Medical and Ecological Anthropology Research

FRSG Seminars and events

We offer a meeting ground for anthropologists and researchers who adopt an anthropological orientation in the study of sexuality, fertility and reproduction. We hold a seminar series in Michaelmas Term and organise regular workshops.

Ongoing events:

Ongoing seminars (MT2012): Reproduction and Social Differentiation: Fertility Variation of Sub-Populations in Comparative Perspective.

Conferences in 2011:

  • Sexuality, Religion and Transnational Dynamics in Africa, organised in conjunction with the International Research Network on Religion and AIDS in Africa by Dr Nadine Beckmann, Dr Catrine Christiansen, and Dr Alessandro Gusman
  • Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence, international workshop convened by Dr Philip Kreager together with colleagues in FRSG and the Institute of Human Sciences, and supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, September 2011

Past events:

Past workshops include:

  • Islam and the Biotechnologies of Human Life, September  2009 at Yale University, in conjunction with The MacMillan Centre’s Council on Middle East Studies (CMES). An edited volume from this workshop is in press.

  • Obesity and Reproduction held jointly with Sussex University at ISCA, October 2004. An edited volume from the contributions is in press.

  • Bioethics held jointly with Durham University at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), June 2003.

  • Play by Indian actors on themes of fertility and sexuality, October 2000.

  • Managing Reproductive Life, October 1999. Book published from the contributions.

Seminar themes since 1998 include: