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Reproductive Technologies, Reproductive Justice
February 7鈥�8, 2020

A two-day working conference at 无忧视频 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.

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.

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 鈥渉ybrid-degeneracy鈥� to the current celebratory and valorized constructions of multiraciality.

Conference Sessions and Presenters

Friday, Feb. 7

Session 1 鈥� 1-3 p.m.
鈥� Vivien Hamilton, History of Science, 无忧视频: 鈥淢echanical Womb and Artificial Mother: Designing the Infant Incubator 1900-1950鈥檚鈥�
鈥� Sara DiCaglio, English, Texas A&M: 鈥淎bsent Technologies: Cervical Interventions and Rhetorics of Birth鈥�
鈥� Natali Valdez, Anthropology, Wellesley: 鈥淧regnant Biobits: Time, Matter, and Value in Late Capitalism鈥�
鈥� Daisy Deomampo, Anthropology, Fordham: 鈥淭echnologies of Racial Capitalism: Race, Value, and Human Egg Donation鈥�

Session 2 鈥� 3:30-5:30 p.m.
鈥� Jenny Dyck Brian, Bioethics, Arizona State University: 鈥淭he Trouble with 鈥楳agic鈥� and 鈥楤ullets鈥�: The Nine Lives of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception鈥�
鈥� Ugo Edu, African American Studies, UCLA: 鈥淗ierarchical Medicalization, Reproductive Rights, Sterilization, and the Production of a Fugitive Rights-Bearer鈥�
鈥� Santiago J. Molina, Sociology, UC Berkeley: 鈥淭he Banality of Scientific Progress: An Etiology of the #CRISPRbabies Controversy鈥�

Saturday, Feb. 8

Session 3 鈥� 9鈥�10:30 a.m.
鈥� Katherine Tierney, Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill: 鈥溾�業t鈥檚 in the Zeitgeists鈥�: Knowledge and Perceptions of ART Among Black and White Women Pursuing Graduate Education鈥�
鈥� Camisha Russell, Philosophy, University of Oregon: 鈥淚deal Families and Familiar Ideologies鈥�
鈥� Alyssa Newman, Sociology and STS, 无忧视频: 鈥淐hoosing Race, Choosing Identity: Biology, Culture, and the Achievement of Racial Authenticity through the Selection of a Sperm Donor鈥�

Session 4 鈥� 11 a.m.鈥�12:30 p.m.
鈥� April Hovav, Institute for Practical Ethics, UC San Diego: 鈥淢anaging the Stigma of Surrogacy: Surrogate and Intended Parent Narratives in Mexico鈥�
鈥� Kristen Cheney, Children and Youth Studies, International Institute of Social Studies: 鈥淭he Need for Children鈥檚 Perspectives on Reproductive Technologies鈥�
鈥� Bridget Harr, Sociology, University of New England: Donor-Conceived Siblings

Session 5 鈥� 1:30-3 p.m.
鈥� Alizeh Bhojani, AP Human Rights Policy Counsel, Center for Reproductive Rights: 鈥淗uman-Rights Based Approach to Assisted Reproduction鈥�
鈥� Alicia Bonaparte, Sociology, Pitzer College: 鈥淕lobal Maternal Health and Black Feminist Sociology: Diasporic Research and Interventions as Advocacy鈥�
鈥� Alexandrina Agloro, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Arizona State University, 鈥淓thics of Reproductive Justice Research: Fieldnotes from Community-Based Methodologies鈥�

Session 6 鈥� Closing Reflections Panel 鈥� 3:30-5 p.m.
鈥� Moderator: Francine Coeytaux, Pacific Institute for Women鈥檚 Health
鈥� Participants: ART working group members (Ugo, April, Alizeh, Kristen, Daisy)