Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies Podcast

Gestation - IMCI Speaker Series: Gestation and Storytelling

The Institute for Media and Creative Industries (IMCI) and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Loughborough University are pleased to present a Speaker Series on Gestation and Storytelling.
During this great round of conversations, three great women share their experience about how stories about gestation, reproduction, birth, and parenting are transmitted through generations and communities, framing the way people deal with carrying and caring life. They also discuss how mainstream channels (media, health systems, government, NGOs etc) proliferate stories about gestation that help (or not) the situation in the community level.
Our speakers are IAS Visiting Fellows Ms Mpume Gumede from South Africa, Dr Lindsay Barnes from India, and Dr Åsa Virdi Kroik from Sweden.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Justice - Dr Sophie Lewis

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Sophie Lewis delivers their thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Justice' as a site of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Justice - Dr Burçe Çelik

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', guest speaker Dr Burçe Çelik devliers their thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Justice' as a site of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Justice - Ms Nompumelelo Gumede

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', IAS Visiting Fellow Ms Nompumelelo Gumede devliers their thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Justice' as a site of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Justice - Introductory Remarks

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', Theme Co-Lead Dr Pandora Syperek introduces this roundtable session.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Justice' as a site of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Ecologies - Dr Luiza Prado

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Luiza Prado delivers their thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Ecologies' as sites of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Ecologies - Dr Lindsay Jane Barnes

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Lindsay Jane Barnes delivers their thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Ecologies' as sites of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Ecologies - Dr Åsa Virdi Kroik

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Åsa Virdi Kroik delivers their thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Ecologies' as sites of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Ecologies - Professor Barry Bogin

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', guest speaker Professor Barry Bogin delivers his thoughts on the topic.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Ecologies' as sites of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias

Gestation: Ecologies - Introductory Remarks

As part of the IAS Annual Theme for 2023-2024 'Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice', Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Professor Aidan McGarry, and Theme Co-Leads Dr Pandora Syperek and Dr Ana Christina Suzina introduce this roundtable session.
Gestation is an incontrovertibly universal yet deeply varied experience, with complex concerns arising recently through the rollback of women’s rights, gestational inequalities and neo-natal trajectories, imbrication in neo-fascist discourse and novel methods for reproduction, kinship and care. It is a complex negotiation of culture, technology, biology and politics constituted relationally through entanglements of human and non-human agents and practices that extend beyond the flesh. Gestation forms an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning sport, health and medicine, social sciences, politics and law, history, geography, design, arts and culture, with reverberations in (micro)biology and genetics, robotics and AI, post- and transhumanism, disability studies, critical race and queer and trans theory.
This roundtable focuses on 'Ecologies' as sites of gestational realities, bringing together an exceptional group of international scholars to share their wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on the Theme.
For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias