Mary Fissell will provide comments at the workshop, “Histories of Reproductive Risk: Antiquity to the Present,” held at Princeton University on March 25-26. This cross-disciplinary workshop brings together scholars working in the history of reproduction across different time periods and features panels on different aspects of the human efforts to explain, assess, and control the uncertainties of the reproductive process. Mary will serve as commentator for the panel, “Measuring the Female Body,” on Saturday, the 26th.

For more information, or to access precirculated papers, visit the conference web page.