Event Review 

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction: Day 3

This one-day workshop aimed to foster links between Cambridge-based researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds and institutions working on topics related to generation and reproduction. Like two events in the academic year 2006/2007, it provided an informal and mutually supportive environment for students and senior scholars fruitfully to exchange knowledge and ideas. Organized by the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum in collaboration with CRASSH and funded by CRASSH and a Wellcome enhancement award to HPS, it brought together 33 participants from Social Anthropology, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, History, Institute of Continuing Education, Geography, CFR, SPS, and HPS.

The workshop was divided into four sessions with 11 talks. In the first session these concentrated on pre-modern and early modern conceptions of generation and the history of animal breeding. The second session covered the history of maternal mortality, motherhood and birth control, while the third session centred on parenting, childrearing and ideas of child development. The fourth session featured papers on the consequences of the new reproductive technologies and on sexual governance in India.

The participants’ responses have been very positive, just as they were to the two previous events in the series, and CIRF plans to run a similar workshop next year.

Signe Nipper Nielsen  (HPS)

 

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