Kinship in American Studies

This conference sets out to shed new light on the meaning of kinship in American culture, history, and politics, thereby probing how many important social, political, and cultural phenomena can be understood through the idiom of kinship. The notion of kinship is understood here not only as a formalized status of belonging (marriage, genealogy, family memberships, etc.) but also as emerging practices of care, affiliation, and belonging that exist outside of formalized kinship ties. The conference seeks to explore the middle ground between these two. It thus follows the urgent call for more differentiated definitions of what kinship actually means within the specific context of American culture.

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