This workshop will bring together a diverse group of scholars to consider the family in the Islamicate world as a locus for understanding coexisting and at times overlapping forms of dependency. Far from thinking of the family as a monolithic, static entity, this workshop seeks to create a comparative space for mapping out the variable and ever-changing ideas, practices, and processes that formed the family in distinct historical contexts, while also attending to common threads such as legal frameworks and elite female seclusion. Thinking in terms of frames including the conjugal family and the household, lineage and descent, and broader kinship networks, participants will consider how family relations could both limit as well as provide opportunities for agency, alongside shaping senses of affiliation, belonging, and identity.

Registration by 30 May via ekalb@uni-bonn.de or bbayrakt@uni-bonn.de.