Events
The Reproduction and Speculative Cultures Conference, organised by our Visiting Collaborator Dr Anna McFarlane, will take place over two days: Thursday 24th October (in-person at Lancaster University) and Monday 28th October 2024 (online). The deadline for abstracts is 9th August 2024.
In April 2024, members of The Future of Human Reproduction team travelled to Birmingham to present research at the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science.
The Future of Human Reproduction team exhibited at this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science at Lancaster University on Thursday 26th October. We delivered a series of activities that explored how technological developments might change the way in which future children are created and born.
Scientific advances in in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) raise a number of ethical, regulatory and policy issues. These issues were the focus of an IVG Policy Briefing Workshop, jointly delivered by The Future of Human Reproduction Team and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
In November 2022, The Future of Human Reproduction programme held the first in a series of scoping workshops on disruptive reproductive technologies. ‘Envisaging Reproductive Futures: Extra Corporeal Gestation (ExCG)’, aimed to facilitate in depth discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration between academics with an interest in ExCG.