Past Present and Future of Reproduction: cross-disciplinary roundtable on Human Rights and Reproductive Technologies

Call for participants: Past Present and Future of Reproduction: cross-disciplinary roundtable on Human Rights and Reproductive Technologies

Are you a Cambridge-based researcher with interests in the interplay between reproduction, technology, and human rights in past or present? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Cambridge Reproduction will be hosting cross-disciplinary roundtable to discuss this theme on the afternoon of 28 September 2026.

Through short talks, expert perspectives, and in-depth discussions, the programme will explore the significance of human rights and rights-based frameworks to the introduction, perception, practical application and governance of reproductive technologies in past and present, and how best to advance equitable and rights-based approaches to future reproductive technologies. Bringing together researchers from different Schools, practitioners and policy-makers, the roundtable aims to foster critical dialogue across disciplines and approaches.

We are keen to hear from participants from any discipline who wish to share case studies from their research on pregnancy, fertility, and genomic technologies with implications for discussions around reproductive rights, the rights of unborn children and those of future generations. These could include but are not limited to IVF, abortifacient drugs, germline editing, IVG, polygenic scoring, prenatal screening and newborn genomic screening.

Please send expressions of interest of no more than 250 words to Rumiana Yotova (rvy21) and Salim Al-Gailani (ssa32) by 15 July 2026.