Speakers
Violeta Belhouchat, a French-Chilean who speaks both French and Spanish, runs a private practice, Sexology and Resilience, in Levallois-Perret. Her agenda is diverse. As a counsellor for women who have experienced sexual trauma, she provides information and refers them to the relevant therapies, leads discussion groups and creates workshops focusing on post-traumatic sexuality. Her training courses and conferences for health professionals and associations cover 6 subjects: sexual consent, sexual violence, post-traumatic global and sexual after-effects, adapted therapies, clitoral anatomy and female genital mutilation. Her theoretical work is the Components of Sexuality model (Belhouchat 2020). Her pragmatic work includes consultancy as an intimacy coordinator for cinema professionals, and courses in vulva and clitoral illustration (Vulvae, CESAN school). Her collaboration in collective works: Combattre le cybersexisme (2019), Violences obstétricales et gynécologiques (2023) and Pour une véritable éducation à la sexualité (2023). Creations : Booklet ‘1 illustration every 4 minutes’ and exhibition of watercolours Clitoris Parlons-en! for Excision Parlons-en! (2024).
Maud Anne Bracke is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Glasgow. She holds a PhD from the EUI Florence, and has completed visiting fellowships at Sciences Po Paris and the Universita’ Federico II, Naples. She is the author of two monographs, two edited volumes and over twenty articles on the history of twentieth-century European feminism, translation and transnational activism, women and work, the ‘1968s’, and Italian and French communism in the 1960s. She has been Director of the Centre for Gender History at the University of Glasgow and Editor of the journal Gender & History, and is currently Editor of the Journal of ModernEuropean History.
In 2021-3 she coordinated an AHRC-funded project ‘Inventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Bodies and Population in Europe and the world, 1945-1995’.
Forthcoming publications include ‘Reproductive rights and justice in France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950s-80s’ (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Raul Necochea Lopez and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, ‘From Rights to Justice: Global Reproductive politics since 1945’ (University of California Press).
Lisa Carayon is a lecturer in law at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord within the Iris laboratory (UMR 8156 CNRS - 723 Inserm - EHESS - USPN).
Lisa Carayon conducts research in health law, personal and family law and migration law. She approaches these themes by studying in particular the relationships of power and domination that run through the development and application of legal standards. More generally, she studies the impact of law on bodies. In this respect, she makes particular use of the conceptual tools of gender and intersectionality.
Her thesis, available online and published in 2019 by IRJS, is entitled La catégorisation des corps, études sur l’humain avant la naissance et après la mort. She has also contributed to a number of collective works, in particular La loi et le genre, published by CNRS, in which she offers a gendered analysis of the legal norms governing contraception and abortion. She is responsible for the ‘Contraception’ section of the Dictionnaire permanent Santé bioéthique et biotechnologie, and co-edits an annual ‘Droit et genre’ column in the Recueil Dalloz. She is also involved in editing the new biannual journal Intersections, droit et genre
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.
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Ernestina Coast is Professor of Health and International Development in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics & Political Science. As a social scientist with training in demography and anthropology, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods in her research agenda focused on the intersections of health, gender and development with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health. Professor Coast’s current research is focused on abortion, including: adolescent trajectories to abortion-related care, the work of abortion activists, and the relationships between abortion and well-being. Professor Coast has been Principal Investigator on 12 funded projects, published more than 70 articles, and supervised 19 PhD students to award. She currently serves on the boards of the Guttmacher Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.
Neil DATTA
Neil Datta has been Executive Director of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights since 2004, having co-founded the organisation in 2000 with the support of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The EPF, which brings together more than 30 European all-party parliamentary groups, aims to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights. With nearly 20 years’ experience, Neil Datta previously coordinated IPPF’s parliamentary programme in Europe and has been involved in research into anti-choice networks, publishing a book on the subject.
Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at EHESP and the CNRS Espaces et Sociétés Laboratory at Rennes 2 University. She is also Director of the SOLIPAM Ile de France regional health network, which helps to provide care for pregnant women and their newborn babies in very precarious situations. Her work on perinatal health and women’s health focuses on health inequalities and North/South relations of domination, in particular by understanding the effects of public policies on the trajectories and experiences of people in need of care, as well as those who provide it. Through a critical geography approach to health issues, as well as to the epistemology of geography and the dissemination of knowledge in the human sciences, she develops approaches in her work that link academic, institutional and artistic work in the places where she practises her profession and as a citizen.
Arlette Gautier was a lecturer in demography at the Université de Paris X, a research fellow at the Institut de Recherches pour le Développement and then a professor of sociology at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. She has worked on the role of gender in West Indian slavery, family policies in the French overseas departments, particularly in Guadeloupe, family planning policies in Mexico, civil and reproductive rights and gender-based violence worldwide. In short, she has empirically studied the historicity of relations between women and men, taking into account the interweaving of social relations and giving an important place to procreation, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. With Marie-France Labrecque, she has published Avec une touche d’équité et de genre. Les politiques publiques de développement et de santé au Yucatan, Québec, Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2013; Genre et biopolitiques. L’enjeu de la liberté. Paris, l’Harmattan, 2012; Les sœurs de Solitude. Les femmes esclaves aux Antilles françaises, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010 [1985].
Giovanna LAURO
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.
Laura Mamo is the Health Equity Institute Professor of Public Health. Her work lies at the intersection of medical sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. Her research examines issues of knowledge and power, health and inequality, and sexuality, gender, race and social justice.
Mamo is the author of the forthcoming book, Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Gendered Politics of Cancer Prevention (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience (Duke University Press, 2007); co-author of Living Green: Communities that Sustain (New Society Press, 2010); and co-editor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and U.S. Biomedicine (Duke University Press, 2010).
Laura Mamo is the co-founder of The Beyond Bullying Project, a multimedia school-based queer sexuality and gender project with Jessica Fields, Jen Gilbert and Nancy Lesko.
Social marketing specialist, Anna Mercier studied political philosophy and political philosophy and communication of public institutions at Celsa.
After 15 years of expertise in social marketing on a wide range of prevention topics including tobacco and sexual health, she now heads the sexual health department sexual health department within the prevention and health promotion at Santé publique France.
This department produces survey data on sexual and preventive behaviors and prevention behaviors of the French population; runs social marketing campaigns aimed at teenagers, the general population and men who have sex with men; and funds the activities of associations working in the field with vulnerable populations.
Dr Rishita Nandagiri is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. Her research focuses on gender and reproductive (in)justice in the Global Souths (broadly understood). Her recent work includes a critique of medico-legal approaches to self-managed abortion, examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on abortion access, and questioning how “voluntary” family planning is constructed. Rishita is a member of International Union for the Scientific Study of Population’s Scientific Panel on Abortion Research. She co-runs, with Joe Strong, the Abortion Book Club, and is one part of the collaborative writing/thinking project, Lucíta Nandarossa. Rishita has previously worked with feminist collectives and multilateral organisations, including during ICPD+20 where she co-chaired the Bali Global Youth Forum, and engaged with the ICPD+20 events and commissions.
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).
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.
Dr. Sara Yeatman is Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. She is a social demographer and interdisciplinary researcher with training in the fields of sociology, demography, and public health. Her research expertise is in the areas of fertility and reproductive health, and her research seeks to understand the causes and consequences of the misalignment of fertility desires and behaviors. She co-created and led Tsogolo la Thanzi, a 9-wave panel study (2009-2015) of over 3,000 young adults in southern Malawi. Her current research projects examine reproductive healthcare access in the U.S. and the consequences of changes in access over time. Dr. Yeatman’s recent research has been published in Demography, Population and Development Review, Science Advances, and Health Affairs. Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation, and William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation.