Gender and Feminist Studies Research Panel

We’re delighted to announce another gender and feminist studies research panel this term, which is an opportunity for colleagues at UCL to exchange work-in-progress ideas.

Lunchtime panels take the form of two fifteen-minute, informal talks with half an hour for discussion. To present an aspect of your current research-in-progress please email ucl.gfrn@ucl.ac.uk

For this event we are pleased to welcome Carolina Topini, who works on the history of the global women's health movement, with a focus on feminist international meetings and campaigns against population control policies.

Her paper will focus on the International Tribunal on Reproductive Rights, a landmark event in global feminist history, held in Amsterdam in 1984 and organised by the International Campaign for Abortion, Sterilisation and Contraception (ICASC), a grassroots organisation founded in London in 1975. The Tribunal brought together over 400 women from 58 different countries under the slogan 'Population Control - No. Women Decide', and it marked a shift from a predominantly white European movement focused solely on the right to abortion and contraception to a global movement that also addressed issues of interlocking oppressions, population control, sterilisation, maternal mortality, forced heterosexuality and disability.