8:30–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–9:20 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
David Jones
9:20–10:20 INVITED LECTURE: Mike Fortun
Race in the Meantime: The “Care for the Data” for Complex Conditions
10:20–10:30 Break
10:30–12:15 PANEL 1: The Business of Race and Ancestry
Commercial Ventures in Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Science of Racial Genetics
Deborah Bolnick
Race, Genetic Ancestry, and the Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Brazil
Ricardo Santos and Marcos Chor Maio
To Count Is to Be Counted: Exploring Alignments Between Census, Race, and Health in Contemporary Britain
Richard Tutton
12:15–1:00 Lunch
1:00–2:45 PANEL 2: Debating Race in Biomedicine
The Business of Racial Criticism in Biomedical Research
George Ellison and Simon M. Outram
Physicians’ Attitudes Regarding Race-Based Therapeutics
Danielle Frank and others
“It Could Be in the Genes”: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Practice of (Re)Membering Personhood
Mateo Munoz
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00–4:45 PANEL 3: Debating Race in Clinical Trials
deCODE, Veliflapon, and GRAHF: Efforts to Identify Genetic-Based Approaches to CVD Reduction in African Americans
Keith Ferdinand
Metaphors, Mentality and the Manufacture of Knowledge: The PAARTNERS Study into Schizophrenia
Andrew Fearnley
Killer Applications: Clinical Trials, Race, and the Metabolic Syndrome
Anthony Hatch
4:45-5:00 Break
5:00–6:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Keith Wailoo
6:00–7:00 Reception
SATURDAY, 31 March 2007
8:30–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 INVITED LECTURE: Frank Douglas
10:00–10:10 Break
10:10–12:30 PANEL 4: Genetic Research, Vulnerable Populations, and the Law
Prisons as Biocolonies: Race, Biomedicine, and the Ethics of Using Prisoners as Research Subjects
Osagie Obasogie
Race, Genetics, and Forensic Analysis
Hilary Robinson
Commercializing Race: People as Patents
Lori Andrews
Patenting Race
Jonathan Kahn
12:30–1:15 Lunch
1:15–3:00 PANEL 5: Racial Commodities
‘Solaro’ and Selling Protection from the Tropical Sun:
British Ideas of Medicine and Hygiene in Warm Climates, 1900-1920
Ryan Johnson
The Fair, the Dark and the Ugly: Mediating the Interests of Technology, Business,
and Societies in Third World Economies
Nirajan Man Singh and Aakash Prasad
Kampo: A Racial Science/Business
Wen Hua Kuo
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15–5:00 PANEL 6: Selling the Racialized Past
Packaging Race for Students: How Biology Textbooks Sell Human Difference
Ann Morning
Salt Sensitivity and the Middle Passage
Roland Fryer
Race, Populations, and the New Genomics
Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds
5:00–5:30 Concluding Remarks
5:30–6:30 Reception