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Convergence: Artificial Wombs

How will machine learning (really) affect labor? How will a new artificial womb influence women’s health and reproductive rights? What new science is on the horizon and how do we sort through the ethical, legal, and policy questions we need to ask today to help shape the future we want tomorrow? This month: How will a new artificial womb affect women’s heath and reproductive rights?

Convergence is a live show and podcast that brings two people from vastly different fields into conversation about how emerging science and technology will affect culture, society, and politics in the near future. Hosted by Meehan Crist, writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University, each event will bring out themes and ideas missing when conversations stay siloed.

Guests: legal scholar Kimberly Mutcherson and More!

Kimberly Mutcherson is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers University. Her scholarship focuses on reproductive justice, bioethics and family and health law. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Center for bioethics and the Columbia Law school Center for gender and sexuality law.

Meehan Crist is writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was editor at large at Nautilus and reviews editor at The Believer. Her writing explores the intersection of science, culture, and politics: from sensory deprivation tanks and the KUBARK manual to cephalopod consciousness and climate change. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Tin House, Lapham’s Quarterly, London Review of Books, Scientific American, and Science.











When: Thu., Nov. 9, 2017 at 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Where: Caveat
21 Clinton St.
212-228-2100
Price: $15
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How will machine learning (really) affect labor? How will a new artificial womb influence women’s health and reproductive rights? What new science is on the horizon and how do we sort through the ethical, legal, and policy questions we need to ask today to help shape the future we want tomorrow? This month: How will a new artificial womb affect women’s heath and reproductive rights?

Convergence is a live show and podcast that brings two people from vastly different fields into conversation about how emerging science and technology will affect culture, society, and politics in the near future. Hosted by Meehan Crist, writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University, each event will bring out themes and ideas missing when conversations stay siloed.

Guests: legal scholar Kimberly Mutcherson and More!

Kimberly Mutcherson is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers University. Her scholarship focuses on reproductive justice, bioethics and family and health law. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Center for bioethics and the Columbia Law school Center for gender and sexuality law.

Meehan Crist is writer in residence in biological sciences at Columbia University. Previously, she was editor at large at Nautilus and reviews editor at The Believer. Her writing explores the intersection of science, culture, and politics: from sensory deprivation tanks and the KUBARK manual to cephalopod consciousness and climate change. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Tin House, Lapham’s Quarterly, London Review of Books, Scientific American, and Science.

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