Catherine Waldby
speaking on
Citizenship, Labor and the Biopolitics of the Bioeconomy: Recruiting Female Tissue Donors for Stem Cell Research
Friday, November 6th, 4:10-6pm
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Catherine Waldby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney, Australia. In this presentation, Professor Waldby will explore the emerging tensions between women's voluntary (public good) donation of reproductive tissues for stem cell research and the increasing resort to transactional forms of tissue procurement, for example egg sharing and egg vending. It will locate this tension in both a feminist biopolitical analysis and in the broader dynamics of the global bioeconomy.
This keynote lecture is part of the Invited Workshop:
Embodiments of Science
Other presenters include:
Evan Balaban, Psychology, Montreal
Duana Fullwiley, Anthropology and African American
Studies, Harvard
Christine Hauskeller, Sociology and Philosophy,
London
Mark Liberman, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Reardon, Sociology, Santa Cruz
Marianne Sommer, Science Studies, ETH Zurich
Jennifer Terry, Women Studies, UC Irvine
Mariam Ticktin, Anthropology, New School
On November 6th and 7th, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Barnard Center for Research on Women, and the Barnard Provost Office will be holding a invited workshop on “Embodiments of Science.” The workshop examines the history of present scientific approaches to bodies, identities, and destinies including neurological, genetic, and epigenetic interventions. The workshop will bring together scholars of science and science practitioners to critically discuss the social and political dimensions of neurological, genetic, and epigenetic interventions.
Much of the workshop will and should no doubt focus on issues of race, gender and sexuality within a scientific and market economy, such as the emergence of new markets in genetic ancestry, sexual selection, and so-called disability screening and the social imaginaries that these markets, and the scientific methods and epistemologies they mobilize, produce. But the conference will also address the scientific body within a post-human framework, namely, the epistemological labor of science at the division of species being; the implications of various contests of this division by animal rights theorists; and the simultaneous emergence of a radical disability movement.
The workshop is for invited participants with the keynote lecture open to the public.
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