Date: 12 March 2008
Time: 3.30 - 6.00pm (Tea and Coffee from 3.00pm)
Venue: Room Hel 251 (Cambridge)

All welcome.

Increasingly people are turning to the science of DNA to answer questions about their origins and identities. A group of experts from Anthropology, Forensic Science and Sociology discuss the context and implications of this new development.

Papers:

• Tracing Human Ancestry using DNA by Dr Peter Forster (Forensic Science, Anglia Ruskin University)
• Redefining the African Family? Diaspora, Kinship, Genetics by Dr Katharina Schramm (Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
• The Emerging Biopolitics of Race and Racism by Dr David Skinner (Humanities and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University)
• Family Trees, Blood and Looks: Conceptualising Multi-Generational Irish Identities by Bronwen Walter (Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies, Anglia Ruskin University)

This event is led by the Justice and Communities Research Unit (JACRU). Please contact David Skinner for further details.

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