Students Speakers Programme. Workshops Resources
Find all the resources from your online Summer School here. You will have access to all the below videos, articles and recordings until August 31
Links to Artist’s Videos and General Resources
Watch ‘Microbiome’ by François-Joseph LaPointe
Watch ‘Come Home’ by Marta Stysiak
(Password: birthrites2021)
Listen to ‘Anamnesis : The Amulet’ by Marie Brett, Butterfly
Listen to ‘Anamnesis : The Amulet’ by Marie Brett, Wooden Box
Watch ‘Mothership’ by Sarah Lawton
(Password: Birth Rites Summer School 2025)
Download the digital exhibition - Reproduction and the State
Online Summer School Recordings July 2026 - these will be published weekly
July 1st Recording - Introduction to the summer school / introduction to the cohort / tour of the collection at King’s College and digital exhibition on the State and Reproduction.
July 8 Introduction - Saying hello and introducing the session
Breakout Room (Helen group) password: breakout
Breakout group (Leni group) password: breakoutleni
Leni Dothan lecture password: lenidothan (from 2025) NB. her performance lecture for 2026 is not recorded on zoom and if you missed this, it is not possible to rewatch (as per the contract) but you can access this lecture about her work recorded last year.
Andrea Khora - tech intro and support
July 15 Introduction - tutorials - Candice Breitz
July 18 Censorship Talk - password : Censor
Jury Debate - password: Censor
July 22 - General conversation - Sarah Sudhoff - Rayvenn Sheila D’clarke
July 29 - final screening and discussion ; Password: brcsummerschool2026
Bibliography
Books, Essays and Memoirs:
Reproductive Politics & Feminist Theory
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution – Adrienne Rich
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging – Lucy van de Wiel
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction – Emily Martin
Full Surrogacy Now – Sophie Lewis
The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History – Emma L.E. Rees
Our Bodies, Ourselves – Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth – Ina May Gaskin
Spiritual Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin
The Midwives Book – Jane Sharp
Philosophy, Time & Subjectivity
Enduring Time – Lisa Baraitser
The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption – El Putnam
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype – Erich Neumann
A Woman's Right to Know -Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Photography & Visual Culture
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs – Sally Mann
Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood – Edited by Susan Bright
Hidden Mothers – Clare Hughes (Photographic Project on Hyperemesis Gravidarum)
Maternal Aesthetics, Art & Creative Practice
Post-Partum Document – Mary Kelly
Deeper in the Pyramid – Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie
Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts – Rosemary Betterton
Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity – Rachel Epp Buller & Charles Reeve
Feminist Art and the Maternal – Andrea Liss
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother – Katerina Bosse
From the Centre: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art – Lucy Lippard
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking – Catherine McCormack
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – Hettie Judah
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births – Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick
Tracey Emin – Carl Freedman
Podcasts
Woman Up! – Amy Dignam and Susan Merrick
Conceiving Pregnancy – LRB Podcast (16 April 2025)
Historian Erin Maglaque discusses historical and evolving understandings of conception, from 16th-century astrology to 20th-century frog pregnancy tests and modern-day practices.
Watch: Freezing Fertility – Documentary on reproductive technology and gender politics
Recent & Upcoming Publications
Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care – Dennis ter Wal (2025, Valiz)
— Includes contributions from diverse voices and reflects on the myths, politics, and poetics of motherhood.
Projects, Initiatives & Communities
MAMSIE – Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics
Cultural Reproducers – Artist-mother network and platform
Procreate Projects – Supporting artists who are mothers
Technical Support
How to use Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/571257434
How to use YouTube: https://vimeo.com/433386328
How to use Capcut:
https://vimeo.com/1090162923
Password: summerschool2025