Preliminary Workshop Programme:
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
18:15 Reception and Addresses
Public Keynote Lecture
Sarah Franklin (Bios-Centre, LSE London)
5 Million Miracle Babies Later: The Cultural Legacy of IVF
19:30 Reception
Friday, June 13th, 2008
09:00-9:30 Introduction to the Subject
Michi Knecht (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Globalization of Reproductive Technologies: Reinvigorating Theory
09:30-11:00 Localizing IVF I: The Cultural Works of Encounters
Marit Melhuus (University of Oslo)
Works of the Imagination: Reproductive Technologies, Kinship and the Law
Michal Nahman (University of Western England, Bristol)
"Embryos are Our Babies": Condensing the Body in Israely Ova Donation
Discussant: Janet Edwards (University of Manchester)
Chair: Stefan Beck (Humboldt-University Berlin)
11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea
11:30-13:30 Localizing IVF II: National Styles of Governance / Local IVF Cultures
Elizabeth Roberts (University of Michigan)
Institutions that Matter: IVF, Abortion and Reproductive Governance in Ecuador
Willemijn de Jong (Zurich University)
The Bad "Child as a Project". Contested Knowledge Practices about IVF in Switzerland
Maren Klotz (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Kinship Knowledge‚Management' during Assisted Conception: Reflections on Potential ‚Crosstalk' between Regulation and Local Familial Practices in Germany and the UK.
Discussant: Carmel Shalev (University of Tel Aviv)
Chair: Michi Knecht (Humboldt-University Berlin)
13.30-15.00 Lunch Break
15:00-17.00 Localizing IVF II: National Styles of Governance/ Local IVF Cultures
Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent (University of Cambridge)
"Modern Technologies": Infertility, IVF, and the Donor Sperm Taboo in Turkey
Bernhard Hadolt (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) &
Viola Hörbst (LMU München)
ART-Practices in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies from Austria and Mali
Discussant: Ferhunde Özbay (Boğaziçi-University Istanbul)
Chair: Sulamith Hamra (Humboldt-University Berlin)
17:00-17:30 Coffee / Tea
17:30-19:00 Round-table Discussion: Ethnographic Knowledge, National Regulation and the Global Politics of Ova Procurement
With statements by
Carmel Shalev (University of Tel Aviv)
Sigrid Graumann (IMEW, Berlin)
Sven Bergmann (Humboldt-University Berlin)
and further participants
Chair: Maren Klotz
20:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
9:30-11:00 Tracing the Transnational Scapes of Reproductive Technologies I:
Emergent Forms and Domains of Regulation
Sven Bergmann (Humboldt-University Berlin)
The Spatial fix of European Reproduction – Between Forms of Regulation and Practices of Circumvention
Eva-Maria Knoll (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Reproducing Hungarians – Reflections on Fuzzy Boundaries in Reproductive Tourism
Discussant: Shahanah Schmid (Bios-Centre, LSE London/Zürich)
Chair: Christine Bischof (Humboldt-University Berlin)
11:00-11:30 Coffee / Tea
11:30-13:00 Tracing the Transnational Scapes of Reproductive Technologies II: Accelerated and Restricted Agencies, Asymmetrical Engagements
Marcia Inhorn (University of Michigan)
"Assisted" Motherhood in Global Dubai: Reproductive Tourists and their Nannies
Aditya Bharadwaj (University of Edinburgh)
Diffracting Reproduction: Infertility Encounters, Stratified Reproduction, Surrogacy and New Reproductive Technologies in India
Discussant: Shalini Randeria, (Zurich University)
Chair: Babette Müller-Rockstroh (MPI Halle)
13:00-14.30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Tracing the Transnational Scapes of Reproductive Technologies III:
Bureaucracies, Ethics and Knowledge
Bob Simpson (Durham University)
Transnationality and Locality in the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies: Holding the "Helping Hand" in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Stefan Beck (Humboldt-University Berlin)
Transnational Lab-Benches: Transforming Experience
Discussant: Michael Schillmeier (LMU Munich)
Chair: Tanja Bogusz (Humboldt-University Berlin)
16:00-16:30 Coffee / Tea
16:30-17:00 Final Discussion and Résumé