Anna Hennessey
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San Francisco based writer, PhD & artist. Founder & Director of the ssprb.org. Philosophy of #birth, #rebirth, art, #visualization & mental imagery. Artist of the Rebirth Tunnel Immersive Art Installation. Irish heritage. Mother 🍉 annahennessey.com
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Anna Hennessey
@amhennessey.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves | Anna M. Hennessey
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The Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv has published my latest article, which explores #microchimerism in a theory of #consciousness and the self. A philosophy of birth is influential to this discussion of the mind iai.tv/articles/con...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published the final talk of its 2025 Virtual Symposium, which was delivered by Kaitlin Solimine, the Postpartum Production Podcast Host #natality #childbirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGC...
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published the final talk of its 2025 Virtual Symposium, which was delivered by Kaitlin Solimine, the Postpartum Production Podcast Host #natality #childbirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGC...
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CFP: 2026 Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) - "Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth" www.ssprb.org/symposia.html
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
CFP: 2026 Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) - "Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth" www.ssprb.org/symposia.html
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Umar Nizarudeen of the University of London #natality #childbirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2zX...
Umar Nizarudeen - "Being Too Early in India: Bildungsroman and Belatedness of Premature Birth"
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Umar Nizarudeen of the University of London #natality #childbirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2zX...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Alexandra Lembke-Ross of the University of Lund #natality #matricentric www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLe...
Alexandra Lembke-Ross - "'From the Midwife to Gladiator': Natality in The Passion of Perpetua..."
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October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Alexandra Lembke-Ross of the University of Lund #natality #matricentric www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QLe...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Hannah Lang of Aarhus University #Kierkegaard #HannahArendt #philosophyofbirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJl...
Hannah Lang - "The Moment of Birth: Søren Kierkegaard (and Hannah Arendt) on birth as a radical..."
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October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Hannah Lang of Aarhus University #Kierkegaard #HannahArendt #philosophyofbirth www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJl...
CFP: 2026 Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) - "Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth" www.ssprb.org/symposia.html
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
CFP: 2026 Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) - "Beauty and the Sublime in Gestation and Coming into Being: Art and the Aesthetics of Pregnancy and Birth" www.ssprb.org/symposia.html
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Beatrice Sasha Kobow of the University of Salzburg. #Natality #socialontology www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL88...
Beatrice Sasha Kobow - "Natality as the Meaning of Meaning"
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October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Beatrice Sasha Kobow of the University of Salzburg. #Natality #socialontology www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL88...
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Famine in Gaza is a "choice" made by Israel, says Alex de Waal, author of "Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine."
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Famine in Gaza is a "choice" made by Israel, says Alex de Waal, author of "Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine."
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Sarah Runnstrom of Lund University. #natality #HannahArendt #PaulRicoeur www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXPZ...
Sarah Runnstrom - "Birth as a Vital Existential Condition in the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt and..."
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September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Sarah Runnstrom of Lund University. #natality #HannahArendt #PaulRicoeur www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXPZ...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Barbara Renzi of the Berlin School of Business and Innovation. #natality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIn...
Barbara Renzi - "Relational Vulnerability and Maternal Identity: Expanding on Cavarero's Frame..."
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September 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Barbara Renzi of the Berlin School of Business and Innovation. #natality www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwIn...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Belinda Eslick, a philosophy professor at The University of Queensland www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWS...
Belinda Eslick - "What if the 'object' started to speak? Locating maternal subjectivity via..."
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September 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Belinda Eslick, a philosophy professor at The University of Queensland www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWS...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Laura Roberts, a philosophy professor at Flinders University www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZISl...
Laura Roberts - "The Philosophical Significance of Birth and Sexuate Subjectivity"
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August 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Laura Roberts, a philosophy professor at Flinders University www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZISl...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Susan Crowther of the Auckland University of Technology and Marie-Noëlle Bélanger-Lévesque of the Université de Sherbrooke www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0QF...
Marie-Noëlle Bélanger-Lévesque and Susan Crowther - "Yielding for connection: a hermeneutical..."
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August 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Susan Crowther of the Auckland University of Technology and Marie-Noëlle Bélanger-Lévesque of the Université de Sherbrooke www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0QF...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Purushottama Bilimoria, a philosophy professor at the University of San Francisco www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKxi...
Purushottama Bilimoria - "The Rite of Natality and the Simulation of Rebirth"
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August 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Purushottama Bilimoria, a philosophy professor at the University of San Francisco www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKxi...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Bettina Duesmann, a midwife and scholar of the Gesellschaft für Bindungsanalyse nach Hidas und Raffai e.V www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2_E...
Bettina Duesmann - "Creating Waves"
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August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Bettina Duesmann, a midwife and scholar of the Gesellschaft für Bindungsanalyse nach Hidas und Raffai e.V www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2_E...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Agnes Howard, a humanities professor at Christ College, Valparaiso www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_M...
Agnes Howard - "Nobody Told Me!: Proclaiming Ignorance, explaining Natality"
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August 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Agnes Howard, a humanities professor at Christ College, Valparaiso www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_M...
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"I see all children as precious and equal. My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says of her advocacy for Gaza.
August 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"I see all children as precious and equal. My deep care for children doesn't stop at any border," Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, says of her advocacy for Gaza.
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Rachel Hostetter Smith, Gilkison Distinguished Professor of Art History at Taylor University www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iyk...
Rachel Hostetter Smith - "Magnitude and Mystery: Maternity in the Work of Two Artists"
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August 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Rachel Hostetter Smith, Gilkison Distinguished Professor of Art History at Taylor University www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iyk...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Guinevere Clark of Swansea University. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4m...
Guinevere Clark - "The Poetics of Birth as Initiation into Third Space"
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August 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Guinevere Clark of Swansea University. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4m...
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Compare today's @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social report ( www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... ) with this one in NYT last week, based on unnamed sources:
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Compare today's @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social report ( www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... ) with this one in NYT last week, based on unnamed sources:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
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August 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Compare today's @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social report ( www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... ) with this one in NYT last week, based on unnamed sources:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Compare today's @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social report ( www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... ) with this one in NYT last week, based on unnamed sources:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Ariana Lyriotakis of Trinity College Dublin www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8u...
Ariana Lyriotakis - "Toward a Metapoesis of Natality: Galway Kinnell's "Alewives Pool" and "Under.."
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August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Ariana Lyriotakis of Trinity College Dublin www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ8u...
We included Prayer Pods for Palestine against #genocide and #hunger in this year's Lower Haight Art Walk #Gaza #SanFrancisco @lowerhaightsf.bsky.social @ipsc.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We included Prayer Pods for Palestine against #genocide and #hunger in this year's Lower Haight Art Walk #Gaza #SanFrancisco @lowerhaightsf.bsky.social @ipsc.bsky.social
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Cassandra Sciortino, an art historian and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5KS...
Cassandra Sciortino - "Natality & Neonatal Intensive Care: Reflections on Caregiving, Birth, and..."
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August 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Cassandra Sciortino, an art historian and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5KS...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Tolulope Esther Fadeyi of the University of Basel www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lT...
Tolulope Esther Fadeyi - "Birth and Renewal: The Existential Role of Traditional Birth Attendants.."
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July 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Tolulope Esther Fadeyi of the University of Basel www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lT...
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Doreen Balabanoff, Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dL...
Doreen Balabanoff - "Transformational Change for Birth Environment Design"
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July 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Doreen Balabanoff, Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dL...