Sex Of Hormones
December 03, 2025
In – Person & Online
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
Date & Time
Wednesday , 03 November 2025
01.30 PM – 02.30 PM (Auckland / Wellington time)
In – Person Attendence
507 – G125, 28 Park Ave, Grafton
Online Attendence
Zoom details
https://auckland.zoom.us/j/94967657133?pwd=7BcvnnQgZJxCmeeAZiJhkbSbgewNmX.1
Meeting ID: 949 6765 7133
Passcode: 897328
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About the Webinar
This seminar invites us to reconsider the language and assumptions embedded in reproductive biology. Dr Appleton discusses how terms such as “female hormones” carry historical, gendered, and colonial baggage that shapes the way we interpret biological matter. Through a feminist and decolonial lens, she explores new ways of understanding progesterone and related hormonal processes beyond traditional binaries.
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Speaker Bio
Dr Nayantara Sheoran Appleton is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington whose research focuses on feminist STS (Science and Technology Studies), reproductive politics, medical humanities, and decolonial approaches to knowledge and science.