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
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Convocation Address at the School for the Future of Innovation

Marcy Darnovsky delivered the convocation address at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society.

In her...

Society
Shaping SF Panel presenters Tito Jankowski, Elliot Hosman, and Pete Shank look thoughyfully engaged in discussion. Above them is a quote from Jennifer Doudna stating, "Once the discovery is made, it's out there. Anybody with basic molecular biology training can use it for genome editing. That's a bit scary."

Shaping San Francisco

Synthetic Biology Shaping San Francisco hosted a forum titled, "Synthetic Biology: DIY Tinkering Meets Big Capital." 

Full video and transcript can be...

Biotech & Pharma
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Baby Markets 10th Anniversary International Congress

The Baby Markets International Congress celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Baby Markets Roundtable series founded by the Center for...

Assisted Reproduction
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Should We Genetically Modify Our Children?

Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB with support...

Human Genetic Modification
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Inter-country Medically Assisted Reproduction: Conceiving a human rights ethic of care

Marcy Darnovsky spoke about embryo selection and germline editing at the three-day workshop, Inter-country Medically Assisted Reproduction: Conceiving a human...

Perspectives
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Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies

The Center for Genetics and Society spoke by invitation at the 500-person International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington...

Human Genetic Modification
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BEINGS 2015: Biotech and the Ethical Imagination

In an attempt to reimagine the aspirations of biotechnology, and to develop important questions, the Emory University Center for Ethics...

Society
Microscopic image of an egg held with a pipette. A thin needle is used hold in place a sperm cell

Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Ethical, Social, and Policy Considerations

The Center for Genetics and Society was invited to speak about human germline modification at the first public workshop of the...

Policies