Current Seminars
Fertility and Reproduction Seminar: 2023
Terracotta altar of three fertility goddesses, Museo Archeologico Regionale di Gela, circa 500 BCE
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.
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
Convened by Kaveri Qureshi Laura Sochas Philip Kreager
Edinburgh University Oxford University Director, FRSG
Institute of Human Sciences Oxford University