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Race, Genetics & Disease:

Questions of Evidence,
Questions of Consequence

A Public Symposium
Friday and Saturday, April 16 & 17, 2004

Grainger Hall
University of Wisconsin Madison

Sponsored by the the Robert F. & Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and
Technology Studies and a Cluster Enhancement Grant from the Provost's
Office.

The subject of this symposium is human genome research and its
emerging definitions of individual and population similarities and
differences. We will examine and clarify this new biogenetic
information and consider its consequences in the context of competing
discourses on race and ethnicity and, more generally, populations in
contemporary society.

What is at stake in these complex debates? First, genomic
technologies affect the decisions people are making about their
bodies and health in the present and for the future. Second, in this
highly volatile time when racial/ethnic differences and similarities
are topics of debate rather than well established facts, individual
and population based genetic information may come to play a role in
defining genealogies and identities as well as policies in the arenas
of economics, education, and geo-politics.

Our discussions will be multi- and trans-disciplinary, bringing
together researchers in the social and natural sciences and the
humanities to discuss these contested definitions of race and their
potential consequences. We aim to promote exchange of information and
analyses across disciplinary boundaries in ways that will help us
better understand and respond to the complexities of human bodies,
genealogies, communities, and societies.

We hope you will all join us in listening to our guest speakers and
deliberating about these critical issues in the open discussion
sessions.

Symposium schedule and further details can be found at http://www.sts.wisc.edu.
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Anita H. Makuluni * Madison WI * [log in to unmask]

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