FORTIES – Fertility over 40s Final Conference
Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua Via Cesare Battisti 241, Padua – Room SC 120
21.11.2025
The Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua is pleased to host the Final Conference of the FORTIES – Fertility over 40s project, a research initiative exploring the social, demographic, and emotional dimensions of fertility beyond the age of forty.
The event will bring together scholars from Italy and abroad to discuss new perspectives on reproductive choices, gender inequalities, and participatory research methods in the study of family and fertility.
Programme
9:30 – Welcome address
Massimiliano Caporin, Vice Director, Department of Statistical Sciences
9:45 – Introduction
Alessandra Minello, Principal Investigator of the FORTIES Project, Department of Statistical Sciences
10:00 – 11:00
Elena Andreoni (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Being (a) patient. Navigating Desire through Online Communities in Assisted Reproductive Technology / Collaborative Filmmaking: the Method as a Process. Co-creation and Reflexivity in Participatory Research on Adoption
Discussants: Ilenia Picardi (University of Naples Federico II), Luca Trappolin (University of Padua)
Chair: Chiara Ludovica Comolli (University of Bologna)
11:15 – 12:15
Elena Vettoretto (University of Padua)
Out of sight, not out of mind. Invisible gender inequality, mental load and fertility intentions in Italy / If I could turn back time: motherhood regret and fertility intentions in Italy
Discussants: Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo), Maria Letizia Tanturri (University of Padua)
Chair: Francesca Tosi (University of Bologna)
12:15 – 13:00
Round table on future research prospects with
Ilenia Picardi, Trude Lappegård, Alessandra Minello, Livia Elisa Ortensi (University of Bologna), and Alessandra Decataldo (University of Milano-Bicocca).
Registration is recommended at the following link:
https://unipd.link/FORTIESFinalConference
The conference will be streamed live on the Department’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@ScienzeStatistichePD
