Seminars
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: 2012-2015
La Donna Gravida
Raphael, Italy, 1506
Week 1 Sarah Bailey, University of Southampton
12th Oct How do women cope with recurrent miscarriage and what can we do to help them?
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Week 2 Ginny Mounce, University of Surrey, and Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford
19th Oct ‘Paying Attention to the Journey’ – Couples’ Experiences of Investigating and Starting Infertility Treatments
Week 3 Raj Rai, Imperial College and St Mary’s Hospital, London
26th Oct Medical and Psychological Issues in the Treatment of Recurrent Miscarriage: the Role of Clinical Trials
and Ways of Addressing the Potential Exploitation of Vulnerable Couples
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Week 4 Susie Kilshaw, Department of Anthropology, University College London
2nd Nov Birds in Heaven: Social Positioning of Lost Babies and their Mothers in Qatar
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Week 5 Ingrid Granne, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford
9th Nov Does 21st-Century Technology Change the Experience of Early Pregnancy and Miscarriage?
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Week 6 Sayani Mitra, University of Göttengen
16th Nov Reproductive Disruptions during Surrogacy: End of a Beginning?
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Week 7 Petra Boynton, Miscarriage Association
23rd Nov Forgotten Voices
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Week 8 Marie-FranÒ«oise Besnier, University of Cambridge
30th Nov The ‘Unfortunate Mesopotamian Foetus’: Pregnancy Loss and Miscarriage in the Ancient Near East
'Miscarriage': a Social, Medical and Conceptual Problem
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Michaelmas Term 2015
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11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
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This seminar series explores the loaded medical term ‘miscarriage’ from diverse cultural, historical and medical perspectives, and considers whether an alternative conceptualisation is possible.
Mother and Child
Kitagawa Utamaro, Japan, circa 1793
Convened by Suzannah Williams (Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and Katie Borg and Philip Kreager (FRSG)
Convened by Suzannah Williams (Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and Katie Borg and Philip Kreager (FRSG)
Infant Feeding: Nurture and Nourishment
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Michaelmas Term 2014
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Mondays, 11 am–12:30 pm, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
Week 1 Bronwen Gillespie, University of Sussex
13th Oct Negotiating nutrition: from baby to toddler in the Peruvian Andes
Week 2 Leah Astbury, University of Cambridge
20th Oct Hiring a wet nurse in seventeenth century England
Week 3 Margaret Carlyle, University of Cambridge
27th Oct Breastpump technology and ‘natural’ motherly milk in Enlightenment France
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Week 4 Christine McCourt & Juliet Rayment, London City University
3rd Nov Bangladeshi women’s experiences of infant feeding in Tower Hamlets
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Week 5 Sarah O’Neill, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
10th Nov How to protect your newborn from neonatal death: spirits and infant feeding practices in the Gambia
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Week 6 Mara Mabilia, University of Padova
17th Nov Revisiting breastfeeding in light of the gift logic. Is a comparison of Gogo and Italian women possible?
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Week 7 Alice Reid, University of Cambridge
24th Nov Infant feeding and child health and survival in early twentieth century England
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Week 8 Françoise Barbira-Freedman, University of Cambridge
1st Dec From Amazonian couvade to neo-couvade in cosmopolitan trends of co-parenting: a comparative analysis
Conveners: Dr Kaveri Qureshi and Dr Elizabeth Rahman. Funded by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Galton Institute
Generational Change in Reproductive Cultures
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Michaelmas Term 2013
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Mondays, 11 am–12:30 pm, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
Week 1 Angela Davis, University of Warwick
14th Oct Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers: the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice, c.1940-1990
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Week 2 Charlotte Faircloth and Ellie Lee, University of Kent
21st Oct Contextualising the ‘new parenting culture’: historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations
Week 3 Val Gillies, London South Bank University and Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton
28th Oct Local Historical comparative analysis of family and parenting: exploring changing meanings and experiences
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Week 4 Elizabeth Rahman, University of Oxford
4th Nov Caring and being cared-for in North-western Amazonia
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Week 5 Punita Chowbey, Sheffield Hallam University
11th Nov ‘Feed them nuggets of gold, but watch them with the eye of a tiger!’: British South Asian fathers talking about memories of their own fathers
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Week 6 Robert Pralat, University of Cambridge
18th Nov ‘Don’t worry, you’ll be a grandmother soon!’: how non-heterosexual people talk about parenthood with their own parents
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Week 7 Ekaterina Hertog, University of Oxford
25th Nov I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion’: intergenerational negotiations of premarital pregnancies in Japan
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Week 8 Adom Philogene Heron, University of St Andrews
2nd Dec Grandfatherhood in the Antilles: kinship, senescence and the inward journey of the elder man
Conveners: Dr Kaveri Qureshi, Dr Siân Pooley. Funded by the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Galton Institute
Reproduction and Social Differentiation: Fertility Variation of Sub-Populations in Comparative Perspective
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Michaelmas Term 2012
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Mondays, 4:30–6:00 pm, Seminar Room, 61 Banbury Road
Week 1 Erica van der Sijpt, University of Amsterdam
8th Oct Altering Aspirations and Actualities: Differentials of Reproductive Navigation in Eastern Cameroon
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Week 2 Sarah Walters, LSHTM
15th Oct Writing African Micro-Demography Using Parish Registers
Week 3 Patrick Heady, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
22nd Oct Local Influences – Kinship and the Role of Spatial Strategies in European Fertility
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Week 4 Julia Pauli, Hamburg University
29th Oct The Children of the Elite: Generation, Reproduction and Economic differentiation in a Namibian Community
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Week 5 Sara Randall, UCL, Nathalie Mondain, University of Ottowa, Alioune Diagne, INDEPTH Network
5th Nov Accra, Ghana: Men, Fertility Control and Contraception in Senegal
Week 6 Eleanor Hukin, London School of Economics
12th Nov ‘The Doctor’s Way’: Traditional Contraception and Modernity in Cambodia
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Week 7 Sophie Roche, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin and Sophie Hohmann, Institut National d’Ếtudes Démographiques, Paris
19th Nov Between the Central Laws of Moscow and Local Particularity
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Week 8 Mona Schrempf, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Westminster
26th Nov What Makes the Difference? Fertility, Birth Control, and Subjectivity among Tibetan Women in China’s Family Planning
Conveners: Dr. Philip Kreager and Dr. Astrid Bochow