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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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