Cambridge Reproduction invites all Cambridge researchers to attend a twice-termly Reading Group on Reproduction to engage with classics and new work across disciplines - all with a central theme of reproduction.
Readings will be added to a Moodle course at least two weeks in advance.
Meetings take place in central Cambridge. Sessions start with an optional sandwich lunch at 12:30pm, discussion from 1-2pm, finishing by 2.30pm
Next session will be early June 2024 - date to be confirmed, sign up to join for the latest updates.
Previous meetings
Wednesday 27 February 2024
Jens M. Scherpe, 'Breaking the Existing Paradigms of Parent–Child Relationships', in International and National Perspectives on Child and Family Law, pp. 343 - 359 (CUP, 2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781780687001.028. Introduced by Dr Brian Sloan (Law).
Wednesday 11 October 2023
François Jacob, The Logic of Life (selection). Introduced by Professor Nick Hopwood (HPS).
For the first session in October we read parts of a history of biology that proposed an influential argument about how research came to focus on reproduction.
Tuesday 28 November 2023
The Second Creation by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge. Introduced by Professor Sarah Franklin (Sociology).
Wednesday 24 January 2024
Oldak, B., Wildschutz, E., Bondarenko, V. et al. Complete human day 14 post-implantation embryo models from naive ES cells. Nature 622, 562–573 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06604-5. Introduced by Professor Kathy Niakan (PDN).
Thanks to the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences for research framework funding
