FRIDAY, 30 March 2007


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

 
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