Events
Re-worlding Reproduction: Navigating Emerging Knowledge, Politics, and Justice, Pretoria, Sept 2024
What an absolute delight to be connecting with so. many southern feminists at the rewording reproduction conference. I will be convening and participating in two panels: “Reworlding Repro-genetic justice: A South-North dialogue” and “Surrogacy in uncertain times” with some comrades, students, and co-authors. Join us for some exciting and critical discussions.
AI Digitalisation, AI and Feminist Future, Maputo
I had the privilege of being g part of the closing plenary , at the AI Digitalisation, AI and Feminist Future, Maputo, July 2024. Here’s to many more such workshops that seek to decolonise every aspect of theorising, activism and working with feminist futures and new technologies
Reproductive Rights: Legal Developments and Challenges, Amsterdam, May 2024
I will be giving a keynote at the Reproductive Rights: Legal Developments and Challenges on 16 May 2024. If you are in the area, do come in and have a listen!
Narrativising Surrogacy: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, April 2024
Keynote speech, Narrativising Surrogacy: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany, April 2024
I am honoured to be giving the keynote speech at Oldenburg at a fascinating interdisciplinary workshop “to discuss how surrogacy is currently represented, (re-)framed and narrativised in different texts and contexts, and to think through the racialising, gendered, classist and bionormative patterns, tropes and gaps which can often be found in representations and discussions about surrogacy”. Join me there!
Keynote Speech, Privatizing Eugenics: Global fertility Industry and the Transnational Reproduction of Whiteness, Institute on Migration, Paris, February 2024
Keynote speech, Privatizing Eugenics: Global fertility Industry and the Transnational Reproduction of Whiteness, Institute on Migration, Paris, February 2024
I am honoured to be giving the keynote speech as a visiting fellow at the Institute Convergences Migration, Paris. The workshop promises to be a critical discussion on “Resurgence of Eugenics” .
Join us on Nov 30th for the Feminism Unbound: Radicalising Reproduction public panel where as I discuss my latest on the Global fertility industry. This will be hosted by Prof Gowri Vijayakumar, Bradeis University and the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality, MIT, which brings together feminist scholars and teachers from nine Boston area institutions for the purpose of advancing interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist scholarship and teaching in the areas of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
The second in the series of book discussions about Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University is today! Join is for this virtual event hosted by Carleton University. Please find here the registration link. More details of Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University (Ed. Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya) can be found at https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/Epistemic-Justice-and-the-Postcolonial-University/?k=9781776147847
The first in the series of book discussions about Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University is on Monday, October 16th at 4 pm SAST! Join is for this in-person celebration of the book, hosted by African Gender Institute at UCT. More details of Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University (Ed. Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya) can be found at https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/Epistemic-Justice-and-the-Postcolonial-University/?k=9781776147847
If you are in the Harvard/MIT region on October 5th, join me as I talk about the inherent whiteness of the global fertility industry, hosted by Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Join us!
If you are in Freiburg in May, join me as I talk about the inherent whiteness of the global fertility industry, hosted by the global studies program at Uni Frei, May 22, 12 pm.
I will be presenting a social justice perspective on “Equity, Access, and Cost Considerations Associated with IVG”, at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) public workshop on In Vitro Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology: Scientific, Ethical, Regulatory, Legal and Clinical Implications, Washington DC, April 19-21. Join us on this critical conversation about new repro-genetic technologies.
Join me and other panelists on March 28th, 2023, as we talk about Reproductive Genome editing, hosted by the Centre for Genetics and Society.
I am looking forward to another launch of Birth Controlled, this time by the Institute for South Asia Studies at University of California, Berkeley.
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Annual public lecture Department of Sociology, Kamala Nehru College :
I reflect on my work on reproductive justice in the Global South.
Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness: see the video for some wonderful discussions around the future of critical whiteness studies. I reflect on my work on transnational reproduction, cross border egg provision and race – based preferences in gamete selection.
February 17, 1600 to 17:30am SA time
Transnational Feminist Itineraries Book Launch: see the video for some wonderful discussions around the future of transnational feminism.
October 25th, 10:00am to 11:30am EST
Speaking about the fertility industry at my alma mater KMC, with everyone’s favourite Prof Saumyajit Bhattacharya! Cannot wait…Join us if you can.
October 7th, 2.30 pm IST
Bern, Strasbourg and Berlin talks
A short Schengen stopover from Sept 27 to Oct 10th. University of Bern for a talk hosted by the dept of Human Geography and a multimedia theatre workshop Sept 28- till Sept 30th, University of Strasbourg on Oct 1, hosted by SAGE and then a keynote at University of Humboldt, Berlin for the Diverse Family conference, Oct 7 and 8th. 
Sept 28th, 2021
After a chain of online launches, I am looking forward to the first in -person launch of my book Birth Controlled (Manchester University Press, 2022) on October 6th! Thanks to the African Gender Institute and Dr Yaliwe Clarke for hosting it!
Online launch of Birth Controlled, thanks to the wonderful hosts Aparajeeta and Deepali from Doing Sociology and Dr Dr. Chattopadhyay from Flame University, Pune.
