Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités (CMCSS) Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités (CMCSS)

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29TH - FONDATION LOUIS-JEANTET, AUDITOIRE

16H00 | Introduction
             Delphine Gardey (University of Geneva)

16h15 | PANEL I. INFERTILITY RISKS: REPRODUCTION IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS

This panel interrogates the current state of fertility from the vantage of risk and uncertainty. The growing use of ART for age-related infertility, the consideration of environmental factors as both causing fertility decline and shaping the decision of whether or not to have children, and the demographic anxieties surrounding declining fertility all contribute to making fertility a matter of urgency. The rise of fertility insecurity has several implications: the broadening of the populations affected by infertility risk, but also increased dependence on biomedical interventions to assess and manage fertility. The expectation of infertility risk thus contributes to a collective anxiety around our reproductive future, which is inevitably impacting reproductive bio-politics in ways yet to be properly examined.

Refusing, Reconsidering and Re-entrenching: Exploring Reproduction Narratives During Climate Change
Heather McMullen (Queen Mar University of London)

Navigating Epistemic Uncertainties Related to Infertility Risks in a Context of Egg Freezing
Eléonore Crunchant (University of Geneva)

Reproductive Governance in Spain and Motherhood Postponement 
Bruna Alvarez Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Discussion and moderation: Nolwenn Bühler (University of Lausanne), Laura Perler (University of Bern)

18h15 | KEYNOTE LECTURES

Reproduction in the Social Sciences
Catherine Waldby (Australian National University)

Assisted Troubles: ARTs and the Future of Reproduction
Aditya Bharadwaj (Graduate Institute)

Moderated discussion: Delphine Gardey (University of Geneva), Claire Grino (University of Geneva)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30TH - PALAIS DE L'ATHÉNÉE, SALLE DES ABEILLES

08H45 | PANEL II. REPRODUCTIVE MARKETS: DONATION, ACCUMULATION OR EXTRACTION?

This panel considers the bio-economy of reproduction and its recent transformations through a feminist lens. It offers an account of how reproductive markets in different national contexts are structured as well as global and transnational trends. The panel is organized around recent works addressing issues such as the collection and circulation of reproductive biomaterial; investment and capital accumulation surrounding fertility clinics and the rise of online services; global reproductive chains and exploitation therein; and alternative forms of commodification such as donation and solidarity.

Using, Transferring, Stockpiling, and Storing Eggs in Spanish Fertility Clinics: A Shifting Reproductive Model
Sara Lafuente-Funes (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Traders of Gametes, Brokers of Values: Mediating Commercial Gamete Donations in Delhi
Sandra Bärnreuther (University of Lucerne)

Reproductive Markets: Financialisation, Democratisation and Efficiency
Lucy van de Wiel (King's College London)

Discussion and moderation: Cédric Durand (University of Geneva), Sezin Topçu (CNRS)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30TH - PALAIS DE L'ATHÉNÉE, SALLE DES ABEILLES

10h30 | PANEL III. REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE? RIGHTS, NORMS, TECHNOLOGY, AND INEQUALITIES

This panel examines the legal, bureaucratic, epistemological, and technological factors that govern reproduction and access to reproductive technology, as well as the social injustices that they engender. Through an intersectional, gender-informed critical perspective, the panel seeks to shed light on the social, legal, and bioethical implications of the multifaceted regulatory framework surrounding reproductive technologies. The panel is organized around recent work addressing issues such as unequal access to reproductive technologies (e.g. for single women and LGBTQ+ people); bodily and sexual agency and its consequences on reproductive autonomy and self-determination; normative conceptions of parenthood and reproduction underpinning legal systems; and the weight of local technical implementation on biomedical services.

Where Does it Start and End? (Legal) Gender Misalignment Waiting at the Gate
Alice Margaria (University of Zurich)

From a Biomedical Prohibited Practice to its Legal and Free Implementation: Elective Egg Freezing in France (2011-2023)
Claire Grino (University of Geneva)

Controlling Access to Reproductive Techniques? Filiation Law in France and Switzerland
Marie Mesnil (University Paris Saclay)

Discussion and moderation: Ilana Eloit (University of Geneva), Sandra Hotz (University of Neuchatel)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30TH - CENTRE MAURICE CHALUMEAU EN SCIENCES DES SEXUALITÉS DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE

14h30 | Welcome and introduction

14h45 | PANEL IV. DISRUPTING REPRODUCTION? TRANS PEOPLE'S ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (1)

This panel focuses on trans people's reproductive rights from an international, intersectional feminist perspective. It seeks to address how cisheteronormative medical, technical and legal infrastructures effectively shape trans people's access to reproduction and filiation. Bringing together recent contributions on medical and legal practices, as well as the experiences of trans people in different countries, the panel will reflect on the potential for queering reproduction via inclusive practices such as fertility preservation prior to gender-affirming treatments and the establishment of “creative” filiation, free from binary and patriarchal norms of female/male and mother/father.

Not of Women Born: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Gender and Kinship in the Regulation of Transmasculine Reproductive Citizenship in Denmark
Anne Sofie Bach (University of Copenhagen)

Policy Recommandations for Trans Reproduction in Europe
Doris Leibetseder (University of Basel)

Discussion and moderation: Alice Margaria (University of Zurich), Sylvie Morel (University of Nantes)

16h00 | PANEL IV. (2)

Capturing the Views and Voices of Trans and Non-binary Young People on Fertility Preservation: A Photovoice Approach
Kévin Lavoie (Laval University)

A Biogenetic Filiation for Later? Caregivers and Trans People's Experiences of Reproductive Technologies in Switzerland and France
Raphaël Albospeyre-Thibeau, Delphine Gardey, Solène Gouilhers (University of Geneva)

Discussion and moderation: Laurence Hérault (Aix-Marseille University), Bruno Strasser (University of Geneva)

17h30 | Tea/Coffee Break (public)

18h15 | TOWARDS TRANS-INCLUSIVE REPRODUCTION? / VERS UNE REPRODUCTION TRANS INCLUSIVE?

18h30 | Reproductive Justive Beyond the Gender Binary
Sally Hines (University of Sheffield, UK)
(English, interpreted in French)

Increasing numbers of men, trans/masculine and non-binary people are considering and/or under-taking pregnancies. Not only does this problematise dominant understandings of the gendered reproductive body, it raises significant questions about the legal insistence that reproduction is inherently female.  The assumption that reproduction is a womanly affair, leaves trans male and non-binary people who become pregnant, give birth and parent without legal rights and recognition. The talk thus addresses the gap between everyday experiences of reproduction and gendered discourse and practice.

Drawing on the first international qualitative research project to explore the experiences of men who become pregnant and or/give birth, this talk considers the narratives of participants as they speak about the impacts of non-recognition at social and cultural and policy and legal levels. The talk highlights how a lack of understanding and recognition impacts on participants everyday lives and reproductive experiences in addressing themes of mis- gendering, cultural exceptionalism, and health care and legal frameworks that fail to protect trans male and non-binary parenting rights. In conclusion, the talk discusses the recommendations for health practitioners that were developed from the research and addresses the potentials for thinking through reproduction beyond the gender binary.

19h15 | Roundtable Discussion (French, interpreted in English)
Raphaël Albospeyre-Thibeau (University of Geneva)
Solène Gouilhers (University of Geneva)
Laurence Hérault (Aix-Marseille University)
Kévin Lavoie (Laval University)

Moderated Discussion: Emmanuel Beaubatie (CNRS)

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29TH - FONDATION LOUIS-JEANTET, AUDITOIRE

16H00 | Introduction
             Delphine Gardey (University of Geneva)

16h15 | PANEL I. INFERTILITY RISKS: REPRODUCTION IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS

This panel interrogates the current state of fertility from the vantage of risk and uncertainty. The growing use of ART for age-related infertility, the consideration of environmental factors as both causing fertility decline and shaping the decision of whether or not to have children, and the demographic anxieties surrounding declining fertility all contribute to making fertility a matter of urgency. The rise of fertility insecurity has several implications: the broadening of the populations affected by infertility risk, but also increased dependence on biomedical interventions to assess and manage fertility. The expectation of infertility risk thus contributes to a collective anxiety around our reproductive future, which is inevitably impacting reproductive bio-politics in ways yet to be properly examined.

Refusing, Reconsidering and Re-entrenching: Exploring Reproduction Narratives During Climate Change
Heather McMullen (Queen Mar University of London)

Navigating Epistemic Uncertainties Related to Infertility Risks in a Context of Egg Freezing
Eléonore Crunchant (University of Geneva)

Reproductive Governance in Spain and Motherhood Postponement 
Bruna Alvarez Mora (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Discussion and moderation: Nolwenn Bühler (University of Lausanne), Laura Perler (University of Bern)

18h15 | KEYNOTE LECTURES

Reproduction in the Social Sciences
Catherine Waldby (Australian National University)

Assisted Troubles: ARTs and the Future of Reproduction
Aditya Bharadwaj (Graduate Institute)

Moderated discussion: Delphine Gardey (University of Geneva), Claire Grino (University of Geneva)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30TH - PALAIS DE L'ATHÉNÉE, SALLE DES ABEILLES

08H45 | PANEL II. REPRODUCTIVE MARKETS: DONATION, ACCUMULATION OR EXTRACTION?

This panel considers the bio-economy of reproduction and its recent transformations through a feminist lens. It offers an account of how reproductive markets in different national contexts are structured as well as global and transnational trends. The panel is organized around recent works addressing issues such as the collection and circulation of reproductive biomaterial; investment and capital accumulation surrounding fertility clinics and the rise of online services; global reproductive chains and exploitation therein; and alternative forms of commodification such as donation and solidarity.

Using, Transferring, Stockpiling, and Storing Eggs in Spanish Fertility Clinics: A Shifting Reproductive Model
Sara Lafuente-Funes (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Traders of Gametes, Brokers of Values: Mediating Commercial Gamete Donations in Delhi
Sandra Bärnreuther (University of Lucerne)

Reproductive Markets: Financialisation, Democratisation and Efficiency
Lucy van de Wiel (King's College London)

Discussion and moderation: Cédric Durand (University of Geneva), Sezin Topçu (CNRS)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30TH - PALAIS DE L'ATHÉNÉE, SALLE DES ABEILLES

10h30 | PANEL III. REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE? RIGHTS, NORMS, TECHNOLOGY, AND INEQUALITIES

This panel examines the legal, bureaucratic, epistemological, and technological factors that govern reproduction and access to reproductive technology, as well as the social injustices that they engender. Through an intersectional, gender-informed critical perspective, the panel seeks to shed light on the social, legal, and bioethical implications of the multifaceted regulatory framework surrounding reproductive technologies. The panel is organized around recent work addressing issues such as unequal access to reproductive technologies (e.g. for single women and LGBTQ+ people); bodily and sexual agency and its consequences on reproductive autonomy and self-determination; normative conceptions of parenthood and reproduction underpinning legal systems; and the weight of local technical implementation on biomedical services.

Where Does it Start and End? (Legal) Gender Misalignment Waiting at the Gate
Alice Margaria (University of Zurich)

From a Biomedical Prohibited Practice to its Legal and Free Implementation: Elective Egg Freezing in France (2011-2023)
Claire Grino (University of Geneva)

Controlling Access to Reproductive Techniques? Filiation Law in France and Switzerland
Marie Mesnil (University Paris Saclay)

Discussion and moderation: Ilana Eloit (University of Geneva), Sandra Hotz (University of Neuchatel)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30TH - CENTRE MAURICE CHALUMEAU EN SCIENCES DES SEXUALITÉS DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE

14h30 | Welcome and introduction

14h45 | PANEL IV. DISRUPTING REPRODUCTION? TRANS PEOPLE'S ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (1)

This panel focuses on trans people's reproductive rights from an international, intersectional feminist perspective. It seeks to address how cisheteronormative medical, technical and legal infrastructures effectively shape trans people's access to reproduction and filiation. Bringing together recent contributions on medical and legal practices, as well as the experiences of trans people in different countries, the panel will reflect on the potential for queering reproduction via inclusive practices such as fertility preservation prior to gender-affirming treatments and the establishment of “creative” filiation, free from binary and patriarchal norms of female/male and mother/father.

Not of Women Born: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Gender and Kinship in the Regulation of Transmasculine Reproductive Citizenship in Denmark
Anne Sofie Bach (University of Copenhagen)

Policy Recommandations for Trans Reproduction in Europe
Doris Leibetseder (University of Basel)

Discussion and moderation: Alice Margaria (University of Zurich), Sylvie Morel (University of Nantes)

16h00 | PANEL IV. (2)

Capturing the Views and Voices of Trans and Non-binary Young People on Fertility Preservation: A Photovoice Approach
Kévin Lavoie (Laval University)

A Biogenetic Filiation for Later? Caregivers and Trans People's Experiences of Reproductive Technologies in Switzerland and France
Raphaël Albospeyre-Thibeau, Delphine Gardey, Solène Gouilhers (University of Geneva)

Discussion and moderation: Laurence Hérault (Aix-Marseille University), Bruno Strasser (University of Geneva)

17h30 | Tea/Coffee Break (public)

18h15 | TOWARDS TRANS-INCLUSIVE REPRODUCTION? / VERS UNE REPRODUCTION TRANS INCLUSIVE?

18h30 | Reproductive Justive Beyond the Gender Binary
Sally Hines (University of Sheffield, UK)
(English, interpreted in French)

Increasing numbers of men, trans/masculine and non-binary people are considering and/or under-taking pregnancies. Not only does this problematise dominant understandings of the gendered reproductive body, it raises significant questions about the legal insistence that reproduction is inherently female.  The assumption that reproduction is a womanly affair, leaves trans male and non-binary people who become pregnant, give birth and parent without legal rights and recognition. The talk thus addresses the gap between everyday experiences of reproduction and gendered discourse and practice.

Drawing on the first international qualitative research project to explore the experiences of men who become pregnant and or/give birth, this talk considers the narratives of participants as they speak about the impacts of non-recognition at social and cultural and policy and legal levels. The talk highlights how a lack of understanding and recognition impacts on participants everyday lives and reproductive experiences in addressing themes of mis- gendering, cultural exceptionalism, and health care and legal frameworks that fail to protect trans male and non-binary parenting rights. In conclusion, the talk discusses the recommendations for health practitioners that were developed from the research and addresses the potentials for thinking through reproduction beyond the gender binary.

19h15 | Roundtable Discussion (French, interpreted in English)
Raphaël Albospeyre-Thibeau (University of Geneva)
Solène Gouilhers (University of Geneva)
Laurence Hérault (Aix-Marseille University)
Kévin Lavoie (Laval University)

Moderated Discussion: Emmanuel Beaubatie (CNRS)