The program is pasted below. In addition to the invited researchers, we will have room for a limited number of participants to follow the workshop. Nota bene: participants are expected to read all the papers which will be circulated beforehand and contribute to the discussions. It is not possible to attend only parts of the workshop. Participants should be researchers or practitioners involved in the area of study. If you want to participate, contact the workshop secretary: martin.gunnarson@sh.se
Program for international workshop: Body as Gift, Resource and Commodity, 5-6 of May 2011, Södertörn University, Campus Flemingsberg, F11 (top floor of house F)
Thursday 5 May:
9.30-9.45: Introduction
9.45-10.30: Lesley Sharp, Barnard College, Columbia University: “Wasting bodies and body waste in the realm of human organ repair”, commentator Fredrik Svenaeus
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.45: Martin Gunnarson, Södertörn University: “A kidney or the machine: Being back on dialysis after transplantation”, commentator Susanne Ådahl
11.45-12.30: Fredrik Svenaeus, Södertörn University: “Organs and identity: How do different organs relate to the self?”, commentator Catherine Waldby
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.15: Ulla Ekström von Essen, Södertörn University: “To die properly: Deceased donors, criteria of death, and organs as resources”, commentator Martin Gustafsson
14.15-15.00: Max Liljefors, Lund University: “Organicity and art: Disenfranchisements of the body in bio-art”, commentator Ulla Ekström von Essen
15.00-15.30: Coffee
15.30-16.15: Mark Schweda, Göttingen University: “Shifting responsibilities of giving and taking organs? Ethical considerations of organ donation and organ trade”, commentator Erik Malmqvist
16.15-17.00: Aivita Putnina, University of Latvia: “Bodies and biotechnologies: Relating bodies and their new parts to the world”, commentator Kristine Zeiler
19.00: Dinner in town
Friday 6 May:
9.30-10.15: Catherine Waldby, University of Sydney: “Reproductive Labour Arbitrage: Trading Fertility across Borders”, commentator Max Liljefors
10.15-10.45: Coffee
10.45-11.30: Erik Malmqvist, University of Paris Descartes: “Trading hair, trading cadaver tissue: Reflections on two forms of bodily commodification”, commentator Susanne Lundin
11.30-12.15: Markus Idvall, Lund University: “The body as societal resource in transnational contexts: The organ exchange organizations of Scandia-transplant and Balt-transplant”, commentator Mark Schweda
12.15-13.15: Lunch
13.15-14.00: Kristin Zeiler, University of Linköping: “A phenomenological analysis of giving and receiving: Bodies, organs, tissues”, commentator Markus Idvall
14.00-14.45: Sara Berglund and Susanne Lundin, Lund University: “Organ economy: Kidney buyers’ and kidney vendors’ views on the sale of organs”, commentator: Lesley Sharp
14.45-15.15 Summing up and closing words