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Topic Collection: Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures | Medical Humanities

We are delighted to share our call for papers for Medical Humanities. @georgesevers.bsky.social, Naomi Samake-Bäckert and I are guest editing a topic collection titled “Race, Sexual and Reproductive Health: Histories, Inequalities, Futures. Deadline: 31 October 2026

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The Winter 2025 @bconceived.bsky.social Newsletter is out now: eepurl.com/jvjnhw

Read for updates on the BC edited collection, a winter reading list, and CfPs that have caught our eye!

Wishing everyone a restful end to 2025 and a happy and healthy 2026 ❤️

ONE WEEK ⏰ - CALL FOR PAPERS!
There's still time to submit a chapter proposal for our upcoming edited collection. Deadline: Sunday 30 November 2025, 23.59 UK time.
More info: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/broadly-conc...
Submit abstract: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv

UPDATES / BC Edited collection
First, the call is now open to everyone - you no longer need prior involvement with the network to be considered.
Second, we're pleased to announce that limited bursaries will be available for successful contributors to cover travel costs for the UCL event in June 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS! Broadly Conceived invite chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring new directions in Reproduction Studies.

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Submit a proposal: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv

Deadline: 30 November 2026, 23.59 UK time.

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

Really looking forward to the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th Anniversary later this month, with Tracey Loughran and @joannabourke.bsky.social giving public lectures to help us celebrate! #HistSex #HistRepro #HistMed

Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:

feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference

No Room To Rest: Dalit Motherhood(s) In An Urban Indian Slum Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy reflects on Dalit motherhood(s) as demanding, undervalued, embodied (re)productive labour. She critically explores health research, arguing that Dalit health is…

Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy critically analysis the everyday embodied material realities of Dalit motherhood(s) through the nexus of caste, gender, and economic class.

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