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Just Genomes?

Location: University of York, Wentworth College, W/222

Monday 25 June 2018, 4.00PM to 5.00pm

Speaker: Professor Jenny Reardon, University of California

At the end of the last millennium, the proposal of the Human Genome Diversity
Project and the publication of The Bell Curve sparked new worries that studies
of human genetic variation would reignite scientific racism. Since WWII, human
geneticists had labored to distance the study of human genes from eugenics and
Nazi science. Would that work, and the possibility of a genomic account of
human differences, be undone before the research had even really begun?  To
avert this possibility, in the wake of the sequencing of the human genome – or
the postgenomic era – genome scientists and their supporters proposed a new
‘democratic’ approach to genomics.  In several high profile cases, they
attempted to give power back to “the people” to define themselves, and to
control use of their DNA.  Yet the problem of race and racism persisted.  From
the International HapMap Project, to David Reich’s recent editorial in the New
York Times, this talk explores how and by what means debates about ‘race’ and
racism remain central and formative of the postgenomic condition.

Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the
Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.  Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and
democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices,
particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology,
the history of biology, science studies, feminist and critical race studies,
and the sociology of science, technology and medicine. She is the author of
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics (Princeton
University Press, 2005) and The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice,
Knowledge After the Genome (Chicago University Press, Fall 2017).  She has
been the recipient of fellowships and awards from, among others, the National
Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, the Humboldt Foundation, the
London School of Economics, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, and the
United States Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Admission: Free – Eventbrite ticket
S’inscrire ici:
https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/about/department/2018/justgenomes/

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Valérie Burgos (1 janvier 2019). Just Genomes? RTP SHS GenMed. Consulté le 17 avril 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/u5kh


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