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Sclipphacke\u2019s investigation belongs to a larger body of recent scholarly work seeking to reconceive of repurpose the term \u201ckinship.\u201d For example, Jennifer Evans\u2019s The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism (Duke University Press, 2023) deploys kinship as an analytic category to demonstrate how queer and trans people in postwar and contemporary Germany navigated citizenship, love, and public and family life. A broader investigation into kinship, Adele E. Clarke\u2019s and Donna Harraway\u2019s edited volume\nMaking Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (The University of Chicago Press, 2018) contemplates questions of reproductive and environmental justice to\nconsider how we establish personal and public connections today. Building on recent interventions like these, this conference will approach kinship as an interdisciplinary tool for exploring relational networks and the formation of personal and collective identity within\u2013and in opposition to\u2013\u201cWestern,\u201d modern, white, heterosexual, and even anthropocentric norms.\n\nPROGRAM: \n\nFriday, October 30th\nPalmer Commons, Great Lakes North\n\n3:00 pm \nKeynote: Heidi Schlipphacke\nTitle: Kinship in Space and Time\n\n4:30 pm\nCoffee and Tea Break\n\n4:45 pm: Panel 1: Loss, Fracture, and Memory\n\u25cf Henrique Carvalho Pereira, Der andere Fehl\n\u25cf Emma Stratman, Wer \u00fcber die M\u00e4rchen lacht, war nie in Not: On Obstinacy and the\nFairytale in the Work of Alexander Kluge\n\u25cf Nathan Bailey, Seismic Epiphanies: Utopian Modes of Caring and Nursing in Heinrich\nvon Kleist\u2018s Das Erdbeben in Chili\nRespondent: Ella Wilhelm\n\n\nSaturday, October 31st\nPalmer Commons, Great Lakes North\n\n8:00 am\nBreakfast\n\n8:45 am: Panel 2: Nation and Empire\n\u25cf Hannah Edwards, Kinship and Kingship: Heraklean Affinities and Diplomacy in Ancient\nMacedonia\n\u25cf Sam Farmer, Partisan Places and Anti-Fascism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Family on Film\n\u25cf Deborah Pomeranz, The Klein-Familie on Wheels: Race, Genre, and Kinship in Turn of\nthe Century Popular Performance (Deborah Pomeranz)\n\u25cf Ibrahim Adissa Owoo, Orphans of the Empire: Colonial Kinship and Diasporic Belonging\nin La Saison de l\u2019ombre of L\u00e9onora Miano\nRespondent: Kristin Dickinson\n\n10:15 am: Coffee and Tea Break\n\n10:30 am: Panel 3: Female Kinship\n\u25cf Tamar Gutfeld, Daughters of 1930: Authority, Crisis and Kinship in Gilgi eine von uns\n(Keun, 1931) and Kuhle Wampe (Dudow and Brecht, 1932)\n\u25cf Mathilda Trausch, Flying Witches: Gossip and Alternative Female Kinship in Helma\nSanders Brahms\u2019 Deutschland, bleiche Mutter (1980)\n\u25cf Maria Zahner, Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust: reading Ruth Kl\u00fcger and\nCordelia 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