Seminar 3.12. GENDERING PARENTHOOD

Gendering Parenthood: Perspectives from Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Research

December 3, 14-16
Arcanum A270

This seminar presents recent and ongoing interdisciplinary research on how motherhood, fatherhood, childhood and family relations figure in representations and lived experiences, in contemporary as well as historical times and across (trans)national contexts. The program offers four research presentations by scholars active at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), and University of Turku (UTU), as well as a joint discussion of familial phenomena, research approaches, and theorizations in critical research on parenthood.

The seminar is co-arranged by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), Department of Cultural History, Department of European and World History, Degree Programme in Literary Studies and SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory. The seminar is moderated by Kaisa Ilmonen, TIAS Collegium Fellow and university lecturer at the department of Comparative Literature.

Program:

14.00 – 14.30
Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Professor in Gender Studies, Uppsala University and
TIAS Visiting Professor
“Parental Bodies in Literature and Popular Culture” presentation and Q+A

14.30 – 14.50
Ranjana Saha, TIAS TIES Fellow, Department of European and World History
“Mothers, Babies and Print Media in Colonial India” presentation and Q+A

14.50 – 15.10
Heidi Kurvinen, TIAS Collegium Fellow, Department of Cultural History
“Motherhood and Feminism in 1970s Finland” presentation and Q+A

15.10 – 15.30
Koko Hubara, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature UTU
“(Intersectional) Daughtering, the Forgotten Parallel Concept of Mothering” presentation and Q+A

15.30-16.00
Discussion: Researching Parenthood at the Intersections