History Speaker Series: Dr Doreen Kembabazi on the global and local politics of biomedical contraception in Uganda

[Anne Leask]

Please join us for the History Speaker Series talk Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/austerity-experimentation-and-opposition-global-and-local> with Dr Doreen Kembabazi (postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University, Belgium; PhD, University of Michigan).

Friday 26 November, 10:00am Eastern via Zoom - please register to receive a link<https://uwaterloo.ca/history/register-global-and-local-politics-biomedical-contraception/> for the talk.

[A portrait of Dr Doreen Kembabazi.]This talk examines the establishment of the birth control project in Uganda by American physician and eugenicist Clarence Gamble as a biomedical endeavour driven by global concerns about the reproductive capacities of Ugandan women and global overpopulation. It shows how these concerns clashed with local anxieties about demographic changes, social and political reproduction, and medical ethics. The talk examines the birth control project in Uganda as a form of reproductive exploitation of women. Dr Kembabazi argues that Gamble's experimentation on women, and refusal to engage the public and their detractors, legitimized the concerns of pronatalist groups who tapped into a global racialized rhetoric that birth control would exterminate the Black race.

For more information about the Department of History's 2021-2022 Speaker Series, please contact Dr. Katherine Bruce-Lockhart.



Anne Leask (she/her)
Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of History
University of Waterloo
uwaterloo.ca/history
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I live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (also known as Neutral), Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.



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