La reproduction en chine

*Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond*

*THIS WEEK:  Friday 13 July 2012 to Saturday 14 July 2012*

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities  (CRASSH) University of Cambridge
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DTInvitation to register for the conference, "Reproducing China:  Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond"This conference brings together established scholars and junior  researchers to present their cutting-edge work on the different facets of reproductive science and medicine in modern China. Taking up the  continual critical interest in appropriations and disseminations of  scientific theories and medical expertise, we investigate the movement  and circulation of expertise, personnel, and material culture related to  sexuality, reproduction, fertility, childbirth and population between  China and different parts of the world. We want to understand how European and American scientific discourses interacted with Chinese discourses, and how so-called "indigenous" ideas concerning sex and reproduction became defined, incorporated or excluded. We analyse some of the long-range networks of historical and contemporary actors engaged in projects of translation and popularisation. In sum, the conference aims to produce not only new scholarship on China, but simultaneously new ideas on the mechanisms and dynamics of transmissions of reproductive knowledges around the world. Themes covered include:  sexology and history of the body in China; conceptualisations of fertility and Chinese medicine; childbirth and reproductive technologies; population policies and demographic studies.


Conference websites: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/china.html
Link to registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1715/
Programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1715/programme/


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Speakers and chairs:

*Bridie Andrews *(Bentley University)
*Francesca Bray *(University of Edinburgh)
*Mary Brazelton *(Yale University)
*Wei Wei Cao *(Keele University)
*Lily Chang *(University of Cambridge)
*Howard Chiang *(Princeton University / Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
*Harriet Evans *(University of Westminster)
*Arunabh Ghosh *(Columbia University)
*Elisabeth Hsu *(University of Oxford)
*Kerstin Klein *(Homerton University Hospital)
*Vivienne Lo *(University College London)
*David Luesink *(Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis)
*Christos Lynteris *(University of Cambridge)
*Tina Phillips Johnson *(Saint Vincent College)
*Leon Rocha *(University of Cambridge / Freie Universitaet Berlin)
*Volker Scheid *(University of Westminster)
*Helen Schneider *(University of Oxford / Virgina Tech)
*Liying Sun *(University of Heidelberg)
*Simon Szreter *(University of Cambridge)
*Malcolm Thompson *(University of Toronto)

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For any queries about the conference please email *Leon Rocha*
(University of Cambridge / Freie Universitaet Berlin, lar29@cam.ac.uk).

The conference is supported by: *The Cambridge Humanities Research Grant*; *Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities *(CRASSH); *Needham Research Institute, Cambridge*; *Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge*; *University of Westminster *; and the*"Generation to Reproduction" *programme through a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the history of medicine to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Convened by *Leon Rocha *and *Lily Chang *(University of Cambridge),
*Howard Chiang *(Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan), and
*Volker Scheid *(University of Westminster).

Draft Programme

Friday 13 July 2012

09.00–09.30	Registration and coffee
09.30–10.00	Welcome and introduction
10.00–12.00	I. Bodies and sexuality Howard Chiang (Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Sex and the making of China: From eunuchs to transsexuals David Luesink (Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis) The politics of translation and standardisation of terminologies for reproductive anatomy in China Sun Liying (University of Heidelberg) Natural breasts (tianru)? Breast-(un)binding, breastfeeding, beauty and the body Chair: Helen Schneider (University of Oxford / Virginia Tech)
12.00–14.00	Lunch
14.00–16.00	II. Fertility and medicine Vivienne Lo (University College London) Aphrodisiacs, conception and yangsheng in China Volker Scheid (University of Westminster) How did the general become a chicken? The ungendering of constraint (yuzheng) in Chinese medicine Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford) Qi in reproduction, tactility in childcare, sociality in the house: Revisiting (scientific) concepts of matter Chair: Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
16.00–16.30	Coffee
16.30–17.50	III. Life and biopolitics Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge) China's new bioeconomic policy: Reproducing migrant bodies in exception Kerstin Klein (Homerton University Hospital) Reproductive or productive value? Embryonic life at the intersection of IVF and stem           cell research in China	Chair: TBC
19.00	Conference dinner

Saturday 14 July 2012

09.30–10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00–12.00	IV. Reproduction and childbirth Tina Phillips Johnson (Saint Vincent College) Imagining childbirth in republican China Bridie Andrews (Bentley University) Birth control in China before the 'One Child Policy' Wei Wei Cao (Keele University) Abortion law, 'One Child Policy' and women's reproductive autonomy in post-Maoist China Chair: Lily Chang (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
12.00–14.00	Lunch
14.00–16.00	V. Population and demography Malcolm Thompson (University of Toronto) The social costs of births and deaths: Economising reproduction in China, 1912–1937 Mary Brazelton (Yale University) Eugenics, ethnic minorities and birth patterns in early communist China: Changing            demographies of Yunnan, 1949–1958 Arunabh Ghosh (Columbia University) Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001) and China's 'population problem' Chair: Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge)
16.00–16.30	Coffee
16.30–18.00	Roundtable discussion Chairs/Discussants: Harriet Evans (University of Westminster) Christos Lynteris (University of Cambridge) Helen Schneider (University of Oxford / Virginia Tech)