Day 1 (Thursday 26/04/2018) – Auditoire Montesquieu 01
18:30-19:30 Welcome Reception for the Conference Speakers and Presenters
19:30-21:00 Opening Keynote Lecture:
Ken Plummer (University of Essex): Re-imagining Intimate Citizenship in a Troubled World
Discussant: Judit Takács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Day 2 (Friday 27/04/2018) – Collège Michotte A224 (Salle Du Conseil PSP)
08:30 Registration
09:00-09:15 Welcoming Remarks
09:15-10:15 Keynote Lecture:
Judit Takács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Relocating Families. Variables and Agency
LIFECOURSE AND LIFE TRANSITIONS OUTSIDE THE HETERONORMATIVE FRAMEWORK
10:20-11:30 Panel:
Chair: Ana Cristina Santos (University of Coimbra)
Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova (University of West Bohemia): Places of (in)visibility. LGB ageing and the changing means of articulation and experiencing non-heterosexual relationships
Ana Cristina Marques (ICS-University of Lisbon): Generations, critical moments and feminine gender transition processes. A comparative perspective between Portugal and the UK
Coffee & Snacks Break
SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF INTIMACY
11:45-13:00 Panel
Chair: Pierre-Yves Wauthier (University of Louvain)
Laurence Moliner (University of Lyon): The Non-Heteronormative Families and the French Gender System or How the Debate Surrounding the French Same-Sex Marriage Law of May 17, 2013 Reveals the Mechanisms of a Gender System
Tatiana Motterle (CES – Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra): A step forward? The recent Italian law on same-sex civil unions and its consequences on LGB people daily lives
Julia Teschlade (Humboldt University Berlin): Intimate entanglements. Gay fathers and surrogates constructing intimate relationships
LUNCH BREAK
PERCEPTIONS AND NARRATIVES ON NON-NORMATIVE SEXUALITIES AND FAMILIES
14:00-15:15 Panel
Chair: Tanja Vuckovic Juros (University of Louvain)
Marina Franchi (London School of Economics, LSE): Neither private nor public. The mediatised debate on the legal recognition of de facto unions in Italy
Chiara Bertone (University of Eastern Piedmont): Healthy relations, healthy alliances? Exploring what medicalized frames do to LGBT issues
Aurélie Aromatario, Louise de Morati (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Shaping intimacies. Self-narratives and professional discourse in the evaluation of the “ability to adopt”
Coffee & Snacks Break
15:30-16:30 Doctoral Workshop
Małgorzata Kot (Polish Academy of Sciences): Within the socio-cultural thicket. Discourses and strategies on queer families in Poland
Discussant: David Paternotte (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Nola Cammu (University of Antwerp): ‘Deviant’ or the result of social evolution? A discourse analysis of news articles on plus-two-parent families in the Low Countries
Discussant: Surya Monro (University of Hudderfield)
REFLECTING ON FAMILIES AND SEXUALITIES IN TIMES OF SOCIAL CHANGE
16:45-18:00 Roundtable
Moderator: David Paternotte (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Speakers:
Joanna Mizielińska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Surya Monro (University of Hudderfield)
Ana Cristina Santos (University of Coimbra)
Closing of the Conference
18:30 Dinner for the Conference Speakers and Presenters