# Community Event: The Maternal Imprint: The Science of the Maternal-Fetal Interface #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 4, 2014** 08:30AM - 05:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Thompson Room (room 110), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge** 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, ) 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 Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://mbb.harvard.edu/node/170116/event-feed.ics) Copy link link