Hub members Dr Agnieszka Koscianska and Dr Nicolette Makovicky ran the roundtable Liberal practices and conservative global knowledge flows as part of the Gender Wars: East and South Network.
A video-recording of the event is available here.
This roundtable discussed the results of ethnographic and historical research on sexuality, birth control and Catholicism in Poland: Catholicising Reproduction, Reproducing Catholicism: Activist Practices and Intimate Negotiations in Poland, 1930 – Present. On the one hand, Polish Catholics both historically and today negotiate their sexual reproductive practices in ways which go beyond the Catholic doctrine. On the other hand, Polish Catholics actively participate in global movements that promote more conservative sexual and reproductive choices and disseminate anti-abortion discourses. This contributes to the complex picture of Catholicism, sexuality and reproduction in Poland and the world.
