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PARALLEL SESSIONS PROGRAMME

Wednesday 18 September 2024

11:00-12:30

Conference Room 2

(In)Fertile Environments 2

Chairperson: Mwaona Nyirongo

D Ibarra et al.

University of Arizona

Climates of Precarity…

M Yopo Diaz

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Structural Infertilities…

CW Mbugua

Royal Holloway, University of London

Beyond the Stork…

MJ Reuvers

Rhodes University

Stop having babies if you can’t afford them!…

Conference Room 1

Rights, Justice, Ethics (Roundtable) 5

Towards Black Reproductive Rights: Transnational Activisms, Strategies and the Ethical

Chairperson:

N Falu

University of Texas at Austin

Panellists:

SM McCormick

Texas Christian University

JH Jolly

Amherst College

MM Mena

Independent Scholar/Hostos Community College

SH Henry

Rice University

Auditorium

Race, Nation, and Governance 2

Chairperson: Abril Saldaña-Tejeda

X Cai (Virtual Attendance)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Reproductive Governance and Leverage…

D Krige

University of Pretoria

The (Re)emergence of Familial Metaphors…

NS Jearey-Graham

Rhodes University

Precious Babies and Sinful Mommies…

L Nunez Carrasco

University of the Witwatersrand

Migration, Violence and Reproduction in the Global South

S Vikram

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Studying the Fetish of Menstruation in Contemporary India

13:30-15:00

Auditorium

Reproductive Knowledges 4

Chairperson: Andres Restrepo Sanchez 

R Kanyemba et al.

University of Pretoria

Exploring knowledge, perceptions and practices…

S Shaik et al.

Rhodes University

Empowering Women’s Reproductive Health…

GS Shrivastava 
(Virtual Attendance)

Uppsala University

Navigating Self-Managed Abortions…

N Ncube

The Sarraounia Public Health Trust

Women’s Experiences of Miscarriage in South Africa…

BC de Kok & SE Gyan

University of Amsterdam

Re-worlding reproduction: Whose and what knowledge counts?…

Conference Room 1

Rights, Justice, Ethics 6

Chairperson: Tariro Moyana

CI Macleod

Rhodes University

Demanding doctorability for abortion on request…

Y Kalyanaraman et al.

Rhodes University

Sin and kin…

T Robbertse et al.

Ibis Reproductive Health

Examining Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion…

M Magwentshu

Ipas Africa Southern Region

Stigma Towards Women Requesting Abortion…

Conference Room 2

Kin and Care 2

Chairperson: Nelson Muparamoto

N Torres

University of the Witwatersrand

“Being a mother is a lot…”

Z Mhlongo

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Masculinities and Teenage Fatherhood…

L Owoko

University of Pretoria

Exploring Meanings and Practices of Care…

N Abuelsoud

RESURJ

Queering Reproductive Justice…

Z Majombozi

Stellenbosch University

“He Had Pharmacy Before He Was Even Born…”

15:30-17:00

Auditorium

Rights, Justice, Ethics 7

Chairperson: Deevia Bhana

A Restrepo Sanchez

University of Iowa

Sex Work, Migration, and Reproductive (In)Justice in Medellín, Colombia

M Kaufulu (Virtual Attendance)

Creighton University 

African Sexuality (Re)Considered…

ES De Ruiters

University of Cape Town

Uterine Politics and Hypersubjectivity…

AR Benhura et al.

Women’s University in Africa

Contesting hegemonic body normativity…

Conference Room 1

Reproductive Knowledges 5

Chairperson: Cynthia Mbugua

J de Klerk et al.

Leiden University College

Being With Mum…

TD Khumalo

Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust

Challenges Faced by Pregnant and New Mothers in Alexandra Township…

A Swartz et al.

St George’s University of London

In Her Own Words…

B Goodarzi

Amsterdam University Medical Center

“You Care Better for People Who Look Like You”…

T Moyana

University of Pretoria

The role of ‘alternative’ medicine…

FC Ross

University of Cape Town

The Fetus: Conceptual puzzles and corporeal boundaries

Conference Room 2

Globalisation, Mobilities and Markets

Chairperson: Saibu Mutaru

GM Boshoff

University of Pretoria & Hasselt University

ART on the Move…

A Newman

Georgetown University

Constraint and Scarcity in the U.S. Market…

NS Lima

National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET, Argentina

Reproductive Flows in Unregulated Contexts…

U Edu

University of California, Los Angeles

Interrogating the Right to Family Plan…

D Burnett

University of Pennsylvania

Incubating in the Afterlife of Enslavement…