Exploring contemporary abortion rights in conversation
Date & time
7 November 2025 | 17.30-19.30
Event format
Attend event in person
Event type
Participatory interactive event
Event topic
Equality, Health and wellbeing, Identity, Politics & protest
Audience
Adults
Academic discipline
Sociology and social policy
Venue
Liverpool Independent Arts School: John Archer Hall, 68 Upper Hill Street, Liverpool L8 1YR
What's on offer?
Join us for a discussion exploring contemporary abortion rights and creative ways of challenging restrictive abortion access. We will have a panel of activists, artists, and academics central to advancing abortion rights, including Emma Campbell, an artist-activist-academic based in Belfast and part of the Turner prize winning Array Collective, and Liza Caruana-Finkel, a co-founder of Voice for Choice Malta and a PhD researcher at University of Liverpool.
Our conversation will share experiences from Ireland and Malta and ongoing challenges in abortion access in Britain. We will also be exhibiting some creative outputs from research projects around abortion access, activism, and stigma.
What's it about?
Abortion rights are being challenged all over the world with activists working tirelessly to ensure abortion access and remove restrictive laws. The use of art and creative approaches to highlight abortion rights and fight abortion stigma is vital in this work.
Our event will share approaches in different contexts, including Malta and Ireland, and will help us uncover ongoing barriers to abortion rights in Britain.
We also invite participants to think about their own perceptions around abortion through creative exercises and discussion the day following the panel conversation at "Exploring contemporary abortion rights: a creative workshop".
Who's leading the event?
This event will be led by Claire Pierson, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool (https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/) in conjunction with the Liverpool Independent Arts School.
Panellists for our conversation include Emma Campbell (https://www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell), Liza Caruana-Finkel, Voice for Choice Malta and a PhD researcher at University of Liverpool, and others to be confirmed.
Open to
This event is open to anyone over the age of 18.
Of particular interest to
It will be of particular interest to those involved in feminist activism and movements or in creative methods.
Scheduling information
This event is followed by a creative workshop on Saturday 8th November 10:30-15:00.
Event booking deadline
Booking will close a few hours before the event starts.
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