Oct 14, 2022
"Childbirth Technologies"— Reading Group
- 19:00 to 20:30
- Reading Group
- Dept. III
![Illustration of tools for midwifery, 1793](/sites/default/files/styles/content_central_image/public/2022-09/14597607078_a1f58e4ac8_o_1.jpg?itok=1NdgS002)
Image from page 146 of "A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases" (1793)
Contact and Registration
For registration or any questions about the meetings please contact ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Zoom link will be provided via request ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly reading and works-in-progress group will investigate childbirth technologies across regions, cultures, and time periods. Guiding questions include how technologies emerge from childbirth-related practices and how practices change reproductive bodies and obstetrical tools. We will discuss our own work-in-progress as well as secondary literature, depending on the interests of the participants. One focus will be on the comparative epistemic and socio-material relations of these technologies. Instead of understanding knowledge and object as separate issues, we explore how they emerge together and what kind of relations are enacted through them.