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)