Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.53

复旦-LSE讲座系列第53期

Title/题目: 

Fertility exhaustion in the 21st century

生育能力枯竭的21世纪

Speaker/主讲人: 

Ayo Wahlberg, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Ayo Wahlberg教授 哥本哈根大学人类学系

Host/主持人: 

Prof. Jianfeng Zhu, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University

朱剑教授复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院

Discussant/评论人:

Associate Prof. Mei Ding, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University

丁玫副教授复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院

Time/时间: 

12:00-13:20 (Beijing Time), April 9th

北京时间4月9日12:00-13:20

Venue/地点: 

Room 805E, 8thFloor，West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Working in the field of social studies of (bio)medicine, his research has focused on the modernization of traditional herbal medicine (in Vietnam and the United Kingdom), reproductive and genetic technologies (in China and Denmark), health metrics (in clinical trials and global health) as well as chronic living (through a multi-country study entitled The Vitality of Disease - Quality of Life in the Making). Ayo is the author of the award-winning book Good Quality – the Routinization of Sperm Banking in China and co-editor of Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century.

讲座内容/ Abstract: 

Throughout the world, fertility rates are falling while infertility rates are rising as women give birth to fewer children. The global fertility rate is estimated to have halved from 4.7 in 1950 to 2.4 in 2017. In this talk, rather than pointing to women’s increasing use of contraception, educational attainment and participation in paid labour (Vollset et al. 2020), I will argue that we might better understand the empirical demographic phenomena of fertility decline and low fertility by exploring which cultural, juridical and socio-economic factors are generative of what might be termed fertility exhaustion.