A Delicate Choreography. Kinship Practices and Incest Discourses in the West since the Renaissance
Workshop with David Sabean

Program
Monday, 29 April, 10:00–16:00

10:00
Opening and Welcome
Karin Harrasser, Vice Rector for Research, University of Arts Linz, Interim Director at the ifk
Christina Lutter, Dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
Peter Becker and Margareth Lanzinger, University of Vienna

Inputs and Discussion
Chair: Margareth Lanzinger

Jon Mathieu (Luzern), From »Power in the Blood« to the »Choreography of Blutschande«

11:45
Michaela Hohkamp (Hannover), The »Deceased Wife’s Sister« or the »Deceased Sister’s Husband«? Reflections on David Sabean’s A Delicate Choreography from a Gendered Perspective

14:00
Chair: Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)

Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg), Mother-Son and Father-Daughter: Closeness, Conflict and Power in the »Modern« Family
Hilde Bras (Groningen), Ties that Bind: Postwar Kinning and the Nuclear Family

Tuesday, 30 April, 10:00–18:00

10:00
Inputs and Discussion
Chair: Siglinde Clementi (Bolzano)

Mary Lindemann (Miami/Munich), History and Literature in David Sabean’s A Delicate Choreography

11:30
Nacim Ghanbari (Siegen), Back to the House
Roii Ball (Münster/Munich), The Neckarhausen Research Database: Digitalization and Possibilities of Use

14:00
Chair: Peter Becker
Hans Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin/Vienna), Heredity and Genetics

15:30
Sandro Guzzi-Heeb (Lausanne/Venice), Sex, Kinship and Politics. Micro and Long-term Perspectives
Georg Fertig (Halle), The Impossible, the Possible and the Preferred Partner Choice (some German Regions from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century)

Final Discussion