Event

Feb 28, 2024
Canceled: (Cows, Toads, and Other) Technologies of Reproduction: A Double Book Launch & Film Screening

book cover: Tamar Novick: Milk and Honey. Technologies of plenty in the making of a holy land (2023)
Book Cover of A Woman's Right to Know by Jesse Olszynko Gryn

To mark the recent publication of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey (MIT Press, 2023) and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn’s A Woman’s Right to Know (MIT Press, 2023) this event explores the environmental and social history of reproductive technologies in a globalising world, from late Ottoman Palestine to neoliberal Britain. A panel discussion will unpack the often-fraught entanglements between agricultural/medical innovation and animal/human fertility across the biopolitical regimes of settler colonialism and market capitalism. Along the way, we will encounter a range of actors, including beekeepers, goat herders, mouse breeders, toad collectors, and women as settlers, patients, producers, consumers, lab technicians, feminists, and a source of hormone-rich urine. The event will conclude with a screening and discussion of Lucy Beech’s Flush, a short film made with support of the MPIWG. All welcome!

 

Program

11:00–12:30

Panel discussion

Commentators: Claire Jones and Gala Rexer

Moderation: Dora Vargha

12:30–13:00

Light lunch

13:00–14:00

Flush with artist Lucy Beech

Address
MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room
Main Conference Room
Contact and Registration
2024-02-28T11:00:00SAVE IN I-CAL 2024-02-28 11:00:00 2024-02-28 14:00:00 Canceled: (Cows, Toads, and Other) Technologies of Reproduction: A Double Book Launch & Film Screening To mark the recent publication of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey (MIT Press, 2023) and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn’s A Woman’s Right to Know (MIT Press, 2023) this event explores the environmental and social history of reproductive technologies in a globalising world, from late Ottoman Palestine to neoliberal Britain. A panel discussion will unpack the often-fraught entanglements between agricultural/medical innovation and animal/human fertility across the biopolitical regimes of settler colonialism and market capitalism. Along the way, we will encounter a range of actors, including beekeepers, goat herders, mouse breeders, toad collectors, and women as settlers, patients, producers, consumers, lab technicians, feminists, and a source of hormone-rich urine. The event will conclude with a screening and discussion of Lucy Beech’s Flush, a short film made with support of the MPIWG. All welcome!   Program 11:00–12:30 Panel discussion Commentators: Claire Jones and Gala Rexer Moderation: Dora Vargha 12:30–13:00 Light lunch 13:00–14:00 Flush with artist Lucy Beech MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany Main Conference Room Europe/Berlin public