Franco-American Reproductive Technologies workshop, New York University

I delivered a presentation on US Christian embryo adoption at an intriguing workshop co-organized by Rayna Rapp, Séverine Mathieu, and Jennifer Merchant. My presentation, titled “Making the Ethnic Embryo: Enacting Race in US Embryo Adoption," focused on the racial politics of embryo personhood in embryo adoption. Participants in the workshop discussed comparative themes concerning reproductive technologies across very different social, legal, and historical contexts. The role of racism/race in the respective countries emerged as a lively topic of discussion!