Overview
The Politics of Reproduction Research Group will be holding a one-day online workshop about reproduction, broadly defined. We are interested in conversations about reproduction that take up intersectional, critical, anti-racist, and decolonial perspectives. This interdisciplinary workshop is meant to focus on graduate students’, postdoctoral fellows’, and early-career researchers’ work in any field. We are also interested in research by non-academic researchers situated in non-governmental organizations, government, or elsewhere.
Co-organized by: Alana Cattapan, Holly McKenzie, and Sarah Seabrook
Details
The event will take place online via Zoom, on May 2, 2024 from 11am - 4:30pm Eastern.
The expectations for the workshop are that participants will spend fifteen minutes presenting completed research or research-in-progress and have opportunities for feedback, conversation, and networking. Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary, generative space to share new work, and foster community among emerging researchers studying reproduction.
Registration
Note: Registration link is for non-presenting attendees, speakers do not need to register.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, please register via Eventbrite — https://www.eventbrite.com/e/politics-of-reproduction-graduate-and-early-career-workshop-tickets-722078204347
Schedule (draft)
Note: all times are Eastern Daylight Time (Toronto time)
Welcome and introduction to the workshop from the organizers
11:00am-11:15am
Concurrent Session 1
Panel 1A: The Politics of Reproductive Technologies
Chair: Kathleen (Katie) Hammond, Toronto Metropolitan University
Rebecca Muir, Queen Mary University of London; “What is the Problem Represented to be in the IVF Access Debate in the United Kingdom?”
Fionna Fahey, Purdue University; “Seed/Seeds”
Stefanie Weigold, University of Kiel; “Who Owns and Controls an 'Artificial Womb'?: Socioeconomic and Selective Implications of an Upcoming Reproductive Technology"
Panel 1B: Theorizing Reproductive Justice in Education
Chair: Amrita Kumar-Ratta, University of Toronto
Jallicia Jolly, Amherst College; “Black Feminist Approaches to HIV/AIDS & Reproductive Justice in the Americas”
Lisa Sholomon, Gwen Walsh, Kelly Moffitt-Hawasly, Diana McGlory, and Aurelie Athan, Columbia University; “Innovating Reproductive Health Education: Testing the Concept of Reproductive Identity”
Jennet Arcara, Santa Clara University; “Young Adults and Reproductive Health Self-Care in the U.S.: An Exploratory Multi-Method Study Collaboration”
Panel 1C: The Politics of Birth/Death/Labour
Chair: Whitney Wood, Vancouver Island University
Eleanor McGrath, University of Waterloo, “Pregnancy and Near-Death: Creating Change for Canadian Maternal Health Data and Policy
Theresa Agbeyei, University of Saskatchewan; “When Hospitals Become Hostile: Exploring Racism's Lethal Impact on Black Maternal Health"
Nicole Hill, University of Alberta, Athabasca University; “Living with Obstetric Violence”
11:15am-12:30pm
12:30pm - 12:45pm
Pause
12:45pm - 2:00pm
Concurrent Session 2
Panel 2A: The Politics of Menstruation and Endometriosis
Chair: Lisa Smith, Douglas College
Bethel Alemaio, Hannah Belec, Mikayla Hunter, Lindsay Larios, Adele Perry, Victoria Romero, Julia Smith, Heather Stark, Pauline Tennent, and Chloe Vickar; University of Manitoba, “Period Poverty and Equity, on Campus and Beyond”
Sally King; King’s College London/Menstrual Matters; “What we don’t know does harm us…: The Reduction and Mystification of Menstrual Physiology in Medical Education”
Graylin Skates; Purdue University; “Reframing Embodied Experiences and Luck During the Clinical Encounter: Patient Experiences with Diagnostic Delay in Endometriosis
Panel 2B: The Politics of Reproductive Care
Chair: Holly McKenzie, University of Saskatchewan
Erin Gobert; University of Manitoba; “Human Rights and Reproductive Healthcare in Rural, Remote, and Northern Manitoba”
Kelsey Chamberlin; Health Arts Research Centre and University of Northern British Columbia; “Landscapes of Care: Pathways to Perinatal Well-Being for Young People Living in Northern British Columbia”
Lindsay Larios, M. Patricia Ahonon, and Heidi Elias; University of Manitoba; “So few people who are doing that work, and nobody is really funded to do it”: Navigating Care for Medically Uninsured Migrants in Manitoba”
Panel 2C: Autonomy: Pasts and Futures
Chair: Heather Latimer, University of British Columbia
Holly Isard; University of West London; “Refusing Reproduction: If ‘every miscarriage is a workplace accident’ then every abortion is a workplace strike”
Natalie Blanton; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; “What to Expect When You're Expecting Catastrophic Climate Change: Fertility, Family, and Eco-Reproductive Futures”
Cecilia Plaza; New York University; “Close Your Eyes and Think of England”: Interinstitutional Reproduction of Sexual Gender Roles”
Courtney Johnson-Benson; The Cognition Collective, LLC and California Institute of Integral Studies; “Choosing Our Path: Black Women, Childfree Lives, and the Power of Autonomy”
Pause
2:00pm-2:15pm
2:15pm - 3:45pm
Session 3: The Politics of Abortion
Chair: Elena Caruso, University of Waterloo
Anna Crawford; University of Colorado Denver; “Coalition Representation in Abortion Policy Debates”
Micki Burdick; University of Pennsylvania; “Spectacular Surveillance: Affective Networks of White Evangelical Women in the Pro-Life Movement”
Anvita Dixit; University of Ottawa; “Exploring Canadians’ Experiences with Belief-Based Denial of Contraception and Abortion Care”
Reb Lentjes; University of Kentucky; “Risk and Responsibility: The Exceptionalization of Fetal Disability within “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Choice” Pregnancy Narratives”
Hannah Steinhauer; Virginia Tech; “Algorithms to Abortion—the Role of Information Technologies in the Post-Roe United States”
Closing comments from the organizers
3:45pm - 4:00pm