Reproduction and Bioethics in Space!
Monday 1 December 2025, 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Venue
COS - County South C89 and Microsoft Teams - View MapOpen to
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Event Details
Join us for a discussion of reproductive ethics in space and some collaborative storytelling!
Dr Evie Kendal, a bioethicist and public health scientist specialising in the ethics of emerging technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, will present on the ethics of reproduction in space, drawing on her paper Ectogenesis for Space Exploration.
Dr Anna McFarlane will then lead a flash storytelling activity. Anna is a core member of the School of Critical Studies, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. She was also a visiting collaborator to the Lancaster University Future of Human Reproduction research project, where she used science fiction as a tool for exploring future health possibilities and their social and ethical implications.
This interactive event is suitable for anyone interested in bioethics, literature (especially science fiction), or space. No previous knowledge or experience required - just curiosity.
Speakers
University of Glasgow
Dr Anna McFarlane is the James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Collaborator on the Wellcome Trust-funded Future of Human Reproduction project at the University of Lancaster (2024). They are the author of Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades (2021), a monograph on William Gibson's novels. They have also co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities (2024), The Routledge Compani
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Dr Evie Kendal is a bioethicist and public health scientist specialising in the ethics of emerging technologies. Her work focuses on reproductive biotechnologies, health communication and media, and space ethics. Evie is a Senior Lecturer of Health Promotion at Swinburne University of Technology's Department of Biomedical, Health and Exercise Sciences and heads the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies (ELSIET) research group, a registered unit of the International Chai
University of Glasgow
Georgia Walton specialises in US American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, with a particular focus on spatial theory and queer futurity. She is currently working on a monograph that looks at the legacies of the American renaissance in contemporary literature and has published articles on texts by writers Maggie Nelson, Marilynne Robinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Other research interests include the representation of fairgrounds and amusement parks, spatial theor
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