Program
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09:00 - 09:15
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Welcome Speech & Introduction (Building Géopolis - Room 1620) |
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09:15 - 10:15
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The Perils of Reproductive Injustice (Building Géopolis - Room 1620) - Dána-Ain Davis (CUNY) |
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10:15 - 10:40
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Coffee break |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 1: Race, Time & the Other (Building Géopolis - Room 1620) - Camila Pastor (CIDE) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Wombs Under Watch: Race, Migration, and the Governance of Reproduction in Postcolonial France - Christelle Gomis, CURAPP-ESS |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› “1, 2, 3 bass”: Governing Reproductive Bodies and Promoting a Restricted Family Model in the French overseas territory of Mayotte (1996–1998) - Constance Rullier-Maugüé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
› Navigating Reproductive Injustice: Linguistic Barriers, Racialization, and Unequal Access to Perinatal Care for South Asian Migrant Women in the Paris Region - Lucia Gentile, CNRS-Institut Convergences Migrations |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
› “Could it happen again...Will I die?”: The Crisis of Reproductive Necropolitics and Obstetric Racism in England's (Black) Maternal Health Landscape - Princess Banda, University of Oxford |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 2: Border Crossing in Reproductive Work (Building Géopolis - Room 2879) - Selma Mouchel (UNIL) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Controlling life and obstructing the giving of it : The reproductive trajectories of Comorian women in Mayotte - AB Salvan, EHESS |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› Fragmented Reproduction: Migrant Women Navigating Egg Freezing Across Borders - Köse Beste İrem, Goethe University Frankfurt |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
› Reproductive governance and time limits in the context of cross-border abortion travel and self-managed medication abortion in Europe - Silvia De Zordo, Universitat de Barcelona |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 3: Resilience, Extraction and Re-Assembly: After Colonialism (Building Géopolis - Room 2879) - Frances Hasso (Duke University) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Malian Midwifery in the Colonial Maternity Ward, 1918-1950 - Devon Golaszewski, Colgate University |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Birthing in the Margins: Huts, Hyenas, and the Moral Politics of Maternal Resilience in Somali Pastoralist Life - Ahmed Nur Muse, University of Glasgow |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Other ways of extracting: Reproductive (In)justices and Indigenous body-territories in Brazil - María Paula Prates, University of Oxford |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› Muslim Midwives: from Mexico to the Maghreb 1987-2025 - Camila Pastor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas [Mexico] |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 4: State Governance over Minoritized Reproductive Bodies (Building Géopolis - Room 2238) - Paola Sesia (CIESAS) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Reproductive (In)justice Against Migrant Womxn in Seine-Saint-Denis: Public Policies Between Coercition and Care in a Post-Colonial Landscape - Louna Maupillier, Migrinter (University of Poitiers) and ESO (University of Rennes) |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Public policy issues surrounding the care of pregnant women in very precarious situations in Ile de France. - Maria Iasagkasvili, Université de Rennes 2 |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Reproductive Health Policies in an “Old Refugee Camp” in Bangladesh from Rohingya Stateless Women's Perspectives: an Experimental Battlefield for Refugees in the Global South - Valentina Grillo, University of Vienna |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› Babies of Excellence: Policies, Representations, and Biopolitics in Contemporary India - Clémence Jullien, EHESS-CESAH |
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15:40 - 16:00
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Coffee break |
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16:00 - 17:00
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Roundtable 1: Feeling the Field: Emotional and Reflexive Entanglements in Reproductive Care Research (Building Géopolis - Room 2238) - Camila Pastor (CIDE) |
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16:00 - 17:00 |
› Feeling the Field: Emotional and Reflexive Entanglements in Reproductive Care Research - Selma Mouchel, University of Lausanne - Joceyln Leyva Santoyo, École des hautes études en sciences sociales - Joana Michel-Costa, École des hautes études en sciences sociales - Coline Léonard, École des hautes études en sciences sociales |
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16:00 - 17:00
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Roundtable 2: Doulas and their Labor Within and Beyond Reproduction. Roundtable with French and Swiss-based doulas (Building Géopolis - Room 2879) - Paula Cristofalo (EHESP) & Hannah Dahlen (WSU) |
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17:00 - 17:30
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Poetic Performances, "The Hand on my Belly" & "Ursula Buendía, Matriarch of Curses" by Aurélia Gervasoni (Building Géopolis - Room 2879) |
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:20
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Midwifery in Mexico: Plurality of Realities, Contexts & Practices (Building Géopolis - Room 1628) - Ofelia Pérez Ruiz, Guadalupe Hernández & Iman Nery |
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10:20 - 10:40
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Coffee break |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 5: Birth as Ritual (Building Géopolis - Room 2230) - Camila Pastor (CIDE) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Fostering “Appetite and Joy”: Confinement Meals and Care in Urban China - Sajida Tuxun, Duke Kunshan University |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› Placentophagy in Czechia: Values and Practices - Michaela Jaterková, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
› "Beseeching for Babies" (qiuzi): When the Sacred Meets the Medical in Contemporary China's Reproductive Journeys - Jolene Yiqiao Kong, Graduate Institute of International and Development studies |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 6: Navigating Normative Motherhood (Building Géopolis - Room 2235) - Selma Mouchel (UNIL) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Getting ready together? The unequal preparation for parenthood among heterosexual couples in France and Belgium - Elsa Boulet, Université de Rouen Normandie - Marine Quennehen, Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› The Way Forward for Women's Rights in a Patriarchal Maternity Care System - Hannah Dahlen, Western Sydney University |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
› Rights to maternity for single women in the wake of French Bioethics Act: a “new” parental approach? - Carlotta Destro, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Caisse nationale des allocations familiales [France] |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
› Becoming “the others” while becoming mothers: experiences of estrangement through childbirth in the accounts of some daughters of Moroccan migrants in Italy. - Giulia Consoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 7: Practitioners Testimonies (Building Géopolis - Room 2230) - Moderator: María Paula Prates (University of Oxford) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Doctor-doulas Changing the Abortion Narrative Landscape in Malta - Isabel Stabile, University of Malta [Malta] - Natalie Psaila Stabile, University of Malta [Malta] |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› El Renacer de la Matronería, Matronería y Partería Sustentable en Latinoamérica - Yennifer Alejandra Márquez Mosquera, Escuela de partería Renacer |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Misak Midwifery Amid the Institutionalization of Reproductive Health in Colombia - Riwanon Gouez, EHESS & Cristina Yalanda |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› Modelo integral de partería profesional y comunitaria: formación, cuidado y acompañamiento en salud sexual y reproductiva - Lisel Lifshitz Gudiño, Mujeres Aliadas AC |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 8: Abortion Narratives & Perspectives (Building Géopolis - Room 2235) - Irene Maffi (UNIL) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Embodied Memories and Clandestine Care: Lesbofeminist Abortion Practices in Chile - Francisca Jaramillo, EHESS |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› A Long-awaited Solution or a Disguised Threat? Exploring the Implications of Using Artificial Womb Technology as a Replacement for Abortion - Dorothea Chatzikonstantinou, University of Zurich |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Affective governance and intimate resistances: navigating abortion politics in contemporary Italy - Elisa Muntoni, University of Turin, University of Florence |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› El proceso decisorio, narrativas de mujeres mexicanas que interrumpieron un embarazo - Cedeño Peña Lurel, Escuela Nacional de Trabajo Social - Olivia Tena Guerrero, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM |
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15:40 - 16:00
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Coffee break |
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15:40 - 17:40
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Panel 9: Care Work and the State (Building Géopolis - Room 2144) - Jocelyn Leyva Santoyo (EHESS) |
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15:40 - 16:00 |
› Taking care of queer pregnancies : a new challenge for feminist health workers ? - Al Deverly, EHESS-CEMS |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
› Fertility Awareness and Cycle Tracking Teachers as Marginalized Reproductive Care Providers: Results from a Comparative Study - Florence Pasche Guignard, Université Laval |
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16:20 - 16:40 |
› Freebirthers, Midwives and the State: An Insight into State Regulations and Individual Practices in France, North Carolina and Quebec - Joana Michel-Costa, EHESS-CEMS |
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16:40 - 17:00 |
› Gestating Bodies Between Development and Violence: International Cooperation for Maternal Health and Obstetric Governmentality in Mexico - Mariangel García Flores, Instituto Mora |
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17:00 - 17:20 |
› Among Midwives: Labor, Emotions, and Fatigue. Building Frameworks for Caregiver Care - Yaredh Marín Vázquez, El Colegio de México (COLMEX) |
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16:00 - 17:40
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Panel 10: Parir con cuidado: experiencias organizadas de cuidado perinatal en Jalisco (Building Géopolis - Room 2230) - Georgina Sánchez Ramírez (ECOSUR) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
› Casa Aramara: una década de cuidado autónomo y comunitario en Guadalajara - María Cecilia Cortés Garavito, Centro de Formación Profesional en Partería |
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16:20 - 16:40 |
› Cassatt: Centros de nacimiento, una nueva forma de nacer en México - Luisana Aldaco Cota, Universidad de las Américas [Puebla] |
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16:40 - 17:00 |
› Organizar el cuidado: aprendizajes desde la Asociación de Cuidadores Perinatales - Verónica Varinia Reyes Pérez, Universidad de Guadalajara |
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17:00 - 17:20 |
› Transformar la institución desde dentro: 13 años de doulas en hospital público - María Del Rimada Diz, Asociación de Cuidadores Perinatales |
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17:40 - 18:00
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Documentaries on Indigenous Mexican Midwives in Spanish and original languages with subtitles in English (Building Géopolis - Room 2230) |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
| Time |
Event |
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09:15 - 10:15
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Governing Reproduction Through Empowerment and the Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru (Building Anthropole - Room 2013) - Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago (University of Amsterdam) |
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10:15 - 10:40
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Coffee break |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 11: Coming of Age and Becoming Mothers (Building Anthropole - Room 3032) - Selma Mouchel (UNIL) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Negotiating Contraception in Diasporic Intimacies: Care, Consent and Contestation among South Asian Young Women in Italy - Sara Bonfanti, University of Genoa |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› Reconsidering Youth Pregnancy in the Willamette Valley: Engaging Adult Support Providers - Olivia Brophy, University of British Columbia |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
› Autonomy and Decisions of Birth Spacing among Adolescent Mothers: A Qualitative Study in an Urban Slum in Bangladesh - Sabiha Noor, Abir Hossin & Nazibul Islam, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 12: Before Mothering, Conceiving Reproduction (Building Anthropole - Room 2013) - Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago (University of Amsterdam) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Women's Ages and Chronopolitics: A Critical Gender Analysis of Vietnam's Pronatalist Policies - Trinh Thien Kim Nguyen, University College Dublin |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› Family Planning, Reproductive Governance and the Welfare State in Egypt: Historical and Political Perspectives (20th-21th centuries) - Mariam Ghafir, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Geneva, IGEND - Laure Pesquet, Centre d'histoire du XIXe siècle, Sorbonne Université |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
› The Unseen Choice: Voluntary Sterilisation and the Stigma of Being Childless - Clara Comeau, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
› Family planning policy, sterilization practices and social hierarchy in Iran - Rosanna Sestito, Université Paris Nanterre |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 13: In the Eyes of Care Providers: Alternatives and Resistance (Building Anthropole - Room 2055) - Joana Michel-Costa (EHESS) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› “Protecting” −Birthing− Women. Perinatal care services from doulas: the case of Greece. - Elli Vougiouka, University of Amsterdam |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Queering Birth Work: Doulas Reframing Cisheteronormative Birth Culture in California - Caroline Chautems, University of California [Santa Barbara], University of Lausanne |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Doulas in the French health care system: issues, interactions and redefining professional dynamics - Paula Cristofalo, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› Accompanying transitions: Autonomous Midwives Support in Child Loss, Abortion and Motherhood in Mexico City - Coline Léonard, EHESS-IRIS |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 14: La violencia obstétrica desde miradas latinoamericanas (Building Anthropole - Room 2013) - Georgina Sánchez Ramírez (ECOSUR) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Protocolos institucionales y violencias obstétricas: una lectura crítica desde la partería y el derecho en Uruguay - Katherin Gissell Colman, University of the Republic of Uruguay [Montevideo] & Romina Gallardo Duarte |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Naturalización de la cesárea como vía de nacimiento - María Carolina Farías Rodríguez, University of the Republic of Uruguay [Montevideo] |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› El miedo como expresión de violencia obstétrica en mujeres primigestas - María Pilar Carrascosa Fernández, EI Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› Violencia obstétrica en adolescentes: agencia, derechos y disputas institucionales - María de Lourdes Alejandra Miranda Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí - Yesica Yolanda Rangel Flores, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí |
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15:40 - 16:00
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Coffee break |
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16:00 - 17:40
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Panel 15: Parir en la ciudad y en el campo: autonomía y justicia frente a las desigualdades (Building Anthropole - Room 2013) - Alicia Márquez Murrieta (Instituto Mora) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
› Aspectos clave en el acceso a la justicia de la salud sexual y reproductiva de la Ribera del Río Hondo, Quintana Roo, México: análisis de los saberes ancestrales de la partería tradicional - Karely Alvarez, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (México) |
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16:20 - 16:40 |
› La reproducción social en organizaciones urbano-populares de la CDMX: traspasadas por el género, la raza y la clase. - Naomi Hernández, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) |
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16:40 - 17:00 |
› La (des)humanización de las mujeres en trabajo de parto: la infraestructura de salud androcéntrica de la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México/ (De)humanization of women in labor: androcentric health infrastructure of Metropolitan Area of Mexico City - Dámaris Alva, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) |
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17:00 - 17:20 |
› Análisis de las experiencias y desigualdades de formación académica de madres universitarias - Vanessa Arvizu, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UNAM) |
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16:00 - 17:40
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Panel 16: The nomination of Obstetric violence as a Latin American Response: Activist Contributions to the Development of Alternative Models of Health Care (Building Anthropole - Room 2055) - Paola Sesia (CESIAS) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
› Pioneers in raising their voices: challenges and achievements of activism for birth rights in Argentina - Celeste Jerez, Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] |
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16:20 - 16:40 |
› Obstetric violence in Brazil among activists, professionals, and victims - Mariah Torres-Aleixo, Federal University of Rio Grande |
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16:40 - 17:00 |
› Obstetric violence in the Caribbean: Institutional responses and social movements in the Dominican Republic and Cuba - Arachu Castro, Tulane University |
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17:00 - 17:20 |
› The right to give birth without obstetric violence in Uruguay: alliances, laws, and challenges - Natalia Magnone, University of the Republic of Uruguay [Montevideo] |
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17:40 - 18:15
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Juliana Coelho, Screening of Documentary “Sofia” (10mins) & discussion with the director (Building Anthropole - Room 2013) |
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Palestinian Reproduction, Vitality and Liberation In/After Genocide (Building Anthropole - Room 2097) - Frances Hasso (Duke University) |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee break |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Panel 17: Queer Responses to Cis-heteronormativity in Law and Public Policy (Building Anthropole - Room 3185) - Clara Comeau (ERASME) |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
› Reproductive Injustice: Public Health Policies and Reproductive Rights for Trans Masculinities in Brazil - Guilherme Lamperti Thomazi, University of São Paulo - Cristiane Da Silva Cabral, University of São Paulo |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› Cis-heteronormativity of the law on ART in France: the reproductive resources of LGBT+ people left behind? - Marie Mesnil, Université Paris Saclay |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
› Trans (Legal) Parenthood and the Legal Art of Mirror-Climbing - Alice Margaria, University of Zurich |
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10:40 - 12:20
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Roundtable with care providers. Building Bridges: Sharing experiences, Perspectives, and Identifying Common Challenges Faced by Practitioners Worldwide (Building Anthropole - Room 5021) - Paola Sesia (CIESAS) & Georgina Sánchez Ramírez (ECOSUR) |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Panel 18: Storytelling as Activism - Alternatives to Obstetric Violence (Building Anthropole - Room 3185) - Paula Cristofalo (EHESP) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Advocacy and Empowerment Through Birth Narratives - Laura Lazzari, Georgetown University [Washington] |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› “I Want the Belly”: Constructing Motherhood and Shaping Bodies through ART in Italy - Michela Villani, HESSO |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Activism Through Writing and Performance: Telling the Past for a Better Holistic Approach - Giulia Po DeLisle, University of Massachussetts Lowell |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› Self-help, Women Voices, and Advocacy - Isabella Pelizzari Villa, Liceo Cantonale Lugano 1 |
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14:00 - 16:00
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Panel 19: The Hospital as a Site of Violence: Cross-national Approaches to Health Personnel’s Perpetuation of Obstetric Violence (Building Anthropole - Room 4030) - Jocelyn Leyva Santoyo (EHESS) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
› Obstetric Violence as Institutional Violence: A Crucial Dimension of this Phenomenon in Mexico - Paola Sesia, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
› Authoritative Knowledge and Cesarean Childbirth in the Private Clinic in Bangladesh - Chand Mia & Shahgahan Miah, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
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14:40 - 15:00 |
› Obstetric violence in Switzerland: current debates and blind spots - Patricia Perrenoud & Solène Gouilhers, HESAV |
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15:00 - 15:20 |
› A praxiography of obstetric violence. Health care professionals' practices and perspectives. - Elif Gül, University of Vienna |
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15:20 - 15:40 |
› “Muchas veces nosotros atendíamos a la usuaria (sin saber) lo que estábamos haciendo”: Medical interns in the obstetrics ward of a Mexican public hospital - Coral Mendoza, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) |
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15:40 - 16:00
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Coffee break |
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16:00 - 17:40
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Panel 20: Hypermedicalization Effects on Birthing Women’s Agency (Building Anthropole - Room 3185) - Joana Michel-Costa (EHESS) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
› On Embodied Knowledge: Ethnographies of (Female) Pain and/as a Prerequisite for Healing - Teja Kosi, University of Ljubljana |
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16:20 - 16:40 |
› Invisible Losses, Structural Violence: Perinatal Grief and Obstetric Violence among Homeless and Marginalized Women in Quebec - Alexandra Daicu, Université du Québec (UQAM) |
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16:40 - 17:00 |
› Navigating birth: a comparative anthropological study of obstetric practices and women's agency in France and the Netherlands - Judith Jakubowicz, EHESS |
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17:00 - 17:20 |
› The medicalization of pregnancy through the eyes of Maina-Miriam Munsky - Flavie Rames, EHESS |
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16:00 - 17:40
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Panel 21: Alternatives to Obstetric Violence (Building Anthropole - Room 4030) - Coline Léonard (EHESS) |
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16:00 - 16:20 |
› Parir no es solo dar a luz: relatos situados de amor, control y saberes - Pamela Nicole Cevallos Sosa, Ecuador |
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16:20 - 16:40 |
› Midwifery: Empowering Births Across Borders - Cristina Jimenez, Concordia University [Montreal] |
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16:40 - 17:00 |
› Voices of midwives, voices of childbirth regulations. The impossible chorus in Mexico? - Georgina Sánchez Ramírez, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) |
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17:00 - 17:20 |
› Musealizing Birth: The Exhibition “Birth Cultures” as a Museum Representation of Reproductive Practices and Experiences - Tijana Jakovljevic Sevic, Museum of Women's Culture Regional-International |
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17:40 - 20:00
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Closing cocktail |
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10:30 - 17:00
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Reimagining Childbirth Care: Artful Tinkering Towards Improvements (Building Anthropole - Room 5033) - Annekatrin Skeide & Elisabeth Dittmann |
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