
Fertility and
Reproduction
Studies Group
Seminars
Fertility and Reproduction Seminar: 2023

Fertility and Vulnerability
Hilary Term 2023
Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford
Please note: Seminars take place on Mondays, but times vary

Tawaret, Ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility.
Week 1 Leigh Senderowicz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
16 Jan ‘When they force a woman, it’s to save her life‘: Community perceptions of
5pm GMT contraceptive coercion in an anonymized sub-Saharan African country
In Person and Zoom
Week 2 Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Chicago
23 Jan Population Chatter for Clearer and Broader Thinking about Fertility
5pm GMT:
Zoom
Week 3 Heini Vaisanen, INED (Paris) & University of Southampton, and Katherine Keenan, University of St Andrews
30 Jan Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom
4pm GMT
Zoom
Week 4 Uzair Amjad, Monash University
6 Feb ‘Our marriage is sitting on a ticking time bomb’: Exploring the vulnerabilities among
5pm GMT couples with male factor infertility in Pakistan
Zoom
Week 5 Heather Wurtz, University of Connecticut & Brown University, Salma Mutwafy and K.A. Mason (Brown Univ.) and S.S. Willen (Univ. of Connecticut)
13 Feb Shifts in Women’s Pregnancy Preferences during the COVID-19
5pm GMT Pandemic: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project
Zoom
Week 6 Laura Richardson, University of Cambridgey
20 Feb ‘Smaller Families for a Bigger Future’: Population and the Politics
5pm GMT of Persuasion in Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1990
In Person and Zoom
NOTE: CHANGE OF DATE!
27 MARCH
Week 7 Jan Brunson, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
27 Feb Vulnerability as Exclusion, as Erasure: A Study of Absence and
7pm GMT Accountability in the context of reproductive health in Nepal
Zoom
Week 8 Joe Strong, London School of Economics, and N.L. S. Lamptey, N.K. Quartery, and N.K.R. Owoo, Act for Change, Ghana
6 Mar ‘Gay issues have come in and it is worrying to us‘:
5 pm GMT Men’s narratives of queerness, sex, and fertility norms in Accra, Ghana
In Person and Zoom
Convened by Kaveri Qureshi Laura Sochas Philip Kreager
Edinburgh University Oxford University Oxford University