Events

Family research at Umeå University

Datum: 2016-05-13
Tid: 10.00 – 16.00
Plats: Humanisthuset, HE109
Evenemanget vänder sig till: anställda

Workshop vid Umeå universitet med fokus på forskning som rör familjefrågor. Öppen för alla intresserade.

9:30 – 10:00 coffee
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and presentation round
10:15 – 10:35 Elizabeth Perry (Department of Law), “Harmony at the Expense of Equity? Examples from Sweden and California’s Public and Private Child Support Laws”
10:40 – 11:00 Elin Jonsson (Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society), “Analysing Swedish Regulations of Bio/genetic and Legal Parenthood from a Critical Perspective”
11:05 – 11:25 Lennart Nygren and Evelyn Khoo (Department of Social Work), “Family Complexity and Social Work – Comparative Studies”
11:25 – 11:40 coffee break
11:40 – 12:00 Berit Åström (Department of Language Studies), “The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination: Missing, Presumed Dead”
12:05 – 12:25 Ulrika Widding (Department of Education), “Negotiating Parenthood: Experiences of Parents to Extremely Premature Children”
12:25 – 13:20 lunch
13:20 – 13:40 Magdalena Sjöberg (Department of Sociology), “Yummy Mummy – Youthfulness as a Resource in Good Motherhood”
13:45 – 14:05 Johan Junkka (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), “Shared Practices: The Influence of Social Networks on Fertility during the Demographic Transition”
14:10 – 14:30 Glenn Sandström (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), “Changes in the Socio-Economic Gradient of Marriage for Men and Women in Sweden during the Twentieth Century”
14:30 – 14:50 coffee break
14:50 – 15:10 Daniela Cutas (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), “What Philosophers Do When They Do Family Research”
15:15 – 15:35 Kalle Grill (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies), “Who Should Decide for a Child, and When?”
15:40 – 16:00 Anna Smajdor (Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and University of East Anglia, UK), “Redefining Reproduction: Legislation and Ethics at the New Frontier of Fertility”

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Past events:

On September 10-11 2015, we are hosting the conference “Beyond the nuclear family: the philosophy of close personal relationships”.

Programme:

September 10

9:00 – 9:10      Welcome and introduction
9:10 – 10:00    Adam Swift (Warwick University), Family values and family structures
10:05 – 10:55  Daniela Cutas (Umeå University and University of Gothenburg), Infertility and the nuclear family
10:55 – 11:10  coffee break
11:10 – 12:00  Klara Goedecke (Uppsala University), With a little help from my friends: intimacies and solidarities in men’s friendships
12:05 – 12:55  Anna Smajdor (University of East Anglia), Who put the R in ART? In vitro fertilisation to fulfil non-parental relationship needs
12:55 – 14:00  lunch break
14:00 – 14:50  Kalle Grill (Umeå University), Should parents love each other?
14:55 – 15:45  Maren Behrensen (Linköping University), Identification, care, and poly parenting
15:45 – 16:00  coffee break
16:00 – 16:50  Mianna Lotz (Macquarie University), Vulnerability in the parent-child relationship
16:55 – 17:45  Titti Mattsson (Lund University), The design of the legal family and its implications from a vulnerability perspective
19:00               dinner at Bildmuseet

September 11

9:00 – 9:50      Bonnie Steinbock (University of Albany), Procreative liberty, procreative responsibility, and the non-identity problem
9:55 – 10:45    Anca Gheaus (Umeå University and University of Sheffield), The best available parent
10:45 – 11:00  coffee break
11:00 – 11:50   Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge), Against marriage: an egalitarian defence of the marriage-free state
11:55 – 12:45  Elizabeth Brake (Arizona State University), The right to care: extending access to caring relationships
12:45 – 14:00  lunch break
14:00 – 14:50  Tim Fowler (University of Bristol), Against the parity principle: theorising parental disagreement
14:50 – 15:05  coffee break
15:05 – 15:55 Jake Earl (Georgetown University), A partial defence of the baby lottery
16:00 – 16:50  David Archard (Queen’s University), Partiality and relationship goods
16:50 – 17:00  Concluding remarks

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On November 3-4, 2014, we organised a conference on ‘Family relationships: ethical and legal aspects‘ in Umeå.

Talks:
Daniela Cutas (Umeå Universitet and Göteborgs Universitet), Welcome and presentation of the project
David Archard (Queen’s University Belfast), The end of the family? The significance of biological relationships
Anca Gheaus (Umeå Universitet and the University of Sheffield), Biological parenthood: gestational not genetic
Camilla Kronqvist (Åbo Academy), “Every child has a father and a mother”. Some remarks on parenthood and conceptual change
Kalle Grill (Umeå Universitet), Decoupling parenthood and romantic relationships
Thomas Hartvigsson and Christian Munthe (Göteborgs Universitet), A politico-normative model of parenthood and the concept of reproductive caring units
Anna-Karin Andersson (University of Bergen), Rights bearers and rights functions
Erik Malmqvist (Linköping Universitet), Transnational surrogacy, exploitation and the non-worseness claim
Guilherme Chihaya Da Silva (Umeå Universitet), The case for studying the health outcomes of children raised by same-sex couples: review and prospects
Jane Stoll (Uppsala Universitet), A child’s right not to know her genetic origins
Niklas Juth (Karolinska Institutet), Genetic information, the right not to know and the duty to tell: the case of relatives
Ingmar Persson (Göteborgs Universitet and University of Oxford), Understanding the asymmetry between creating good and bad lives