Tackling the overpopulation myth and climate change

Talks and panel discussion featuring: Lisa Tilley, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Development Studies - SOAS University of London, SJ Beard, Senior Research Associate - Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Romola Davenport, Senior Research Associate - Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Featuring academic panel members across the fields of biological sciences, sociology, gender studies, history and journalism these seminars discuss how climate change and reproductive justice intersect. 

Speakers:

Lisa Tilley, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Development Studies - SOAS University of London
(SOAS)
SJ Beard, Senior Research Associate - Centre for the Study of Existential Risk 
Romola Davenport, Senior Research Associate - Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Featuring academic panel members across the fields of biological sciences, sociology, gender studies, history and journalism these seminars discuss how climate change and reproductive justice intersect. 

The first in a series of three in-person seminars. 

• Tackling the Overpopulation Myth and Climate Change
• An Intersectional and Transnational Approach to Climate Change 
• Why highlight the centrality of reproduction when studying climate change?

All three seminar will be held in the Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane. 

A networking reception will follow the panel talks. 

Thanks to the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences for research framework funding

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