Ethics and Politics of Family and Reproduction
Autumn 2025
September 22, 2025
Irene Olivero (Independent researcher): Choosing Not to Create: Procreative Responsibility and the Ethics of Abortion
October 13, 2025
Luara Ferracioli (University of Sydney): Commercial Surrogacy as Illegitimate Work
October 20, 2025
Johanna Rensing (University of Basel): Friendship as the Ideal Co-Parenting Relationship
October 27, 2025
Ji-Young Lee (University of Copenhagen): Is ‘Social’ Surrogacy Ethically Justified?
November 3, 2025
Kalle Grill (Umeå University): Are We Morally Responsible for Our Descendants’ Harmful Consumption?
November 10, 2025
Riccardo Spotorno (Independent researcher): Raising Children under Moral Uncertainty
November 17, 2025
Fiona Woollard (University of Southampton): First Steps in a Moderate Account of Parental Duties: the source of parental duties
November 24, 2025
Connor Kianpour (Rhodes College): A Moderate Defense of Race Randomization in Adoption
December 1, 2025
Hannah Assunta Bolt (University of Basel): Rethinking Parental Leave: A bioethical approach to reducing perinatal loneliness through shared and expanded care
Spring 2025
March 3, 2025
Anca Gheaus (Central European University): Multiple caring relationships
March 17, 2025
Herjeet Marway (University of Birmingham): A decolonial transnational commercial surrogacy? A tripartite-hybrid model
March 24, 2025
Francesca Miccoli (University of Basel): Poly-parenting and the law: a perfectionist defense
April 7, 2025
Lucia Cucchi (University of Milan): Beyond Neutrality: The case for Feminist Education in Schools
April 14, 2025
Tamara Jugov (Technische Universität Dresden): Philosophy of Exhaustion
April 28, 2025
Jenny Brown (University of Warwick): Lactation, childrearing, and gender justice
May 5, 2025
Livia von Samson (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Why family abolition?
May 12, 2025
Vera Tripodi (Polytechnique of Turin): The Right and Unfair Aspects of Artificial Womb Technology
May 19, 2025
Ezio Di Nucci (University of Copenhagen): Children: the WHY question
Autumn 2024
September 16, 2024
Teresa Baron (University of Nottingham): Ethics in the ‘grey zone’: Parental decision-making and periviability
September 23, 2024
Anna Smajdor (University of Oslo): The ethics of person-generation for fulfilment of relationship needs
October 14, 2024
Andrea Martani (University of Basel): Medically appropriate but legally forbidden? An empirical study on dilemmas encountered by Swiss care professionals in counselling patients for Medically Assisted Reproduction
October 21, 2024
Timothy Fowler (University of Bristol): Independence for perfectionists
October 28, 2024
Johanna Rensing (University of Basel): What kind of relationship is co-parenting? A Conceptual Definition of Co-Parenting
November 11, 2024
Sabine Hohl (University of Basel): Solo parenting by choice
November 18, 2024
Danielle Levitan (LMU Munich and University of Basel): Autonomy and Relationships-based Duties
November 25, 2024
Alice Margaria (University of Zurich): The Future of Egg Donation (and Beyond) in Switzerland
Spring 2024
March 11, 2024
Riccardo Spotorno (University of Pavia): Children’s vulnerability and higher moral status
March 18, 2024
Devon Cass (University of Manchester): Non-domination, Equality of Status, and Children
April 8, 2024
Liam Shields (University of Manchester): Explaining the Difference Between Current and Prospective Childrearing
April 15, 2024
Francesca Miccoli (University of Basel): Legal regulation of commercial surrogacy: a feminist proposal
April 22, 2024
Angela Martin and Sabine Hohl (University of Basel): A duty to raise children plant-based?
April 29, 2024
Daniela Cutas (University of Lund): Familial procreative interests: what are they and who has them?
May 13, 2024
Elsa Kugelberg (University of Oxford): Sexual standing
The seminars will be held on Zoom on Mondays, 2.15-3.45 pm CET/CEST, and they will be pre-read.
If you are interested in attending, please write an email to justparenthood.project@gmail.com
We will circulate the Zoom link and the paper in due time.
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