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...

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The Biopolitical Imagination: A New Politics of Human Biotechnology

As part of the Science, Technology, Medicine & Society Speaker Series, Marcy Darnovsky presented at the University of Michigan in Ann...

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Event logo to the Stanford discussion on Human Germline Modification: Medicine, Science, Ethics, and Law

Human Germline Modification: Medicine, Science, Ethics, and Law

On May 14th, 2015, Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences and Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter co-hosted a panel event...

Human Genetic Modification