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FORENSIC CULTURES IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

University of Manchester, UK
Friday 11 - Saturday 12 June 2010

This international conference examines in analytical and historical
perspective the remarkable prominence of forensic science and medicine  
in contemporary culture. It brings together leading scholars from  
history, sociology and socio-legal studies, media and cultural  
studies, and practitioners working within the diverse locations of  
forensic culture -from crime scenes and bio-medical laboratories to  
television studios. Topics for discussion include the politics and  
practice of DNA evidence, the use of "cold case review" in re- 
evaluating celebrated murder trials from the past, the historical  
invention of "crime scene investigation", the work of forensic  
identification at mass grave sites, and media forensics - including a  
dinner event featuring the creators of the BBC forensic dramas _Waking  
the Dead_ and _Silent Witness_.

_Forensic Cultures_ is sponsored by the University of Manchester's  
Centre for
the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), and by the
Wellcome Trust.

For further details, including registration information, please see the
conference website at www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/forensics/

or contact the organisers, Dr Ian Burney ([log in to unmask])  
and Dr
David Kirby ([log in to unmask]).

PROGRAMME

DAY 1 (Friday 11 June)

Registration and Tea/Coffee: 9.45 -10.30

Introduction: 10.30 - 11.00

Session I: Broad Themes (11.00 - 12.45)

Christopher Hamlin, University of Notre Dame
"Forensic Cultures in Historical Perspective"

Michael Lynch, Cornell University
"Science, Truth, and Forensic Cultures: The exceptional legal status
attributed to DNA evidence"

Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham
"Negotiating Forensics: Between Law, Science, and Criminal Justice"

Lunch: 1.00 - 2.00

Session II: Historical Case Studies (2.00 - 3.45)

Ian Burney and Neil Pemberton, University of Manchester
"Traces and Places: The Making of the Modern Crime Scene"

Anne Crowther, University of Glasgow
"The Ruxton murders: an early exercise in co-operative forensics"

Alison Winter, University of Chicago
"Securing memory in cold-war America"

Refreshments: 3.45 - 4.15

Session III: Practitioner Perspectives (4.15 - 6.00)
David Foran, Michigan State University
"Did Crippen do it? Reflections on Retrospective Forensics"

William Haglund, International Forensic Program, Physicians for Human  
Rights
"Thresholds of Identity: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Mass Grave
Forensics"

Caroline Wilkinson, University of Dundee
"Facial Identification of the Dead: The ethical issues associated with  
the
facial depiction of unknown human remains"

Dinner and Evening Event: Screening Forensics (7.00 - 10.30)

Barbara Machin, Creator, _Waking the Dead_
Nigel McCrery, Creator, _Silent Witness_


DAY 2 (Saturday 12 June)

Tea/Coffee: 9.30 - 10.00

Session I: Analyzing Practices (10.00 - 11.45)

Simon Cole, University of California, Irvine
"Forensic Reality?: CSI, Media, and Technoscience"

Gary Edmond, University of New South Wales
"Suspect science and unreliable law: The legal topography of 'facial  
mapping'
evidence"

Barbara Prainsack, King's College, University of London
"Views from the inside: Self-stigmatisation and biopolitical discourse  
in
Austrian prisons. A case study on forensic DNA technologies"

Lunch: 12.00 - 1.00

Session II: Forensic Publics (1.00 - 2.45)

Deborah Jermyn, Roehampton University
"Labs and Slabs: Prime Suspect, TV crime drama and the quest for  
forensic
realism"

David Kirby, University of Manchester
"Forensic Fictions: The Production of Forensic Science in Television  
Dramas"

Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, NIH
"(in)Visible Proofs; or, The case of the hidden politics of forensic  
exhibitionism"
-- 
David A. Kirby, PhD
Lecturer in Science Communication Studies
Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL, England
web site: http://www.davidakirby.com
phone: 0161.275.5837
email: [log in to unmask]


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