Talks and Testimonies

Rethinking Biopolitics: Scholarship and Advocacy in the Age of Trump

Sponsored by the Health and societies of the Lang Center, Sociology and Anthropology, Black Studies.

Marcy Darnovsky and Dorothy Roberts discuss urgent social justice issues at the intersection of race, genetics, and human biotechnology, and explore their implications for the new US political landscape.

How can engaged scholarship and informed advocacy help avert the kinds of scientific, medical, and biotechnological innovations that unjustly divide us, and encourage those that affirm our common humanity?

Why We Need a Black-Feminist Centered Bioethics in the Age of Gene Editing

Communications Coordinator Victoria Massie facilitated a thought provoking workshop discussion at the Black Women for Wellness Conference, Power Manifesto, on...

Human Genetic Modification

Should We Worry About a New Eugenics?

Marcy was a speaker for a summer seminar for high school educators, “Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics...

Society

Marcy presents in front of full of lecture hall full of students

CGS classroom visits in 2017

The Center for Genetics and Society receives numerous invitations to speak in person and via video link to high school,...

Human Rights

A person dressed in a lba coat looks through a large chamber

Gene editing in clinical disease: scientific, ethical and societal questions

Hosted by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Executive Director Marcy Darnovsky was a panelist for a debate and dialogue on...

Human Genetic Modification

Photo of Victoria during the workshop, with a board that reads "Race, Genetics, and Reproduction."

Why We Need a Black-Feminist Centered Bioethics in the Age of Gene Editing

Communications Coordinator Victoria Massie facilitated a thought provoking workshop discussion at the Black Women for Wellness Conference, Power Manifesto, on...

Human Genetic Modification

A hasthtag icon, "#," is in bold white font, against a light blue background in replication of Twitter.

Folklore, Gene Editing, and the Twittersphere: #CRISPRfacts and #Gattaca

During the 128th American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Program Manager Leah Lowthorp presented her paper which explores the relationship between folklore and...

Society