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Title: Ms. Job Title: Egenis Research Student Tel: +49-[0]30-20933723 Fax: +49[0]30-20933726 Email: m.i.u.klotz@exeter.ac.uk Building: Room Number:
Maren's undergraduate degree is in Social Anthropology from Humboldt University, Berlin. She completed the MSc programme in Egenis with distinction in October 2005. Her thesis was on the collective images of kinship evoked in the UK parliamentary debates on gamete donor anonymity.
Maren has started her PhD project under the working title of 'Relative Management' at Egenis towards the end of 2005, and holds a combined HUSS/Egenis scholarship. She is investigating the interplay between cultural perceptions of the family and reproductive technology regulation, comparing Germany and Britain. Her PhD project is supervised by Dr. Christine Hauskeller.
For the academic year 2006/2007 Maren combined her Egenis PhD work with a five-year, fifty percent research fellowship in the anthropological research project "Reproducing kinship - Cultures of relatedness in the context of technological and social change" at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
Journal articles
Klotz, M., "Samenspende: Lost in Translation". [Spermdonation: Lost in Translation] GID Gen-ethterminischer Informationsdienst 190, pp 29-32.
Klotz, M., "Doing Kinship in British Parliament: Selfish parents - disruptive children?" Berliner Blätter - Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge 42, 2007.
Klotz, M., "Globalverwandtschaft. Im Gespräch mit Edith Hufnagel, Adoptivmutter und Vorstandsmitglied der Auslandsadoptionsvermittlungsstelle 'Eltern-Kind-Brücke'" [Global Kinship - interview on transnational adoption] Berliner Blätter - Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge 42, 2007.
Klotz, M., "Auf der Autobahn - Ein Technikdiskurs zwischen Volksgesicht und Reichsautobahn" [On the motorway - A discourse on technology between Volksgesicht and Reichsautobahn] Berliner Blätter - Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge 36, 2005.
Conference Proceedings
Klotz, M., Knecht, M., "Wissenswege lokal - global: Zur Ethnographie von Wissenspraxen und Regulierungsformen im Umgang mit Reproduktionstechnologien" [Knowledge passages local - global: ethnographies of knowledge practices and forms of regulation of reproductive technologies]. In: Windmüller, S. (Ed.), Zum Profil einer volkskundlichen Kulturwissenschaft, Hamburg, in press.
Klotz, M., "Verwandtschaft wissen. Familiäres und regulatives 'Wissensmanagement' im Bereich assistierter Reproduktion". [Knowing your kin. Familial and regulatory 'knowledge management' in the domain of assisted conception] In: Simon, M. (Ed.), Bilder, Bücher, Bytes - Zur Medialität des Alltags. (Mainzer Beiträge zur Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde). Münster, in press.
Edited Book
Stefan Beck, Michi Knecht et al. (Eds), "Verwandtschaft machen. Reproduktionsmedizin und Adoption in Deutschland und der Türkei" [Doing Kinship. Reproductive Medicine and Adoption in Germany and Turkey] 2007, Lit, Berlin.
Conference Reports
"The Genetics and Identity Politics of Parenthood and Family: We are family? - 19/20 February at Genomics Forum, The University of Edinburgh.
"Begegnungsräume - Encounters of representations 11. - 12.12.2006", with Susann Baller and Heike Bock (AHF Informationen 11 / 12.1.2007 and, additionally, here).
Selected Presentations
2.9. 2008 "If the kids are united...Reproductive unit research in four actor human/human and human/non-human groups " 4S / EAST meeting, Rotterdam. Panel: The Science Fiction of Science Studies (organised by Dr. Michael Guggenheim).
24.9. 2007 "Verwandtschaft wissen. Familiäres und regulatives "Wissensmanagement" im Bereich assistierter Reproduktion", DGV conference "Bilder, Bücher, Bytes" Mainz.
1.6.2007 Conference presentation with Nevim Cil "Verwandtschaftskulturen in der reproduktionstechnologischen Alltagspraxis Türkei - Deutschland" [Kinship cultures and reproductive technologies in everyday life in Turkey and Germany], Cultural Studies of Technologies, University of Hamburg.
26.1. 2007 "Kinship and Gamete Donor Anonymity in British Parliament". Governing Genomics conference, Egenis, Exeter, GB,
22.4. 2006 "Hello Daddy! - The construction of gamete donors and their kin-relations in UK regulatory discourse on donor anonymity", Science and Technology in Society Postgraduate-Conference, Washington DC, American Association for the Advancement of Science, George Mason and Virginia Tech University.
In her PhD project tentatively titled 'Relative Management': regulatory and familial knowledge-management regarding kinship during assisted conception', Maren is interested in combining anthropological work on kinship with STS and communication studies approaches. She is investigating the interplay between cultural perceptions of the family and reproductive technology regulation, comparing Germany and Britain. She is particularly focussing on regulatory and local familial "information-management-practices" regarding the genetic kinship tie in the realm of gamete donation, and hence the working title of her project.
Further research interests of Maren include, among others, science communication, science fiction studies and disability studies.
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