It's time!

Another year, another Reproduction Salon! It is time to come together again for a spectacular evening on the gorgeous rooftop terrace of Bush House, overlooking the Thames and the London Skyline.

After the earlier Immersion and Rayna Rapp editions, this time we are happy to pair up with Prof. Sarah Franklin (Cambridge), Prof. Marcia C. Inhorn (Yale) and the BSA's Human Reproduction Study Group to celebrate and launch the New Reproductive Order book (NYU Press, 2025). We will host an exciting roundtable to discuss the book at this tumultuous time for reproductive politics.

After the lecture, there will be sparkling drinks, food, an excellent sound system, colourful projections, and the opportunity to get to know and reunite with lots of people in our field. We will also have a reproduction book sale and, of course, a chance to share your own publications!

This is an invitation to everyone working on reproduction, be it reproductive technologies, abortion, stem cells, contraception, demography or developmental biology. You may be a scholar, writer, clinician, activist, regulator, podcaster or PhD student. It is a time for all of us to come together, showcase our work, make future plans, strategise and reconnect.

It will be delicious -- don't miss it.

4.00pm - 6.00pm: Roundtable New Reproductive Order (Bush House North Terrace)

From 6.00pm to sunset: Reproduction Salon (Bush House South Terrace)

Register now for the New Reproductive Order Launch, the Reproduction Salon or both! Please invite your students and colleagues.

Roundtable Participants

• Dr. Mwenza Blell, Newcastle University
• Prof. Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge
• Dr. Zeynep Gurtin, University College London
• Prof. Marcia Inhorn, Yale University, United States
• Prof. Venetia Kantsa , University of the Aegaen, Greece
• Dr. Michal Nahman, University of West England
• Dr. Robert Pralat, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge
• Dr. Marcin Smietana, University of Venice, Italy; University of Cambridge
• Prof. Soraya Tremayne, University of Oxford
• Dr. Siggie Vertommen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Prof. Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Dr. Lucy van de Wiel, King's College London

About the host

The Reproduction Salon is brought to you by the Reproduction Research Group at King's College London and the British Sociological Association's Human Reproduction Study Group.

Lucy van de Wiel is a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine. She is the Director of the Reproduction Research Group at King's College London.

Amarpreet Kaur is a Lecturer in Health Technology and Governance at the University of Birmingham. She is a co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's Human Reproduction Study Group.

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