<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:black;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Dear all,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:black">The first speaker for this semester's Agora seminar series will be:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><strong><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A/Professor<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight"><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">Luara</span></span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ferracioli (The University of Sydney)</span></strong><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br><em><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Commercial Surrogacy as Illegitimate Work</span></em><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Thursday, March 6, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Building 20, Room 4</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Full details are available <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ALy4Cr81nytDZGrvws7f7U41Wa4?domain=uow.edu.au">here</a> and below:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:1.2">Abstract: </span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="line-height:1.2"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:1.2">Is surrogacy a form of legitimate work? Or does the nature of pregnancy and parenthood render surrogacy illegitimate? In this presentation I argue that the best strategy in defence of commercial surrogacy—which I call the “surrogacy-as-legitimate-work” strategy—relies on two implicit assumptions and that once we make them explicit, we are forced to see that commercial surrogacy inevitably leads to a conflict of core moral rights. As I hope to show, if commercial surrogacy is a type of work, it is work that cannot simultaneously protect the right of the surrogate mother to opt out and the right of the commissioning couple to exercise ultimate authority over the foetus.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="line-height:1.2"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.2">Bio:</span></b></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.2">Dr<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""> </span><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight" style=""><span class="gmail-outlook-search-highlight">Luara</span></span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""> </span>Ferracioli was awarded her PhD in 2013. Before joining the University of Sydney, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (from 2011-2012) and Princeton University (from 2012-2013), and an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam (from 2013-2017).</span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(20,20,20);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.2"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:black">All are very welcome and there is no need to register. This is an in-person event.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </p></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">Dr. Elena Walsh</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">Lecturer</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">School of Liberal Arts</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">T </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)">+61 2 4220 5692</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(47,85,151)"><b>W </b><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/x1CuCvl1rKiy83E6OTXhvUQEtDZ?domain=elenawalsh.squarespace.com" target="_blank">elenawalsh.squarespace.com</a></span></p></div></div></div>