Upcoming Talks
Oct 6, Cornell University
Oct 24, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nov 6, Yale University
Past Invited Talks
2023, Feb. Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center.
2022, Oct. University of California, Berkeley, Center for Social Medicine.
2022, Oct. “Writing Epigenetics and Future Health Through Black Feminist Theory” University of California, Los Angeles, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health.
2022, Oct. Department of Anthropology, Scripps College.
2022, Oct. Department of Anthropology, Duke University.
2022, Sept. University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology.
2022, July. Universidad de los Andes, School of Medicine, Bogotá, Colombia.
2022, July. “Humanizing Birth: Critical Midwifery Studies Summer School” London, England.
2022, May. Gray/Wawro Lectures in Gender, Health, and Well-Being, Center for the study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University.
2022, April. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, England.
2022, April. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
2022, April. Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria.
2022, March. Department of Sociology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2022, March. Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics, Columbia University.
2022, March. Author Meets Critic: Panel on the Maternal Imprint, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
2022, Jan. Critical Health and Humanities, Harvard University.
Co-opting AI: Reproduction at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge
This event explored how AI technologies have changed the narratives and rationalities that underpin assisted reproduction, from early feminist initiatives to the commercialization of pregnancy, as well as the tactics used in scientific research on human reproduction. It considers how these dynamics map onto racial disparities and wider inequalities in public health and beyond. November 11, 2021; Watch here.
Remodelling the Human: Reproductive Models and Feminist Technoscience at Science and Society Network, Deakin University (Discussant to Keynote Speaker, Prof. Celia Roberts)
This symposium brought together feminist scholars interested in technoscientific practices of modelling human reproduction. Interdisciplinary in scope and diverse in research focus, we aim to explore the vital role of models in reshaping reproduction. In attending to the material practices, situated contexts, and gendered imaginaries through which they emerge, participants will investigate what current and emerging reproductive models might reflect, reinforce, and contest about reproductive discourses.
Food Matters and Materialities: Critical Understandings of Food Cultures at Carleton University (Discussant to Keynote Speaker, Prof. Emily Yates-Doerr)
This conference featured perspectives from activists and practitioners who are grappling with and proposing means of resistance to entrenched social inequities as they take form through food in communities where they live and/or work. Professor Valdez acts as discussant to Professor Emily Yates-Doerr during her keynote address, “Structures & Specificities: Nourishing Acts in Violent Times.” September 22 – 25, 2021; Watch here.
BIPOC Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist Perspective – Delta Research & Educational Foundation, Research Matters for All of Us
Discussion, April 12, 2021.
Weighing the Future: Epigenetics, Pregnancy Trials, and Race – Book Talk at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College
A discussion of Weighing the Future at Wellesley College’s Newhouse Center for the Humanities. March 9, 2021. Watch here.
Natali Valdez 