International symposium on parenting and kinship as seen from an anthropological perspective
23/11/2015
From 25 to 27 November the UAB will be the venue for the international symposium entitled "Parenting or kinship? Anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives”. The event is organised by the UAB research group GRAFO, with the aim of debating the terms "kinship" and "parenting" with various experts in the field of anthropology.
The symposium will be officially opened on 25 November, at 4 p.m. in the UAB Theatre and Cinema, by the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Joan Carbonell; the Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Aurelio Díaz; and the Director of getp–GRAFO, Anna Piella.
The opening lecture will be delivered by Manuel Pérez-Sánchez, a psychoanalyst with Asociación Bick España. The title of the lecture is "The child and parenting. A psychoanalytic perspective”. This will be followed, within the same session on the 25th, by the showing of the documentary "Nacer" (2013, 52"), introduced by its director, Ana Victoria Pérez.
The sessions on the 26th and 27th will take place at the Graduate Hall (Sala de Graus) of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, where various experts from the UAB and other universities will debate the topics of parenting and kinship from an anthropological perspective. There will be a total of four round tables, each dealing with a different topic.
The different researchers, from Catalonia and Spain and also from other countries, will address topics like ethnography, pediatrics, shared parenting and pregnancy. The aim of the symposium is to examine different cases in order to gain a deeper understanding of the problems that characterise this area of anthropology.