Conference Programme Published | 10.05.2019Making Families through Assisted Reproductive Technologies
An international conference on the causes, experences and consequences of assisted reproductive technologies will take place in Wiesbaden on 11-12 September 2019. Registration is open until 30 June 2019.
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The birth of the first child after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Great Britain in 1978 transformed public awareness of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). ART helps people who have medical or social barriers to having children. Advances and diversification in ART and broader social, demographic and economic changes in industrialised countries contributed to an increasing use of ART.
The BiB participates with the following contributions:
Wednesday, September 11th
11:30–12:00 Session 1: Infertility and ART
- Jasmin Passet-Wittig, Julia McQuillan, Artur L. Greil, Martin Bujard: Is perceived inability to procreate associated with life satisfaction?
13:30–14:30 Session 2: Children’s outcomes
- Chair: Martin Bujard
14:30–15:00 Lightning round 1: ‘Pitch’ for new projects and research ideas
- Chair: Detlev Lück
15:30–17:00 Session 3: Making families through ART
- Chair: Jasmin Passet-Wittig
Tuesday, September 12th
11:00–13:30 Lightning round 2: ‘Pitch’ for new projects and research ideas
- Chair: Detlev Lück
Poster presentation
- Ronny Westerman: Demographic, lifestyle, and (reproductive) risk factors: The female perspective in infertility research
Nicky Hudson (Director of the Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University Leicester) will present a keynote on “The creation of ‘world families’ via cross-border fertility treatment”.
The conference will be accompanied on Twitter (#RepSoc).