Online conference day
Additional conference panel for online papers, 2-3.30pm BST. Joining link is here.
Adventures in Miscarriage: Preview Screening
A presentation by Emmy-nominated New York City-based filmmaker Cheryl Furjanic about the making of her forthcoming documentary, Adventures in Miscarriage.
Calling on the powers of dark comedy, absurdist performance, intimate interviews, and queer camp, Furjanic pulls back the curtain on the world’s most common pregnancy complication: miscarriage. But she soon realizes she’s on an adventure she didn’t anticipate as the making of Adventures in Miscarriage begins to unlock the filmmaker’s trauma and healing from her own pregnancy loss.
Cheryl will be showing clips from the film and discussing the making of the film. Followed by a discussion with feminist philosopher Jen Scuro, chaired by Victoria Browne.
In-person conference
New Directions in Miscarriage Research: Interdisciplinary, Intersectional and Full-Spectrum Perspectives
In-person two day conference at the London campus of Loughborough University
— with a screening of Adventures in Miscarriage, including Q&A discussion with the film-maker Cheryl Furjanic and drinks reception
Pregnancy Endings panel discussions
Pregnancy Endings in the Hostile Environment, 1pm-2pm
Discussing how immigration policy and NHS charging shape access to pregnancy care for migrant communities in the UK.
Confirmed speakers include: Dr. Anna Miller (Doctors of the World), Dr. Monish Bhatia (University of York)
Pregnancy Endings as a Work Issue, 3pm-4pm
Pregnancy endings at work: who gets support, who is excluded and how labour systems shape those experiences.
Confirmed speakers include: Prof. Ruth Fletcher (Queen Mary University of London), Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran (King’s College London), Dr. Holly Isard (Birkbeck)
Pregnancy Endings photography exhibition
This one-week exhibition is a collaboration between the FMP, documentary photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill and artist-curator Meg Ferguson. Promoting the full-spectrum approach, it challenges the hierarchies and divisions around miscarriage, abortion, birth and other pregnancy endings, demonstrating their interconnectedness and calling for equal recognition, support and care for all.
Panel Discussion: The entanglements of abortion, miscarriage and other pregnancy endings
Susie Kilshaw | UCL
Victoria Browne | Loughborough University
Rachael Clarke | British Pregnancy Advisory Service
Sabrina Das | Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Imperial College Healthcare, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Ruth Fletcher | Queen Mary University of London
Introducing the Feminist Miscarriage Project
Presentation by the FMP Leads at the 'Politics of Non-Reproduction'
workshop at the University of York.