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Friday

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, room 224)

9:15-10:00 Welcome and registration
10:00-11:45 Panel I: Race, Ancestors and Human Rights

Chair: Mark Bradley

Jennifer Hamilton: Human Rights and Bioethics in a Genomic Age

Jonathan Metzl: The Protest Psychosis

11:45-12:45 Lunch (Tea Room)
12:45-2:00 Panel II: Paul Vanouse (Tea Room)
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-4:00 Panel III: DNA, Bounded Subjects, Law and Human Rights Discourse

Chair: James Hevia

Simon Cole: "Respect for Private Life": How Human Rights Discourse Retarded the Inexorable Expansion of DNA Databases in S. & Marper v. United Kingdom

Noa Vaisman: Legal Subjectivities, Ontologies and Genetic Truths: The Complex Struggle for Human Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina

4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-6:00 Panel IV: Borders, Boundaries and Security

Chair: Stephan Palmié

Joseph Masco: Uninventing Biosecurity

Miriam Ticktin: The Intersections of Science, Technology and Human Rights: Biology, Borders and ‘Humanimals’

6:00-6:30 Summary remarks for the day

Saturday

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, room 224)

9:00 Gathering, coffee and light breakfast
9:30-11:15 Panel V: Bioethics, Citizenship and Human Rights

Chair: Judy Farquhar

Karen-Sue Taussig: Mobilizing Life: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and the Quest for a Molecular Medical Clinic

Joan Fujimura: Different Differences: The Use of Ancestry versus Race in Biomedical Human Genetic Research

11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Open Discussion on Pedagogical Approaches to the New Sciences and Human Rights: How to Teach about Emerging Questions?
12:30-1:30 Lunch (Tea Room)
1:30-2:30 Roundtable Discussion: Where from Here?
2:30-3:00 Summary remarks
 
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Human Rights and the New Sciences Symposium will be held in the Social Science Research Building, John Hope Franklin Room
1126 East 59th Street

 
 
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