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 Seminars

 Fertility and Reproduction Seminar: 2023

                                                  Fertility and Vulnerability

Hilary Term 2023

Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford

Microsoft Zoom – Joining Link

     Please note: Seminars take place on Mondays, but times vary

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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                  

                                                                   

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