Registration open: 'Making human heredity: populations and public health in the postwar era'
The workshop 'Making
human heredity: populations and public health in the postwar era' at
the University of Cambridge, 28th-30th June 2012, is now open for
registration:
The postwar study of human
heredity was shaped by an array of fields engaged with the study of human
populations, including cytogenetics, physical anthropology, epidemiology,
public health and demography. This workshop will address the continuities in
population thinking across these fields, and the shared practices,
institutional structures and analytical and organisational technologies that
constituted postwar human heredity.
The workshop aims
to bring into view how human populations were shaped through sampling protocols
and technologies of data organization. It will emphasize the roles of
international organizations, such as the World Health Organization, in
promoting and coordinating collection practices across different disciplines
and countries. It will also recover the ways in which data and samples were
negotiated by researchers with different interests, and re-appropriated in
disciplinarily diverse research programmes.
Please use the link
above for the draft programme. Papers will be pre-circulated. Those wishing to
register for the event (places are limited; deadline: 14 June), please email
Michelle Wallis (mlw41@cam.ac.uk);
price £25 (which includes lunch on the 28th and 29th of June, coffee and tea
during breaks).
For any queries
about the conference please email Michelle Wallis (mlw41@cam.ac.uk) or
Jenny Bangham (jb252@cam.ac.uk).
The workshop is
supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Genetics Society and
by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the History of
Medicine on the theme 'Generation to Reproduction' (awarded to
the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and colleagues in Classics,
Geography, History, King's and Physiology, Development &
Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).
Convened by Jenny
Bangham (University of Cambridge) and Soraya de Chadarevian (University of
California, Los Angeles).