Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld
ZIF RESEARCH GROUP OPENING CONFERENCE
Kinship and Politics: Initiating a Dialogue
Convenors:
Erdmute Alber (Bayreuth, GER)
David Warren Sabean (Los Angeles, USA)
Simon Teuscher (Zurich, SUI)
Tatjana Thelen (Vienna, AUT)
Coordinator: Jennifer Rasell (Bielefeld, GER)
6-7 October 2016, Plenary Hall - ZiF - Methoden 1 - 33615 Bielefeld
Thursday, 6 October 2016
17:15 – 18:00
Arrival
18:00 – 18:15
Welcome Address by Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (ZiF) and the Conference Convenors
18:15 – 19:00
Introduction to the Research Group Kinship and Politics
Presenter: Simon Teuscher (Zurich)
19:00
Dinner at ZiF
Friday, 7 October 2016
9:00 – 10:30
Roundtable I on Divergent Paths: kinship and the epistemology of politics in the West and the Rest
Chair: Eric Hounshell (Los Angeles)
Presenter: Tatjana Thelen (Vienna)
Commentators:
Janet Carsten (Edinburgh)
Caroline Arni (Basel)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Roundtable II on Uses of Kinship: domination and social engineering in political practice
Chair: Jeannett Martin (Bayreuth)
Presenter: David Warren Sabean (Los Angeles)
Commentators:
Michaela Hohkamp (Hannover)
Thomas Zitelmann (Berlin)
12:30–14:00
Lunch at ZiF
14:00–15:30
Roundtable III on Kinship as an Analytical Category: reconceptualising the reproduction of the political order and property relations
Chair: Natalie Büsser (Zurich)
Presenter: Erdmute Alber (Bayreuth)
Commentators:
Susan Kahn (Cambridge, MA)
Margareth Lanzinger (Vienna)
15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–17:00
Wrap-up session
Chair: Astrid Baerwolf (Vienna)
Concluding Statement: Simon Teuscher (Zurich)
Commentators:
Susan McKinnon (Charlottesville)
Frances Pine (London)
17:00
Departure