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<div class="">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 the 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."</div>
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<div class="">Hope to see you on Monday, March 13 at 5:00 pm on Zoom!</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="georgia, droid serif, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">CRITICAL TECH TALK 5: “Artificial Wombs: The Disobedient
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<b class="">Claire Horn</b> (Dalhousie) in conversation with <b class="">Alana Cattapan</b> (Waterloo) and
<b class="">Margaret Mutumba </b>(Waterloo).</span></font></div>
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<div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="georgia, droid serif, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Monday,
<b class="">March 13</b>, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | <b class="">Zoom</b></span></font></div>
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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
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additional <b class="">details</b> about the talk, the speakers, and the series, please visit the
<b class="">Critical Tech Talk page</b>: </span></div>
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<div>Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD<br class="">
University Research Chair<br class="">
Past President, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)<br class="">
Founding Director, Critical Media Lab<br class="">
Department of English<br class="">
University of Waterloo<br class="">
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1<br class="">
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946<br class="">
<a href="http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca" class="">http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca</a><br class="">
http://marcelogorman.net<br class="">
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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
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