Fertility and Reproduction Seminars - Oxford Talks

Fertility and Reproduction Seminars

A Joint Seminar of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and COMPAS

Director: Dr Philip Kreager
Deputy Director: Dr Nadine Beckmann

Hilary Term 2023: Fertility and Vulnerability
Seminars will take place at The Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58a Banbury Road, on Mondays at 17:00, unless otherwise specified, with a mix of hybrid and online presentations. You are welcome to watch the online presentations at The Pauling Centre.

Zoom joining link: spi-ox-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81072394218?pwd=NUpKUU1ROFIwb1ZvR3lwMHJVcXN1dz09

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Kaveri Qureshi (Edinburgh University) , Laura Sochas (Oxford University) , Philip Kreager (Director, FRSG)
Timing: Mondays 17:00, unless otherwise specified
Organising department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - “When they force a woman, it’s to save her life”: Community perceptions of contraceptive coercion in an anonymized sub-Saharan African country
Leigh Senderowicz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Population Chatter for Clearer and Broader Thinking about Fertility
Jenny Trinitapoli (University of Chicago)

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Social inequalities in the risk of miscarriage in the United Kingdom
Please note this seminar is at 16:00
Heini Vaisanen (INED (Paris) & University of Southampton), Katherine Keenan (University of St Andrews)

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - "Our marriage is sitting on a ticking time bomb": Exploring the marital vulnerabilities among couples with male factor infertility in Pakistan
Uzair Amjad (Monash University)

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Shifts in Women’s Pregnancy Preferences during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the Pandemic Journaling Project
Heather Wurtz (University of Connecticut)

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - "Smaller Families for a Bigger Future": Population and the Politics of Persuasion in Apartheid South Africa, 1960-1990
Laura Richardson (University of Cambridge)

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - “Gay issues have come in and it is worrying to us”: Men’s narratives of queerness, sex, and fertility norms in Accra, Ghana
Joe Strong (LSE), N L S Lamptey (Act for Change, Ghana), N K Quartery (Act for Change, Ghana), N K R Owoo (Act for Change, Ghana)

Monday 27 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

19:00 - Vulnerability as Exclusion, as Erasure: A Study of Absence and Accountability in the context of reproductive health in Nepal
Please note this seminar is at 19:00
Jan Brunson (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)

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Editor: Belinda Clark

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