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Conference announcement:
Rethinking Care: Anthropological
Perspectives on Life Courses, Kin-Work and their Trans-Local Entanglements
Conveners:
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanz ([log in to unmask])
Erdmute Alber, Bayreuth ([log in to unmask])
Thursday,
6 December – Saturday, 8 December 2012
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global
History (re:work)
Georgenstraße 23
10117
Berlin
Thursday, 6 Dec
14.00 Opening Session
Address of Welcome and Introduction
Erdmute Alber, Bayreuth
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanz
14.30 Care
and the Making of the Life Course
Session I: Norms and Practices of Transnational Parental Care
Discussant: Caroline Bledsoe,
Evanston
Moderation: Heike Drotbohm, Konstanz
14.35 Jessaca Leinaweaver, Providence
Caring for a Child in the Context of Distance: Comparing Spanish
Adoptive Parents and Peruvian Migrant Parents
15.00 Jason Pribilsky, Walla
Walla
The Transnational Economy of Emotions: Sickness, Caring, and Kinship in
Ecuadorian Transmigration
15.25 Valentina Mazzucato and Miranda Poeze,
Maastricht
Ghanaian Transnational Fatherhood: Bridging Gender, Class and Norms of
Social Parenthood
16.05 Caroline
Bledsoe, Evanston
Comments
16.30 General
Discussion of Session I
Evening Program: Movie “Cycles of Care” by Claudia Liebelt and Lizza
M. David
Friday, 7 Dec
9.30 Care
and the Making of the Life Course
Session II: Challenges and Changes of Elderly Care
Discussant:
Brigit Obrist, Basel
Moderation: Erdmute Alber, Bayreuth
09.30 Tabea Häberlein,
Bayreuth
Care as Intergenerational Kin Work – Notions from a Togolese Village
09.55 Caroline
Leutloff-Grandits, Graz
Diverse Temporalities and their Challenges to Trans-Local
Kosovo-Albanian Kin Care: Taking a Life Course Perspective on Migrant Predicaments
10.20 Piet van Euweijk, Zürich
Elderly Providing
Care for Elderly in Indonesia and Tanzania: Making Old-Age Vulnerability
Visible
11.15 Anna Skornia,
Berlin
Care and Welfare Interdependencies through the Lens of Migration:
Transnational Family Care between Peru and Italy at the Intersections of
Welfare, Gender and Migration Regimes
11.35 Brigit Obrist, Basel
Comments
12.00 General Discussion of Session II
15.00 Institutions
and Care
Session III: Regimes
Framing Care
Discussant: Signe Howell, Oslo
Moderation: Jeannett Martin, Bayreuth
15.00 Hannah Brown, London
Home and Hospital: Domains of Care in the Kenyan HIV epidemic
15.25 Pamela Feldmann-Savelsberg,
Northfield
Mothers on the Move: Mobility and Intensive Care Work among Cameroonian
Migrants to Germany
15.50 Leah
Schmalzbauer, Bozeman
Transnational and Temporary: Experiences and Expectations of Fatherhood among Mexican Guest Workers in the US
16.15 Esben Leifsen, Oslo
Care, Kinship and Marginal Existence
16.55 Signe Howell, Oslo
Comments
17.20 General Discussion of
Session III
Saturday, 8 Dec
09.00 Institutions and Care
Session
IV: Labour Framing Care
Discussant: Susan
Reynolds Whyte, Copenhagen
Moderation: Hansjörg Dilger,
Berlin
09.00 Claudia Liebelt, Bayreuth
The Gift of Care: On Filipina Domestic Workers and Transnational Cycles
of Care
09.25 Tatjana Thelen, Wien, and Mihai Popa, Halle
Care Migration and Reframing the „Other“: Explorations from Rural
Romania
09.50 Maria Lidola, Berlin
Of Grooming Bodies and Caring Souls: New Old Forms of Care Work in
Berlin’s Brazilian Waxing Salons?
10.15 Cati Coe, Camden
Temporal Strategies of Care and Entrainment of the Life Course: The Case
of Ghanaian Female Transmigrants in the US
11.10 Susan
Reynolds Whyte, Copenhagen
Comments
11.35 General
Discussion of Session IV
12.35 Final
Discussant Note and Moderation
Erdmute Alber and Heike Drotbohm
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