'Whose choice, whose rights? Global-historical and intersectional approaches to the emergence of reproductive rights after 1945'
Published: 11 April 2022
9 and 10 June 2022
PROGRAMME
DAY 1 – 9 June
8.45-9.15: Registration and Welcome
9.15-10.45: PANEL 1
Contraception and family planning services (mixed remote/campus panel)
Aprajita Sarcar, Centre de Sciences Humaines New Delhi : ‘The mythical family within a triangle: How a family planning campaign created South Asian mass communication channels as we know them today’
Cécile Thomé, National Institute for Demographic Studies France & EHESS: ‘The changing role of sexuality in the emergence and evolution of reproductive rights in France (1960s-2010s)’
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic, Institute of Contemporary History Belgrade: ‘Reproductive Behaviour and Family Planning in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945 – 1991)’
Samantha Kohl Grey, University of Queensland: ‘Potent Males and Patent Females: Sterility investigations, male infertility, and assistive reproductive technology in Australia’
11.00-12.15: PANEL 2
Reproductive rights at the UN and the role of NGOs (mixed remote/campus panel)
Nicole Bourbonnais, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva: ’Feminists in the System: Reproductive Rights Activism from the Inside Out’
Chiara Bonfiglioli, University College Cork: ‘”Updating Malthus’ population theory is out of the question today”: Nevenka Petrić, IPPF-Europe, and the Yugoslav Council for Family Planning’
Ayodele Mathew Oluwaseun, University of Ibadan & University of Leipzig: ‘Reassessing Non-governmental Organisations Advocacy for Reproductive Health and Rights in Southwestern Nigeria, 1980 – 2000’
12.30-1.00: Graphic novel presentation by project artist Catherine MacRobbie
1.00-2.00: LUNCH
2.00-3.30: PANEL 3
Feminism and women’s health movements (mixed remote/campus panel)
Isabel Heinemann, Münster University: ‘Women’s Reproductive Rights across the Iron Curtain? Health Feminism in the two German States, 1970s-90s’
Anna Vittinghoff, University of Edinburgh: ‘Reproductive politics in post-war Japan: How feminists and disability activists challenged eugenics and changed the discourse on reproduction, 1970s-90s’
Whitney Wood, Vancouver Island University: ‘Settler-Colonialism and Choice in Childbirth, 1970-90’
Hannah Yoken, University of Glasgow: ‘The Transnational Circulation of Feminist Reproductive Knowledge among Grassroots Activists: The Nordic New Women’s Movements of the 1970s–80s’
3.45-5.00: PANEL 4
Reproductive justice in comparative-historical perspective (mixed remote/campus panel)
Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa: ‘Romancing the Foetus: Foetal Rights and Reproductive Rights in Canada, 1967-1969’
Yuliya Hilevych, University of Groningen: ‘Infertility awareness in post-war Britain and Ukraine’
Cara Delay, College of Charleston: ‘”A Monster in God’s Eyes”: Narratives of contraception and abortion in Ireland, 1980-2018’
7.00: Dinner for network members
DAY 2 – 10 June
9.00-10.30: PANEL 5
The power in our hands: Abortion practices and knowledge in Cold War Europe (remote panel)
Azzura Tafuro Université Libre de Bruxelles: ‘With Karman, against Karman: The Italian trip of Harvey Karman between science and political contestation’
Agata Ignacuik, University of Granada, ‘Counter-technologies of care: Vacuum aspiration in Poland (1960s-80s)’
Bibia Pavard, Paris Panthéon-Assas, ‘The “Karman method” between China and California: realities and imaginaries of the vacuum abortion method in 1970s France’
Maria Mundi, University of Granada, ‘The science of the “Karman method” in Spain’
10.45-12: KEYNOTE TALK: Catherine Burns, University of Witwatersrand, ‘ “Without fear, without pain": Contesting control over contraception, pregnancy and birth from South Africa to the world’
12.00-1.00: Lunch
1.00-2.30: PANEL 6
Medical practitioners, science and technology (mixed remote/campus panel)
Atina Krajewska, University of Birmingham: ‘Reproductive Rights in Transitional Societies: The Role of the Medical Profession in Developing Abortion Law in Socialist Poland’
Marta Liliana Espinosa, Duke University: ‘Uncovering the history of contraceptive trials and the creation of the birth control pill in Mexico, 1950s-60s’
Kalindy Bolivar, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Ecuador: ‘Discourses and biomedical practices about maternity and childbirth in the city of Quito, 1950-1973’
Amanuel Isak Tewolde, University of Johannesburg, ‘Abortion and women’s rights in Eritrea: state and medical responses, 1970s to the present’
2.45-4.15: PANEL 7
Religion, activism and reproductive rights (mixed remote/campus panel)
Natalia Pomian, University of Warsaw: ‘“It has this ethical approach and it’s consistent with the Church teachings”: Catholicism and infertility treatment in Poland’
Roseanna Webster, European University Institute: ‘From the Vatican to London: Reproductive Justice in Spain from the 1950s to 1980s’
Natalie Gasparowicz, Duke University: ‘“Paternidad Responsable” in Mexico and Latin America: Catholics, Birth Control, and Pope John Paul II’
Anna Sidorevich, Sciences Po Paris: ‘“Inhumane torture” and “barbaric operation”: abortion in Leningrad feminists’ samizdat and tamizdat publications (1979-1982)’
4.30-6.00: Closing discussion and reception for all attendants
First published: 11 April 2022
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