# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Big Ideas Lecture Series: Machine Mother
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-06:00)
- **Event Description**: "Machine Mother,” by Juliet Beckman, ACC Faculty in English

Ectogestation, or the artificial womb, is fast moving toward completion with Australia's Eve project and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's "biobag". Fetal lambs are already being successfully transferred to biobags. While a biobag will likely save the lives of thousands of premature babies, the legal and ethical ramifications of machine mothers are manifold. What do the humanities have to say about removing gestation from the human female? Research into epigenetics, microchimerism and phenotypes lags behind the mechanical success of the biobag. Literature such as Frankenstein and Brave New World seem prescient in warning that these complex processes are too mysterious to farm out. Films such as I Am Mother underscore the eugenic inherency to these technologies.



The Big Ideas Lecture Series brings faculty from the School of Arts, Culture, & Society at Arapahoe Community College into the community to share fresh insights around questions connected to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Hosted by Bemis Library, each talk is free, public, and designed to spark thought and conversation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/littleton/big-ideas-lecture-series-machine-mother/200030643854319
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Littleton
- **state**: CO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 6014 S Datura St, Littleton, CO, United States, Colorado 80120
- **lat**: 39.60801
- **long**: -105.00382
- **full address**: 6014 S Datura St, Littleton, CO, United States, Colorado 80120

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Big Ideas Lecture Series: Machine Mother being held?
  - **A:** Big Ideas Lecture Series: Machine Mother takes place on Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm at 6014 S Datura St, Littleton, CO, United States, Colorado 80120.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Big Ideas Lecture Series: Machine Mother?
  - **A:** Big Ideas Lecture Series: Machine Mother is organized by Bemis Public Library.

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