QTReproART

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