Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum (CIRF)

What is CIRF?The idea for CIRF grew from the conversations of a group of graduate students and faculty from various departments, including HPS, the Centre for Family Research, Social Anthropology, and SPS, who wish to create opportunities for productive interdisciplinarity.CIRF aims to provide a forum in which researchers from different disciplines and backgrounds can come together to communicate and develop new ideas and form collaborations around a common interest in reproduction.Our ethos is to share work and ideas in a mutually supportive and productive environment.What do we mean by 'reproduction'?We take reproduction in its largest sense as concerning not only biomedical and local understandings of how reproduction occurs, but also the social context in which certain relationships are perceived and reproduced whilst others may not be. Our scope thus includes a range of further themes such as biopolitics, bodies, relations, sexualities, reproductive technologies, as well