Opening Address: Annalee
Newitz, Syndicated Columnist, Techsploitation, "Why
Genetic Engineering Is Good for Feminists and Queers." Thursday,
March 11, 2004. 4:00-5:00, Room 370, Dwinelle Hall.
Closing Address: M. A. Jaimes * Guerrero, Women Studies, San Francisco State University, "Global Genocide and Biocolonialism/Biopiracy." Friday, March 12, 2004. 3:30-5:00, Room 370, Dwinelle Hall. This presentation will include the screening of the short film DNA Hunters.
INFORMAL ROUNDTABLES for Activists and Public Policy Makers will take place March 13, Saturday afternoon, from 12 noon to 4pm. Participants in the Roundtable "Critical Feminist Perspectives on Genetic Justice," will include Diane Beeson, Chair, Department of Sociology and Social Services, California State University, Hayward, Marcy Darnovsky, Center for Genetics and Society, Lisa Handwerker, Ph.D., M.P.H., UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Social Change and Cal State Hayward, and Marsha Saxton, Disability Studies, UC Berkeley, World Institute on Disability. Participants in the panel "From Bioethics to Neuroethics: How Might Cognitive Modification Modify Pro-Choice Politics?" will include Sonia Arrison, Director of Technology Studies, Pacific Research Institute, Annalee Newitz, Syndicated Columnist, Techsploitation, Christine L. Peterson, President, Foresight Institute, and Wrye Sententia, Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics.
The Boundaries in Question Gallery Space in Dwinelle Hall, Room 2125 is pleased to exhibit new works by Canadian artist Linda Wallace.
There will be a Conference Reception, March 13, Saturday evening, from 6-8pm. The Reception will be free and open to the Public, and will be located in Room 371, Dwinelle Hall. A casual Curtainraiser Reception for the Conference, sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society and Museum, will take place early Thursday evening, March 11, 2004, from 6 to 8pm or so, located at 657 Mission St., Suite 300 (between New Montgomery and Third St.), San Francisco, CA 94105.
Boundaries in Question is a yearly symposium spotlighting graduate student work in feminist research, theory, and practice. The upcoming Conference will represent an extraordinary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conversation of scientists, social researchers, activists, artists, policy makers, legal, literary, and cultural critics -- all devoted to discussions of the ways feminist practices and perspectives are transforming in the face of new developments in biotechnology. We want to talk about ways in which feminist theories and practices can be brought to bear in articulating these developments.
QUESTIONS, TOPICS, THEMES, AND GENERAL AREAS OF INTEREST THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED FOR THE CONFERENCE SO FAR INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
How might the politics of Choice be changing in response to newly emerging reproductive technologies, and might a pro-choice sensibility inform our understanding of morphological freedoms promised by genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification?
Does the copyrighting of genetic information, the selling of gametes over the Internet, the multiplication of surrogate mothering services, and the existence of markets for human organs alter or expand the feminist critique of the traffic in women?
How can biotechnological development disarticulate itself from the imperatives of the racist and eugenic discourses to which it owes its beginnings? Do contemporary bioethical discourses re-inscribe these imperatives?
How is technological development differently articulated across nations, regions, races, sexes, cultures, generations?
Is the body of biotechnology more a promise of empowerment, a site of struggle, a recipe for market exchange and exploitation, a text for experts to read, or a poem we recite against the grain?
Should ecofeminism find in biotechnology more a threat to nature, an expression of nature, or, possibly, nature's proliferation?
Do we see in queer politics an anticipation of post-biological affiliation, or an intensification of medical subjection?
How might feminist bioethics contribute to emerging discourses of disability? Should we understand practices of prosthetic modification as remediation, normalization, violation, liberation?
How does feminism shape perspectives on cloning, genetically-modified crops, genetic medicine?
How are and how should these developments be shaping feminist strategies, and feminism's sense of itself?
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Morning Session
Welcome Address, 10:00am, Dale
Carrico.
Panel One: 10:15am - 11:15am
Jytte Rydiger, University of Kalmar, Institute for Humanities and
Social Science
"Reproductive Technology and Future Feminism"
Dale Carrico, UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric
"Keep Your Laws Off of My Body! Biotechnology and the Politics of
Choice, from Reproductive to Morphological Freedom"
Discussion
Break for Lunch: 11:15am - 12:15pm
Afternoon Sessions
Panel Two: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Kate Drabinski, UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric
"On the Paradox of Technology"
Catherine Mills, Ph.D. Lecturer in Philosophy, University of New South
Wales
"Recovering Corporeality: Liberal Eugenics, Ethical Self-Understanding,
and the Biotechnical Body"
Discussion
Panel Three: 1:45pm - 2:45pm
Eeva Heiskanen, Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki
"Feminist Perspectives on Stem Cell Research -- A View from
Europe"
Stacy Sanders, St. Mary's College, Biology and Philosophy
"Organ Allocation: Fairness, Efficiency, or Care?"
Discussion
Panel Four: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Colleen Lyons Fisher, University of Pennsylvania, School of
Medicine
"Women and Orphans: The New Face of AIDS"
Lisa Weasel, Assistant Professor of Biology, Portland State
University
"Feminism in the Field(s): Feminist Critiques of Science
and the Global Ethics of Genetic Engineering"
Discussion
Opening Address: 4:00pm -
5:00pm
Annalee Newitz, Syndicated Columnist,
Techsploitation.
"Why Genetic Engineering Is Good for Feminists and Queers"
Discussion
Curtainraiser Reception, 6:00 -
8:00pm, 657 Mission St., Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society and Museum.
Friday, March 12, 2004
Morning Session
Panel Five: 10:00am - 11:00am
Don Romesburg, UC Berkeley, Department of History
"Sex Shows: Spectacular Hyperfemininity in Technologies of Female
Impersonation, 1930-1965"
Dale Carrico, UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric
"Doin' What Comes Naturally: Margaret Somerville's Bio-Conservative
Deployment of the Precautionary Principle in Her Case Against Gay
Marriage"
Discussion
Break for Lunch: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Afternoon Sessions
Artist's Address: 12:00 - 12:40pm
Linda Wallace
"Female Infertility and Reproductive Technology: An Artist's
Perspective"
Be sure to see the new works by Linda Wallace that are being exhibited downstairs in the Boundaries in Question Gallery Space, Room 2125, Dwinelle Hall.
Discussion
Panel Six: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Kari Karsjens, JD, American Medical Association
"Egg Donations and Implications for Feminism and Gender
Equality"
Stacy Sanders, St. Mary's College, Biology and Philosophy
"Better Children or Better Parents?"
Discussion
Afternoon Address: 2:15pm - 3:15pm
Linda MacDonald Glenn, JD, LLM, University of Vermont, School of Nursing
and
Allied Health Sciences
"Vexation of Viability: Arbitrary or Valid? (Legal and Ethical Issues
in ARTs)"
Discussion
Closing Address: 3:30pm - 5:00pm.
M. A. Jaimes * Guerrero, San Francisco State University, Women
Studies.
"Global Genocide and Biocolonialism/Biopiracy"
This presention will include the screening of the short video DNA Hunters.
Discussion
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Afternoon Sessions
Roundtable One: 12 noon - 2:00pm
"From Bioethics to Neuroethics: How Might Cognitive Modification Modify
Pro-Choice Politics?"
Roundtable Two: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
"Critical Feminist Perspectives on Genetic Justice"
Evening Sessions
Keynote Address: 4:00pm - 5:30.
Charis Thompson, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric,
University of California, Berkeley.
"What Constitutes Too Much Homo- and Hetero- Sex in the New
Reproductive and Genetic Technologies?: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and
Nation"
Discussion
Conference Reception, 6:00pm - 8:00pm. 371 Dwinelle Hall.
Sponsors of the Conference so far Include: the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, the Department of Women's Studies, and the Designated Emphasis on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the College of Letters and Science, Division of Social Sciences, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Center for Race and Gender, the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, the GLBT Historical Society, and the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
Questions, Comments, and Suggestions for the Conference are very welcome and should be directed to:
Dale Carrico
BOUNDARIES IN QUESTION
3415 Dwinelle Hall #2050
Berkeley, CA 94720-2050
wgs@socrates.berkeley.edu
or
dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
Created 12-10-03. Last Modified 3-17-04.
The opinions or statements expressed herein should not be taken as a position or endorsement of the University of California, Berkeley.
Dale Carrico, dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu