Our first colloquium of the 2025-26 academic year will be held on Monday, September 22, 2025 at 12pm in UH 432. Dr. Amy Speier will present her newly published book, Mobility in North American Surrogacy: A Fertile Global Industry. In it, she examines the multiple players involved in global surrogacy contracts between international intended parents who opt to create a family with the help and labor of surrogates from the United States. This market remains the final frontier of commercial surrogacy, while other reproductive hubs only allow for altruistic surrogacy. Speier considers the mobility and immobility experienced by intended parents, egg donors, surrogates, and professionals whose intimate labor fosters connections across economic, geographic, and social divisions.