Talking Biopolitics is a series of live web-based conversations with cutting-edge thinkers about the social meaning of human biotechnologies. We ask questions – and take yours – about how we can put our vision of a new biopolitics on the public radar.
Links to more information about upcoming webinars, and to complete versions of 2012 and 2011 Talking Biopolitics webinars, are available here.
Talking Biopolitics 2013
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George Estreich
Author of The Shape of the Eye: A Memoir
Interviewed by Emily Beitiks, Longmore Institute on Disability ... more
Monday, June 3, 2013, 3pm PT / 6 pm ET
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Ruha Benjamin
Author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
Interviewed by Marcy Darnovsky, Center for Genetics and Society ... more
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 11am PT / 2pm ET
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Donna Dickenson
Author of Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
Interviewed by Osagie Obasogie, Center for Genetics and Society ... more
Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 11am PT / 2pm ET
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Miriam Zoll interviewed by Diane Tober
Tuesday May 21, 2013Miriam discussed her experience and unblinking account of the emotional anguish, health complications, ethical quandaries and financial costs of her own fertility journey. She also delivers vital insights into the consequences of our failure to adequately understand and regulate the business of assisted reproduction ... more
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Talking Biopolitics 2012
Harriet Washington interviewed by Lisa Ikemoto
Tuesday May 8, 2012Harriet discussed her experiences writing and talking about the
increasingly powerful “medical-industrial complex,” the erosion of
informed consent in biomedical research, and the ways that commercial
dynamics have aggravated issues of distributive and social justice. She
also describes the resistance she has encountered when writing about
these topics, especially in response to her recently published book Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.
She addressed opportunities for scholars to engage more directly in
communicating their ideas to broader audiences and the difficulties they
may face in “going public.” And she pressed the case she makes in Deadly Monopolies for what Osagie Obasogie called, in a review of the book “a broader political consciousness of science and technology.”
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Dorothy Roberts interviewed by David Winickoff
Tuesday April 10, 2012
The resurgence of race as biological concept is one of the most pressing social justice challenges raised by recent developments in genetic science and technologies. Dorothy Roberts, noted professor of law at Northwestern University, discusses her efforts to communicate this trend, and to place it within broad social and political contexts in the United States, in her recently published book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. Dorothy is interviewed by UC Berkeley associate professor of bioethics David Winickoff.
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Bill McKibben interviewed by Marcy Darnovsky
Friday March 2, 2012
Environmental activist and author Bill McKibben talks about why he wrote Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
(2003), how it was received, and what this experience might tell us
about communicating and organizing in support of practices and policies
addressing human biotechnology, both domestically and internationally.
Bill also shares his thoughts about ways in which the issues of
climate change and human biotech can be understood as facets of a single
dynamic involving the technological manipulation and transformation of
the natural world, including plants, animals, humans and ecosystems. Bill is interviewed by Center for Genetics and Society associate executive director Marcy Darnovsky.
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Talking Biopolitics 2011
Synthetic Biology 101: What is it, why should we care and what can we do about it?
Thursday July 14, 2011
This webinar analyzes current developments in the field of synthetic biology. Jaydee Hanson discusses the types of research actually being conducted under the wide umbrella of “synthetic biology,” Eric Hoffman focuses on their social and health implications, and Tina Stevens talks about the need for grassroots action to confront their risks.
Presenters: Jaydee Hanson, International Center for Technology Assessment; Eric Hoffman, Friends of the Earth; Tina Stevens, Alliance for Humane Biotechnology
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Current scientific, marketing and political developments, and what is to be done
Thursday, June 23, 2011
This webinar discusses the current scientific, marketing and political developments related to assisted reproductive technologies, including new methods of prenatal genetic testing, sex selection, commercial surrogacy, third-party egg and sperm providers, and embryonic stem cell research. Susan Fogel focuses on practices and policies that raise questions, concerns, or possibilities from a reproductive justice perspective.
Presenter: Susan Berke Fogel, Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research
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