2005-2006 Stem Cell Events and Activities

Events

From Object to Things: How to represent the parliament of nature?
Bruno Latour, Professor, Centre de Sociologies de l’Innovation, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris
Date: October 17th, 2005

Consent, Commodification, Control: Governing Stem Cell Research and the New Biotechnologies
David Winickoff, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society, UC Berkeley
Date: February 16, 2006

Genealogical Branches, Genetic Roots, and the Pursuit of African Ancestry
Alondra Nelson, Assistant Professor, African American Studies & Sociology, Yale University
Date: February 23rd, 2006

California’s Stem Cell Initiative: Confronting the Legal and Policy Challenges
Date: March 2-4, 2006

Patenting Life and Its Parts:
Rights and Ethics in the Political Economy of Intellectual Property
Lecture by Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
Commentary by Pilar Ossorio, Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law
Discussion Moderated by Professor David Winickoff, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
Date: March 10th, 2006

Stem Cell Research: UK Policy and Regulation
Lord Naren Patel, Chairman, UK Stem Cell Oversight Committee
Date: March 13th, 2006

Can One Rely on Knowledge? Bodies, relations and contexts
Marilyn Strathern, Dame Mistress Professor, Cambridge University
Date: April 3rd, 2006

Biopolitics: Sustainable Forestry and Medical Police in the German Lands, 1750-1820
Sarah Jansen, Associate Professor History of Science, Harvard University
Date: April 17th, 2006

Projects

The Stem Cell Initiative and the Humanities: Fostering Curriculum Development and Graduate, and Undergraduate Research (GROUP)

A Collaborative Research Project supported by the Townsend Center for the Humanities

Charis Thompson (STSC Co-Director) and Corine Hayden are recipients of a Townsend Collaborative Research grant for 2005-2006 to develop curricular materials and enhance collaborative research opportunities for students on the many issues relevant to California's new stem cell initiative. The grant provided research opportunities for 15 undergraduates (see below the details of the students) and provided stipends for two graduate students in the Spring semester 2006. Eight of the undergraduate students were awarded Townsend Summer Apprenticeship and Mellon Undergraduate Research stipends to continue their work over the Summer 2006.

Sample projects from the GROUP award

Chancellor's Stem Cell Initiative at STSC
Student Research Teams:

International comparative stem cell policy
Aba Yamoah, Olivia Nguyen, Katherine Darling

Stem Cells and Diversity
Joseph Tayag, Diane Lu, Fulton Wang

Governance / Policy of stem cell research
Geoffrey Friedman, David Orona

Ethics of Embryo Research, Egg Donation and Pre-Implantation Diagnosis
Ariane Mohamadi, Abbas Kothari, Randeep Singh Hothi

Disability Rights versus (and?) Cures
Julie Stamm, Matthew Schneider

Campus Science and Society Resources and Pedagogy
Jeanie Yi, Evangeline Wong