Visualizing Birth and Rebirth: A video of Anna Hennessey’s 2025 Society for the Study of Pregnancy & Birth talk

The Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB) held its 2025 Virtual Symposium this past April and has recently published videos of the individual talks. This is a talk that I gave as part of the event. My talk, which was titled “Natality as a Philosophy of Rebirth,” includes a discussion and many images related to the study of pregnancy, birth, natality, rebirth, and rites of passage.

The talk represents both a coalescence and a history of how the topics of birth and rebirth became a part of my personal and academic lives.