CERCETĂTOR/Researcher
DESPRE CERCETĂTOR (see English translation below)
Lorena ANTON este CSIII (Cercetător științific III) - Marie Curie Fellow în antropologie socială la Universitatea din București (Facultatea de Litere), unde dezvoltă în prezent o cercetare de lungă durată despre sănătatea reproducerii în România post-comunistă, cu accent pe problema avortului. S-a specializat în antropologia sănătății reproductive după un doctorat în etnologie la Universitatea din Bordeaux și Universitatea din București (cotutelă, 2005-2010) cu o teză despre Memoria avortului în România comunistă, și o cercetare post-doctorală asupra migrației și sănătății reproductive în cadrul unui proiect colectiv desfășurat în perioada 2010-2013 la centrul de cercetare francez ADES, CNRS & Universitatea din Bordeaux.
Domeniile sale de interes științific și cercetare predilectă sunt: antropologia sănătății reproductive, antropologia memoriei, studii despre migrație, mișcări de protest și drepturile reproductive, istoria etnologiei/antropologiei în Europa.
PUBLICATII RECENTE:
DE ZORDO, Silvia, Joanna Mishtal & Lorena Anton (eds.) (2016): A Fragmented Landscape. Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books.
ANTON, Lorena (2016): For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceaușescu’s Romania. In A Fragmented Landscape. Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe (eds. S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal & L. Anton), New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 209-225.
DE ZORDO, Silvia, Joanna Mishtal & Lorena Anton (2016): Introduction. In A Fragmented Landscape. Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe (eds. S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal & L. Anton), New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-19.
ANTON, Lorena (2016): Cultural Memory. In Protest Cultures. A Companion (eds. K. Fahlenbrach et al.), New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 130-136.
ANTON, Lorena (2015): Devenir anthropologue entre l’Est et l’Ouest : Auto-ethnographie d’un parcours professionnel nomade. In Les sciences humaines et sociales dans les sociétés en transition. Recueil d'études et témoignages en hommage à Pierre Bidart (eds. R. Zane & P. Claret), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, pp. 134-144.
ANTON, Lorena (2014): ‘On n'en parlera jamais de tout ça !’Ethnographier la mémoire de l’avortement en Roumanie de Ceausescu. Ethnologie Française, no.3 (Temps biographique et discontinuités politiques): 421-428.
DISEMINAREA REZULTATELOR CERCETĂRII REPROAB - selecție:
Cercetări în sfera reproducerii umane: Problema avortului, prelegere pentru studenții masterului în Etnologie, Antropologie Culturală și Folclor, Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea din București – Aprilie 2014.
Health and wellbeing in post-war Europe: the contentious issue of abortion, sesiune de comunicări co-organizată cu Silvia De Zordo (Universitat de Barcelona) și Joanna Mishtal (University of Central Florida) în cadrul conferinței internaționale ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) 2014, Anthropology and Enlightenment, Edinburg, Scoția – Iunie 2014.
For the Good of the Nation? Abortion Politics during Ceaușescu’s Romania, lucrare prezentată în cadrul conferinței internaționale ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) 2014, Anthropology and Enlightenment, Edinburg, Scoția – Iunie 2014.
Practices and Discourses on Reproductive Health between East and West: The Abortion Issue among Romanian (Migrant) Women, lucrare prezentată în cadrul conferinței internaționale Transnationalism, Gender and Migration. The Intersectional challenges of Social Mobility, Universidad de La Laguna, Villa de Adeje, Canary Islands, Spania – Noiembrie 2014.
From Silent Witness to (In)Equal Patient: Changing Positionality While Working on Abortion in European Settings, lucrare prezentată în cadrul inter-congresului internațional al IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences), Dubrovnik, Croația - Mai 2016.
‘Vin ca să plece cu mâinile goale’: Controlul reproducerii în România contemporană, lucrare prezentată la Al Doilea Simpozion de Antropologie Urbană Periferii culturale și spații globale, Muzeul Municipiului București, București, România - Iulie 2016.
Lobbying for the Unborn: Anti-abortion Discourses in Contemporary Romania, lucrare prezentată la conferința internațională 2016 a EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) - Anthropological legacies and human futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italia - Iulie 2016
Lobbying for the Unborn: Anti-Abortion Discourses and Abortion Governance in Post-communist Romania, lucrare prezentată în cadrul Visiting Reseacrhers's Seminar la Fundației Brocher, Eleveția - Iulie / August / Septembrie 2017.
Looking Forward to the Past? On Choice(s) and the Abortion Issue in Contemporary Romania, lucrare prezentată la conferinșa internațională X AFIN International Conference: Reproductive Politics, Rights, and Desires, Barcelona, Spania - Noiembrie 2017.
Fertility and TFR (total fertility rate) in Romania, 1960-2010
Source: INSEE (National Institute of Statistics) 2012.
ABOUT THE RESEARCHER
Lorena ANTON is CSIII (cercetător științific III)-Marie Curie Fellow in social anthropology at University of Bucharest (Faculty of Letters), where she is presently working on a long-term research on reproductive health in post-communist Romania (with focus on the abortion issue). She specialized in anthropology of reproductive health after a PhD in ethnology at University of Bordeaux & University of Bucharest (cotutelle, 2005-2010), with a thesis on The Memory of Abortion in Communist Romania, and a postdoctoral research on migration and reproductive health, part of a collective research project developped between 2010 and 2013 at the French research center ADES, CNRS & University of Bordeaux.
Her current research interests are: anthropology of reproductive health, anthropology of memory, migration studies, protest movements and reproductive rights, history of ethnology/anthropology in Europe.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
DE ZORDO, Silvia, Joanna Mishtal & Lorena Anton (eds.) (2016): A Fragmented Landscape. Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books.
ANTON, Lorena (2016): For the Good of the Nation: Pronatalism and Abortion Ban during Ceaușescu’s Romania. In A Fragmented Landscape. Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe (eds. S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal & L. Anton), New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 209-225.
DE ZORDO, Silvia, Joanna Mishtal & Lorena Anton (2016): Introduction. In A Fragmented Landscape. Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe (eds. S. De Zordo, J. Mishtal & L. Anton), New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 1-19.
ANTON, Lorena (2016): Cultural Memory. In Protest Cultures. A Companion (eds. K. Fahlenbrach et al.), New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 130-136.
ANTON, Lorena (2015): Devenir anthropologue entre l’Est et l’Ouest : Auto-ethnographie d’un parcours professionnel nomade. In Les sciences humaines et sociales dans les sociétés en transition. Recueil d'études et témoignages en hommage à Pierre Bidart (eds. R. Zane & P. Claret), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, pp. 134-144.
ANTON, Lorena (2014): ‘On n'en parlera jamais de tout ça !’Ethnographier la mémoire de l’avortement en Roumanie de Ceausescu. Ethnologie Française, no.3 (Temps biographique et discontinuités politiques): 421-428.
DISSEMINATION OF REPROAB FINDINGS-selection:
Cercetări în sfera reproducerii umane: Problema avortului (Researching human reproduction: the abortion issue), lecture for the master students in Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and Folklore, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest – April 2014.
Health and wellbeing in post-war Europe: the contentious issue of abortion, panel co-organized with Silvia De Zordo (Universitat de Barcelona) and Joanna Mishtal (University of Central Florida) for the international conference ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) 2014, Anthropology and Enlightenment, Edinburg, Scotland – June 2014.
For the Good of the Nation? Abortion Politics during Ceaușescu’s Romania, paper presented at the international conference ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) 2014, Anthropology and Enlightenment, Edinburg, Scotland – June 2014.
Practices and Discourses on Reproductive Health between East and West: The Abortion Issue among Romanian (Migrant) Women, paper presented at the international conference Transnationalism, Gender and Migration. The Intersectional challenges of Social Mobility, Universidad de La Laguna, Villa de Adeje, Canary Islands, Spain – November 2014.
From Silent Witness to (In)Equal Patient: Changing Positionality While Working on Abortion in European Settings, paper presented at Inter-Congress 2016 of IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences), Dubrovnik, Croatia - May 2016.
‘Vin ca să plece cu mâinile goale’: Controlul reproducerii în România contemporană [’They are coming to go back empy-handed’: Controlling reproduction in Contemporary Romania], paper presented at the 2nd Symposium of Urban Anthropology - Cultural Peripheries and Global Spaces, Museum of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania - July 2016.
Lobbying for the Unborn: Anti-abortion Discourses in Contemporary Romania, paper presented at EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)’s 2016 International Conference - Anthropological legacies and human futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy - July 2016.
Lobbying for the Unborn: Anti-Abortion Discourses and Abortion Governance in Post-communist Romania, paper presentations at Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland - July, August & September 2017.
Looking Forward to the Past? On Choice(s) and the Abortion Issue in Contemporary Romania, paper presented at the X AFIN International Conference: Reproductive Politics, Rights, and Desires, Barcelona, Spain - November 2016.
