FRIDAY, 25 April 2008

8:30-9:00  Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15  Welcome and Introductory Remarks: David Jones

9:15-10:15  INVITED LECTURE: Dorothy Roberts

Race and the Biological Citizen

10:15-10:30  Break

10:30-12:00  PANEL 1: Forensics and Law

Race, Genes, and Justice:  What Does Race Add to the Presentation of Forensic DNA Evidence

Jonathan Kahn

Populations, Individuals, and Race: What Happens with the Move from Medicine to Law Enforcement?

Pamela Sankar

Folk and Scientific ‘Race’: Anthropologies of Human Variation

Chris McDermott

12:00-1:00  Lunch

1:00-2:45  PANEL 2: Genomics and Difference

Biobanks and the Biopolitics of Inclusion

Richard Tutton

The Use of Ancestry versus Race in Biomedical Human Genetic Research

Joan Fujimura, Ramya Rajagopalan, Pilar N. Ossorio, Kjell Doksum

The Use of ‘Race’ in Canadian Genomics Research

Amy Hinterberger

2:45-3:00  Break

3:00-4:45  PANEL 3: Patients and Doctors

The Use of Racial/Ethnic Identity in Medical Evaluations and Treatments

Jay Kaufman and Richard S. Cooper

‘Race’ and its Cultural Politics in U.S. Epidemiology

Erica Prussing

Race, Culture, and Conceptual Clarity in Contemporary Constructions of Cultural Competence

Seth Hannah

‘We Don’t Want to be Too Sensitive’: The Uses of Culture and Race in the Development of Culturally Competent Health Care

Angela Jenks

4:45-5:00  Break

5:00-6:00  INVITED LECTURE: Steven Epstein

The Biopolitics of Health: Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Difference

6:00-7:00  Reception

SATURDAY, 26 April 2008

8:30-9:00  Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:00  INVITED LECTURE: Nancy Krieger

The Science and Epidemiology of Racism and Health: An Ecosocial Perspective

10:00-10:15  Break

10:15-12:15  PANEL 4: Biomedical Publishing

Stewart Landers, American Journal of Public Health

Cynthia Morton, American Journal of Human Genetics

Margaret Winker, Journal of the American Medical Association

Pamela Sankar, University of Pennsylvania

12:15-1:15  Lunch

1:15-3:00  PANEL 5: Nations and Governance

What Are the Consequences of Using Census Categories of Race/Ethnicity as Analytical Variables in Social and Biomedical Research?

George T.H. Ellison

The Use of Race/Skin-Color Statistical Data in Present-Day Brazil: Increasing Racism or Fighting Discrimination

Joao Feres, Jr.

‘We are just one race here’: Supreme Court Constructions of Race after Brown v. Board of Education

Kif Augustine-Adams

Indian in a Black Body?  The Dilemma of Race and Recognition in Indian Country

Arica L. Coleman

3:00-3:15  Break

3:15-5:00  PANEL 6: Identities and Multiculturalism

Racialized Groups and Races

Lawrence Blum

Is There Really Light at the End of the Tunnel?  A Case Study on US Children’s Concepts and Constructions of the Race Concept

Walter Harper

Race and the Manufactured Actor: Representations in Puppetry and Animation

Heidi Louise Cooper

Markets, Media, and Public Representations of Genetics and ‘Race’

Timothy Caulfield

5:00-5:30  Concluding Remarks

5:30-7:00  Reception