Natalia Bulchenko participated in the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine"

On October 31, 2025, Natalia Vasilievna Bulchenko, a research intern at the Moscow Literary Institute for Social Studies and a second-year postgraduate student at the HSE Graduate School of Sociological Sciences, presented a paper at the interdisciplinary conference "Comorbidity Field 2.0: Sociocultural Dimensions of Health, Illness, and Medicine," organized by the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, the HSE Faculty of Humanities, the HSE Ronald Franklin Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, the Student Research Society of the Department of History of the HSE St. Petersburg School of Humanities and Arts, and the HSE Research and Study Group "History of Russian Psychiatry: New Approaches to Study."

The roundtable discussion  "Female Fertility and Reproductive Choice: Tradition and Modernity  ," moderated by  Tatyana Leonidovna Kuksa  (medical anthropologist, HSE University) and  Anastasia Mikhailovna Starkova  (HSE University in St. Petersburg), brought together folklorists, historians, obstetricians and gynecologists, and lawyers to present papers on various aspects of female corporeality.  Natalia Bulchenko  presented a paper titled  "Reproductive Violence through Harmful Cultural Practices: A Cross-Country Analysis  ," the findings of which are part of a study on international gender inequality conducted by  the project group "Social Order in the Transforming Social Sphere: Macro- and Micro-Analysis"  (group leader:   Olga Borisovna Savinskaya  ). The interdisciplinary nature of the roundtable on the highly topical issue of women's reproductive choices significantly enriched discussions on motherhood, reproductive technologies, and medical practices in the context of both women's agency and social inequality based on gender.