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remaking
reproduction
the global politics of
reproductive technologies
An international conference
organised by the Reproductive
Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc)
at the University of Cambridge
27-29 june 2018
murray edwards college,
cambridge
www.reprocnf.sociology.cam.ac.uk
Welcome from
the Director
Remaking Reproduction: the on reproduction. We are also
global politics of reproductive celebrating the 5th anniversary
technologies is both a conference of the Reproductive Sociology
and a celebration. Joined Research Group (ReproSoc) and
together at this event are many the beginning of our new project,
of the researchers who have ‘Changing (In)Fertilities’ – a £1.5M
helped to establish the new field three-year, 16 country and 36
of ‘reproductive studies’ along member global research project
with the increasing number of that begins this autumn and is
PhD students, Postdocs and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
early career scholars who are
taking this field in new and It is our privilege and a much-
exciting directions. We are here awaited delight to welcome
Professor Sarah Franklin
to celebrate the creativity and all of you to this very special
collegiality that are at the core conference at which I hope
of this new area of scholarship you will all make lasting new
and the diversity of topics it connections as well as
now includes. renewing existing friendships
and collaborations. On behalf
Our celebration includes an art of the entire conference
exhibit, a book launch, a dance team thank you for coming to
performance, and a field of Cambridge to join us for this
curiously reproductive maize event and we hope you have an
as well as nearly 100 papers, enjoyable and memorable three
Poppy, official
4 plenary sessions, and a days here with us. mascot of the
NEW
ART COLLECTION
HALL
MURRAY EDWARDS
COLLEGE
roundtable on Trans perspectives conference!
4 5
The rapid global growth
of the fertility industry Conference
Programme
is one of the most
significant contexts of
contemporary social
change, and these
changes are the subject The Remaking Reproduction Murray Edwards College, which
of an increasing amount conference provides a full 3-day houses Europe’s largest collection
programme of academic and of art by women. On Thursday
of social research. This artistic activities. In the daytime, evening, we will celebrate the
conference is designed we will come together for the new books published in the field
both to consolidate core four plenaries (Kaetsu Lecture and share a beautiful veggie
Theatre) with leading thinkers in dinner in Murray Edwards’ iconic
themes in the social
contents
the field. Almost 100 speakers Dome dining hall. On Friday
study of reproductive
technologies and to
will present their latest work in
the six simultaneous streams
evening, the conference will
close with the announcement
get involved
(Changing In/Fertilities; Making of the photo contest’s winner.
showcase new research, We encourage you to get Plenary Sessions................................................................................................ 6
New Biologies; Mediated Afterwards there will be a involved in the conference
especially by early career Reproduction; Race, Nation and fringe film screening of Vessel, digitally by sharing your Simultaneous Streams............................................................................ 7-11
thoughts and favourite
scholars and doctoral Reproduction; Reproductive a documentary film about the
quotes on Twitter using the Conference Events................................................................................ 12-13
Bodies and Identities; abortion activism of Women
students. Our core conference hashtag #reprocnf. Private View; Trans Roundtable; Dance Performance; Film Screening
Reproductive Futures), which on Waves, and a presentation
themes are designed to will take place in set rooms by Dr Rebecca Gomperts, the There is also a photo contest Venue Information and Timetable............................................... 14-15
bring together old and throughout the conference. protagonist of the film. In this running throughout the three
days of the conference – for Books: Out and Forthcoming......................................................... 16-17
new approaches to the On Wednesday evening, we booklet you can find practical
more information about how
will open ReproSoc’s new information about all these to enter please see page 25.
Conference Team................................................................................... 18-19
study of reproduction, exhibition Reproductivities in events, and more.
About ReproSoc..................................................................................... 20-21
technology and society at reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk
a time when the politics Twitter: @reprosoc Study in Cambridge with ReproSoc............................................ 22-23
For more information about the venue and
of reproduction globally
Facebook: reprosoc.cambridge
About Murray Edwards College............................................................24
the full timetable, go to pages 14-15 or visit Instagram: @reprosoc
Photo Contest..................................................................................................25
are changing rapidly. Check out the ReproSoc
www.reprocnf.sociology.cam.ac.uk YouTube channel
Thanks and Acknowledgements...........................................................26
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plenary sessions simultaneous streams: session 1 Please note the streams sessions
will take place simultaneously –
wed 27 jun, 15:30-17:00
see page 14 for room details
Our four Plenary Sessions are intended to offer an occasion to look forward and
back: speakers have been asked to describe how they came into the field, the
issues that became central to their work, and the new directions the field is taking.
CHANGING IN/ MAKING NEW MEDIATED REPRODUCTION
FERTILITIES BIOLOGIES Katie Hammond
plenary session 1 CHAIR: Lucy van de Wiel plenary session 2 CHAIR: Robert Pralat
Zeynep Gurtin Cathy Herbrand ‘Doing Right and Feeling Right’:
Wed 27 June, 13:30-15:00 thu 28 June, 11:00-12:30 ‘Social Pioneers’: Reconceiving What Will Happen to our Blueprint?: Egg Donors and Intended Parents
as the Moral Pioneers of Egg
Egg Freezing and Postponed Genetic Identity, Inheritance
Motherhood and Kinship Through the Lens of Transactions in Canada
Charlotte Kroløkke
Mitochondrial Donation Debates Amelie Bauman
Monster Moms Stevienna de Saille Changing Regimes of Anonymity in
Feminism, Responsible Innovation, Gamete Donation
Vanessa Gruben
Social Egg Freezing: Conceiving
and Genetic Engineering with Florencia Herrera, Irene Salvo
CRISPR-Cas9 & Javiera Navarro
a Regulatory Framework for the
Future Tiia Sudenkaarne Third-Party Reproduction in Chile:
Sarah Franklin Marcia Inhorn Ayo Wahlberg Andrea Whittaker From Valley of the Dolls to the Challenges for the Disclosure of
University of Cambridge Yale University University of Monash University Uncanny Valley? Ethics of Gendered Origins and the Construction of
Copenhagen and Sexualised Technology and the Kinship
Future of Reproduction
plenary session 3 CHAIR: noÉmie Merleau-Ponty plenary session 4 CHAIR: Marcin Smietana RACE, NATION AND REPRODUCTIVE BODIES REPRODUCTIVE
thu 28 June, 15:30-17:00 fri 28 June, 15:30-17:00 REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITIES FUTURES
Ingvill Stuvøy Laurie James-Hawkins Natali Valez
Governing Parental Affection: Men’s Contraceptive Use: Norms of Biological Bits and Reproductive
Biopolitics in a Time of Responsibility vs. Norms of Women’s Potentials: Clinical Trials on
Transnational Reproduction Bodily Autonomy Pregnant Women and the Next Phase
of Data Analysis
Yvonne Frankfurth Michele Goodwin
Secrecy vs Openness – How Intended Policing the Womb Sophie Lewis
Parents Make ‘Responsible’ Choices Footprinting the Tentacular Womb
in the Context of Egg Donations Sera Baker
Young People’s Interpretations and Claire Horn
Aditya Bharadwaj Mwenza Blell Sharmila Kim TallBear Charis
Michal Nahman Negotiations of Sexual Expectations Personhood and the Artificial Womb
The Graduate Institute, Newcastle University Rudrappa University of Thompson Migrant Extractability: Cross Border in the Context of Social Media
Geneva University of Alberta London School Reproduction and the Limits of
Texas at Austin of Economics ‘Human Rights’
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simultaneous streams: session 2 simultaneous streams: session 3 Please note the streams sessions
will take place simultaneously –
thu 28 jun, 09:00-10:30 thu 28 jun, 13:30-15:00
see page 14 for room details
CHANGING IN/ MAKING NEW MEDIATED REPRODUCTION CHANGING IN/ MAKING NEW MEDIATED REPRODUCTION
FERTILITIES BIOLOGIES Hannah Gibson FERTILITIES BIOLOGIES Sayani Mitra
Elina Helosvuori Karen Jent Unruly and Rebellious: Traditional Sandra Gonzáles Santos Luísa Reis Castro Reproductive Disruptions and
‘Lingering Technological Induction: A Novel Model of Surrogacy in New Zealand Political Economies and Reproductive Bites and Sex, Blood and Sweat: Pre-Pregnant Embodiments:
Deconstructing the Risks and
Entanglements’: Childlessness Biological Reproduction? Rebecca Monteleone Technologies in Mexico Reproducing Transgenic Mosquitoes
Uncertainties of the Pre-Conception
After IVF as Frenemies
Marieke Bigg ‘We Can’t Predict What’s Going to Tsipy Ivry Stage During Commercial Surrogacy
Jenna Healey The Epigenetics of the British Happen to your Child’: Prenatal The ‘Genetic Turn’ in Japanese Noémie Merleau-Ponty in India
Quantifying Reproductive Futures: Human Embryo Genetic Counselling and the Reproductive Governance: NIPT, Imagination in Translation: Mice,
a History of the Ovarian Reserve Construction of Congenital Disability IVF, Genetic Counseling and the Humans and In Vitro Gametogenesis Ulrika Dahl
Morag Ramsey Kinship Grammars and the Biopolitical
Lois Tonkin Creating a Space for Abortion Manuela Perrotta Triple Disasters
Maria Kirpichenko Reproduction of Race and Nation in
Freezing Fantasy? How do Women Pills: Examining Negotiation and Pursuing the Ideal of Mechanical Lucy van de Wiel Becoming Simulacra. The Surrogate’s Contemporary LGBTQ Reproduction
who Freeze Their Eggs Conceptualize Collaboration Objectivity in Embryo Imaging The Speculative Turn in Assisted Body in the Web Articulations of in Sweden
Their Frozen Oocytes? Reproduction: Egg Freezing and the Surrogacy in Russia
Financialisation of Fertility Marcin Smietana
Reproductive Subjectivities in a
Global Market: Gay Men’s Trans-/
National Paths to Surrogacy in the US
RACE, NATION AND REPRODUCTIVE BODIES REPRODUCTIVE RACE, NATION AND REPRODUCTIVE BODIES REPRODUCTIVE
REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITIES FUTURES REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITIES FUTURES
Daisy Deomampo Rene Almeling Amarpreet Kaur Johanna Gondouin & Suruchi Leah Gilman & Petra Nordqvist Caroline Law
Race, Identity and Value: Egg Guynecology: Making Medical Genetic Editing on Human Embryos: Thapar-Björkert Information Trajectories in UK Gamete Men and Reproductive Timings:
Donation in Asian America Knowledge about Men and The Utopian Blackhole? Reproductive Slavery? Exploring Donation Policy: On Openness and Perceptions, Intentions and Future
Reproduction Vulnerabilities in Transnational its Limits Imaginaries
Tessa Moll Jennifer Merchant
Commercial Surrogacy
Race and Gamete Matching in Deborah Dempsey Gender, Human Genome Editing Katy Barbier-Greenland Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
South Africa From Home Insemination to (HE) and the Future of Human Anika König Reshaping Families, Reshaping Gay Divorce: A new Perspective on
Partner IVF?: Conceiving Lesbian Reproduction A ‘Schizophrenic Situation’: Identities Kinship in the Age of ART
Jaya Keaney Family Futures Transnational Surrogacy in Germany
What Kind of Substance is Race? Ilke Turkmendag & Paul Martin Sebastian Mohr Charlotte Faircloth &
Ontological Choreographies in Robert Pralat Crossing the Border? The Lea Taragin-Zeller Sperm Donors as Biosocial Subjects: Zeynep Gurtin
Queer Families Made Through HIV, Gay Men and Reproduction Development of Genome Editing for Reproducing Tradition – Unraveling the Biosociality of Masculinity and Anxious Reproduction? Case Studies
Donor Conception Rare Disease and the Drift Towards Religious Reproduction in Sexuality from Reproductive Sociology and
Human Germ Line Engineering Contemporary Israel Parenting Culture Studies
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simultaneous streams: session 4 simultaneous streams: session 5 Please note the streams sessions
will take place simultaneously –
fri 29 jun, 09:00-10:30 fri 29 jun, 11:00-12:30
see page 14 for room details
CHANGING IN/ MAKING NEW MEDIATED REPRODUCTION CHANGING IN/ MAKING NEW MEDIATED REPRODUCTION
FERTILITIES BIOLOGIES Pallabi Roy FERTILITIES BIOLOGIES Vera Mackie
Kylie Baldwin Stine Willum Adrian ‘Reproductive Loss’ and the Beatriz San Román & Diana Anindita Majumdar Narrating Assisted Reproduction
Anxious, Active and Accountable: When ‘Do It Yourself’ with Donor ‘Failure’ of (Assisted) Reproductive Marre ‘The Rogue Doctor’: Imagining in Japan: Transgression and
Contemporary Reproductive Sperm Becomes Unsafe Technologies: An Ethnographic Altruistic Egg Donors? The Invisible Legitimacy in Assisted Conception Recuperation
Study of Involuntary Childlessness in
Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era
Maria Kramer Kolkata, India
Side of Spanish Fertility Industry in India Linda Layne
Nitzan Peri-Rotem Fit for Marriage? Premarital Health Szu Ying Ho Risa Cromer ‘How are we doing?’: One American
Who is More Likely to Seek Fertility Screening, Kin Marriage and Genetic Natalia Fernández Why Butch’s Egg and Femme’s Accounting for Life: Claiming Embryo Single Mother by Choice Family as
Treatment in the UK? Risk in Turkey Rethinking ARTs? Attitudes and Womb? – Managing Queer Potential after IVF a Case Study of Neo-Liberal Self-
Agency of Single and Lesbian Users of Masculinity in Taiwan’s Lesbians’ Regulation
Trudie Gerrits Chia-Ling Wu Assisted Reproduction Technologies Emily Yates-Doerr
Assisted Reproductive Technologies Disrupted Reproduction and
Co-IVF Practices
Window of Opportunity: Reworking Elly Teman
and Religion: an Exploration of Diversified Regulation: Governing Christina Weis Séverine Mathieu the Critical Period of Development The Power of the Single Story
(Changing) Practices and Positions the Risk of Multiple Embryo Transfer Who Controls the Womb? How Infertile to Fertile? Embryo Donors in Surrogacy
in Ghana in Asia Commercial Surrogacy Agencies are in France
Entrepreneurs Attempting to Change
Surrogacy Regulations in Russia
RACE, NATION AND REPRODUCTIVE BODIES REPRODUCTIVE RACE, NATION AND REPRODUCTIVE BODIES REPRODUCTIVE
REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITIES FUTURES REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITIES FUTURES
Valentine Becquet & Laura Rahm Yuliya Hilevych Mianna Meskus Siggie Vertommen Kaisa Kivipuro Syndey Calkin
Nation, Race and Sex-Selection in The ART of Conception Before Ethical Scaling of New Reproductive ‘Resistance is Fertile’. Sperm (In)fertilities: Reproductive Abledness Non-Reproductive Futures: Abortion
India and Vietnam Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Strategies: Making Gametes in Smuggling and Birth Strikes in Israel/ of Wombless Women in Finland Access Beyond the Nation-State
Identity, Infertility Counselling and the Lab Palestine
Carine Vassy Childlessness in Britain, 1948-1978 Christoph Rehmann-Sutter Guilia Zanini
Controling the Quality of Human Sara Lafuente Funes Burcu Mutlu Practices of Prenatal Genetic Testing. Fertile Childlessness: Imagining
Reproduction: The Non-Invasive Leah Eades Making and Understanding Eggs in The Moral Economy of Secrecy and A Comparative Empirical and Reproductive Futures
Antenatal Screening for Down’s Contested Biosociality: the Tricky Post-IVF Biology and Biomedicine Turkish Egg Donors Philosophical Prospective Study in
Syndrome in France Question of Post-Abortive Identity in Spain Germany and Israel Zsuzsa Berend
Emily Callaci ‘How Many to Transfer?’: New
Riikka Homanen Elisabeth Theresa Sandler Eliza Brown & Mary Patrick Improvisation and Strategic Vasudha Mohanka Responsibilities in US Surrogacy
Reproducing Whiteness and (Re)production of Maternal Identity?: Rejecting Mr. Right Now: Egg Miscommunication in the Global Hope, Hype and IVF
Enacting Kin in the Nordic Context A Case Study of Four Lesbian Freezing as a Means to History of Reproductive Technologies
of Transnational Egg Donation: Women’s Parenting Disconnect the Romantic from the
Matching Donors with Cross-Border Reproductive Project
Traveller Recipients in Finland
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Wed 27 Jun, 17:00-18:30, Fellows’ Drawing Room: thu 28 jun, 13.00, Kaetsu Lecture Theatre:
Exhibition Private View dance Performance by Shantel Ehrenberg
Reproductivities: Remaking (in)fertile territories:
Life – An Exhibition a performance lecture
www.lifeinglass.net
www.shantelehrenberg.weebly.com
During the Remaking Reproduction drawn from the New Hall permanent Dr Shantel Ehrenberg is a contemporary This dance performance-lecture expresses
conference, ReproSoc will open a new art collection that focus on reproduction. In dance artist and academic working narratives, movements, and imagery
exhibition in the gallery and garden of the addition, a section of the college garden across performance practice, research related to women’s negotiations of female
New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards has been devoted to growing corn to and theory. She is a lecturer in Dance identity, infertility and maternal loss. The
College, Cambridge. The exhibition, titled celebrate the work of the American & Theatre at the University of Surrey. work is informed by academic literature,
Reproductivities, presents the work of plant geneticist, Barbara McClintock Shantel’s interest in the embodied, choreographic practice, and personal
photo-artist Gina Glover, painter Camilla (1902–1992), who received a Nobel Prize subjective, and emotional aspects of experience. A key focus is women’s
Lyon and performance artist Sophie Seita. in Medicine for her pioneering work on women’s experiences of fertility-related encounter with medical ‘evidence’ of
horticultural reproduction. The exhibition issues grew out of personal experience infertility, such as ultrasound scans. The
Reproductivities draws connections will run until 30 November 2018. and over a decade of research performance grapples with the power of
between different ways of reproducing investigating the complexity of dancers’ medical imagery and woman’s experiences
life – in plants, in humans, and in art – to Curators (ReproSoc): kinaesthetic experiences related to visual of their bodies and subjectivities in these
ask how the carefully crafted cultures of Prof Sarah Franklin, Dr Lucy van de Wiel. self-reflection, i.e. mirrors and video. diagnostic situations.
CAMILLA LYON
in vitro life reflect the larger worlds Curators (New Hall Art Collection):
around them. The exhibition is Harriet Loffler, Eliza Gluckman,
accompanied by a selection of works Sarah Greaves.
fri 29 jun, 18:00, Kaetsu Lecture Theatre: Fringe Event
Film Screening: Vessel
Booking is essential, to reserve
fri 29 jun, 13:30-15:00, Kaetsu Lecture Theatre your free place please visit:
www.reprocnf.sociology.cam.ac.uk
trans roundtable Vessel is a documentary film by
Diana Whitten about the work of
Women on Waves, a Dutch pro-choice
her create an underground network of
emboldened, informed activists who trust
women to handle abortion themselves.
Doris Liebetseder Khadija Mitu Andrea Buchler & Julia de organisation founded by the physician
Queer and Transgender Reproduction in Reproductive Normativity and Fertility Koenigswater Dr Rebecca Gomperts. The film focuses on We will be joined by Gomperts, who
6 EU-States Preservation: Examining Transgender Queering Reproduction: Fertility and Women on Waves and follows Gomperts will give a presentation about the recent
Peoples’ Experiences Legal Parenthood Options for Trans*
Ruari McAlister as she sails a ship around the world and dramatic developments in global abortion
Persons
The Silence is Deafening: Transgender Julian Honkasalo provides abortions at sea for women who politics.
Reproduction and Future Possibilities Remaking Parenthood: Medical Ethics The Trans Roundtable will be chaired have no legal alternative. Through years
and Transgender Reproductive Justice by Katie Dow. of successes and setbacks, we witness www.vesselthefilm.com
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Wednesday 27 June
P kaetsu centre
12:00-13:00 Registration and Lunch Kaetsu Foyer
MADINGLEY ROAD
13:00-13:30 Welcome and Introduction: Sarah Franklin Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
accommodation
blocks 13:30-15:00 Plenary Session 1: Sarah Franklin and Marcia Inhorn Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
crèche
15:00-15:30 Tea Break Kaetsu Foyer
15:30-17:00 Simultaneous Streams – Session 1 Various Rooms*
17:00-18:30 Private view: Reproductivities exhibition with talk by Gina Glover Fellows’ Drawing
and tour of Murray Edwards gardens Room
art exhibition vivien stewart Thursday 28 June
room
09:00-10:30 Simultaneous Streams – Session 2 Various Rooms*
HUNTINGDON ROAD
The Kaetsu Centre is located
10:30-11:00 Tea Break Kaetsu Foyer
conference timetable
on Huntingdon Road,
Cambridge and is connected fountain court
11:00-12:30 Plenary Session 2: Ayo Wahlberg and Andrea Whittaker Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
to Murray Edwards College fountain court
by a walkway. walkway 12:30-13:30 Lunch Kaetsu Foyer
fellows’ 13:00 Dance Performance by Shantel Ehrenberg Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
venue information
There is step-free access to
all conference rooms. drawing room 13:30-15:00 Simultaneous Streams – Session 3 Various Rooms*
15:00-15:30 Tea Break Kaetsu Foyer
For any queries relating to
the conference please see 15:30-17:00 Plenary Session 3: Aditya Bharadwaj and Mwenza Blell Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
Julie Hogg who will be based
dome
17:00-19:00 Book Launch and Drinks Reception Kaetsu Foyer
at the registration desk in the
Kaetsu Centre Foyer. main entrance 19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner The Dome Dining Hall
porters’ lodge
For any queries relating to ACCESSIBLE PARKING
the college, accommodation AND DROP-OFF ONLY Friday 29 June
or transport please go to the 09:00-10:30 Simultaneous Streams – Session 4 Various Rooms*
BUCKINGHAM ROAD
Porters’ Lodge. buckingham house
10:30-11:00 Tea Break Kaetsu Foyer
accommodation
11:00-12:30 Simultaneous Streams – Session 5 Various Rooms*
stream locations 12:30-13:30 Lunch Kaetsu Foyer
Changing In/Fertilities Kaetsu Conference Room 13:30-15:00 Trans Roundtable Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
Making New Biologies Vivien Stewart Room 1 15:00-15:30 Tea Break Kaetsu Foyer
Mediated Reproduction Kaetsu Lecture Theatre The crèche will be held in the 15:30-17:00 Plenary Session 4: Sharmila Rudrappa, Kim TallBear and Charis Thompson Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
Race, Nation and Reproduction Vivien Stewart Room 2 Christopher Stevenson Room,
17:00-17:30 Closing Comments: Sarah Franklin Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
which is on the ground floor
Reproductive Bodies and Identities Kaetsu Teaching Room 1 of accommodation block H. 18:00 Fringe Event: Film Screening of Vessel Kaetsu Lecture Theatre
Reproductive Futures Kaetsu Teaching Room 2
*Please note the simultaneous streams will take place in various rooms – see left for details
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books forthcoming thu 28 jun, 17:00: book launch
Remaking Reproduction is very proud to be hosting a celebration of publications in our field and the 20th anniversary of the
Berghahn series ‘Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality’, which is publishing its 40th book this year. We are pleased to welcome
Reproduction:
Antiquity to the
Berghahn Series
all of the authors as well as the series editors, Marcia Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne and the publisher, Marion Berghahn. Present Day
Nick Hopwood, Fertility, Reproduction
out now Knowledge as
Resistance: The
Assisted Reproduction
Across Borders:
Rebecca Flemming &
Lauren Kassell (eds)
and Sexuality
Feminist International Feminist Perspectives Cambridge Univ. Press 2018
This series includes studies by specialists
(out in November)
Network of on Normalizations, in the field of social, cultural, medical,
America’s Arab Resistance to Disruptions and and biological anthropology, medical
Refugees: Reproductive and Transmissions Cross-Cultural
demography, psychology, and development
Vulnerability and Genetic Engineering Merete Lie & Comparisons on
studies. Current debates and issues of global
Health on the Margins Stevienna de Saille Nina Lykke (eds) Surrogacy and
relevance on the changing dynamics of
Marcia Inhorn Egg Donation:
Palgrave Macmillan 2017 Routledge 2017 fertility, human reproduction and sexuality
Stanford Univ. Press 2018 Interdisciplinary
are addressed.
Perspectives from
Transnational Nature and Ethics India, Germany
Good Quality: Reproduction: across Geographical, Many of the authors in the FRS series –
and Israel
The Routinization Race, Kinship Rhetorical and including the most recent ones – are joining
of Sperm Banking Sayani Mitra,
and Transnational Human Borders Remaking Reproduction. Berghahn Books
in China Silke Schicktanz &
Surrogacy in India Katharine Dow & and Remaking Reproduction are happy to
Tulsi Patel (eds)
Ayo Wahlberg Daisy Deomampo Victoria Boydell (eds) invite all the conference participants to the
Palgrave Macmillan 2018
Univ. of California Press 2018 New York Univ. Press 2016 Routledge 2018 series anniversary and book launch reception
(out in July)
on Thursday 28 June at 17.00 in the main
Transnational Making a Good Life: Craft in Biomedical International
conference foyer.
Commercial Surrogacy An Ethnography of Research: The iPS Surrogacy as
and the (Un)Making Nature, Ethics, Cell Technology and Disruptive Industry
of Kin in India For more information on the
and Reproduction the Future of Stem in Southeast Asia
Anindita Majumdar Katharine Dow Cell Science Berghahn series visit:
Andrea Whittaker
Oxford Univ. Press 2017 Princeton Univ. Press 2016 Mianna Meskus Rutgers Univ. Press 2018
www.berghahnbooks.com/series/
Palgrave Macmillan 2018 (out in December) fertility-reproduction-and-sexuality
Look out for the
Heffers stand where
special ‘IVF – Global Histories’
Guest edited by Sarah
‘Rethinking Sexual
Citizenship: Asia-Pacific
‘Making Parents: Reproductive
Technologies and Parenting Culture
‘Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood:
Imagining, Achieving and Accounting for
‘Making Families: Transnational
Surrogacy, Queer Kinship &
most of these titles issues Franklin and Marcia Inhorn,
Reproductive BioMedicine &
Society, vol. 2 June 2016
Perspectives’
Guest edited Vera Mackie,
Sexualities, 20: 1-2 2017
across Borders’
Gest edited by Charlotte Faircloth &
Zeynep Gürtin, Sociological Research
Parenthood in New Family Forms’
Guest edited by Zeynep Gürtin &
Charlotte Faircloth, Anthropology &
Reproductive Justice’ Guest edited by
Charis Thompson & Marcin Smietana,
Reproductive BioMedicine & Society
will be on sale. Online, 22:2 May 2017 Medicine (out in Dec 2018) (out in Autumn 2018)
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conference
team Elisabeth Sandler
Deputy Stream organiser:
Yvonne Frankfurt
Media & publicity and
Reproductive Bodies and Identities Student contact
Prof Sarah Franklin Dr Marcin Smietana Karen Jent Timur Alexandrov
Conference convenor Chair: Plenary 4; Stream organiser: Stream organiser: Reproductive Photography & Tech
Mediated Reproduction; Futures; Photography & Tech
Book Launch
Dr Lucy van de Wiel Amarpreet Kaur
Chair: Plenary 1; Stream Vasudha Mohanka Tiantian Chen
Deputy Stream organiser:
organiser: Changing In/Fertilities; Deputy Stream organiser: Photography contest
Reproductive Futures; Student
Reproductivities art exhibition; Vessel Mediated Reproduction
contact; Book Launch Deputy
film screening; Conference booklet
Dr Lea Taragin-Zeller
Jarrah O’Neill Dr Katie Dow Marieke Bigg
Deputy Stream organiser:
Deputy Stream organiser: Chair: Trans Roundtable Media & publicity
Race, Nation and Reproduction;
Changing In/Fertilities
Deputy organiser: Trans Roundtable
Dr Noémie Merleau-Ponty Jaya Keaney Julie Hogg Tianqi Huang
Chair: Plenary 3; Stream organiser: Deputy Stream organiser: Conference organiser Deputy Reproductivities
Making New Biologies and Race, Nation and Reproduction art exhibition
Race, Nation and Reproduction
Dr Risa Cromer Dr Robert Pralat Chantal Nowak Heather Stallard
Deputy Stream organiser: Chair Plenary 2; Stream organiser: Conference organiser Conference assistant
Making New Biologies Reproductive Bodies and Identities20 21
about reprosoc the team
Prof Sarah Franklin
ReproSoc Director
Chantal Nowak
Julie Hogg
Administrators
The Reproductive Sociology Research from within and outside Cambridge,
Group was established in October including several former Socks. Our
Dr Robert Pralat
2012 to develop and support funded research covers a broad range of topics
research on the technological from IVF global histories, changing ReproSoc Lecturer
transformation of reproduction (in)fertilities, reproduction and the
and related forms of social and environment, gay men’s use of surrogacy, Dr Katie Dow
cultural change. LGBTQ+ reproduction, regenerative Karen Jent
medicine, the IVF-stem cell interface
Dr Noémie Merleau-Ponty
ReproSoc is based in the Department and transbiology, stratified reproduction
of Sociology and has a wide network and ‘repronationalism’.
Dr Marcin Smietana
of links to researchers across the Dr Lucy van de Wiel
University. ReproSoc members, or ‘Socks’, We run a programme of visiting speakers, ReproSoc Postdocs
meet regularly throughout the year to public lectures, workshops, conferences
share and develop research in progress. and other events that are open to the Marieke Bigg
Our six postdocs are Katie Dow, Robert public and we welcome inquiries about
Tiantian Chen
Pralat, Karen Jent, Noémie Merleau- us and our work via our webpage, which
Ponty, Lucy van de Wiel and Marcin offers many resources related to the Yvonne Frankfurt
Smietana. Our five PhD students are: study of reproduction, technology and Amarpreet Kaur
Gavin Stevenson, Tian Tian Chen, society. You can follow us on Twitter and Gavin Stevenson
Yvonne Frankfurth, Marieke Bigg Facebook, or join our mailing list for ReproSoc PhDs
and Amarpreet Kaur. Our Research updates and announcements.
Administrator is Chantal Nowak and our
Sera Baker
Conference Administrator is Julie Hogg. We are committed to making outreach
not only part of what we do, but part Tianqi Huang
We host a Visiting Scholars programme of how we learn, so we look forward Jarrah O’Neill
for both students and established to hearing from you and hope you visit Elisabeth Sandler
academics, an MPhil programme, us soon. ReproSoc MPhils
and a network of Affiliated Scholars
Sign up for our newsletter to keep in touch with
ReproSoc as we continue to grow and change.
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STUDY in CAMBRIDGE The Department of Sociology
puts PhD as well as MPhil
with ReproSoc www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk
applicants forward for a number
of sources of funding, including
MPhil in Sociology
the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC), Wellcome Trust,
ReproSoc plays a major role in graduate teaching in the
Department of Sociolody at the University of Cambridge. Gates Cambridge, and the
The MPhil in Sociology is a full-time nine-month master’s
programme aiming to provide students with an opportunity Cambridge Commonwealth,
to study social change at an advanced level, integrating social
theory and research methods, in preparation for conducting European and International Trust.
doctoral research or applying sociological knowledge in other
professional contexts.
PhD in Sociology
The Sociology of Reproduction is one of four specialised MPhil
pathways, specifically designed to give students an advanced The PhD in Sociology offers a world-class programme of
understanding of major themes and debates in this area research study supervised by experts in their fields. Full-time
of sociology, including assisted reproductive technologies, PhD study usually takes three to four years. Home/EU students
fertility and infertility, reproductive politics, conception and can also study for a PhD part-time. Students typically enter
contraception, reproductive rights, the fertility industry, and
the relationship between reproduction, nation and race.
our PhD programme having completed a master’s course in
sociology or a related social science discipline.
MPhil in Sociology
With its foundation in sociology, the pathway’s curriculum In the first year, students are encouraged to develop their
(Sociology of Reproduction)
draws on multidisciplinary literature from across humanities
and social sciences, including queer, feminist and postcolonial
research methods skills by taking a variety of courses offered
in the Department of Sociology and across the University. The
– soon recruiting for the
theory, and science and technology studies. As part of the
programme, students develop skills necessary to conduct
second year is usually spent on conducting fieldwork, whereas 2019 entry!
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the third and fourth years are for writing up a thesis of 80,000
independent social research and the ability to situate their own words. The Department offers a programme of seminars To find out more about the application
research within current developments in the field. covering transferable skills such as academic writing as well as process, visit:
academic career advice.
www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/
Throughout the programme, PhD students are supported by directory/hssompsrp
their supervisor and a faculty advisor. Prospective graduates
To read about our current students and
ReproSoc regularly hosts visitors from other universities, including graduate who wish to study with members of ReproSoc are welcome
ReproSoc alumni, visit:
to contact us with initial enquiries, informal questions and
students. If you are interested in visiting us as part of your study, do get in touch! requests to be supervised. www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk24 25
about murray Make sure you enter
edwards college www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk our Photo Contest!
Murray Edwards College is a College We’d love to capture as much of our conference as
for women at the University of possible so we thought it would be fun to have a
Cambridge. It was founded in 1954
to welcome all outstanding young photo contest running throughout the three days.
women of potential, no matter what
their background, to the University of To be eligible for the Grand Prize, which will
Cambridge and to provide the best be awarded at the close of the conference on
education for female students possible. Friday, you must tweet your photo by midnight
Murray Edwards College is also on Thursday 28 June.
home to the New Hall Art Collection;
Europe’s largest collection of modern The rest of the prizes will be posted on our website
MARTIN BOND PHOTOGRAPHY
and contemporary art by women. The on Friday 6 July and all of the photos will become
Collection, which was founded in 1986, part of our permanent conference archive.
has evolved through gifts and loans from
artists and alumnae and, today, includes
over 500 works by artists of international
quality and renown – including Dame
Paula Rego, Maggi Hambling CBE,
the categories
There are five categories in our conference photo contest:
Mary Kelly, Helen Chadwick and Judy
Chicago – and is considered to be one
Category 1 Category 4
of the most significant collections of
Best Selfie Best Arty Photo
contemporary art by women in the world.
Category 2 Category 5
The Reproductivities exhibition is a
Best Action Shot GRAND PRIZE
multi-disciplinary collaboration between
Best Image of
the Department of Sociology and
Category 3 Reproduction!
Murray Edwards College and features
Best Garden Scene
work by Gina Glover and Camilla Lyon
as well as selected pieces from the New
Hall Art Collection. Dr Sophie Seita
JOANNA MOSS
will also present a performance piece In order to enter please tweet us your conference
GINA GLOVER
engaging with the exhibition themes in photos with your name, category of entry and
Michaelmas term.
make sure to use the hashtag #reprocnf26
Thanks and keep in touch
Remaking Reproduction
Acknowledgements Conference
www.reprocnf.sociology.cam.ac.uk
#reprocnf
ReproSoc
The Department of Sociology
Remaking Reproduction would not have dining, art gallery and gardening staff. University of Cambridge
been possible without the support of Thank you to all the participants, 16 Mill Lane
the Wellcome Trust, Foundation for plenary speakers and the conference Cambridge
the Sociology of Health and Illness and team for making this event both possible CB2 1SB
the British Academy, who have funded and enjoyable.
Tel: 01223 334 521
both parts of this event and many of the
reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk
activities leading up to this conference. And special thanks to Chantal Nowak
We are also grateful to Murray Edwards and Julie Hogg for their hard work to www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk
College and in particular the conference, make this conference a success! Twitter: @reprosoc
Facebook: reprosoc.cambridge
Instagram: @reprosoc
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YouTube channel
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The Kaetsu Educational &
Cultural Centre
Murray Edwards College
Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
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