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There are pre-circulated papers for this workshop. The papers are password protected, to receive the password please email Wangui Muigai at [email protected] or Anna Francesca Bonnell-Freidin  at [email protected].

 

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About the Workshop:

From Greco-Roman astrology and embryology to contemporary genetic testing, the quest to predict and manage the uncertainties of reproduction has spanned millennia and a range of scientific fields. Ancient debates continue to animate views about the reproductive body and the nature of fetal life. At the same time, innovations in the reproductive technology have renewed and transformed questions about the relationship between a woman and her fetus, birth control and abortive practices, and the nature of scientific expertise. This cross-disciplinary workshop brings together scholars working in the history of reproduction across different time periods and features four panels on different aspects of the human efforts to explain, assess, and control the uncertainties of the reproductive process.

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Workshop Schedule:

This workshop is organized by graduate students Wangui Muigai (History of Science) and Anna Bonnell-Friedin (Classics), and by the advisement of Professor Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Department of Sociology and Professor Erika Milam, Program in the History of Science.