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Call for Papers – Reproductive Futures Conference, June 15-17, 2022
Call for Papers and Panels REPRODUCTIVE FUTURES: Emergent injustices, hopes and paradoxes An international conference Venue: Hotel Scandic Rosendahl, Tampere, Finland June 15-17, 2022 Decreasing fertility rates and delayed family formation have raised concern across the world. Meanwhile, human population growth is regarded a problem for global ecological sustainability. This paradox has instigated discussions about future population control, family relations, and reproductive and environmental justice. For example, biodiversity, complex ecologies and good life for not just humans but also more-than-humans are receiving growing attention in research, policymaking, design and art. At the same time, existing and emerging reproductive technologies, together with the increasing commercialization of care and health data, are reshaping family- and kin-making landscapes. Furthermore, womens and gender, sexual and ethnic minorities rights to sexual and reproductive health have been re-politicized in many national contexts. This international conference aims to engage, explore and unpack the plurality of relationships between reproductive practices, population and ecological futures. We welcome empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions from various disciplinary backgrounds, including social, human, and environmental sciences as well as design and art research. We invite submissions for papers (abstracts max. 250 words) and panels (panel theme description max. 150 words + abstract and speaker details for each presentation in the panel). Throughout the conference, we will be running parallel sessions. Please indicate in the submission system, which of the following conference questions your paper or closed panel addresses (up to 3) when submitting your abstract: 1. What future imaginaries of relationality are thinkable and possible in practices of reproduction, in the historical contexts of climate change, (bio)capitalism and late modernity? 2. How are norms and conceptions of reproduction and kinship resisted to achieve reproductive justice, environmental justice and queer justice? 3. How are global inequalities and colonial legacies of gender, race and economy reproduced in attempts to have children, make kin, and sustain family relationships? 4. How do people rethink norms of relatedness, sexuality, family and kinship in the everyday, and how are these recognized in policy making and social services? 5. What kind of labour goes into maintaining, altering and profiting from transnational markets and bioeconomies of reproductive industry and pharmaceutical enterprise? 6. How are reproductive futures constituted in practices, policies and technologies of reproduction concerning nonhumans, such as farmed and wild animals or biodiversity-related seed banking? 7. How are toxic exposures, biodiversity loss and climate crisis exacerbating the hierarchies that support some families and not others? 8. Other question(s) relevant to our understandings of reproductive futures The Call for Papers and Panels is now open and will close on 15 December 2021. Please submit your abstract here: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/reprofutures2022_cfp. You can also submit via our conference website: https://events.tuni.fi/reprofutures2022/call-for-papers/. You will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by 15 January 2022. For the tentative program including keynotes and practical information, visit the conference site: https://events.tuni.fi/reprofutures2022/ We look forward to your participation! The conference is organized by Reproductive Futures project (https://reprofutures.fi/about/) and funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Academy of Finland. The project is coordinated by Tampere University. Follow us: @reprofutures Conference hashtag: #reprofutures2022 Mianna Meskus, PhD Associate Professor Sociology Tampere University mianna.meskus@tuni.fi https://miannameskus.net @mianna_meskus Author of Craft in Biomedical Research: The iPS Cell Technology and the Future of Stem Cell Science , Palgrave Macmillan (2018): https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137475527 Speculative feminism and the shifting frontiers of bioscience: Envisioning reproductive futures with synthetic gametes through the ethnographic method, Feminist Theory (2021): https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211030174 Embodied material encounters and the ambiguous promise of biomedical futures: The case of biologically derived medicines, New Genetics and Society (2020), co-authored with Venla Oikkonen: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14636778.2020.1778459 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of CFP Reproductive Futures Conference.pdf] _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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