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Wednesday September 16
Adult-child relations and management of risk
Registration/coffee from 10.15am
11am-11.15am Introduction to the seminar
Ellie Lee, Senior Lecturer in social policy, University of Kent, and co-ordinator of Parenting Culture Studies
11.15-1pm Session 1
Adult-child relations and the management of risk
Chair: Ellie Lee, Senior Lecturer in social policy, University of Kent, and co-ordinator of Parenting Culture Studies
Presenters:
‘The problem of ‘touch’ and other intergenerational issues’
Heather Piper, Professorial Research Fellow, Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University
‘Licensed to Hug - Adult-child relations and the national vetting scheme’
Jennie Bristow, journalist
‘Antisocialisation: How intervention undermines individuals and communities'
Stuart Waiton, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminological Studies, University of Abertay
Discussants:
Val Gillies, Reader, ESRC Families and Social Capital Research Group, London South Bank University
Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
1.15-2.30pm Lunch
2.30-3.45pm
Session 2
Freedom and play in an age of fear
Chair: Jan Macvarish Research Associate, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
‘’Cotton-wool kids’: who’s to blame?’
Helene Guldberg, Associate Lecturer in Psychology, Open University
Discussants:
Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop, Chair of Childhood and Primary Studies, University of Strathclyde
Bernard Spiegal, Principal of the not-for-profit PLAYLINK
3.45-4.15pm Break
4.15-5.45pm
Session 3
Culture and risk management
Chair: Pam Lowe
Presenters:
‘Safety, Safety, Safety for Small Fry’: The Conjoining of Children and Safety in Commercial Communities of Parenthood
Lydia Martens,Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Keele
Dummies and Fairies; Family culture and the question of authority
Timo Heimerdinger, Juniorprofessor für Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
6pm-7pm
Drinks reception sponsored by Imprint Academic, publishers of Standing up to Supernanny
7.30 Meal at local restaurant
Thursday September 17
Healthcare, Risk and Motherhood
9.30-10am Coffee
10.00am-12pm Session 4
Feeding babies
Chair: Charlotte Faircloth, doctoral candidate in Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Presenters:
Infant feeding and the mother-midwife interface in the antenatal period
Sue Battersby, Independent midwifery researcher/lecturer
‘’You are going to be a wonderful breast-feeder’: Mothers, midwives and the micro-politics of infant-feeding’
Helen Lomax, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care (CRIPACC), University of Hertfordshire
Discussants:
Professor Elizabeth Murphy, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Science
University of Leicester
Rebecca Kukla, Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Florida
12-1.15pm Lunch
1.15—3.15pm
Session 5
Extending parenting backwards?
Chair: Esther Dermott
Presenter:
"Preconception Care" and the Transformation of Women's Health Care into Reproductive Medicine
Rebecca Kukla, Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of South Florida
Discussants:Emily Jackson, Professor of Medical Law, London School of Economics
Presenter:
‘Advocating alcohol abstinence to pregnant women in Britain: some sociological observations’
Ellie Lee,Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Kent
Discussants:
Colin Gavaghan, Lecturer in Law, University of Glasgow
Hauke Reisch, Winton Programme for the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge
3.30-5pm
Session 6
Special Session: Book launch, Standing Up to Supernanny
This book, written by journalist Jennie Bristow and published by Societas, puts forward a powerful critique of contemporary parenting culture. It includes contributions from Tracey Jensen (PhD candidate, Open University), Jennnifer Howze (editor Times Online Blog Alphamummy), Christina Hardyment (historian and author of Dream Babies: Childcare Advice from John Locke to Gina Ford), Nancy McDermott (US based journalist), Zoe Williams (columnist, The Guardian), Helene Guldberg (author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and play in an age of fear), Val Gillies (Reader, ESRC Families and Social Capital Research Group, LSBU), Jan Macvarish (CHSS, University of Kent) and Ellie Lee (senior lecturer in social policy, University of Kent). Seminar participants are warmly invited to the launch.
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