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International Workshop 12th to 14th of June 2008

IVF as Global Form. Ethnographic Knowledge and the Transnationalization of Reproductive Technologies

Humboldt-University Berlin, Department of European Ethnology and Collaborative Research Centre SFB 640 "Changing Representations of Social Order – Intercultural and Intertemporal Comparisons"

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Preliminary Workshop Programme

Programme for download: [pdf]


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

Michal Nahman (University of Western England, Bristol)
"Embryos are Our Babies": Condensing the Body in Israely Ova Donation
Elizabeth Roberts (University of Michigan)
Institutions that Matter: IVF, Abortion and Reproductive Governance in Ecuador
Discussant: Jeanette Edwards (University of Manchester)
Chair: Stefan Beck (Humboldt-University Berlin)

11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea
11:30-13:00 Localizing IVF II: National Styles of Governance / Local IVF Cultures

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)

13:00-15:00 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) &
Bernhard Hadolt (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) and Viola Hörbst (LMU München)
ART-Practices in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies from Austria and Mali
Discussant: Ferhunde Özbay (Bogaziçi-University Istanbul)
Chair: Sulamith Hamra (Humboldt-University Berlin)

17:00-17:30 Coffee/Tea
17:30-18:00 Jörg Niewöhner (Humboldt University Berlin)
Guided Tour in English through the Exposition: "Frisch von der Leber weg"
18:00-19:00 Open Floor: Ethnographic Knowledge, the National and the Transnational Regulation of IVF

With statements by
Carmel Shalev (University of Tel Aviv)
Rajani Bhatia (University of Maryland)
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
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