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Stine Willum Adrian is an Associate Professor in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is trained as a sociologist and holds a PhD in feminist STS and cultural analysis from the Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Adrian’s work has always been interdisciplinary joining ethnography of medical technologies and feminist theory with cultural analysis, ethics and law. Her research interests lie in questions concerning reproductive technologies of life and death, gender, intersectionality, the entanglement of technologies, ethics and ethnographic methods. Theoretically she is particularly interested in feminist materialisms.
Over the years, Adrian has carried out several comprehensive ethnographic fieldworks of reproductive technologies. Her PhD engaged in new creation stories at fertility clinics and sperm banks in Denmark and Sweden. By following egg, sperm and the embryos as field imaginaries, she inquired into what emerge, as reproductive technologies are used at fertility clinics. Subsequently she has studied the globalization of Danish sperm and the increase in fertility travelers coming to Denmark for donor sperm. This study got her engaged in inquiring how ethics emerge and is being negotiated in relation to sperm banking and sperm donation. Currently Adrian is researching kinship, love and legacy, as men are having sperm deposits in private sperm banks.
As a PI, Adrian recently received a grant from the Danish Independent Research Fund for the project called Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life. The research program, draws on Adrian’s extensive techno-anthropological research experiences studying the technologies of life. In this project this agenda is turned around, now focusing on technologies of death by asking: How does technology remake death and dying at the beginning of life?Adrian is published in journals like European Journal of Women’s Studies, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, and BioSocieties.
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Projects
Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life
Adrian, S. W., Heinsen, L. L., Bach, A. S. & Herrmann, J. R.
Independent Research Fund Denmark
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research
Ice Age: Entangled Lives, Times, and Ethics in Fertility Preservation.
01/08/2017 → 31/07/2020
Project: Research
KinTra: (Trans)Formations of Kinship: Travelling in Search of Relatedness
Adrian, S. W., Kroløkke, C., Hvidtfeldt Madsen, K., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Soelmark, N., Harrison, K. & Myong, L.
03/11/2011 → 31/12/2014
Project: Research
Research Output
Feministisk STS
Adrian, S. W., 2021, (Accepted/In press) Introduktion til STS. 2 ed. Hans Reitzels ForlagResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
Dialogues on agential realism – engaging in worldings
Juelskær, M., Plauborg, H. & Adrian, S. W., 14 Sep 2020, Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Forsker: Man behøver ikke fiktion som 'Tjenerindens fortælling' for at få reproduktionsgys. Der er masser at hente i den danske fertilitetsdebat
Adrian, S. W., 7 Aug 2020, In : Politiken.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Comment/debate › Communication
Monstrous Motherhood. On the edge of reproductive time
Adrian, S. W., Kroløkke, C. & Herrmann, J., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Science as Culture.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Stitching Stories of Broken Hearts: Living Response-ably with the Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life
Adrian, S. W., 1 Jan 2020, In : Australian Feminist Studies. p. 1-15 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
Årets Underviser: Studienævnet for teknoantropologi, bæredygtig design og integrerede fødevarestudier
Adrian, Stine W. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Educational prizes
Activities
Regulating Technologies Of Death And Dying At The Beginning Of Life In Denmark
Stine W. Adrian (Speaker), Laura Louise Heinsen (Speaker), Anna Sofie Bach (Lecturer), Janne Rothmar Herrmann (Speaker) & Annika Frida Petersen (Speaker)
19 Aug 2020
Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
What is in a Sperm Deposit?
Stine W. Adrian (Lecturer)
24 Oct 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lecturers
Diffraktive læsninger af halve hjerter
Stine W. Adrian (Lecturer)
3 Oct 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lecturers
Nettverk for kjønnsforskning
Stine W. Adrian (Visiting researcher)
29 Sep 2019 → 4 Oct 2019
Activity: Visiting another research institution
What is in a Sperm Deposit? Imaginaries of masculinity, reproduction and kinship
Stine W. Adrian (Lecturer)
27 Sep 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lecturers
Press / Media
Fremtidens familieformer: "Velfærdsstaten har meget travlt med at regulere, hvem der skal reproducere sig"
27/08/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Maria og Anders blev rådet til at fjerne et foster: Hvordan skal man vælge en trilling fra?
22/08/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media