International workshop organised by the RE:SHARE team.
Wednesday 18 June
14:30-15:00: Welcome and Introduction
15:00-16:30: Session 1 Sexual and Reproductive Citizenship
Chair: Claire Somerville, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Aleph Ross, University of Birmingham, ‘Jewishness, sexual health and race making in 20th century Britain: a relational perspective’
- Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick, ‘Come to Daddy: Genetic profiling and migrating models of paternity’
- R Sánchez-Rivera, University of Cambridge, ‘State-Sponsored Population Control Programmes: A New Ph(F)ace of Eugenics in Mexico’
16:30-17:00: coffee break
17:00-18:30: Keynote Nicole Bourbonnais, Geneva Graduate Institute, ‘The Gospel of Family Planning: An Intimate Global History’
Thursday 19 June
09:00-10:30: Session 2 Institutions and Resistance
Chair: Aidan Russell, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Nikolaos Papadogiannis, University of Sterling, ‘Sex workers’ rights activists and intersectional HIV/AIDS campaigns in West Berlin, 1980s-1990s.’
- Naomi Samake-Bäckert, Geneva Graduate Institute, ‘Sexual and reproductive health programming in Black Women’s Centers’
- Christelle Gomis, University of Picardie Jules Verne, ‘Reproductive Justice in a Racialized France: Contraception, Constraints, and the Fight for Autonomy at the Pauline Roland Center’
10:30-11:00: coffee break
11:00-12:30: Session 3 Empire and Postcolonial Truths
Chair: Amalia Ribi-Forclaz, Geneva Graduate Institute (TBC)
- Myriam Paris, University of Picardie Jules Verne, ‘French Colonial Governmentality and Reproductive Policy in overseas territories: How French Experts Made Population Growth Undesirable in Mayotte (1976-1980)’
- Saima Nasar, University of Bristol, ‘The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign: Community Care and Sexual and Reproductive Rights in 1980s Britain’
- Caroline Rusterholz, Geneva Graduate Institute, ‘Population, South Asian and Sexual and Reproductive Health in 1980s Britain’
Lunch: 12:30-14:30
14:30-16:00: Session 4 Abortion
Chair: Nivedita Joon, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Samuel Yosef, King's College London, and Manna Mostaghim, London School of Economics and Political Science, ‘Reproductive Justice (RJ) on Abbey Road: The specific realities of RJ within the UK context’
- Bibia Pavard, University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas, ‘Abortion without borders ? Karman in Bangladesh, menstrual regulation and the redefinition of population control’
16:00-16:30: coffee break
16:30-18:00: Roundtable discussion with Edem Ntumy (Reproductive Justice Initiative), Dr Jenny Douglas (Open University) and Christina Ganotakis (NAZ)
Friday 20 June
09:00-10:30: Session 5 Sexual and Reproductive Health Internationalism
Chair: Daria Dyakonova, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Carolina Topini, University of Glasgow, ‘“Fit and forget”. The racial politics of Norplant and (trans)national feminist responses’
- Bruno Walter Toscano, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, ‘In Search of the Path: the Pathfinder Fund, the Global South and the Fieldworkers Who Shaped the Population Control Movement (1952-1965)’
- Somak Biswas, University of Cambridge, ’Alternate Sexualities’: Naz, Ford Foundation and the Production of Sexual Knowledge
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30: Session 6 Racialised Hierarchies
Chair: Aditya Bharadwaj, Geneva Graduate Institute
- Anne Hanley, University of Birmingham, ‘Racism and racial erasure in sexual health archives’
- George Severs, Geneva Graduate Institute, ‘Coordinating and contesting sexual health: race, HIV/AIDS and the Health Education Authority’
12:30-13:00: Closing Discussion
