Event

Feb 11, 2025
Communicating Menstruation

Abstract tbc

Saniya Lee Ghanoui is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso and a Research Affiliate at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. Her current book project examines the transnational history of sex education in the US and Sweden during the 20th Century. She has written widely on the history of sex and menstrual education, reproductive rights, and medicine. In addition to her academic scholarship, her public writing has appeared in Time magazine, Nursing Clio, Women’s History Network, Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, and Public Books. She is producing a documentary film about the history of abortion and the 1960s thalidomide drug crisis, and is currently President-elect of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.

Camilla Røstvick tbc

Jana Wittenzellner tbc

 

 

Address
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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2025-02-11T14:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2025-02-11 14:00:00 2025-02-11 15:30:00 Communicating Menstruation Abstract tbc Saniya Lee Ghanoui is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso and a Research Affiliate at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. Her current book project examines the transnational history of sex education in the US and Sweden during the 20th Century. She has written widely on the history of sex and menstrual education, reproductive rights, and medicine. In addition to her academic scholarship, her public writing has appeared in Time magazine, Nursing Clio, Women’s History Network, Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, and Public Books. She is producing a documentary film about the history of abortion and the 1960s thalidomide drug crisis, and is currently President-elect of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. Camilla Røstvick tbc Jana Wittenzellner tbc     Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany Alina Enzensberger Alina Enzensberger Europe/Berlin public