Previous Events

April 2008, Budapest, Hungary.

3rd November 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
25th Homebirth Australia Conference: Homebirth 25 years on: paving the way in maternity reform
Organised by www.homebirthaustralia.org

13th October 2007, Oxford Brookes University.
Home Birth Conference. Organised by Chichester home birth. "Nature or Culture"

Starting Sept 25th 2007, Tuesdays 9pm.
Bringing up Baby There are snippets of Sheila in the first three of these programs on Channel 4.
Her appearance on this program in no way endorses its making, or the methods of child rearing shown.

29th June 2007, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Campus
3rd Annual National Midwifery Conference So You Think You Can Give Woman Centred Care?

28th April 2007, Oxfordshire Birth Crisis workshop

November 2006 Portugal

7th Oct 2006, Oxfordshire. Birth Crisis workshop

12th July 2006, Cambridge UK. BirthLight Conference. "Birth Trauma - changing the culture of childbirth".

SheilaNPGcE.jpg (20462 bytes) Sheila on 5th June at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Attending the opening of A Picture of Health - Photographs by Julia Fullerton-Batten.
The exhibition includes a photograph of Sheila.
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WECAN - WOMEN EDUCATING CYTOTEC AWARENESS NATIONWIDE
March on Washington DC in May - Let's stop Cytotec!
www.stopcytotec.com
The ACOG is having their annual meeting in Washington D.C. in May 6-10.
Show up and let our voices be heard until they put an end to Cytotec inductions/augmentations!
WECAN put an end to this nightmare of uterine ruptures, damaged babies - save women's uteruses - stop being used as guinea pigs!
E-mail me if you want to join me on this trip. Melissa Emerine - Melissaem1@aol.com

11th March 2006, Oxfordshire. Birth Crisis workshop

3rd December 2005, Oxfordshire. Birth Crisis workshop

19th November 2005, Waterbury Conneticut, USA
Body, Birth and Beyond seminar organized by Birth Partners www.birthwithlove.com
Language, Birth Plans and Manipulation: What do words like "trust" and "choice" really mean? A critique of birth plan research.
Birth, Spirit and Values: Exploring cultural values in childbirth.
Flashbacks, Nightmares and Panic Attacks: Post-traumatic stress after birth. What causes it? How can we help women who are distressed?

6th November 2004, Oxfordshire. Birth Crisis workshop

14 October, Dundalk county, Co. Louth. Ireland's Annual Midwifery Conference - The Politics of Pregnancy
Lecture: "Change and Challanges in Midwifery"

24th September, St Catherine's College Oxford
International Biennial Scientific Meeting.
Lecture: "Women behind bars and their children's emotional mutilation"

23rd August, Edinburgh Book Festival
"Visualising the Fetus" - power point lecture
The Experience of Birth - conversation with Sheila Kitzinger

21st June to 2nd July,
Armenia and Karabagh: The Aftermath: Photographic Exhibition by Paul Mellor
The Stables Gallery, Green College, Oxford

12th June, Cheltenham Festival of Science 3.30-4.30pm in the Pillar Room
"A Social Anthropologist's View of Birth"

25th May, Derry, City Hotel
"Choice and Control in Childbirth: What does it mean?" For further information contact 71345171 ext 3233

15th May, Canterbury, Christ Church University College
Birth - Promoting Normality, Reducing Fear
Midwifery conference to explore ways of building confidence in childbirth
"Birth, Spirit and Social Values"

13th May, 10:00am online chat at ivillage http://messageboards.ivillage.co.uk/iv-ukpbcsection

19th April, 3.15pm, Down Town Radio, Northern Ireland

18th April, 5:15pm, LBC Radio, Charlie Jordan Show

16th April,10:30am, BBC Radio Scotland, Interview with 'The Gary Robertson Show"

15th April, 11:10am, BBC Radio Jersey, Interview with Lisa Bradley

14th April, 8:00am, XFM Radio, Interview with Christian O'Connell

3rd April , Association of Midwives, Braga, Portugal, Antropologia do Nascimento (Cross-Cultural Aspects of Birth)

27th March, Dublin, Home Birth Association of Ireland.

18th March, 4:00 - 5:00pm London
Committee Room 8, House of Commons
All-Party Group on Maternity: Out of sight: out of mind?
The maternity experiences of women seeking asylum. More details from Susan Solanki

6th March, Oxfordshire. Birth Crisis workshop

30th Nov, London
Seminar Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS
Mainly for psychotherapists, stadlen@aol.com

17th Nov
Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
Birth, Spirit and Social Values

18th Oct
BarcelonaHome Birth Conference (Nacer en Casa)
Visualising the Unborn

4th Oct, Standlake, Oxfordshire
Birth Crisis Workshop

29th Sept, London, RCOG
Labour Ward Management Course
Flashbacks, Nightmares, Panic Attacks: Why?

25th Sept, London, Royal Society of Medicine
Forum on Maternity and the Newborn
A cross-cultural view of birth

5thJune, Boston, USA, MA
BACE 50th Birthday Conference - "A Celebration of Birth; Past, Present and Future"
8:30am The Politics of Childbirth Education. 1:30pm Transition to Motherhood

Sheila at the BACE conference in her birth symbol cape with Angela Church, Keepsake Doula Service, Stafford Springs.

Harvard Square Coop Cambridge, MA 6th June, 3pm - 4pm Book signing
17^thMay, Standlake, Oxfordshire Birth Crisis Workshop
Publicity for the new Edition of Pregnancy & Childbirth: choices and challenges Radio Hereford/Worcester BBC Radio Oxford BBC Radio Bristol Vanessa Felz Show -London
3^rdMay, Standlake, Oxfordshire Birth Crisis Workshop
1st March, Adelaide Australian Breastfeeding Association conference Breastfeeding: Birth and Beyond 11:30-12:30 The Transition to motherhood: exploring the role of professionals and woman-to-woman help.
Melbourne, 27th Feb Australian Breastfeeding Association conference Breastfeeding: Birth and Beyond The Transition to motherhood - exploring the role of professionals and woman-to-woman help.	Sheila in Melbourne with Yvette O'Dowd theage.com.au Feb 28 2003 A Federal Government minister, the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women critisised Victoria Labour MP Kirstie Marshall for breastfeeding her 13 day old baby in State Parliament. " I want to see more family friendly workplaces for all women but my main concerns are with helping everyday women with everyday jobs. Sheila Kitzinger, in Melbourne for an Australian Breastfeeding Association seminar, said the incident showed that Parliament was still "an old men's club". "This is violating human rights - the human rights of babies to be fed, the human rights of mothers, and the human rights of fathers" she said " I thought Australia was a progressive society"
Sydney, 21st-23rd Feb The National Association of Childbirth Educators (NACE) 8th National Conference: Families: Myths, Dreams and Realities Keynote address - An Anthropologist's view of Birth Panel debate Workshop - Distress after childbirth
Hawaii, 16th Feb The Midwives' Alliance of Hawaii An afternoon with Sheila Kitzinger Distress after Childbirth: How to Help, How to Heal Nurturing Women, Empowering Women: The Personal and the Political 1 - 4:00 p.m. The Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort Contact: Robin Garrison, charob@maui.net.

Los Angeles 11th & 12th Feb American College of Nurse-Midwives A Social Anthropologist's view of Birth Birth experiences & their relationship to post traumatic stress disorder California Hospital Medical Center, Keck Hall Contact: ginnyglad@aol.com	"My hair stands up all over my body with electricity when I think about the wonderful afternoon we shared with Sheila on Maui. Sheila touched so many hearts when she was here. It was an afternoon that we will always treasure. Thank you Sheila for sharing your wisdom, knowledge and Divine Love." Robin Garrison Midwives Alliance of Hawaii
San Francisco, 8th & 9th Feb 2003 The Mother's Symposium The Universal Experience of Motherhood: Celebrated In Story Choices and Challenges in Childbirth: The Local Perspective 1. The Language of Choice, What do we mean? 2. Nurturing Women; Empowering Women, the personal and the political Blossom Birth Services	Thank you the ones who organized and let us know about the fifth annual symposium for mothers, at Stanford University on last Saturday... ... Ms. Kitzinger was surprising and the way she expressed her thoughts was very strong again capturing and unifying. Her jokes were outrageously beautiful and meaningful, her thoughts about peace, today's world and suffering moms were well expressed, well taken with a great appreciation by me, I am so happy to see such researchers and writers out here and passing information to us and to world. ... Ela [TAPKID Group]
New York, 6th Feb 2003 Maternity Center Association "The birth experience and its effect on the transition to motherhood"
Oxford, 20th Jan 2003 Institute of social & cultural anthropology Fertility and Reproduction Seminars Visualising the foetus: cross-cultural perceptions of the unborn baby
Oxford, A service of healing for Birth Crisis: for women who are unhappy after childbirth with a reflection by Sheila Kitzinger. The Church of the Holy Family, Blackbird Leys, Oxford.
Reading, Sat 5^th Oct 2002 Sheila's Lecture to the NCT Teachers' Forum	References cited Dick-Read G. Childbirth Without Fear: London: Heinemann, 1954. Lamaze F. Painless Childbirth. Paris: La Farandole, 1956. Sherr L. The Psychology of Pregnancy and Childbirth. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1995. Michel Odent,The Farmer and the Obstetrician, Free Association Books, London, 2002 Henci Goer, Assault on Normal Birth: The OB disinformation campaign which you can read at www.midwiferytoday.com use their search facility and look for "disinformation" to find the article. Mittendorf's paper on The Length of Uncomplicated Human Gestation published in Obstetrics and Gynaecology No. 75, 1990 M. Casper, The Making of the Unborn Patient, Rutgers University Press, 1998 Dennis Walsh, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, Vol. 11, Supplement 2, 2001, pp S3-S6 Johanson, Newburn and Macfarlane, Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone too far?, BMJ 324 pgs 89-324