Workshop on the Anthropology of Reproductive Governance and Justice
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Wrocław
December 7, Tuesday
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome and opening words (Network Convenors: An Van Raemdonck & Monika Baer)
9.30 – 11.00 Session 1 – Institutional Violence
- Foucault About Post-Soviet Biopolitics and Governing Bodies in Central Asia: Analysis of Sterilisation in Uzbekisan – Rano Turaeva (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
- Incriminating Fertility: An Analysis of the Impact of Undocumented Status on Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Belgium – Dirk Lafaut (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
- Epistemic Injustice in Postpartum Healthcare in Sweden – Elin Nordin (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Reproductive Governance and Structural Violence as Complementary Frameworks: Reflections on the Analytical Possibilities and Challenges – Leah Eades (University of Edinburgh, UK)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Session 2 – Reproduction and the State
- Reproducing Russia: Assisted Conception and Moral Governance in the Name of Survival – Veronika Siegl (University of Cologne, Germany)
- Gender, Power and Authority in Turkey’s Uterus Transplant Debates – Sezen Yaras (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
- Institutional Feminism and Reproductive Governance in Spain – Bruna Alvarez (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
- Gender and Nation under Resignification in Argentina Abortion Debates – Paula Kantor (Argentina)
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.00 NAGS meeting
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.45 Session 3 – Reproduction and Religion
- ‘We Obviously Want Him to Stay Normal’: Faith, Sexuality Education and Moral Evaluations of LGBT Content – Ben Kasstan (University of Bristol, UK)
- ‘The Miracle of the Female Cycle’: Young Polish Catholics Rationalising the Contraception Ban – Agnieszka Kosiorowska (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- ‘We Cannot Impose Our Worldview on Others’: Catholic Women and the Women's Strike in Poland (2020) – Natalia Pomian (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Religion and Reproduction: Towards Understanding Scales and Disjunctures – Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
December 8, Wednesday
9.30 – 11.00 Session 4 – Agency and Reproductive Governance
- The Iranian Ova Market, Biolabour and Invisible Women – Tiba Bonyad (University of Manchester, UK)
- The Stone and the Needle: Refocusing the Debate on Contraception in Indigenous Amazonia – Andrea Zuppi (University Paris Nanterre, France)
- Reproductive Governance and Justice in the Context of Cross-Border Travel for Abortion Care in Europe – Silvia De Zordo (University of Barcelona, Spain), Giulia Zanini (University of London, England), Joanna Mishtal (University of Central Florida, USA), Ann-Kathrin Ziegler (University College Dublin, Ireland)
- New Activist Approaches Towards Tightening Legal Regulations of Abortion Access in Poland circa 2020 – Agata Chełstowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45 Session 5 – Vulnerable Parenthood
- Forced Adoptions in Denmark: Child Welfare as Reproductive Governance – Nanna Dahler (Lund University, Sweden)
- The Illegalization of ‘At Risk’ Parenthoods in Brazil – Claudia Fonseca (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- (Il)legal Parenthood: Examining the Complexities of Queer Parenting in Russia – Olga Doletskaya (University College London, UK)
- Childfree or Childless? The Discourses on the Right Not to Have a Child in Urban Kenya – Nicole Ahoya (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 Global Reproductive Governance: A Decade of Insight – a keynote by Lynn M. Morgan (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA)
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.15 Session 6 – Global and Transnational Reproductive Politics
- The Global Gag Rule: Examining the Impact of US Aid on Abortion in India – Esther Moraes (University of Massachusetts, USA)
- Misoprostol and the Pharmaceutical Governance of Reproduction in Francophone West Africa – Siri Suh (Brandeis University, USA)
- Studying the Agents of Reproductive Surveillance in India: Methodological Concerns in Understanding Marginality – Madhumita Biswal (Central University of Gujarat, India)
- Becoming Fathers in a ‘Child-friendlier’ Germany: Male Infertility, Active Fatherhood, and Reproductive (In)Visibility – Meghana Joshi (SUNY – Buffalo, USA)
17.15 – 17.30 Concluding discussion
All events will be held online on MS Teams. Registration and contact at easanags@gmail.com or tomasz.raczkowski@uwr.edu.pl
Organizers:
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Wrocław
EASA Network for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
The programme is also available in PDF format
