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
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
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
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
Please note that London GMT is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the US: Jakarta is 7 hours ahead of London GMT, and Brisbane is 10 hours ahead of London GMT. Seminars will be recorded to permit audience members to listen in at more convenient times.
Convened by Kaveri Qureshi Laura Sochas Philip Kreager
Edinburgh University Oxford University Director, FRSG
Institute of Human Sciences Oxford University
Tawaret, Ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility.
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: 2020-2022
Fertility and Vulnerability
Hilary Term 2022
Microsoft Teams – joining link
Please note: Seminars take place on Mondays, but times vary
Week 3 Marcia Inhorn, Yale University
31 Jan America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Reproductive Health on the Margins
5pm GMT
Week 4 Adrienne Strong, University of Florida
7 Feb Who Is Vulnerable to Maternal Death?: Nurses at Risk in Tanzanian Maternity Care’
5pm GMT
Week 5 Philip Kreager, Oxford University
14 Feb Vulnerability across the Life Course: A Problem in Medical Anthropology and
10am GMT Anthropological Demography, with examples from Indonesia
Week 6 Jenny Munro, University of Queensland
21 Feb Reproductive Abandonment in Urban Papua, Indonesia
10am GMT
Week 7 Lenny Ekawati, Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jakarta, and Oxford University
28 Feb Pregnancy, Malaria and Vulnerability in East Nusa Tenggara, Eastern Indonesia
10am GMT
Week 8 Kaveri Qureshi, Edinburgh University, Anna Dowrick and Tanvi Rai, Oxford University
7 Mar Imperilled fertility, COVID-19 vaccines, and transgressing reproductive
5 pm GMT expectations: intersectional perspectives from the UK
Please note that London GMT is 5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the US: Jakarta is 7 hours ahead of London GMT, and Brisbane is 10 hours ahead of London GMT. Seminars will be recorded to permit audience members to listen in at more convenient times.
Convened by Philip Kreager Soraya Tremayne
Director, FRSG Founding Director, FRS
Institute of Human Sciences Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oxford University Oxford University
Fertility and Fecundity
Hilary Term 2021
16:30 pm – 18:00 pm, Microsoft Teams
Week 1 Sarah Franklin, REproSoc, Cambridge University
18 Jan Changing (In)Fertilities: a global study of situated fertility transitions
Week 2 Robbie Davis-Floyd, Rice University
25 Jan Birth Models that Work: Standing the test of time?
Week 3 Irene Maffi, Université de Lausanne
1 Feb A Revolution for Women? Access to contraception and abortion care in
post-revolutionary Tunisia
Week 4 Rishita Nandagiri, London School of Economics and Political Science
8 Feb Rethinking ‘Fertility’ and ‘Voluntary’ Family Planning in Population and
Development
Week 5 Lia Betti, University of Roehampton
15 Feb Women’s Diversity in the Shape of the Birth Canal: Implications for human evolution
and modern maternal care
Week 6 Burcu Mutlu, Istanbul Bilgi University
22 Feb Familial Biopolitics, Intimate Transgressions: Reproductive travels between
Turkey and Northern Cyprus
Week 7 Maya Unnithan, University of Sussex
1 Mar Re-Imagining Reproductive Health and Rights in India
Week 8 Carolyn Sargent, Washington University, St. Louis
8 Mar Cancer Risk versus Fertility Desires
Low Fertility Variation at Sub-National Levels:
Historical, Demographic, and Anthropological Perspectives
Hilary Term 2020
11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Seminar Room, 64 Banbury Road
Week 1 Heidi Härkönen, University of Helsinki
20 Jan Gendered Fertility: Reproductive Aspirations and Practices in Contemporary Havana
Week 2 Cristina Pérez, University College, London
27 Jan No Pressure? A Comparative Analysis of the Gendered Pathways to
Childlessness in Colombia
Week 3 Shibei Ni, University of Southampton
3 Feb Negotiations between Gender and Career upon Parenthood in Contemporary China
Week 4 Brienna Perelli-Harris and Natalia Permyakova, University of Southampton
10 Feb Fertility Recuperation in a Very Low Fertility Society: Political and Economic
Attitudes, Technology, and Second Births in Ukraine
Week 5 Alexandre Avdeev, University Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and
17 Feb Irina Troitskaya, Lomonosov Moscow State University
The Place of the First Birth in the Strategy of Family Formation in Contemporary Russia
Week 6 Alice Reid, Hannaliis Jaadla and Eilidh Garrett, The Cambridge Group for
24 Feb the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge
Continuity and Change in Geographical Patterns in UK Fertility: the Case of London
Week 7 Stephanie Thiehoff, Southampton University
2 Mar Reflecting on the Past: Long-term Spatial Persistence of Fertility Behaviour from
the First to the Second Demographic Transition in England and Wales
Week 8 Nicholas Campisi, St Andrews University, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
9 Mar A Spatial Approach to European Fertility Trends
Convened by Yuliya Hilevych Philip Kreager
Cambridge University Director, FRSG
Oxford University