GENITAL CUTTING IN A GLOBALIZED AGE: A FORUM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY DEBATE
A major international conference in London
When: Friday 4 July 2008
Where: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Keynote lecture:
CHERYL CHASE, Intersex Society of North America
"Why a focus on surgery can't improve healthcare services for Disorders of
Sex Development"
A groundbreaking event bringing together medical doctors and researchers,
social and behavioural scientists, scholars in literary and cultural
studies, lawyers, artists, philosophers and historians who share a critical
interest in genital modification in the clinical, political and cultural
spheres. The remit will be to examine practices and discourses of health,
harm and sexuality in their historical and contemporary contexts. The
conference will explicitly address the discursive and legislative
inconsistencies relating to genital cutting, and tackle the ideological,
political and ethical implications of current practices.
Topics and speakers:
Childhood surgery for ambiguous genitalia
MILTON DIAMOND, University of Hawaii
PHILIP RANSLEY, formerly Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Sex reassignment surgery for transsexual people
PHILIP THOMAS, Royal Sussex Hospital
STEPHEN WHITTLE OBE, Manchester Metropolitan University
Female genital mutilation
EFUA DORKENOO OBE, London
Male circumcision
ROBERT DARBY, Canberra
Genital cosmetic surgery
VIRGINIA BRAUN, University of Auckland
DAVID RALPH, University College London
Chairs and discussants:
Polly Carmichael
Gerry Conway
Hera Cook
Lisa Downing
Peter Hegarty
Katrina Roen
The conference will provide a unique opportunity for practitioners,
researchers and scholars to harness interdisciplinary collaboration, in
order to improve the accuracy, sophistication and impact of scientific
research, discursive analysis, and professional practice relating to all
forms of genital cutting.
Registration fee (includes lunch): £85 before 31 March 2008; £115 thereafter
Registration form:
http://www.iainmorland.net/docs/GCGA-registration.pdf
Printable flyer:
http://www.iainmorland.net/docs/GCGA-flyer.pdf
Programme enquiries to Iain Morland ([log in to unmask])
Sponsored by BJU International (www.bjui.org).
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