Inequalities in the Context
of Forced Return Migration
Chair: Jeannett Martin (Anthropology, Bayreuth)
12:30–16:00 Lunch break
Thinking while Walking in the Teutoburg Forest
Coffee and Cake (Bauernhaus Museum)
16:00–18:00 Area 2 – Negotiating the Limits of the Nuclear Family II
Chair: Eric Hounshell (History, Los Angeles)
Stefania Bernini (History, Warsaw/Venice)
Competing for Souls, Bodies and Rights: Child Welfare and Ideological Competition in
Postwar Italy and Poland
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (Anthropology, Northfield)
Remaking Kinship Across Political Orders: Migration, Fostering, and Disciplining
Comment: Caroline Arni (History, Basel)
19:30 Dinner at the restaurant (downtown)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10
09:00–11:00 (Long-Table Room)
Area 3 – The (Re)making of Political Order Through the Lens of Children I
Chair: Jeannett Martin (Anthropology, Bayreuth)
Cristian Alvarado Leyton (Anthropology, Hamburg)
The Politics and Poetics of Forced Adoptions During Argentina’s Last Dictatorship
Anna Ayeh (Anthropology, Bayreuth)
Entanglements of Kinship and Politics in Education: Lessons from Northern Beninese
Quranic Schools
Comment: Judith Schachter (History, Pittsburgh)
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–13:30 Area 3 – The (Re)making of Political Order Through the Lens of Children II
Chair: Jennifer Rasell (Anthropology, Bielefeld)
Jeannett Martin (Antropology, Bayreuth)
On Search for the “Right” Father: Current Debates About So Called “Kuckuckskinder” in
Germany
Margaret Peacock (History, Alabama)
Samantha Smith in the Land of the Bolsheviks: Kinship and Propaganda in the Late Cold
War
Comment: Jeannette Edwards (Anthropology, Manchester)
13:30–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–15:30 Wrap-up Session: Navigating Boundaries of Kinship and Politics
Participants: Erdmute Alber (Anthropology, Bayreuth), Caroline Arni (History, Basel),
David Sabean (History, Los Angeles), Judith Schachter (History, Pittsburgh),
Chair: Andre Thiemann (Anthropology, Halle/S.)
Closing Remarks
18:00 Dinner (self-pay, downtown)

Kontakt

For further information please contact
Jennifer Rasell
Assistant to the Research Group
kinshipandpolitics@uni-bielefeld.de

Seating capacity is limited. Please contact Karin Matzke (karin.matzke@uni-bielefeld.de / Tel. +49 521 106-2793) to reserve a seat by May 3.

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(de)/ZIF/FG/2016Kinship/Events/05-08-Hounshell.html