Here is the program of the international Symposium "States of Parenthood: Race and Nation in Contemporary Queer and Trans Reproduction"
Thursday April 25
9.30-10.00 Coffee and registrations
10.00-10.30 Welcome & Introduction
Doris Leibetseder & Ulrika Dahl
10.30-12.30 Panel 1: Racial relations, mediated intimacies
Chair: Ulrika Dahl
Damien Riggs: Movement in space: The intersections of whiteness and cisgenderism (via skype)
Jaya Keaney: Telling a good story: race and origin stories in queer transnational surrogacy (via skype)
Rikke Andreassen: Mediated kinship
12.30-13.30 Lunch at Matikum
13.30-15.30 Panel 2: The queer politics of reproductive justice
Chair: Doris Leibetseder
Ugo Edu: Fugitive Rights Bearers
Marcin Smietana: Queer kinship and LGBTQ reproduction in a stratified world – options for reproductive justice?
Julian Honkasalo: Transgender parenthood in the era of climate change: a social justice perspective
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.15-17.30 Keynote I by Camisha Russell: I Just Want Children Like Me
Venue: Geijersalen, Engelska Parken
Chair & discussant: Rikke Andreassen
19.00 Dinner at Meza Östra Ågatan 11, www.meza.nu
Friday April 26
9.00-11.00 Panel 3: Reproducing gendered and sexual difference
Chair: Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
Anna Malmqvist: Fear of childbirth in lesbian, bisexual, transgender people: Results from an interview study
Julia Teschlade: Trapped in the hegemonic order? Gay fathers oscillating between heteronormative family narratives and queering kinship.
Marilyn Crawshaw: Whose rights? Whose interests? Lifespan considerations following assisted reproduction
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.30 Panel 4: The biopolitics and policies of queer and trans reproduction
Chair: Ulrika Dahl
Joanna Mizielinska & Agata Stacinska: Queer Parents and Stateless Children in Their Search for Recognition
Doris Leibetseder: Policy recommendations for queer and trans reproduction in Europe
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne: Old Battles in a New Context Researching queer reproduction in the midst of Europe’s Culture War
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Keynote lecture by Del LaGrace Volcano: ‘Resistance is fertile: A queerly twisted transnational path to parenthood’
Venue: 21-0031 (next to Humanistiska Teatern)
Chair: Julian Honkasalo
Followed by a panel discussion with Del Grace Volcano, Cal Orre, and Axel Repka
16.00-16.30 Closing discussion