Colloquium: Ethics and Politics of Family and Reproduction

Description

Organised in the context of the SNSF Project: “Just Parenthood: The Ethics and Politics of Childrearing in the 21st Century” at the University of Basel.
All the seminars will be held on Zoom, and some meetings will be hybrid. The seminars will take place on Mondays, 2.15-3.45 pm CEST/CET, and they will be pre-read.
If you are interested in attending, please write an email to [email protected] and we will add you to our mailing list. You will receive the Zoom link and the paper one week before the seminar.

September 28, 2026
Teresa Baron (University of Nottingham): Direct-to-consumer fertility technologies and pregnancy-as-project

October 12, 2026
Johanna Rensing (University of Basel): Is It Permissible for a Co-Parent to Unilaterally Exit Their Co-Parenting Relationship?

October 19, 2026
Giulia Cavaliere (University College London): Rescuing and Adopting: A Challenge to the Permissibility of Procreation

October 26, 2026
Fiona Woollard (University of Southampton): What makes parental duties demanding?

November 2, 2026
Alison Toop (University of Leeds): Do we have a collective obligation to care for a fetus?

November 9, 2026
Iason Turner Papaioannou (University of Warwick): Children as Future Workers?

November 16, 2026
Lei Decappelle (University of Ghent): Parents in the Making: A Critical Encounter Between Bioethical Theory and “Homegrown” Accounts of Moral Parenthood

November 23, 2026
Paloma Morales (London School of Economics): Love and Leniency

November 30, 2026
Joseph Millum (University of St Andrews): The goal of parenting

December 14, 2026
Francesca Miccoli (University of Basel): The “tragedy” of publicly funded assisted reproduction

Organisers: Sabine Hohl, Francesca Miccoli, Johanna Rensing
September 28, 2026
December 14, 2026

Link for additional information

Organisers

University of Basel

Sponsoring institution

Department of Philosophy, University of Basel