
Cambridge Festival will run from 19 March to 4 April 2025.
The changing climate is perhaps the biggest challenge facing humanity today. The effects of climate change are distributed unevenly, with those living in the global South disproportionately affected by rising sea levels, droughts, floods, extreme heat and other environmental and social stresses. This will have potentially devastating impacts on maternal and infant health, access to safe birthing and abortion conditions and reproductive autonomy.
Meanwhile, a growing global population may lead to increased greenhouse emissions, especially in richer countries where consumption is highest. However, discourse around the environmental impacts of reproduction has been tainted by racist myths about overpopulation and fertility and a history of forced sterilisation of indigenous and ethnic minority groups.
This year, our Cambridge Festival events address the theme Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate through an imaginative mixture of feature film, documentary, interdisciplinary panel discussions and a multimedia exhibition. Join us for our series of free events and explore the question: so how does climate change affect reproductive choices – and how do our reproductive choices affect the climate?
Bookings open 17 February 2025.
Cambridge Reproduction events at the Cambridge Festival 2025
Panel Discussion and Exhibition
Thursday 20 March 2025, 5.30pm
Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
Join us for a panel discussion and accompanying multimedia exhibition exploring the relationships between the environment and reproductive health, rights and justice.
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Screening of The Climate Baby Dilemma (2022) - plus panel discussion
Monday 24 March 2025, 6.00pm
Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
As part of our Cambridge Festival events series, join us for this free screening of this CBS documentary, followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion and drinks reception.
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Screening of The End We Start From (2023), with introduction
Tuesday 1 April 2025, 6.00pm
Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
Adapted from the book by Megan Hunter.
Introduced by Helen Charman, Director of Studies in English at Clare College, author of Mother State, A Political History of Motherhood