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Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum
Workshop organised by Salim Al-Gailaini and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
There will be a modest charge for coffee, tea and lunch. For further information, please email repro@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Open to all. Registration required. To reserve a place click the Online Registration link on the right hand of this page.
Organized by the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum with support from CRASSH, and a Wellcome Strategic Award in History of Medicine to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Part of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum series.
For more information about CIRF, please visit the link on the right hand side of this page.
Administrative contact Esther Lamb (Grad/Fac Programme Manager)
Programme
9.00 - 9.20 |
Registration (Old Library)
9.20 - 9.30
Welcome and Introduction (New Gallery)
9.30 -10.00
Session 1
Chair: Salim Al-Gailani (HPS)
Peter Jones (King's College)
Reproduction: of Books and Babies: An Exhibition at Cambridge University Library, July- December 2011
10.00 - 10.30
Marie-Francoise Besnier (The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia Project-HPS)
Monstrous births in Mesopotamia during Second and First Millennium BC: The Divination Series šumma Izbu
10.30 - 11.00
Jennifer Rampling (HPS)
Alchemy and the Language of Reproduction
11.00 - 11.30
Tea/Coffee Break ( Old Library)
11.30- 12.00
Session 2
Chair: Nick Hopwood (HPS)
Phillipa Hardman (Darwin Correspondence Project)
Chloroform, Childbirth and Gender in the Correspondence of Charles Darwin
12.00-12.30
Sally Frampton (UCL)
Opening to us a New Era: The Ovary as a Surgical Objective in Nineteenth Century Britain
12.30-13.00 |
Sophia Connell (Philosophy and Newnham) Moral choice and abortion |
13.00 - 14.00Lunch Break (Old Library)
14.00 - 14.30
Session 3
Chair: Martin Richards (CFR)
John Appleby (CFR)
The Ethics of Informing Children that they were Donor Conceived
14.30 - 15.00
Zeynep Gurtin-Broadbemt
(CFR)
Egg-Sharing: Ethical Debates and Women's Experience
15.00 - 15.30
Tea/Coffee Break (Old Library)
15.30- 16.00
Session 4
Chair: Martin Johnson (PDN)
Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (HPS)
Diagnosing Pregnancy in Twentieth-Century Britain
16.00 - 16.30
Anastasia Theodosiou (PDN)
The Politics of Human Embryo Research Stimulated the Development and Application of PGD
16.30 - 17.00
Susanna Graham (CFR)
Single Mothers by Choice: Single Women choosing to Parent without Partners