Articulating Abortion
Articulating Abortion series was an interdisciplinary seminar dedicated to exploring the question of abortion across different disciplines. We started the series in the fall of 2022 in response to the fall of Roe v Wade.
Articulating Abortion series was an interdisciplinary seminar dedicated to exploring the question of abortion across different disciplines. We started the series in the fall of 2022 in response to the fall of Roe v Wade.
This talk will consider how contestation around science and medicine appears in litigation and the role of courts in validating controversial, and often incorrect, ideas about abortion from fetal personhood, maternal life, and the safety of abortion.
The lecture will take place at Harvard. Through a comparative analysis of the 1944 pronatalist Family Law and Putin’s pronatalist measures, this talk attempts to identify both constant and shifting choices as well as forces that affect the politics of reproduction today. In addition to policymakers, the talk will address the roles of women, doctors, and the Russian Orthodox Church.
In this lecture, Prof. Durba Mitra (Harvard University, WGS) will reflect on the history of abortion in South Asia and the legacies of racism and sexual control rooted in colonialism that shape present-day debates about reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.
With panelists: Giselle Carino, Hawon Jung, and Chantal Umuhoza- please join us for a zoom panel focused on learning from experts on reproductive justice movements, research, and action in various regions around the world including Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
With panelists: Payal Kumar, Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, Rachel Lorenzo of Indigenous Women Rising, and Dr. Rebekah Viloria- Please join us for a panel which will analyze our current political state, the work advocates and researchers have done, and the future for justice movements in the fight for reproductive justice.
In this talk, Public Health Professor Liz Janiak will discuss mifepristone, self managed abortion, and the political stigma preventing the maximum public health benefits.
This event will take place on April 6 at 4 pm in room 2-105. This event will be open to the public.
Sociology Professor Jocelyn Viterna and Dr. Leigh Senderowicz will join us for an International Women’s Day panel a discussion about abortion and reproductive justice around the world.
This event will take place on March 8th at 4:30pm in room 2-105. All are welcome.
Drawing from her book, Women against Abortion, Haugeberg will explain how women in the antiabortion movement developed and deployed the strategies that led to the downfall of the constitutional right to abortion in the US in 2022.
This event will take place on February 9 at 4pm in room 2-105. This event will be open to the public.
Sociology Professor Zakiya Luna will address the potential for the human rights discourse to deliver on its promise to secure freedom and equity for all.
This event will take place on December 13 at 4 pm in 3-133. This event will be open to the public.
In this talk, Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst will examine the radical possibilities of representing abortion as a strategy to counter anti-abortion discourse through a reproductive justice lens.
This event will take place in room 4-237 at 4 PM on October 17, 2022. Q+A to follow. All are welcome.
Please save the date as Professor of Philosophy Bertha Alvarez Manninen of Arizona State University will be joining us to defend a pro-choice perspective using both utilitarian and Kantian considerations.
This event will take place in room 4-163 at 4 PM on September 20, 2022. Q+A to follow. All are welcome.
