[SydPhil] Sydney Health Ethics Conversation Series - Arpita Das - 7 August

[Kathryn MacKay]

Arpita Das | 7 August
Sydney Health Ethics Conversation Series
Uterus transplantation as an emerging mode of reproductive technology: Ethics, affordances and challenges

Hi everyone,

Please join us for the first SHE Conversation series of semester 2 with Dr Arpita Das.
Speaker
Dr Arpita Das
Lecturer in Gender & Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney
Arpita Das is a Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies. Her research is in the area of intersex studies with a biopolitical and postcolonial lens. Her academic interests include intersex and transgender studies, comprehensive sexuality education, reproductive technologies including surrogacy and the emerging technology of uterine transplantation in global south contexts, sex selection, exploring the intersections of disability and intersexuality in sport, and anti-racism practices and strategies. She has an MA degree in Women’s and Gender Studies, and an MA in Social Work. She has extensive experience as a social work practitioner in South and Southeast Asia in areas of gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Abstract
Uterus transplantation as an emerging mode of reproductive technology: Ethics, affordances and challenges

In this presentation I explore uterine transplantation as an emerging mode of reproduction, which privileges the experience of pregnancy in addition to genetic relatedness. I will be focusing on the socio-cultural and economic discourses surrounding the marketisation of reproductive technologies in India and how these recalibrate social and familial dynamics concerning reproduction. I argue that the mobilisation of the language of reproduction as a right could potentially transform into reproduction as a duty. Reproductive biopolitics is used as a lens to think through the value of wombs in relation to the bodies they inhabit, and the pressures the marketisation of wombs puts on both recipients and donors.
When
7th August 2025
12:00–1:00 PM
Where
A27, Dean’s Boardroom/Conference Room
Level 2 (Main Entrance from Fisher Road, immediate left after you enter).
Joining online? Register here: Zoom registration link <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Yq5lCYW8NocAWK4LAu0fWixLglS?domain=t.e2ma.net>
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Supriya Subramani: supriya.subramani at sydney.edu.au<mailto:supriya.subramani at sydney.edu.au>​.
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