[acc-cca-l] Critical Tech Talk 5: The Future of Birth

[Marcel O'Gorman]

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Dear CCA/ACC Friends,

I am pleased to invite you to the 5th installation of Critical Tech Talk (CTT), the conversation series that takes an honest look at tech innovation. This instalment, featuring Killam Fellow Claire Horn, is co-hosted by Waterloo's Faculty of Health. Please come out and show your support for a brilliant cross-section of speakers who reflect critically on “the future of birth.” This high-stakes topic is especially relevant in a context where abortion rights are under attack and Elon Musk is pitching for synthetic wombs to help prevent “population collapse."

Hope to see you on Monday, March 13 at 5:00 pm on Zoom!

Best regards,
Marcel

CRITICAL TECH TALK 5: “Artificial Wombs: The Disobedient Future of Birth"
Featuring Claire Horn (Dalhousie) in conversation with Alana Cattapan (Waterloo) and Margaret Mutumba (Waterloo).

Monday, March 13, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Zoom

Bioethical and liberal feminist commentators have anticipated that artificial wombs (ectogenesis) will benefit all pregnant people. Contemporary ectogenesis technologies, however, are costly projects intended for well-equipped emergency neonatal facilities. Introduced into a world where globalised and racialized inequity in neonatal and perinatal mortality and morbidity are pronounced, rather than proffering universal improvements to care, these technologies are likely to increase existing stratification. This talk explores how the design, implementation, and regulation of artificial wombs may shape the technology’s impact and considers how artificial wombs and reproductive technologies more broadly might be altered if they were disentangled from the spheres of both healthcare and the commercial market.

Please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/critical-tech-talk-5-artificial-wombs-the-disobedient-future-of-birth-tickets-539582213927

For additional details about the talk, the speakers, and the series, please visit the Critical Tech Talk page:
https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/about/critical-tech-talk

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Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD
University Research Chair
Past President, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)
Founding Director, Critical Media Lab
Department of English
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946
http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
http://marcelogorman.net

I acknowledge that I work and teach on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, land promised and given to Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.






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