Presentations

October 2025: Alana Cattapan. “Perpetually, Potentially, Pregnant.” O’Brien Institute for Public Health Fall Forum. University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta. 29 October 2025. Slides available here.

September 2022: Alana Cattapan and Danielle Mastromatteo.    #headlesspreggos: Challenging Visual Imaginaries of Pregnancy and Reproduction.” Motherhoods on Screen Conference. University of Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland (Online). 23 September 2022.

November 2021: Alana Cattapan. “Vulnerability/Autonomy: Governing Potential Pregnancy.” Centre for Feminist Legal Studies Lecture Series. Allard Law School, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Online). 29 November 2021.

October 2021: Alana Cattapan. “On ‘Women of Reproductive Age’: Governing Potential Pregnancy.” British Pregnancy Advisory Service. London, UK (Online). 18 October 2021.

May 2020: Alana Cattapan, “On Confinement: Quarantine, Lying-In, and Troublesome Benevolence.” Café Bioethics. (Online). 31 May 2020.

October 2019: Alana Cattapan, “Childbearing Age and the Expanding Discourse of Fetal Rights.” Invited lecture for the Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities. University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 23 October 2019.

Summer 2018: Alana Cattapan, “Like Mother: Women of Childbearing Age in Canadian Public Health Policy.” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, University of Regina, Regina, SK. (Revised paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA).

July 2017: Alana Cattapan, “Perpetually, Potentially Pregnant.” The Brocher Foundation (Research Residency Presentations). Hermance, Switzerland. July 2017.

October 2016: Alana Cattapan, “Potentially, Perpetually Pregnant: The Emergence of “Women of Reproductive Age in Clinical Research and Public Health Policy.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Montreal, QC. 13 October 2016. (pre-grant presentation).

Publications

August 2024: Alana Cattapan and Danielle Mastromatteo. “#headlesspreggos: Challenging Visual Imaginaries of Pregnancy and Reproduction.” Medical Humanities 50.2 (2024): 563-571.

June 2021: Megan Nichole Poole and Alana Cattapan. “The Unintended Outcomes of Mis-Measuring Unintended Pregnancies.” Impact Ethics. 4 June 2021.

July 2020: Alana Cattapan. “Lessons from Lying-In.” Impact Ethics. 2 July 2020.

March 2020: Samantha Moore and Alana Cattapan. “Women’s Reproductive Health and Failure Speak.” Canadian Medical Association Journal. 192.12 (March 2020): E325-6.

August 2019: Megan Nichole Poole. Review of: “The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk.” IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 12, no. 2 (August 1, 2019): 181–85.

Other work

Summer 2021: @headlesspreggos project / #headlesspreggos (via Twitter)