Conference: Bioeconomies of Reproduction. Bielefeld, Germany, 13-16 June
Bioeconomies of Reproduction
Historical and Anthropological Analyses of a Relational
Structure, 1750-2010
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) – Bielefeld
It will be the explicit aim of the conference to shed
light on the entangled genealogies of »reproduction« and »economy«, including
the scientific and cultural practices through which both concepts have in often
complicated and non-linear ways been aligned and separated since around 1750.
Instead of addressing historical developments of the concepts of reproduction
and economy separately, the conference will examine them from the perspective
of a »relational history«. The analytic goal is to reconstruct the processes of
purification and hybridization, the mobilities and interrelationships, that
helped »reproduction« and »economy« to co-evolve. Working from case studies in
economic history, social/cultural anthropology, medical history and the history
of sciences the conference will reflect on the fate of reproduction within the
history of biopolitics and reconnect the multiple genealogies of »reproduction«
and »economies« with todays bioeconomies of reproduction.
Program
Wednesday, 13th June 2012
Double Evening Lecture – Relational Structures
17.00-17.15 Axel C. Hüntelmann, Michi Knecht, Martina
Schlünder
Welcome & Introduction of Key Note Speakers
17.15-18.00 Ludmilla Jordanova
The Richness of »Reproduction«
18.00-18.45 Margaret Schabas
Capital as Reproduction in Classical Political Economy
18.45-19.30 Discussion
20.00 Get together in a Restaurant in Bielefeld
Thursday, 14th June 2012
09.00-09.30 Axel C. Hüntelmann, Michi Knecht, Martina
Schlünder
Introduction
Section I – Gendering and Globalisation of Reproductive
Work (Chair:
Caroline Arni)
09.30-10.15 Michelle Murphy
Infrastructures of Reproduction
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-11.30 Melinda Cooper
Denationalizing Reproduction, Repatriating the Family -
Assisted Reproductive Labour between Contract and Family Law
11.30-12.15 Sven Bergmann
Post-Fordist Modes of Re-Production in Gamete Donation
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.15 Aditya Bharadwaj
Autoproduction: The Emerging Bioeconomy of Stem Cells in
India
14.15-15.00 Jin-Kyung Park
Non-Western Empire of Reproduction: Japanese Colonial
Medicine, Race, and Intimacy in Korea
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.30 Commentary and Discussion Section I
Section II – Shifting Economies of Life between Cell,
Animal and Human
(Chair: Antje Kampf)
16.30-17.15 Barbara Orland
Hybrid Animals. Artificial Insemination and
Cross-Breeding in the 18th Century
17.15-18.00 Bert Theunissen
The Introduction of Artificial Insemination in Dutch
Cattle Breeding
19.00 Get together in a Bielefeld Restaurant
Friday, 15th June 2012
09.00-09.45 Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
Economic Models in the Cell. Adam Smith, Taylorism and
Money Economy in Conception and Heredity, 1900 and 2000
09.45-10.30 Sarah Franklin
Dish Models: Rethinking Tools as Stock
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Commentary and Discussion Section II
Section III – Contesting Time: Temporal Economies in the
Biomedical Mode of Reproduction (Chair: Ayo Wahlberg)
12.00-12.45 Charis Thompson
The Ethical Choreography of Promissory Capital
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Martina Schlünder
Before the Ice Age: Wartime Technologies of Reproductive
Synchronization
14.45-15.30 Joanna Radin
Latent Life: Freezing Technologies and Time
Synchronization in Sciences of Reproduction
15.30-16.15 Michi Knecht
Temporal Economies of Separation and (Re)Connection. The
Ethnography of a Contemporary Berlin Sperm Bank
16.15-16.45 Coffee Break
16.45-17.45 Commentary and Discussion Section III
19.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 16th June 2012
Section IV – Migrating Concepts between Economy and
Reproduction (Chair:
Susanne Bauer)
09.00-09.45 Staffan Müller-Wille
Plants, People, and Sex. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and
his Sexual System
09.45-10.30 Susanne Lettow
»Production« and »Reproduction« of Life.
Historical-Semantical Transformations in the 18th and early 19th Centuries
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.15 Axel C. Hüntelmann
Economies of Growth – Evolution, Propagation,
Accumulation and Reproduction in the Life Sciences around 1900
12.15-13.00 Christina Benninghaus
Reproductive Choices – Coping with Infertility in Modern
Consumer Society, Germany 1890-1930
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Harro Maas
Modeling Dynamics: Paul Samuelson on Lotha &
Volterra’s Modelling Strategies
14.45-15.00 Coffee Break
15.00-16.00 Commentary and Discussion Section IV
Final Discussion on Bioeconomies of Reproduction –
Wrapping up: (Chair:
Thomas Lemke)
16.00-18.00 Round Table with Commentators
Kristin Asdal, Mike Fortun, Anne Kveim Lie, Peter Moser,
Skúli Sigurdsson
19.00 Get together in a Bielefeld Restaurant
Sunday, 17th June 2012
Departure of Participants
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For further information and registration please contact
Marina Hoffmann, ZiF
or
Axel C. Huentelmann, University Mainz
Email: huentelm@uni-mainz.de
The conference is financed and supported by the Center
for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Fritz Thyssen Foundation,
German Science Foundation