Literature and the Future of Human Reproduction Online Symposium
20th September 2024, Lancaster University

Literature and the Future of Human Reproduction is an online symposium that will explore the implications of new reproductive technologies in relation to various contemporary literary works.

Through discussion of novels by writers from Edwidge Danticat to Kira Peikoff, four speakers look at some of the social, ethical and cultural issues raised by ectogenesis, genome editing and other reproductive technologies:

Session 1: 09.45-10.45
Aline Ferreira (University of Aveiro), ‘The Future of Reproduction in Eve Smith’s Off-Target (2022) and Kira Peikoff’s Baby X (2024)’

Jayde Martin (University of Birmingham), ‘Big Pharma and the Application of Genetic Modification in the Future: Nancy Kress and the Assetisation of the Genome’

Session 2: 11.15-12.15
María Ferrández-Sanmiguel (University of Zaragoza), ‘Human Reproduction as Posthuman Wound in the Works of Octavia E. Butler’

Clare Hanson (University of Southampton, Emeritus), ‘Ectogenesis in the postgenomic era’

Please register for the event here.

Further details about how to join the event will be shared following registration.