Community Event: The Maternal Imprint: The Science of the Maternal-Fetal Interface

Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Interdisciplinary Symposium: The Maternal Imprint: The Science of the Maternal-Fetal Interface
Free and open to the public; registration required (see symposium webpage, http://bit.ly/maternalimprint)

8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast and Opening Remarks

Morning Session: Frontiers in Biomedical Studies of the Maternal-Fetal Interface
9 a.m. - Choose your mother carefully: Fetal origins of health and disease, Janet Rich-Edwards (Developmental Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital)
10 a.m. - The intergenerational origins of fetal nutrition and growth:  cues of the mother’s adult diet or memories from the past?, Chris Kuzawa (Anthropology and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University)
11 a.m. - Fertile soil or no man's land: Cooperation and conflict at the maternal-fetal interface, David Haig (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University)

12 noon - Lunch (provided for registered attendees)

Afternoon Session: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Reflections
1 p.m. - From a culture of certainty to the science of risk factors— A short history of maternal impressions, derangements of pregnancy, and birth outcomes, Janet Golden (History, Rutgers University)
2 p.m. - The permeable pregnant body and the iconography of maternal influence, Rebecca Kukla ((Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University)
3 p.m. - Maternal Cctizens?: The politics of culpability in the maternal-fetal nexus, Cynthia Daniels (Political Science, Rutgers University)

4:15 p.m. - Roundtable Discussion - Moderated by Sarah Richardson (History of Science, Harvard University