Online, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Margaret Sanger’s first visit to China.  Her visit prompted public discussions of birth control in the service of improving China’s population that continue to the present day.  These conversations and subsequent policies expanded to include many aspects of reproductive health … Continue reading Tina Johnson (Saint Vincent College, PA), “100 Years of China’s Population Strategies: From Sanger to the Three-Child Policy” →

Online, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here In 1930, the Church of England became the first major Christian denomination in Europe or North America to formally condone the use of birth control. The Bishop of Winchester, Theodore Woods, led the reform campaign, and he did so for the expressed purpose of encouraging an … Continue reading Andrew Moeller (Oxford University), ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply? Anglican justifications for fertility-manipulation schemes in interwar England’ →

Online, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here The paper explores the visual artefact that represented the national family planning programme in India: Hum Do Hamare Do (We are Two, will have Two Children). The campaign was created in 1967. It consisted of a couple with two children: a boy and a girl in … Continue reading Aprajita Sarcar (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi), ‘The Family Within a Triangle: The creation, circulation and afterlife of a family planning campaign’ →

Online, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here “The Gospel of Family Planning: Conversion, Missionary Work, and Spirituality in the Mid-20th Century Planned Parenthood Movement” In the early twentieth century, rising population growth rates in the decolonizing world became a subject of international concern and intervention for a variety of actors, from feminists to … Continue reading Laureate Seminar: Nicole Bourbonnais, “The Gospel of Family Planning” →

Online, via Zoom. Register to attend by clicking here About the book: Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Portuguese Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and beyond, Samuël Coghe sheds new light on … Continue reading Samuël Coghe (Freie Universität Berlin), Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, health and transimperialism in Colonial Angola (Cambridge, 2022). →