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SUMMARY:Sociology Research Seminar: ‘Curious Connections: On the relation
 al and personal life significance of donating egg and sperm’ by Dr Petra
  Nordqvist
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DESCRIPTION:\nYou are warmly invited to the May Sociology seminar\, given
  by Dr Petra Nordqvist\, Sociology.\n\nThe seminar will take place on th
 e 24th May\, 2-3pm\, in the Arthur Lewis Boardroom.\n\nThe talk is entit
 led:  ‘Curious Connections: On the relational and personal life signific
 ance of donating egg and sperm’ \n\nAbstract\nIn a culture that emphasis
 es the importance of genetic connectedness and which holds that vital an
 d enduring family relationships pass through genetic reproduction (Edwar
 ds 2000)\, the decision to give away one’s eggs or sperm is radical inde
 ed. The connections that ensue between an egg and sperm donor and the do
 nor conceived child are puzzling and foreign within contemporary family 
 cultures\; evidence suggests that they give rise to sensitivities and se
 crets in family networks. Through recent changes to law and policy\, don
 or conceived offspring can now seek contact\, and so donors are likely t
 o deliberate on how to manage this trend towards openness within the con
 text of their own everyday lives and relationships. To date\, we know ve
 ry little about how the practice of donating\, and the shift to transpar
 ency\, impact on donors’ experiences. This paper introduces a new ESRC s
 tudy in the Department here at Manchester\, starting January 2017\, whic
 h seeks to understand these experiences better by exploring the impact o
 f donating egg and sperm on donors’ personal lives and relationships. In
  particular\, it attends to why it is that personal life is significant 
 to consider in the context of people donating egg and sperm\, and how it
  may be conceptualised and understood. \n
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LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Boardroom\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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