[Galileo] Catherine Nash workshop in Cairns September 26-7

[Emma Kowal]

This workshop may be of interest to science studies scholars.
 
Kind regards,
Emma
 
 
Geographies of Relatedness
Professor Catherine Nash (Queen Mary University of London)

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September 2009, Cairns, Australia

A workshop of the Cultural Geography Study Group (CGSG) of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)


This workshop is an opportunity to engage in a debate about the usefulness of an analytical focus on relatedness and to discuss the range of developments, issues and concepts it foregrounds. We will explore relatedness as a model of connections between people based on shared substance - blood or genes - inherited through patterns of parentage and kinship. This profoundly potent model of collective identity and belonging links together themes of nationhood, ethnicity, race, diaspora and indigeneity, ideas of nature, culture, sexuality and gender, and modern forms of citizenship and subjectivity. These themes will be addressed both historically and in relation to current scientific developments and cultural practices. The following topics will also be canvassed:

- the different meanings and implications of conceiving of connections between people and between people and places through ideas of ancestry and descent; 
- the political implications of genealogy as a practice and form of knowledge that reflects particular approaches to conceptualising human relationships and forms of belonging;
- the biotechnological manipulation of humans, plants, animals and micro-organisms as challenging what counts as biology or culture;
- ideas of race, ethnicity, and human genetic similarity as they figure in recent scientific and popular accounts of recent research in human population genetics;
- global geographies of reproduction - the specific and interconnected dynamics of human reproduction that are shaped by new technologies as well as the conventional ideologies of gender and racialised difference. 

For registration contact Rachel Hughes: racheljustin at bigpond.com

 
 
 
 
Dr Emma Kowal
NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Discipline of Anthropology
School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
University of Melbourne
Vic            3010
Australia
 
e.kowal at unimelb.edu.au
 

 
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