Neglected areas of the Cairo Conference

December 12, 2024 (2pm-5pm)

Centre des Colloques (Campus Condorcet)

Chair: Céline Miani (Universität Bielefeld) & Heini Väisänen (Ined)

PROGRAMME

What is sexual about sexual violence

Amneris Chaparro-Martínez is an associate researcher at the Centre for Research and Gender Studies at UNAM in Mexico City. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Essex. Her research areas include contemporary feminist theory, feminist epistemology and gender studies. She has published books and articles on the concept of dignity in feminist theory, sexual harassment, the #MeToo movement, epistemic injustices, gender and epistemology, and the political use of metaphors within feminist scholarship. She is part of the executive committee and founding member of The Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network. In 2023 she was awarded the Rice Fellowship to participate as a Visiting Professor at Yale University.

Increasing attention to Obstetric Violence: from social movements to international bodies

Patrizia Quattrocchi (UNIUD)

Patrizia Quattrocchi is a Professor in cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Udine, Italy. Her research interests include reproductive health and policies, with a particular focus on the differing responses to the overmedicalisation of birth, depending on the context. She conducted ethnographic research on indigenous Lenca midwifery in Honduras (1998) and in Mayan communities in Mexico (2000–2009), out-of-hospital birth in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands (2010–2015), and obstetric violence in Argentina (2016–2018). She was twice awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Grant by the European Union (7FP and Horizon2020). As a result of the second project, titled “Obstetric violence. A new goal for research, policies and human rights on childbirth”, she is the coordinator of the Platform of Obstetric Violence, and continues her research on the topic in Latin America and in Europe. A new project on obstetric violence has recently been funded by the Marie Sklodowska Curie Action programme (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Staff Exchange, 2024-2027). As the coordinator of the project (International Platform on Obstetric Violence-IPOV-RESPECTFULCARE), Professor Quattrocchi led a large international partnership made up of 19 institutions from 6 European countries and 3 Latin American countries, and a team of 40 experts, including researchers, professors, health professionals and members of civil society organisations (https://respectfulcare.eu ). She is also the author of the study “Obstetric violence in the European Union: Situational analysis and policy recommendations”, funded by the European Commission (2024).

30 Years On: Progress and Challenges in Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality and Sexual & Reproductive Health

Giovanna Lauro (Equimondo)

Giovanna Lauro is the Deputy CEO of Equimundo. She has worked for almost two decades as a gender equality researcher and advocate. Her expertise centers on the promotion of adolescents’ sexual reproductive health and rights through gender-transformative approaches, as well as on engaging men and boys in gender-based violence prevention. Prior to joining Equimundo, Giovanna worked at the United Nations Foundation as Associate Director of the Women and Population Program, and researched harmful traditional practices amongst minority communities in several European countries at the University of Oxford, where she attained her doctorate in Political Science. Her previous degrees include a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a focus on Public Health, and a BA from the University of Bologna.

From Global Silence to Global Disparities: LGBTQ+ Reproductive Rights and Queer Reproductive Justice

Marcin Smietana (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Marcin Smietana is a research fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). Within the ERC project ‘PregDaT,’ he is currently doing research on gestational time and reproductive age assessment, abortion and childbirth in the UK. This stems from his studies of surrogacy and reproductive justice in the context of queer kinships and families created by gay men in the United Kingdom, United States and Spain. He is an affiliated lecturer in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) at the University of Cambridge, where he was a research associate and a senior research associate between 2014 and 2022, following a Marie Curie award at UC Berkeley (2014-2016). In 2023-2024 he worked at Queen Mary University of London’s Remaking Fertility initiative, and since 2011 he has also been collaborating as an affiliate researcher with AFIN research group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He adopts perspectives from the sociology of reproduction, LGBTQ+ family studies, race/whiteness studies and queer reproductive justice.