Planning intimate futures: Young adults' visions of family in Europe

The final seminar of the Networks of reproduction in the complex planetary future - NETREP research project presents young adults' visions of desirable family and intimate relationships in three European countries: Finland, Portugal, and Scotland. The project is funded by the Kone Foundation.

In a full-day seminar researchers offer core points from analyses on young adults imagining their future families, constraints they face, and concerns of local and global nature that influence their life projects. The language of the symposium is English. Welcome!

Programme

Coffee served 9.00-9.30

9.30 Opening of the seminar, Professor Anna-Maija Castrén (Finland)

9.40-11.00 Session I: Challenges, hopes and desires in reproductive decision-making

·       “The music behind the solo voices”: How housing issues shape young adults' imagined futures in Portugal, Dr. Rita Gouveia (Portugal)

·       Rethinking fertility through well-being and vital conjunctures in Scotland, Dr. Liliana Arias-Urueña (Scotland)

·       Childbearing desires of Finnish young adults: imaginaries, expectations and emotional reflexivity, Junior Researcher Jenna Siivonen (Finland)

·       Invited comments by Professor Ayo Wahlberg (Denmark)

·       Discussion and short break

11.10-12.00 Session II: Building futures and negotiating norms

·       Too much at stake: Narratives on reproductive (in)decisions amongst childless young people in Portugal, Dr. Vanessa Cunha (Portugal)

·       Romantic relationships, friendships, and imagined communities in Finland, Portugal and Scotland, Dr. Aino Luotonen (Finland)

·       Comments and discussion

Lunch and coffee served 12.00-13.00

13.00-14.30 Session III: Intimate futures in the era of crises

·       Climate concerns and imagining one’s future family in Finland, Portugal and Scotland, Professor Lynn Jamieson (Scotland)

·       Panel discussion: Young adults and European intimate futures: policy implications

14.30 Closing of the seminar
 

Venue: House of Science and Letters, address Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.

Contact person: Anna-Maija Castrén, email [email protected].