The research project Gendered Island Futures: Generational Perspectives on Motherhood and Social Change in the Faroe Islands, invites you to join our quarterly online seminar series. The seminars are meant as a space for scholars to explore how temporalities intersect with reproduction, gender, parenthood, and care. As such, we wish to examine how we might re-think ideas of creating the future through studies of intimate family lives.
Anthropologists have expanded our thinking on futures through studies of for instance kinship, family-life, politics, activism, ageing, disability, and digital media. In addition, philosophies of care ethics, decoloniality and environmental humanities push us to consider how our thinking about the future is situated, and how novel futures are created, dismantled, experimented into being and fought for all over the globe. Imagination, hope, desire, and anticipation seem to intermingle with disaster, anxiety, and loss in the ways we think about making human futures. Somewhere in the centre of these discussions sits the biological creation and technological co-creation of life and nurturing of children – though theories also push beyond the human. What might we learn about the making of futures and change from practices and imaginaries of intimate relations in this moment of global upheaval in the politics of kinship, family, and gender? Entering the ‘private’ realm and understanding it as the inside-out of the public, the webinar series explores contributions on how this might inform us on futures and change.
We invite scholars from different and cross-cutting disciplines, ranging from anthropology, history, political sciences, and STS, to reflect on these themes with us and explore how to approach them theoretically, analytically, and methodologically in novel ways.
The webinar will take the shape as presentations/lectures of 30 minutes by an invited scholar with a following 30 minutes ‘open floor’ for a dynamic group discussion and questions. The event begins at 3PM and end at 4PM (UTC+01:00).
