The Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (SoMuM) Institute is organising its first conference of the year, focusing on the question of origins. It will bring together two researchers, Valérie Feschet, anthropologist at IDEMEC, and Virginie Baby-Collin, geographer and member of TELEMMe. Based on their respective fields, their papers will address the methodological problems posed to social science research by the entry into the intimacy of families and the analysis of the narrative of origins.
Based on her work on the structures of kinship, filiation and begetting, Valérie Feschet's paper will explore what the revelation of concealed paternities does to individuals and how it contributes to rethinking family genealogies, between biological inheritance and social construction. The family ecosystem will also be scrutinized through the prism of multisituated experiences. What narrative of origins does mobility produce? How does it contribute to the construction of complex identities? The family will be considered in its transnational dimension by Virginie Baby-Collin, a specialist in migration, in Les métamorphoses contemporaines de la parentalité et de la filiation (Irène Théry, 2014).
Moderator
Isabelle Renaudet, Deputy Director of Training, SoMuM Institute.
Speakers
Valérie Feschet, Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology, La crise des origines personnelles au prisme de la révélation des paternités dissimulées (anthropologie des mondes contemporains).
Virginie Baby Collin, Laboratoire Temps, Espaces, Langage, Europe Méridionale - Méditerranée, Récit migratoire et sens des origines : défis méthodologiques en sciences sociales.
Date
Wednesday 8 September, 2-4pm.
Location
Maison méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH), Germaine Tillion room
Registration
Open to all, including master's students, doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows.
Registration via this online form: https: //bit.ly/3wWxXoB
Due to health conditions, the organizers reserve the right to limit the number of registrants. A hybrid format will be proposed, if necessary.
Open for video conferencing
https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/93903449767?pwd=Q2ZacnA5ZU55LzRDa1VSY2I4SlR5dz09
Meeting ID: 939 0344 9767
Secret Code: 188596
Isabelle Renaudet, isabelle.renaudet[at]univ-amu.fr