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SUMMARY:Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures - Prof Alison Bashford (Jes
 us College\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Odette Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures\n\nAlison Bashford\, Ve
 re Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History\, Fellow of Jesus Co
 llege\n\n\nIf the futures of assisted reproductive technologies are being 
 created now\, our own present was created by past generations. This is bot
 h strange and sobering\, given how swiftly ideas\, technologies\, needs an
 d desires change. Retrospects as well as prospects are important. In this 
 lecture I consider the reproductive futures envisioned by one of the twent
 ieth-century’s most intriguing polymath-biologists\, Julian Huxley. Auth
 or of Evolution: the Modern Synthesis\, inventor of the term ‘transhuman
 ism’\, first Director-General of UNESCO\, Huxley synthesised and communi
 cated the work of the great geneticists\, molecular biologists and reprodu
 ctive physiologists of the day. Many of them (Crick\, Pincus\, Lederberg\,
  Muller) met at a conference in 1963\, “Man and his Future”. This lect
 ure focuses on this meeting\, one that opened with Huxley’s visions for 
 the “biological future of mankind”. In 1963\, the future hinged on ass
 isted reproductive technologies as a solution\, but not on infertility as 
 a problem.\n\n\n\nAlison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial
  and Naval History\, and Fellow of Jesus College\, Cambridge. Most recentl
 y\, she is author of Global Population: History\, Geopolitics and Life on 
 Earth (Columbia\, 2014) and co-author\, with Joyce E. Chaplin\, of The New
  Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (
 Princeton\, 2016). \n
LOCATION:Bentley Room\, The Pitt Building\, Trumpington Street\, CB2 
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