We're hosting these events in partnership with Speakeasy, an early-stage startup offering intimate, online events with fascinating speakers and performers. Their vision is to bring the vibrancy of a university campus to people everywhere.

Historian Lara Freidenfelds will speak about how innovations in scientific medicine, consumer culture, attitudes toward women and families, and fundamental convictions about human agency have changed our perceptions of pregnancy, miscarriage, and parenting over the past 250 years. We’ll discuss how these factors have created unrealistic and potentially damaging expectations about our ability to control reproduction.

We're offering a limited number of tickets for this event so that everyone who attends can ask questions and engage in the discussion if they'd like. We hope to create an intimate vibe, as if we're all together in someone's living room, so we'd ask that you keep your video camera on throughout the event.

Entrance into the event is on a first come, first serve basis. Once we hit capacity, we will not be able to allow additional people into the event. Please plan accordingly.

MIT COVID-19 Response Funds

In exchange for the value you receive from this event, we ask that you make a donation (in an amount of your choosing) to the MIT Covid-19 Response Funds.

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