The subject of this symposium will be to examine the anthropological perspectives of parenthood and clarify the contributions as well as the limits and excesses of the work of Esther Goody. The selected papers and texts can offer insight into the theoretical aspects and/or ethnographic areas in Africa and elsewhere.

Photo: Sandra Guinand, Under the Tent (khaima), Lanqar, Algeria, 2005

Programme

 Talks: Michael Houseman (EPHE – IMAF)

• 09.20am - 09.40am: Introduction
  
  
• 09.40am -10.20am: Yazid Ben Hounet (CNRS– LAS)
Parenthood before Goody: Malinowski, Fortes, Schapera 

• 10.20am -11am: Cécile Leguy (Sorbonne Nouvelle University – LACITO)
The giving of a name as an expression of parenthood 

11am - 11.10am Break Talks: Marie-Luce Gélard (University of Paris – CANTHEL)

• 11.10am -11.50am Marika Moisseeff (CNRS – LAS)
Transmitting the ability to assume relational responsibility: a dimension of parenthood.


• 11.50am -12.30pm Agnès Martial (CNRS – CNE) - “Origins and pluri-parenthoods: the uses and contributions of Esther Goody”

Talks: Marika Moisseeff (CNRS – LAS)

• 2pm - 2.40pm Bernadette Tillard (University of Lille - CLERSE) – Child entrusted by the juvenile court judge to a “trusted third party”. A method of protecting childhood examined through the anthropological work of Esther Goody on fosterage.
  
  
• 2.40pm - 3.20pm Jérôme Courduriès (University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès – LISST-Cas) - Referencing Esther Goody's concepts of parenthood and parenting to analyse the practices of kinship in surrogate motherhood. Values and limits.
  
  
• 3.20pm - 3.30pm Break 

Talks: Olivier Allard & Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge)

• 3.30pm - 4.10pm Marie-Luce Gélard (University of Paris – CANTHEL) - Milk kinship in the Maghreb and Sahara: a historical reinterpretation
  
  
• 4.10pm - 4.50pm Erdmute Alber (Bayreuth University) - Failed hopes and cruel optimism: temporalities of parenting after the millennium goals
  
  
• 5pm - 6pm
  Discussion with Marilyn Strathern and conclusion