Datum/Zeit: Donnerstag 14.10.2010, 20.00 – 22.00 Uhr
Ort: HZ 15

Eine Session / Workshop des Cornelia Goethe Centrums mit der dänischen Theaterregisseurin Ditte Maria Bjerg, der amerikanischen Soziologin Arlie Hochschild und der indischen Soziologin Amrita Pande sowie der Schauspielerin Maj-Britt Mathiesen und der Dramaturgin Sandra Buch.

The issue: How can we perceive the booming Indian industry of surrogate mothers and baby-farms? Is it the ultimate outsourcing of care and body from the North to the Global South, when the Canadian couple chooses to pay the Indian woman to carry their child? Or should we rather interpret the phenomenon of surrogate mothers as a feminist victory? A victory for the Indian women, who through their work as surrogate mothers can create an independent income and thereby be empowered in their own lives? Another perspective is that of the child. Who is this child? A child so much wanted or needed by the white parents that it has to be created on the other side of the world. Is this child the ultimate commodity? In any case commercial surrogacy confronts us with major ethical and legal dilemmas.

The session: Ditte Maria Bjerg creates documentary and research-based contemporary stage-art. She has staged performances inspired by Arlie Hochschild’s books “The Time-bind” and “Global Women”. Ditte Maria Bjerg is preparing a new stage-work MADE IN INDIA, dealing with commercial surrogacy. MADE IN INDIA  is based on extensive fieldwork by Dr. Amrita Pande. The session invites a limited number of people to be part of the journey towards MADE IN INDIA. The participants of the session will through their reflections contribute to the work-in- progress MADE IN INDIA.

Wegen der begrenzten TeilnehmerInnenzahl ist eine frühzeitige Anmeldung zu dieser Session per E-Mail unter cgcentrum@soz.uni-frankfurt.de unbedingt erforderlich.

Veranstaltungsort: HZ 15 im Hörsaalzentrum Campus Westend