Internationaler Workshop des Graduiertenkollegs „Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie“ und des Forschungsprojekts „Verwandtschaftskulturen“ im SFB 640, „Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnung im Wandel“, in Kooperation mit C:SL, dem „Collaboratory Social Anthropology and Life Sciences“ und dem Forschungscluster „Das Präventive Selbst“ am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Berlin
Datum: 13.-15.12.2007
Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Deadline: 12.12.2007
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What are genealogical practices doing? What are we doing with them? How are they doing what they do? Who is their agent? And how can we learn more about their relationality?
Investigating the agency of genealogical practices is not only interesting for historians of the Middle Ages or for those who want to trace noble lineages – it’s a question of major concern for contemporary life. Genealogical methods are an established part of the scientific canon in such diverse disciplines as history, medicine, anthropology, biology, and law, to name but a few. They are used to trace pathological features through the course of generations, to visualize the theory of evolution, to explore kinship structures, and to legitimize relationships. Beyond scientific and academic institutions, genealogical practices play a crucial role in private ancestry research; in government decisions on migration policies, social benefits and medical aid; in citizenship laws and in inheritance legislature. In short, one can generally find such practices wherever questions of origin are asked, claims for power and inheritance are raised, wherever politics of memory and identity are to be installed or (cultural) legacies are to be refuted or defended.
Yet even though genealogical practices seem to be ubiquitous and robust, they are also shadowy. Sarah Franklin, in her new book on the history and practices of cloning, draws upon this ubiquity, simultaneously noting that geneaology might be seen as one of the „most important, but vague and undertheorized terms in contemporary critical thought“.
Obviously one encounters specific difficulties when researching genealogical practices. These difficulties, as well as the above-mentioned questions about the agency of these practices, will be the subject of our workshop, which is situated at the crossroads of anthropology, history of sciences and medicine and interdisciplinary science and technology studies.
Programm:
Donnerstag / Thursday, 13.12.07
Achtung: Der Eröffnungsvortrag findet an diesem Ort statt /
Important: The keynote lecture will be held at this location:
HU Berlin, Hauptgebäude
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
HS 2097 (1. Etage)
16:15 Begrüßung / Reception and addresses
Eröffnungsvortrag / Public keynote lecture
Geoffrey C. Bowker (CSTS, Santa Clara University, California):
Memory and Forgetting Practices in Social and Natural Science
17:45 Empfang / Reception
Freitag / Friday, 14.12.07
Ort: Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Mohrenstrasse 41, Raum 211 und 212
9:30-10:00 Einführung in das Thema / Introduction to the subject:
Kartographische Koordinaten / Cartographic coordinates
Martina Schlünder (Geschichte der Medizin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Sonja Palfner (Graduiertenkolleg Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie, HU Berlin)
Michi Knecht (Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
10:00-11:00 Diskussion des Eröffnungsvortrages / Discussion of the key note lecture
Geoffrey C. Bowker (CSTS, Santa Clara University, California)
Kommentare / Discussants:
Staffan Müller-Wille (Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter)
Stefan Beck (Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
11:00-11:30 Kaffeepause / Coffee and tea
11:30-13:30 Genealogische Praktiken I / Genealogical practices I:
Christina Brandt (MPIWG, Berlin):
Between “genealogy” and “identity”: Historical perspectives on the clone concept
Stefan Sperling (History of Sciences, Harvard University):
Genealogies of the future: Law, science, and the making of potential persons
Kommentare / Discussants:
Susanne Bauer (Medical Museion / Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen)
Eric J. Engstrom (Geschichte der Medizin, Charité Berlin)
Moderation / Chair:
Michalis Kontopodis (Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
13:30-15:00 Mittagessen / Lunch break
15:00-17:00 Genealogische Praktiken II / Genealogical practices II:
Bernd Gausemeier (MPIWG, Berlin):
Don’t miss the forest for the family trees: Genealogy as representative model and technical mode
Elisabeth Timm (Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Wien):
Finds and fictions. The quest for ancestors in Austria between noble reign, bourgeois associations, fascist policy, and individualized practice
Kommentare / Discussants:
Maren Klotz (Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
Elvira Scheich (Gesellschaftswissenschaften, TU Berlin)
Moderation / Chair:
Jörg Niewöhner (Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
17:00-17:30 Kaffepause / Coffee and tea
17:30-19:00 Kartographische Übung I / Cartographic practice I:
Open space for the presentation and circulation of visual material and artefacts
20:00 Abendessen / Conference dinner
Samstag / Saturday, 15.12.07
9:30-11:30 Genealogische Praktiken III / Genealogical practices III:
Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University):
The Genealogies of Liberalism
Eva Johach (Graduiertenkolleg Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie, HU Berlin):
Human and animal forms of nation building. Elective affinities between men and insects in the 19th century
Kommentare / Discussants:
Susan Leigh Star (CSTS, Santa Clara University, California)
Axel C. Hüntelmann (Geschichte der Medizin, Charité Berlin)
Moderation / Chair:
Anja Laukötter (Geschichte der Medizin, Charité Berlin)
11:30-12:00 Kaffeepause / Coffee and tea
12:00-13:30 Genealogische Praktiken IV / Genealogical practices IV:
Jeanette Edwards (Social Anthropology, University of Manchester):
Of family history, ancestors and pedigrees: Genealogical research in the north of England
Ohad S. Parnes (ZFL, Berlin):
Epigenetic genealogies
Kommentare / Discussants:
René Gerrets (MPI für Sozialanthropologie, Halle)
Skúli Sigurdsson (MPIWG, Berlin and Science Institute Reykjavik)
Moderation / Chair:
Sven Bergmann (Graduiertenkolleg Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie, HU)
13:30-15:00 Mittagessen / Lunch break
15:00-16:30 Kartographische Übung II / Cartographic practice II:
Where lines are crossing – How does it work?
Wie könnte eine interdisziplinäre Kartographie funktionieren?
Stefan Hesper:
Karte oder Genealogie? – Anmerkungen zur Genealogie der Kartographie bei Deleuze und Guattari und Ausblicke
Michi Knecht (Europäische Ethnologie, HU)
Martina Schlünder (Geschichte der Medizin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Sonja Palfner (Graduiertenkolleg Geschlecht als Wissenskategorie, HU)
16:35-17:00 Kaffeepause / Coffee and tea
17:00-18:30 Kartographische Übung III / Cartographic practice III:
Round table discussion: “What makes the ‘re’ in the re-making of genealogies?”: Emergent patterns, transdisciplinary perspectives
mit / with
Susan Leigh Star (CSTS, Santa Clara University, California)
Tanja Michalsky (Kunstgeschichte und Ästhetik, UDK Berlin)
Staffan Müller-Wille (Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter)
Skúli Sigurdsson (MPIWG, Berlin and Science Institute, Reykjavík)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Anthropology, Columbia University NY)
Moderation / Chair:
Michi Knecht (Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
Konzept;
– Dr. Michi Knecht (michi.knecht[at]rz.hu-berlin.de)
– Dr. Martina Schlünder (m.schluender[at]gmx.de)
– Sonja Palfner (spalfner[at]gmx.de) (Kontakt)
URL des Beitrages: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=8299