REMINDER - Symposium: "Nurturing Genetics", Leeds, 29 June-2 July 2014
NURTURING GENETICS: REFLECTIONS ON A CENTURY OF SCIENTIFIC
AND SOCIAL CHANGE
An
international and interdisciplinary symposium
University
of Leeds, 30 June-2 July 2014
To mark both the upcoming centenary
of The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity (1915) by T. H. Morgan et al. and the
completion of the Leeds-based Genetics Pedagogies Project, which has developed
and trialled a de-Mendelized genetics curriculum, the Project team is hosting a
three-day symposium on a century of change in and out of genetics, featuring
talks from scholars across the disciplines. In keeping with the ambitions
of the project, gene-environment interaction and its complexities will be in
the foreground throughout.
The symposium will take place at
Devonshire Hall, near the University of Leeds campus, from the afternoon of
Monday 30 June to the morning of Wednesday 2 July 2014. The opening
keynote address will be given by Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT). The full
programme is appended below.
All are welcome, though space is
limited, and registration in advance is required. To register, or for
more information, please email the Project Fellow, Dr Annie Jamieson, at A.K.Jamieson@leeds.ac.uk
. The registration fee, which includes a wine reception, lunch, and
tea/coffee throughout, is £30.00. Affordable accommodation is available
on-site.
We would be grateful if you could
circulate this email to colleagues and students who may be interested.
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Monday 30th June
15:00
Registration and check-in to accommodation
17:00
Prof. Gregory Radick (HPS, Leeds): Welcome/Introduction
17:30
Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller (STS, MIT): "From Gene Action to Reactive
Genomes"
18:30-19:30
Reception (wine and canapés)
19:30 onwards Dinner at
local restaurant/s
Tuesday 1st July
Session 1: Eugenics and its Legacies
09:30
Dr. Chris Renwick (History, York): "Alexander Carr Saunders, Julian Huxley
and Gene-Environment Interaction in Interwar British Sociology"
10:15
Dr. James Tabery (Philosophy, Utah): “Gene-Environment Interaction in the 21st
Century: Its Rise, Its Fall, Its Rise?"
11:00
Coffee
Session 2: Hybridizations:
Genetics, Agriculture, Medicine
11:30
Dr. Helen Anne Curry (HPS, Cambridge): “Creation versus Conservation: Competing
Strategies for the Management of Genetic Diversity in 20th-Century Agriculture”
12:15
Dr. Steve Sturdy (STS, Edinburgh): “Making Genomic Medicine: New Knowledge, New
Politics”
13:00
Lunch
Session 3: Towards a Better Handling
of Complexity in the Clinic
14:00
Prof. Gholson Lyon (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): “Genetic Complexity and
Neuropsychiatric Disorders”
14:45
Dr. Barbara Potrata (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences): “After the Diagnosis:
The Impact of Genetic Diagnosis”
15:30
Coffee
Session 4: Towards a Better Handling
of Complexity in the Classroom
16:00
Dr. Niklas Gericke (Environment and Life Sciences, Karlstad): “Epistemological
Foundations for Genetics Education: The Issue of Conceptual Variation and
Multiple Models”
16:45
Dr. Annie Jamieson (HPS, Leeds): “Leave the Monk in the Garden: Results of the
Genetics Pedagogies Project”
17:30
End
19:30
Gala Conference Dinner
Wednesday 2nd July
09:30
Roundtable/Discussion sessions
11:00
Coffee/ End
Wed PM Optional excursion to the
Yorkshire spa town of Ilkley for lunch and a talk plus, weather
permitting, brief walking tour related to Darwin’s visit there in 1859
(contact Annie Jamieson for further details)
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For more on the Genetics Pedagogies
Project, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/homepage/399/the_genetics_pedagogies_project
For more on the Leeds Centre for
History and Philosophy of Science, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/40006/centre_for_history_and_philosophy_of_science
Funding for this symposium, and for
the Project, has been generously provided by the Faraday Institute for Science
and Religion, University of Cambridge, as part of its Uses and Abuses of
Biology programme. For more on the programme, see http://www.uabgrants.org/
And finally, for the anniversary
minded: note that 2015 will also mark 150 years after Gregor Mendel gave two
talks in Brünn on his remarkable experiments in plant hybridization.