Date October 19, 2024 - October 20, 2024 (Taipei Standard Time)
Location Taipei City, Taiwan; Online via Webex
🔗Conference Registration
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNlMFGPIoX892vVOBkHMQYsZhcH9YxHg89yLgx-Wy1QkKArg/viewform
Venue Room 401, Building of Sociology and Social Work Department, NationalTaiwan University
Please join us for the Third Party Reproduction:Governance, Relatedness, and Globalization Conference!
🔗Website
https://sites.google.com/view/thirdpartyrepro2024/about?authuser=0
We are excited to invite you to our upcoming hybrid conference, held bothonline and in person at National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) fromOctober 19-20 (Taipei Standard Time). At the link provided, you'll find fulldetails on scheduling, speakers, and abstracts.
This two-day conference features five thematic sessions and a policyforum, bringing together 14 leading scholars from Taiwan, Japan, Denmark,Australia, and the UK regarding the development, policies, and individualexperiences surrounding egg and sperm donation across various historical andcultural contexts. The five sessions will be held in English, while the policyforum held in Mandarin Chinese. Translation devices will be available fornon-Chinese-speaking attendees during the forum.
We welcome everyone to register to participate either in person or onlineand engage in meaningful discussions! Please fill out the Google Form forregistration—no fee is required.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have decoupled 'sex' from'reproduction,' enabling infertile couples, single women, and same-sex couplesto have children using donated gametes or surrogacy. As third-partyreproduction through sperm and egg donation and surrogacy has expandedsignificantly worldwide, important questions arise: What are the latestdevelopments in these ART networks that are transforming how families arecreated? What new social relationships are emerging as a result? And how shouldthese practices be governed to improve the well-being of all involved?
Since the 1950s, Taiwanese couples have utilized donated sperm to createfamilies. The stabilization of egg donation technology around 2000 furtherexpanded egg donation as a treatment for infertility. From the mid-2010s, anincreasing number of foreigners have come to Taiwan to receive gamete donation,comprising 60% of all gamete donation cycles in Taiwan. Despite this, singlewomen, same-sex couples, and heterosexual couples seeking surrogacy often goabroad for third-party reproduction services due to stringent legalrestrictions within Taiwan. These various family formation practices have drawnpublic attention, particularly amid ongoing discussions regarding majorrevisions to Taiwan's Assisted Reproduction Act. Who qualifies for access todonor gametes and surrogacy services? How can the rights of children bornthrough gamete donations be safeguarded? What measures are in place to ensurethe health and rights of donors and surrogates? How do cross-border medicalpractices affect equity and access to reproductive technologies? Thesequestions are crucial as Taiwan navigates the complexities of assistedreproductive technologies and their societal implications.
PROGRAM
Note: all times listed are in local Taipei time (GMT+8).
OCTOBER 19, 2024 (SAT)
9:30AM - 9:50AM Register
9:50AM - 10:00AM Welcoming remarks
10:00AM - NOON
SESSION ONE: KINSHIP, GENES, AND NEW RELATIONSHIPS
Chair: Andrea WHITTAKER (Monash University)
Who's my Daddy? Reconfigurations of Genes and Kinship asDirect-to-Consumer DNA-Tests and Social Media are Becoming AvailableTechnologies in Everyday Lives
Stine Willum ADRIAN (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)
Donor Anonymity and the Attitudes in Japanese Society Regarding DonorInformation Disclosure
仙波由加里 SEMBA Yukari (Donor Link Japan / Ochanomizu University)
Experiences of Australian Egg Donors Who Have Early Contact (Before 18)with Their Donor Conceived Children and Recipient Parents
Cal VOLKS (La Trobe University Law Department / Monash University AnthropologyDepartment)
NOON - 1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30PM - 3:00PM
SESSION TWO: DONOR EXPERIENCES
Chair: Stine Willum ADRIAN (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway)
Genetic Strangers or Potential Kinship? Egg Donors’ Experiences andExpectations in and beyond Anonymity
黃于玲 HUANG Yu-Ling (National Cheng Kung University)
Whose Story is the Story of Donating Egg and Sperm? On Adult Autonomy andReproductive Connectedness in Third Party Conception
Petra NORDQVIST (University of Manchester)
3:00PM - 3:30PM Coffee/Tea Break
3:30PM - 5:30PM
FORUM: PRACTICES AND REGULATIONS ON DONOR-CONCEIVED CHILDREN'S RIGHTS TOKNOW THEIR ORIGINS
Chair: 黃于玲 HUANG Yu-Ling (National Cheng Kung University)
Discussants
戴瑀如 TAI Yu-Zu (National Chengchi University)
何信頤 HO Hsin-Yi (台灣生殖醫學會監事 Supervisor of the Taiwan Society forReproductive Medicine / 台灣婦產科醫學會副祕書長 DeputySecretary-General of the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology)
白麗芳 PAI Li-Fang (兒童收養身世告知社會工作者 Senior Adoption Social Worker)
黎璿萍 LI Hsuan-Ping (台灣同志家庭權益促進會秘書長 Secretariat of Taiwan LGBTQ FamilyRights Advocacy)
OCTOBER 20, 2024 (SUN)
9:10AM - 9:30AM Register
9:30AM - 11:30AM
SESSION THREE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE OF GAMETEDONATION
Chair: 郭貞蘭 Janet Chen-Lan KUO (National Taiwan University)
History of Artificial Insemination and Sperm Donation in Japan
由井秀樹 YUI Hideki (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences / Universityof Yamanashi)
“Aging of Eggs” and Assisted Reproductive Technology: Population Policiesto Combat Declining Birth Rate in Japan
柘植あづみ TSUGE Azumi (Meiji Gakuin University)
Anticipatory Governance of Gamete Donation and Anonymity Politics inTaiwan
吳嘉苓 WU Chia-Ling (National Taiwan University)
11:30AM - 1:00PM 午休 Lunch Break
1:00PM - 3:00PM
SESSION FOUR: LIFE EXPERIENCES AND CONNECTIVITIES
Chair: 柘植あづみ TSUGE Azumi (Meiji Gakuin University)
The Life Experience of Becoming Parents Through Egg Donation
白井千晶 SHIRAI Chiaki (Shizuoka University)
Egg Donation and the Right to Know Half-Siblings
小門穂 KOKADO Minori (Osaka University)
Proposal for a New Analytical Framework to Govern Surrogacy: Insightsfrom Theories of Vulnerability and Relational Autonomy 雷文玫 REI Wenmay (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
3:00PM - 3:30PM Coffee/Tea Break
3:30PM - 5:30PM
SESSION FIVE: TRANSNATIONAL REPRODUCTION AND RACIAL POLITICS
Chair: Petra NORDQVIST (University of Manchester)
The Market in Third-Party Reproduction in South Africa
Andrea WHITTAKER (Monash University)
From ‘Racial Matching’ to ‘Selective Mixed-Race Privilege’: Taiwanese GayFathers’ Strategic Navigations of Racial Hierarchies in Donor Ova Selection
陳容 CHEN Jung (University of Cambridge)
Transnational Choreography and Reproductive-scape: Practices andExperiences of Transnational Reproductive Journeys by Lesbian Motherhood inTaiwan
胡郁盈 HU Yu-Ying (Kaohsiung Medical University)
* This conference is hosted by the Taiwan Social Resilience Center atNational Taiwan University (NTU), the Department of Sociology at NTU, and theSchool of Medicine, College of Medicine at National Cheng Kung University(NCKU).
Contact Information
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
賴國瑛 LAI Kuo-Ing (laikuo@g.ntu.edu.tw)
吳嘉苓 Chia-Ling WU (clwu@ntu.edu.tw)
