The Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences in Asia: Opportunities, risks and the changing body

10/04/2009 - 09:00

10 - 11 April 2009
Leiden, the Netherlands

International Conference, Socio-Genetic Marginalization in Asia Programme (SMAP)

Convenor: Dr Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner (University of Sussex / IIAS)

The aim of this international conference is to stimulate discussion on the cultural politics of the body, new opportunities and risks accompanying the development and use of new biotechnologies, and the ways in which these affect healthcare resources and distribution.

Venue:
Hortus Botanicus, Tuinkamer (Garden room)
Rapenburg 73
Leiden

Speakers:
Aditya Bharadwaj (University of Edinburgh), Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner (University of Sussex), Prasanna Kumar Patra (International Institute for Asian Studies), Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of California, Irvine), Stefan Ecks (University of Edinburgh), Ayo Wahlberg (London School of Economics), Jingqing Yang (University of Technology, Sydney), Chee-Khoon Chan (University of Malaysia), Nancy Chen (University of California, Santa Cruz), Sang-Hyun Kim (Harvard University), Young-gyung Paik (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology/ Johns Hopkins University), Wen-Hua Kuo (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan), Yulia Egorova (Durham University)

Please click here for the programme and the abstracts. 

Information and registration:
Ms Martina van den Haak, MA
m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl
+31 71 5273317

The organisers of  the international conference The Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences in Asia: Opportunities, risks and the changing body gratefully acknowledge the following sponsor: