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center
on everyday lives of families
winter 2003 workshop
What is a Family? New Perspectives on Kinship, Relatedness, and Belonging
Friday, January 31, 2003
10 am - 3 pm
352 Haines Hall
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10:00 - 12:00
Morning Session
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Presenters will address the question:
How do processes of social and economic change and insecurity (e.g., industrialization, globalization, natural disaster) affect the maintenance and/or change of family life, including local understandings and experiences of familial responsibility and obligations, individualism and "romantic love," social networks and belonging?
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Presenters: Nancy Levine, Yunxiang Yan, Jane Collier
Discussants: Judith Stacey, Janet Carsten
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12:00 - 1:00
Lunch (provided) |
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1:00
- 3:00
Afternoon Session |
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Presenters
will address the question:
How do studies of non-traditional families (like same-sex
families), adoption, and new reproductive technologies
shed light on cultural biases, assumptions, and understandings
about family, kinship, gender, relatedness, and belonging?
Presenters: Judith Stacey, Janet Carsten
Discussants:
Nancy Levine, Yunxiang Yan, Jane Collier
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