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Current Seminars

 Fertility and Reproduction Seminar: 2025

Fertility and Vulnerability:

Current Issues in Reproductive Health

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Trinity Term 2025

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

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Please Note: Seminars are on Tuesday at 12:30 (excepting 20 May)

Terracotta altar of three fertility goddesses, Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela, circa 500 BCE

April 29          

Ursula Gazeley, University of Oxford 

The maternal mortality measurement  trap: how what we count drives the maternal health agenda

 

May 6             

Polina Vlasenko, University of Oxford

Cross-Border reproductive mobilities: mediating reproductive labour of Central Asian surrogates in Georgia

 

May 13           

Nicole Votruba, University of Oxford, Imperial College London

Improving perinatal mental health in rural Indian communities: The PRAMH intervention

 

May 20           

Willem Ombelet, University of Hasselt

Universal access to infertility care: dream or reality?           

NB: Seminar at 11am

 

May 27           

Maaret Jokela-Pansini, University of Oxford, University of Zurich

Beyond ‘toxic bodies’: Political rationalities and women’s reproductive health concerns in a high-environmental risk area (Taranto, Italy)

 

June 3            

Anita Makins, University of Oxford

Cultural beliefs in northern rural Mozambique and their effect on maternal and neonatal health.

Microsoft Zoom – Joining Link to be provided

 

June 10           

Shahnoza Nozimova, University of Oxford

Limitations and possibilities of emerging reproductive mobilities in Central Asia

 

June 17           

Saba Mirhossein, Bielefeld University

Demographic hysteria, rebellious wombs: The paradox of Iran's family planning project

Convened by            Avi Mikhaylov                                          Lys Alcayna-Stevens                                              Philip Kreager                              

                                        ISCA                                                             ISCA                                                           Human Sciences

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