Workstream Overview:

The Genomics and Identity Politics workstream is a joint programme of events that bring together staff from Egenis, Cesagen, Innogen and the Genomics Policy and Research Forum to investigate how genomic and genetic knowledge and practice relate to the politics of identity.

The collaboration takes the form of 5 workshops at the different centres, each of which concentrates on one aspect of genomics and identity politics in a way that links to one of the flagship research themes of the host centre.

Workshops:

• Policing Genes: Medicine, Immigration and the Census - 13/14 March 2008 at Egenis, University of Exeter
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•  Constructing/Contesting Mobilizations: Biopolitics, Activism and Identity – 27 June 2008 at Cesagen, Lancaster University
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• Genetic Suspects: Emerging Forensic Uses of Genomic Technologies – 2/3 October 2008 at Genomics Forum, The University of Edinburgh
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• The Genetics and Identity Politics of Parenthood and Family: We are family? – 19/20 February 2009 at Genomics Forum, The University of Edinburgh (organised by Innogen, The University of Edinburgh)
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• Genomics and Identity Politics – 24 September 2009 at Egenis, University of Exeter.
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• Opportunities and Limitations of Molecular Technologies for Inferring National Origins - Invitation-only workshop. 1 February 2011 at the Wellcome Trust, London
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For further details: 

Please contact Dr. Christine Hauskeller - c.hauskeller@exeter.ac.uk

Workshop Reports:

13 March 2008 Policing genes: Medicine, Immigration and the Census - Workshop Report

27 June 2008 Constructing/Contesting Mobilizations: Biopolitics, Activism and Identity - Workshop Report

02 October 2008 Genetic Suspects: Emerging Forensic Uses of Genomic Technologies - Workshop Report

19 February 2009 The Genetics and Identity Politics of Parenthood and Family: We are family? - Workshop Report

01 February 2011 Opportunities and Limitations of Molecular Technologies for Inferring National Origins Workshop Report

Workstream Resources:

Human Provenance Pilot Project: Resource Page