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SUMMARY:Morgan Centre special seminars: The ageing of family change - Tor
 björn Bildtgård & A new gift for the barren ones: Examining the introduc
 tion of egg donation in Norway – Ingvill Stuvøy
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a special double seminar featuring two vis
 iting researchers at the Morgan Centre for Research Into Everyday lives.
  Light refreshments will be available from 3pm.\n\n* The ageing of famil
 y change - Torbjörn Bildtgård \nWhat happens when family change grows ol
 d? This presentation brings together Swedish research on family relation
 ships in later life against the background of half a century of family c
 hange. Current cohorts of older Swedes have lived their adult lives duri
 ng and after a period of profound institutional\, legal and cultural cha
 nges surrounding family life\, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. Thes
 e transformations have shaped both their family histories and their pres
 ent relationships.\nThe presentation illustrates these developments thro
 ugh research projects by myself\, conducted together with Peter Öberg\, 
 covering divorce and repartnering in later life\, ageing stepfamilies an
 d kinless ageing. The central argument is that family relationships in l
 ater life reflect both accumulated experiences across the life course an
 d the particular conditions of ageing\, including greater freedom in the
  third age\, combined with a growing awareness of limited remaining life
  time. \nThe presentation asks how family change reshapes the experience
  of ageing\, including opportunities for intimacy and autonomy\, relatio
 nships across generations\, and access to support and care. It considers
  later life as both an outcome and a site of family change.\n \n* A new 
 gift for the barren ones: Examining the introduction of egg donation in 
 Norway – Ingvill Stuvøy\nIn the Spring of 2020\, the Norwegian Parliamen
 t voted in favour of legalizing egg donation. More specifically\, the re
 solution said to remove the article in the Norwegian Biotechnology act p
 rohibiting the insertion of an egg from one woman into the uterus of ano
 ther. Thus\, the human egg was mobilized\, after decades of being ‘immob
 ilized’ and sought kept in place. In this paper I examine the mobilizati
 on of the egg in this new legal situation in Norway\, drawing on documen
 ts and interview material. Analysing the politicians’ enactment\, the bu
 reaucratic operationalization of the law into concrete guidelines\, as w
 ell as the fertility clinics’ introduction of egg donation as part of th
 eir services\, I ask: What characterizes the extraction of eggs from one
  woman and transfer to another\, and how is the egg transformed as it mo
 ves from one woman to another via the clinic and is aligned with legal p
 rovisions and guidelines? The analysis suggests that the mobilization of
  the egg requires the transformation of one woman’s reproductive capacit
 y into a cell that may be gifted to someone else without creating bonds 
 that disturb the normative ideal of family. The problem of the gift – al
 ways retaining something of the donor in it – is handled through the req
 uirement of unknown donation\, where donor and recipient shall not know 
 each other\, neither before nor after the donation. The donor code is in
 strumental in that regard\, ensuring that the donor is traceable while n
 ot present in the lives of those in the receiving end. These findings sh
 ed light on both the biopolitics of the state and the marketization of r
 eproduction\, both oriented towards the (assumed) desires of exclusive p
 arenthood and a bonded family among involuntarily childless couples. \n\
 nSpeaker bios: \nTorbjörn Bildtgård is an associate professor in sociolo
 gy at the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University in Sweden. T
 ogether with Professor Peter Öberg at the University of Gävle\, he has b
 een studying family relationships in later life for the past 20 years\, 
 exploring topics such as divorce and repartnering in later life\, ageing
  stepfamilies and ageing without a family. He is currently the editor-in
 -chief of the International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.\n\nIngvill
  Stuvøy is an associate professor in sociology at the Norwegian Universi
 ty of Science and Technology (NTNU) and holds a PhD in sociology on tran
 snational surrogacy (2018). Her primary research agendas concern assiste
 d and third-party reproduction and alternative family-making\, as well a
 s reproductive politics and markets. Stuvøy’s work is published in e.g. 
 Social Politics: International Studies in Gender\, State & Society\; Rep
 roductive Biomedicine & Society Online\; Anthropology & Medicine\, and C
 ritical Social Policy.\n\n
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LOCATION:Room 2.79\, Williamson Building\, Manchester
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