BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7950@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T141932Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/conception-and-its-discontents DESCRIPTION:A conference hosted by the Motherhood and Technology Working Gr oup at the Center for the Study of Social Difference on the theme of “Conc eption and Its Discontents.”\nMedical technologies have radically transfor med the biological and social experience of motherhood. Advances in genomi c and reproductive care\, the circulation of novel kinship structures\, th e entrenchment of existing global networks of power and privilege\, and th e politics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.\nTe chnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the understa nding of conception\, but the very process by which a human embryo is crea ted\, implanted\, and matured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, and s urrogacy afford women new freedoms in choosing when and how to become moth ers\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of capita lism and the extension of worklife\, as well as the global inequalities pr esent in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have ari sen allowing for unprecedented control over not just who becomes a mother\ , but what kind of embryo is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Technolo gies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenics\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it means to be “expecting.” And contemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging techno logies being instrumentalized in the building of a sympathetic case for th e unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the misrea ding of technologies for measuring fetal activity.\nWhile these problems a re urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means r ecent developments. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philosophical an d scientific theories regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, such as aut opsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th centuries\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive difference betw een differing racial and social groups\, leading to forced sterilization l aws in both the US and in Germany. This long history of racializing the rh etoric of fertility and motherhood continues to influence political debate s on immigration and demographic changes in the present.\nFull conference details and schedule to come. \nPlease email disability@columbia.edu to re quest disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange fo r some accessibility needs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230510 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd floor common room @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Conception and Its Discontents URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/conception-and-its-disco ntents/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nA conference hosted by the Moth erhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Soc ial Difference on the theme of “Conception and Its Discontents.”
\nM edical technologies have radically transformed the biological and social e xperience of motherhood. Advances in genomic and reproductive care\, the c irculation of novel kinship structures\, the entrenchment of existing glob al networks of power and privilege\, and the politics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.
\nTechnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the understanding of conception\, bu t the very process by which a human embryo is created\, implanted\, and ma tured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, and surrogacy afford women ne w freedoms in choosing when and how to become mothers\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of capitalism and the extension o f worklife\, as well as the global inequalities present in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have arisen allowing for unprece dented control over not just who becomes a mother\, but what kind of embry o is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Technologies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenics\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it means to be “expecting.” And c ontemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging technologies being instrumenta lized in the building of a sympathetic case for the unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the misreading of technologies for measuring fetal activity.
\nWhile these problems are urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means recent development s. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philosophical and scientific theo ries regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, such as autopsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th centuries\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive difference between differing rac ial and social groups\, leading to forced sterilization laws in both the U S and in Germany. This long history of racializing the rhetoric of fertili ty and motherhood continues to influence political debates on immigration and demographic changes in the present.
\nFull conference detail s and schedule to come.
\nPlease email disability@columbia.edu to request disability ac
commodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibilit
y needs
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