A two-day working conference at Harvey Mudd College brought together a small collection of scholars working on technologies related to reproduction at all stages, including pre-conception, pregnancy, birth and postnatal care, with a focus on issues of equity, access and\/or ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The organizer of this broad, interdisciplinary conference was Alyssa Newman, a sociologist of race and ethnicity. Her research interests center on the production of racial meaning with a focus on multiraciality. She explores these topics through research projects relating to collective identity formation; biology and genetics; the intersection of mixedness and masculinity; as well as family relationships and reproduction. As the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, she is especially interested in assisted reproductive technologies and how they reinforce notions of racial difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Newman received a PhD in sociology with a doctoral emphasis in black studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. Her undergraduate degree is also in sociology from the University of California Berkeley, where she minored in African American studies and demography. Her research on multiraciality highlights the ways in which racialized stereotypes shape notions of mixed-race desirability. Specifically, it traces shifting perceptions of mixedness from early portrayals of \u201chybrid-degeneracy\u201d to the current celebratory and valorized constructions of multiraciality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 1 \u2014 1-3 p.m.
\u2022 Vivien Hamilton, History of Science, Harvey Mudd College: \u201cMechanical Womb and Artificial Mother: Designing the Infant Incubator 1900-1950\u2019s\u201d
\u2022 Sara DiCaglio, English, Texas A&M: \u201cAbsent Technologies: Cervical Interventions and Rhetorics of Birth\u201d
\u2022 Natali Valdez, Anthropology, Wellesley: \u201cPregnant Biobits: Time, Matter, and Value in Late Capitalism\u201d
\u2022 Daisy Deomampo, Anthropology, Fordham: \u201cTechnologies of Racial Capitalism: Race, Value, and Human Egg Donation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 2 \u2014 3:30-5:30 p.m.
\u2022 Jenny Dyck Brian, Bioethics, Arizona State University: \u201cThe Trouble with \u2018Magic\u2019 and \u2018Bullets\u2019: The Nine Lives of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception\u201d
\u2022 Ugo Edu, African American Studies, UCLA: \u201cHierarchical Medicalization, Reproductive Rights, Sterilization, and the Production of a Fugitive Rights-Bearer\u201d
\u2022 Santiago J. Molina, Sociology, UC Berkeley: \u201cThe Banality of Scientific Progress: An Etiology of the #CRISPRbabies Controversy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 3 \u2014 9\u201310:30 a.m.
\u2022 Katherine Tierney, Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill: \u201c\u2018It\u2019s in the Zeitgeists\u2019: Knowledge and Perceptions of ART Among Black and White Women Pursuing Graduate Education\u201d
\u2022 Camisha Russell, Philosophy, University of Oregon: \u201cIdeal Families and Familiar Ideologies\u201d
\u2022 Alyssa Newman, Sociology and STS, Harvey Mudd College: \u201cChoosing Race, Choosing Identity: Biology, Culture, and the Achievement of Racial Authenticity through the Selection of a Sperm Donor\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 4 \u2014 11 a.m.\u201312:30 p.m.
\u2022 April Hovav, Institute for Practical Ethics, UC San Diego: \u201cManaging the Stigma of Surrogacy: Surrogate and Intended Parent Narratives in Mexico\u201d
\u2022 Kristen Cheney, Children and Youth Studies, International Institute of Social Studies: \u201cThe Need for Children\u2019s Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies\u201d
\u2022 Bridget Harr, Sociology, University of New England: Donor-Conceived Siblings<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 5 \u2014 1:30-3 p.m.
\u2022 Alizeh Bhojani, AP Human Rights Policy Counsel, Center for Reproductive Rights: \u201cHuman-Rights Based Approach to Assisted Reproduction\u201d
\u2022 Alicia Bonaparte, Sociology, Pitzer College: \u201cGlobal Maternal Health and Black Feminist Sociology: Diasporic Research and Interventions as Advocacy\u201d
\u2022 Alexandrina Agloro, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Arizona State University, \u201cEthics of Reproductive Justice Research: Fieldnotes from Community-Based Methodologies\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 6 \u2014 Closing Reflections Panel \u2014 3:30-5 p.m.
\u2022 Moderator: Francine Coeytaux, Pacific Institute for Women\u2019s Health
\u2022 Participants: ART working group members (Ugo, April, Alizeh, Kristen, Daisy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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