Sunday, March 23
*This schedule is subject to change
Brunch Talk - Real Families: Stories of Change
Learning Objectives:
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Understand the potential of art to engage the public in the findings of scientific research.
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Illustrate how art can increase understanding of diverse family forms and experiences.
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Explain how seeing families like their own represented in museums can make people feel accepted. 4)Consider the potential of art to understand their own families better.
Description:
What is a family? And how is family experienced? These questions, explored through artists’ eyes, were at the heart of the exhibition, Real Families: Stories of Change, curated by Susan Golombok at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 2023/4. The exhibition brought together more than 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture and film by major international artists such as Tracey Emin, Alice Neel, Nan Goldin, Paula Rego, and Lucian Freud, as well as historic works by artists including Nicolas Poussin, Albrecht Durer, and Joshua Reynolds. This talk will discuss artworks relating to assisted reproduction, infertility, non-traditional families, family transitions across the lifespan, family dynamics, and family legacies. It will be illustrated with images of artworks in the exhibition.
Presented by:
 Susan Golombok
Biography: Susan Golombok is Professor Emerita of Family Research and former Director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge. She has pioneered research on lesbian mother families, gay father families, families with transgender parents, families formed by single parents by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy. Her research has challenged commonly held assumptions about these families as well as widely held theories of child development and has contributed to policy and legislation on the family both nationally and internationally. Susan has published more than 300 academic papers. Her most recent book is, We Are Family: What Really Matters for Parents and Children.
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