Gendering Parenthood: Perspectives from Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Research

This seminar presents recent and ongoing interdisciplinary research on how motherhood, fatherhood, childhood and family relations figure in representations and lived experiences, in contemporary as well as historical times and across (trans)national contexts. The program offers four research presentations by scholars active at Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, (TIAS) and University of Turku (UTU), as well as a joint discussion of familial phenomena, research approaches, and theorizations in critical research on parenthood. All welcome!

Moderator: Kaisa Ilmonen, TIAS Collegium Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature

14.00–14.30
Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Professor in Gender Studies, Uppsala University and TIAS Visiting Professor
Parental Bodies in Literature and Popular Culture presentation and Q+A

14.30–14.50
Ranjana Saha, TIAS TIES Fellow, Department of European and World History
Mothers, Babies and Print Media in Colonial India presentation and Q+A

14.50–15.10
Heidi Kurvinen, TIAS Collegium Fellow, Department of Cultural History
Motherhood and Feminism in 1970s Finland presentation and Q+A

15.10–15.30
Koko Hubara, Doctoral Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature UTU 
(Intersectional) Daughtering, the Forgotten Parallel Concept of Mothering presentation and Q+A

15.30–16.00
Researching Parenthood at the Intersections Discussion

The seminar is co-arranged by the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), Department of Cultural History, Department of European and World History, Degree Programme in Literary Studies and SELMA Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory.