Gestation and Storytelling
16 May 2024, 10 AM – 12 PM, LDN 3.23, Loughborough University London and Online.
Speakers: Nompumelelo ‘Mpume’ Gumede (South Africa), Lindsay Barnes (India), and Åsa Virdi Kroik (Sweden)
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Loughborough University are pleased to invite you for a Speaker Series on Gestation and Storytelling.
During this great round of conversations, three speakers – Nompumelelo ‘Mpume’ Gumede from South Africa, Lindsay Barnes from India, and Åsa Virdi Kroik from Sweden – will share their experience about how stories about gestation, reproduction, birth, and parenting are transmitted through generations and communities, framing the way people deal with carrying and caring life. They will also discuss how mainstream channels (media, health systems, government, NGOs, etc.) proliferate stories about gestation that help (or not) the situation in the community level.
The session will take place on May 16, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. (BST), in person at Loughborough University London (3 Lesney Avenue, Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Parc) and online through Teams.
Register nowAbout the Speakers:
Nompumelelo ‘Mpume’ Gumede
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Nompumelelo ‘Mpume’ Gumede is a participatory health communication for development scholar at the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research interests are in Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), with a special focus on bottom-up approaches to Health Communication. She has worked extensively in the field of HIV prevention and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) on a range of qualitative studies in more than 10 countries on the African continent.
Lindsay Barnes
Jan Chetna Manch, Bokaro
Dr Lindsay Jane Barnes has been working on women’s health issues in rural India for nearly three decades. She helped develop the women’s health initiative of the community-based organisation, ‘Jan Chetna Manch Bokaro’. This involved the training of village women to take care of their own health problems, especially during pregnancy and childbirth, incorporating many positive traditional practices. This led to the establishment of a women’s health centre which provides care to around 1500 women each year and is open as a birth centre 24/7. In recognition of this she was made an honorary fellow of the RCOG in 2014.
Åsa Virdi Kroik
Boska publishing house
Åsa Virdi Kroik received her PhD in religion, specialising in Indigenous and Sami philosophies, from Uppsala University in Sweden, in 2022. Her interests include decolonisation, silence, revitalisation, and indigenous studies. Her previous scholarly publications include the edited volume Indigenous Efflorescence: Beyond Revitalization in Sapmi and Ainu Mosir (ANU Press). Her works focus on transformative political and social change, particularly regarding cultural justice. She runs an independent publishing house focusing on Indigenous issues, particularly in South Sami.