Prof. Dr. Katrien De Graeve

Participation in Conferences & Invited Lectures

• June 2021: Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) – 15th Congress: Breaking the rules? Power, participation, transgression (online). Panel convenor (with Nika Looman and Rahil Roodsaz): Intimate practices of transgression: the subversive and revolutionary potential of unruly intimacies.

• March-April 2021: Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA) 2021 (online): Panel convenor (with Ladan Rahbari): The bodies of older adults: Media imageries, (in)visibility and public discourses on older persons' gendered embodiment and physicality.

• December 2019: The Kick-off Event on Singlehood Studies, Tampere (Finland). Keynote lecture: The figure of the polyamorous single woman in ethical non-monogamy discourse in Belgium: reflections on an unfinished (online) ethnographic study

• September 2019: 5th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, Prague (Czech Republic). Panel convenor (with Rahil Roodsaz): Non-monogamies beyond the progressive-versus-normative divide

• May 2019: AtGender Spring Conference, Gijon (Spain), Paper: Learning through emotions in ethnographic fieldwork in ethical non-monogamy communities in Belgium
• April 2019: Intercountry Adoption: How to Continue? Perspective from the Social Sciences and Humanities, lecture: 'Geschonden wortels. Verbeeldingen van identiteit in transnationaal adoptief ouderschap.

• October 2018: l’Atelier Genre(s) et Sexualité(s), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Invited lecture : How queer is polyamory ?

• October 2018: A.PASS meets SOL/School of Love Symposium, Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies, Brussels (Belgium). Invited lecture and workshop on polyamory and love.

• June 2018: LGBT-Forum, Ghent (Belgium). Invited lecture: Is polyamorie queer?

• May 2018: Kraks @ DeKrook – Dating in Tijden van Tinder, Ghent (Belgium). Invited lecture: Non-monogamie en Sociale Media.

• October 2017: Polyamory Belgium – National Poly Meet, Ghent (Belgium). Workshop: What about equality in polyamory?

• September 2017: IV European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, Barcelona (Spain). Panel convenor (with Valerie De Craene): The researcher’s erotic subjectivities: methodological and ethical challenges. Paper: How far (openness about) participation can go? Morality and subjectivity in intimate research settings.

• September 2017: 2nd Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference, Vienna (Austria). Paper: Being a good man. Masculinities and morality in the context of non-monogamous internet-mediated dating

• August-Sept 2017: 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens (Greece). Paper: The making of masculinities, normativity and morality in non-monogamous internet-mediated dating

• April 2017: AtGender Spring Conference, Vilnius (Lithuania)Paper: (Re)production of masculine sexualities in the context of non-monogamous internet mediated dating

• February 2017: Symposium: To Publish in Gender and Sexuality Studies, a Professional Challenge, ULB Brussels (Belgium) Invited expert: Session II: To Publish in English

• October 2016: Development Debate 11.11.11, BTC, DiV, VLIR-UOS, VVN en VVOB: ‘Zijn we met te veel?’, Brussels. Panel discussants

• June 2016: Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) International Conference, University of Edinburgh (UK) Paper: ‘I don’t want to ruin my family’. Parents and internet dating: Negotiating the monogamy-nuclear family nexus

• June 2016: Centre for Parenting Studies Conference: Parenting and Personhood: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Family-Life, Expertise, and Risk Management, University of Kent (UK) Paper: ‘I don’t want to ruin my family’. Parents and internet dating: Negotiating the monogamy-nuclear family nexus

• April 2016:Migration Working Group Seminars, Ghent (Belgium) Presentation: Caringscapes and Belonging: An Intersectional Analysis of Care Relationships of Unaccompanied Minors in Belgium; with discussant Ilse Derluyn.

• August 2015: U4 Conference on Ethics of Families : Moral relevance of family relations in reproductive medicine, Ghent (Belgium) Invited lecture: The construction of the social world and the family's striving for recognition in the context of adoption

• June 2015: Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) – 12th International Congress: Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21th century, Zagreb (Croatia)Panel convenor (with Beatriz San Román): Non-normative Relationships and (co)habitation: utopian visions, everyday practices and imageries of origin and belonging& paper presentation: Care as Social Capital: Foster Families for Unaccompanied Minor

• June 2015: The 9th European Feminist Research Conference: Sex and Capital, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi (Finland)Paper: The Care for Unaccompanied Minors

• August 2014: International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Surrogacy, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (the Netherlands)Invited participant

• May 2014:The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) 50th Anniversary & The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) – Inter-Congress 2014, Tokyo (Japan) Panel Convenor (with Hadas Weiss and Katariina Mäkinen): The Future of Class & Paper: Classed Landscapes of Care and Belonging: Guardianships of Unaccompanied Minors

• March 2014: The Annual Sociological Conference at Rovaniemi (Finland) Paper: Figurations of Care: Transnational Adoption and Guardianships of Unaccompanied Minors

• February 2014: Seminar Series: Transnational Muslim Marriages in Finland; Academy of Finland Research Project ‘Transnational Muslim Marriages: Wellbeing, Law, and Gender’, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki (Finland) Invited lecture: Negotiating Migration in Belgian-Ethiopian Transnational Adoptive Families

• November 2013: American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting – Theme: Future Publics, Current Engagements, Chicago (US)Paper: Imaginations of relatedness, family and nation: a comparative analysis of transnational adoption, domestic foster care and guardianship of unaccompanied refugee minors in Belgium

• May 2013: Politicologenetmaal, Ghent University (Belgium) Discussant Session: Politics at the intersection. Bridging Gender and Ethnicity

• November 2012: Adoptions, Families and Childhoods (AFIN) 6th International Congress,Valladolid (Spain) Invited lecture

• April 2012: Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Workshop: ‘What's New About 'Parenting'? Comparative Studies In Kinship, Self And Politics’, University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) Paper: Intensive Mothering and Transnational Adoption – (with Chia Longman)

• April 2011: Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) – 10th International Congress : People make places. Ways of feeling in the world, Lisbon (Portugal)Paper: ‘Negotiating migration as parenting work in Flemish-Ethiopian transnational adoption’

• November 2010: American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting – Theme: Circulation, New Orleans (US) Paper: ‘Intensive mothering and transnational adoption – a feminist anthropological appraisal’ (with Chia Longman)

• June/July 2010: Beyond Citizenship: feminism and the transformation of belonging, Birkbeck, University of London (UK)Paper: ‘Forever half Ethiopian’: self-conscious citizenship in Flemish-Ethiopian ‘adoption cultures’

• June 2010: Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) International Conference, University of Edinburgh (UK) Paper: Culture keeping as self-conscious citizenship in Flemish-Ethiopian adoptive families

• April/May 2010: Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture – 3rd International Conference: Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies. MIT, Cambridge (US)Paper: Forever half Ethiopian: Challenging Cultural and Biological Differences in the Heart of the Family

• February 2010: Conference on Mothering and Migration: (Trans)nationalisms, Globalization and Displacement, University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)Paper: Rivisiting Maternalism: Parenting as a Citizenship Practice among Undocumented Migrant Mothers and Adoptive Parents (with Chia Longman, & Tine Brouckaert)

• December 2009: Third Symposium Ghent Africa Platform (GAPSYM3): Gendering Research in/on Africa, Ghent University (Belgium) Workshop: Mothering and Agency in Transnational Contexts  (with Tine Brouckaert &Marianne Vervliet)

• October 2009: Adoptie Studiedag: Adoptie maakt het verschil. Het surplus van adoptie in de hulpverlening. Steunpunt Nazorg Adoptie, Halle (Belgium) Invited lecture: Omgaan met verschillen in adoptieculturen: een antropologische kijk op transnationale adoptie

• July 2009: Second International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth andFamilies: ‘Diverse Childhoods in International Contexts - Gender and Other Social and Cultural Differences’, Univeritat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Paper: Discourses of ‘Difference’ in ‘Adoption Cultures’: A Case Study of Flemish Adoptive Parents of Children from Ethiopia

• December 2008: Second Symposium Ghent Africa Platform (GAPSYM2): Mobilities in Africa – Africa in Mobility, Ghent University (Belgium). Poster: Discourses of ‘Difference’ in ‘Adoption Cultures’: A Case Study of Flemish Adoptive Parents of Children from Ethiopia

Organization Events

• 2021: 8th Afroeuropeans Network Conference, Brussels (Belgium) (Co-organizer)

• September 2020: Ethnographic Research Seminar: Research Ethics in Ethnography, Ghent (Belgium)(Coordinator & member organizing & scientific committee)

• April 2019: 2-Day Colloquium Transnational Adoption, Brussels (Belgium) (Organizer). With lectures by Riitta Högbacka and Tobias Hübinette

• April 2019: U4 Workshop Gender Studies Network in Gent

• November 2018: The ECSO-IARG conference on Sexual and Gendered Moralities, UGent (26-27 November 2018) (Panel coordinator)

• September 2018: Interuniversity 3-days training programme: Critical Ethnographic Research Seminar: Critical Ethnography and Feminist Epistemology, @ Ghent University (Belgium).(Coordinator & member organizing & scientific committee). With lectures and master classes by Maria do Mar Pereira, Elizabeth Ettorre and Don Kulick

• July-August 2018: U4 Interdisciplinary Summer School in Gender Studies, University of Uppsala (Swede). (member organizing committee). Organized by U4 University Netwerk Gent, Uppsala, Groningen & Göttingen

• May 2018: Interuniversity Gender Research Seminar: How to Study the Complexity of Femininities, Masculinities and Gender Fluidity?, University of Antwerp (Belgium) (member organizing committee)

• April 2018. The Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies fifth anniversary event, Ghent University (Belgium)(organizer) With lectures by David Paternotte and Sarah Bracke

• April 2018. Specialist Course: New Materialism and Difference, Ghent University (Belgium)(member organizing committee)

• June 2017: Women and Migration, Ghent University (Belgium) (organizer and coordinator) Organized by Centre for Research on Culture and Gender in cooperation with the Lithuanian Culture Centre in Belgium (Ghent University), the Migration Working Group (Ghent University) and the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (Ghent University); With seminar by Ladan Rahbari and public lecture by Eglė Kačkutė

• May 2017: Interuniversity Gender Research Seminar: Intersectionality: Theory, Concepts and Methods. VUB, Brussels (Belgium) (member organizing committee & panel chair) 

• April-Sept 2017: Specialist Course: How to Make Sense of Subjectivity in Research? Ghent University (Belgium) (member organizing committee, coordinator of the instruction day on ‘Subjectivity and the Politics of Science’); Organized by staff of Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University), Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy and Department of Educational Sciences (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University) and Bioethics Institute (Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Ghent University); With lectures & PhD master classes by Dan Zahavi, Frederik Svenaeus, Angela Willey and Leora Farber

• November 2017: Internationalization @ Home Event Dept. Languages and Cultures Ghent University: International Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality, Ghent (seminar coordinator)

• August 2016: U4 Interdisciplinary Summer School in Gender Studies (member organizing committee) Organized by U4 University Netwerk Gent, Uppsala, Groningen & Göttingen. In Göttingen, Germany

• May 2016: Interuniversity Gender Research Seminar: Moralities and the Intimate Life (Coordinator & member organising & scientific committee)With lectures and master classes by David Eng, Jennie Bristow, Matt Cook, Dilek Cindoğlu and Ilke Turkmendag

• November 2015: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Initiative on the Research of Families, Relationships, Parenting and Reproduction Staff exchange meeting Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (Ghent University), Bioethics Institute Ghent (Ghent University), Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (University of Kent) & Kent Law School (University of Kent) (Coordinator) With keynote lecture by Srećko Horvat and response by Frank Furedi

• September 2015: Interuniversity Two Days Training Programme: Critical Ethnographic Research at Ghent University (Belgium) (Coordinator & member organising & scientific committee) With lectures and master classes by Rozita Dimova, Kirsten Hastrup, Ruth Behar, Katariina Mäkinen, Lisa Dikomitis and An van. Dienderen

• October 2014: HCAS Symposium: Citizenship and Migration, Helsinki (Finland) (Co-organiser together with Katariina Mäkinen and Riikka Rossi; opening speech; panel discussant & conclusions) With lectures by Jasbir Puar, Rinaldo Walcott, Karel Arnaut, Peter Geschiere, Diana Mulinari, Anne-Marie Fortier, Bridget Byrne, Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Olli Löytty, Anu Koivunen, Maijastina Kahlos and Sarah Bracke

• December 2011: 5th symposium of the Ghent Africa Platform (GAPSYM5): (r)Urban Africa: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the African City, Ghent (Member scientific committee & organising team)

• November 2010: Symposium [Un]disciplined encounters. Science as a terrain of postcolonial interaction between Africa and Europe, University Foundation, Brussels (Belgium) (Member organising team)