Lectures

I give talks, lectures and poetry readings, mostly on subjects related to reproductive justice, such as philosophy of birth and pregnancy, midwifery, abortion, obstetric violence, and abolitionist reproductive care. For requests please contact me via rodantevanderwaal@gmail.com

Upcoming

27/09 Festival SCH/OUDERS

27/09 Festival ILFU, Exploring Stories

Past

Lecture on my book Birth Justice at the University of Amsterdam, anthropology department, March 13.

Lecture on Obstetric Violence at the University of Oxford, March 15.

Presentation on Abolitionist Care at conference Reproductive Horizons of Abolition, March 27-28, University of Amsterdam.

Keynote lecture on my book Birth Justice at midwifery conference LEV, May 9th, Ede, the Netherlands.

Lecture on sexual and reproductive health and rights, at the Dutch MA midwifery program, July 3d, the Netherlands.

Evening on Birth and Abortion in Poetry. Poetry reading and panel at Perdu, February 21st, Amsterdam.

Lecture and panel at an evening on Reproductive Justice at Spui25, February 13th, Amsterdam.

Poetry reading at Perdu, January 31, Amsterdam

Poetry reading and panel at a VOX-POP event on abortion and mourning, December 2024, University of Amsterdam.

Lecture on obstetric violence at the University of Vienna, November 2024.

Lecture on obstetric violence at the University of Amsterdam, November 2024.

Lecture in Brussels on obstetric violence and abolitionist care at Zwanger in Brussel, November 2024.

Lecture at conference on abortion at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, November 2024: ‘Mini-Conference: 40 Years of Abortion Legislation in the Netherlands.’

Keynote lecture at the Society of Women In Philosophy conference, University of Cork, Ireland, September 2024.

Lecture on the philosophy of the placenta at the show of artist Farah Widmer, NDSM, Amsterdam, May 2024.

Presentation on violence and care at the Futures of Care conference at the American University of Paris, May 2024.

Panel at Pakhuis de Zwijger at an event about Bahareh Goodarzi & Daan Borrel’s Baren buiten de box, Amsterdam, April 2024.

Panel at SPUI25 on the politics of fertility, Amsterdam, April 2024.

Presentation on ‘abolitionist care’ in a seminar with Joan Tronto for international women’s day at the University for Humanistic Studies, March 8 2024.

Lecture at the NVOG (National Organization for Gynaecologists and Obstetricians) abortion conference in The Netherlands, February 2024.

Presentation at Reproductive Justice conference at the University of Amsterdam, February 2024.

Lecture at the Polymaternalism Winter School at the University of Antwerp, February 2024.

Lecture at CUNY, sociology department, New York, December 2023.

Lecture at the MA program in Midwifery in The Netherlands, December 2023.

Presentation at the Hypathia conference, Oregon, September 2023.

Presentation at Humboldt University, Anthropology department, Berlin, June 2023.

Presentation at the Reproductive Justice conference from the University of Cambridge, April 2023.

Presentation at the Normal Labour and Birth conference, UK, April 2023.

Presentation at the Abortion and Borders conference, Kings College London, April 2023

Presentation at the Anarchism and collective responsibility conference, University of Antwerp, March 2023.

Presentation “Liberating the Captive Maternal” at the Philosophy of Birth workshop at the University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, February 10 2023.

Presentation “Obstetric Abolition” at the ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) seminar on abolition, University of Amsterdam, January 31 2023.

Lecture “The Pregnant Posthuman”, LOVA Winterschool “Motherhood & Feminisms”, Amsterdam, NL, December 18 2022.

Masterclass “Obstetric Violence” for Midwives, Vraag de Vroedvrouw, November 8 2022.

Lecture “Laying Bare the Haunted Postpartum for a Gestational Justice-To-Come” in the lecture series “Breaking the Frame: Obstetric Violence Dialogues”. University of Pretoria, South Africa, July 2022

Presentation at Rosi Braidotti’s Farewell Symposium, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 2022. 

Panel “Feminist Futures and the Question of Birth” & presentation: “Reproductive Justice Reconceived in Abolitionist and Anarchofeminist Futures” at the Reproductive Futures Conference, Tampere University, Finland, June 2022.

Presentation at the Signs of Life conference, Leiden, NL, April 2022.

Lecture “The Pregnant Posthuman: Hacking the modern subject through natality, fertility and birth” at the Malmö Art Acadamy, February 2022.

Presentation on postcolonial and care-ethical perspectives on obstetric violence, Medical Humanities initiative, Koç University, Istanbul, TR, October 2021.

Class on care-ethics and intersectionality, University for Humanistic Studies, Care Ethics Department, Utrecht, NL, October 2021.

Presentation on obstetric violence & abolition. Politics of Reproduction conference, CAPPE, University of Brighton, UK, September 2021.

Lecture on birth, postpartum psychosis and the spirit of the revolution, Moeder op drift symposium, Stichting Psychiatrie en Filosofie, NL, June 2021.

“Resisting Negation: Building Solidarity with the Maternal” panel and presentation on obstetric violence and the maternal at the Care Ethics Conference, Toronto, CA, May 2021.

Lecture on obstetric violence, White Ribbon Symposium, Amsterdam, NL, March 2020.

Class on obstetric violence. Master Care-Ethics, University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, NL, June 2020 & 2021.

Presentation on obstetric violence, EACME, Oxford, UK, September 2019.

Lecture on the genealogy of midwifery and obstetric violence, Nordic Conference of Midwifery, Reykjavik, IS, May 2019.

Lecture on the philosophy of pregnancy, Brainwash festival, Amsterdam, NL, October 2018.

Lecture on the philosophy of pregnancy, Concerning Maternity Symposium, University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, NL, 2017.