Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Conference: Queer Bioethics

Friday, September 21, 2012 - 5:00am

Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania

Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Conference

“Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity: A Queering of the Field”

Speakers include:

Deborah Gould, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, UC – Santa Cruz

Sander L. Gilman, Director, Program in Psychoanalysis, and Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University.

David Halperin, W.H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, University of Michigan

Cindy Patton, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

Jennifer Terry, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, UC – Irvine

Max Cavitch, Associate Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania

Heather Love, Associate Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania

Beth Linker, Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Sharrona Pearl, Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Lance Wahlert, Director, Project on Bioethics, Sexuality, and Gender Identity, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsors: the Annenberg School for Communications, the Penn Humanities Forum, the Department of English, the Cinema Studies Department, the Department of Classical Studies, the Department of History, the Center for Global Women's Health, the LGBT Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women.

For more information, please visit: http://www.queerbioethics.org