Submitted by Y.I.I. Frankfurth on Thu, 09/11/2023 - 23:54
9th Annual Public ReproSoc Lecture 2023, REPRODUCTIVE CAUSE AND EFFECT: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Thursday 23rd November, 17:00 – 18:30 | Arts Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site | Followed by a reception in the Sociology Seminar Room
Speaker: Professor Sarah Franklin
In anticipation of its transition to a virtual network, this lecture looks back at the work of the Reproductive Sociology Research group over the past decade from the point of view of how we understand reproductive cause and effect.
Initially the lecture considers some of the intriguing parallels in how dominant models of reproductive causality have been reversed in both the social and the life sciences over the past two decades.
In the second half the lecture looks at specific sociological examples of cause and effect ‘reversals’, many of them taken from the work of ReproSoc researchers.
The lecture concludes by arguing that sociology offers us a specific vantage point on reproductive causality, and that, as a system of relations, reproductivity also has lessons for how we understand causality in sociological terms.
As ever, the lecture will feature sheep, poetry, bad puns, made-up repro words and scenes of collective cake consumption.