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The Tenth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity and Human Rights convened at the University of Keele, Keele, Newcastle, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom on September 4-6, 2008.

Faculty

• Thomas w. Hennen, JD, received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University (1969) and a Juris Doctor in Law from the University of Maine School of Law (1973). He is a member of both the Washington and California Bar Associations and is admitted as an attorney before the US Patent & Trademark Office. He has spent 33 years of his professional career working as an Intellectual Property Attorney for government and corporate employers. Des Moines, WA, USA.

• Robert C. Johnson recently retired from a 24‑year career as a writer and editor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, USA, where he wrote extensively about deafness‑related research. He is co‑editor of Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability, published by Gallaudet University Press. In 2005, at the age of 60, determined to understand and overcome the root cause of difficulties with intimacy he had experienced all his adolescent and adult life, he decided to pursue an eclectic form of regressive therapy for a second time. Much to his surprise, during one session of this therapy, he began to re‑experience his neonatal circumcision, an event he believes originally occurred within hours or minutes after birth, without parental consent (a frequent occurrence in 1945), many hours before he met his parents. His paper describes his journey from that shocking discovery to his current status as an anti‑circumcision activist. Alexandria, VA.

• Ron Low, BS, MS, earned his BS degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MS from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and is the marketer of a leading brand of foreskin restoration devices (TLCTugger.com) and the host of the “Circumspect” podcast series. Ron has been cited in the book, Everything you know about Sex is Wrong, was featured in the BBC documentary Circumcise Me?, and interviewed by Time magazine. He appears in the 2007 documentary, Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision. Chicago, Illinois.

• Paul Mason is the Commissioner for Children [CfC] for Tasmania. The CfC is an officer of Executive Government, independent of the elected government of the day, appointed to advise the Government and to increase public awareness of matters relating to the health, welfare, care, protection, and development of children. Paul is a family lawyer with 30 years experience.

• Nancy Tshiala Mbuyi graduated in Nursing Sciences, University of Padua, and is a member of the Padua Working Group on FGM. Padua, Italy.

• Ken McGrath, VRD, Msc(Hons), LIBiol, MNZIML, Senior Lecturer in Pathology in the Faculty of Health, Auckland, University of Technology, New Zealand, has made a lifelong study of the male genitalia, which he has taught to medical students. His research interests are the innervation of the penis and fungal diseases of the skin. Auckland, NZ.

• Comfort Momoh, MBE (RN, RM, FPN, BSC, MSC – London), is a FGM Consultant/Public Health Specialist with extensive experience of holistic women‑centered care management, a researcher of women’s health, and a strong campaigner for the eradication of FGM. Comfort holds a Masters degree from the University of London and she is an honorary lecturer at the same university. She established and runs the African Well Woman’s Clinic at Guy’s and St Thomas Foundation Trust, a support service for women and girls who have undergone FGM. She is the recipient of the many awards, including the first ever nurse/midwife of the year award from the Trust in 2003. She received the Florence Nightingale Scholarship/Travel Award 2007, to carry out a Comparative Research in Africa – looking at the sexual quality of women who have undergone FGM. She received MBE from the queen in recognition of her work on women’s healthcare. Comfort was awarded a doctorate degree at Middlesex University‑School of Health and Social Sciences for her contribution to public life and strong connection to the University. She also provides training, workshop, seminars, and conferences at local, national, and international levels. She is the Chairperson for the Black Women’s Health and Family supports (a non‑governmental organisation working and supporting the community). She is also the vice‑president for EURONET (European Network on FGM). London, England.

• Pierre Mouriquand, FRCS(Urol), is a professor of Paediatric Urology and head of the Department of Paediatric Surgery at Lyon Children’s Hospital–Claude‑Bernard University– Lyon 1. After a medical training in Lyon and London (Great Ormond Street Hospital), he became a consultant/Associate Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery in Cambridge (Addenbrooke’s Hospital) from 1991 to 1994 and a consultant/Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Urology at Great Ormond Street Hospital: Institute of Child Health from 1994 to 1998. He was appointed as a Professor of Paediatric Urology in Lyon in 1998. His main fields of expertise are the Disorders of Sex Development, antenatal diagnosis of uropathies, exstrophy /epispadias complex, neuropathic bladder and elimination disorders.

• Gordon Muir, FRCS(Urol), FEBU, Consultant Urologist, is based at King’s College Hospital and the Lister Hospital, London, and is Honorary Senior Lecturer, King’s College London. He specialises in the minimally invasive treatment of prostate diseases and the study and treatment of male sexual dysfunction. London, UK.

• Miriam Pollack, an educator in private practice and the Jewish mother of two circumcised sons, has been advocating for genital integrity for Jewish as well as non‑Jewish baby boys for the past 17 years by writing, speaking, counselling Jewish parents, and providing alternative brit b’lee milah ceremonies for interested parents. Boulder, CO, USA.

• Steve Scott is the Educational Outreach Coordinator of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers and the Director of NOCIRC of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

• Janette Shaw, MA, RGN, RM, DMS, DPS(HV), Nurse Consultant, Safeguarding Children, Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust, sits on the Waltham Forest Local Safeguarding Children Board Management Group and is a member of the sub fora. Waltham Forest is a North East London Borough, with a multi‑cultural population, ranking 11th largest local government district in England and Wales, with a non‑white, minority ethnic population. London, UK.

• Daniel Sidler, MD, MPhil (Applied Ethics), FCS, is a Paediatric Surgeon at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

• Sigismond (Michel Hervé navoiseau-Bertaux) is a psychoanalysis researcher. Paris, France.

• David Smith was educated at St Joseph’s College, Market Drayton, and he qualified in business studies at Underwood College. He worked for Re‑Solv, the solvent abuse charity, but he currently works full‑time as General Manager of NORM‑UK, and is the organisation’s only paid staff member. David created and now edits NORM NEWS, the organisation’s magazine for member. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.

• J. Steven Svoboda, JD, focuses on civil litigation and human rights, and is the founder and executive director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC), a non‑profit organisation addressing the illegality of involuntary genital surgery. Berkeley, CA, USA.

• Andrew Tinson started training in psychotherapy, in 2002, with the Metanoia Institute in west London and is currently in advanced training, working part‑time towards an MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy. He has been a member of NORM‑UK since the mid‑1990s. During the last 30 years, he has worked as a teacher, lecturer, IT project manager and now, as an IT support manager.

• Franco Viviani, PhD, a physical anthropologist, is at present professor of Functional Anthropology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Udine, and Professor of Psychobiology and Physiology of Human Behaviour at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Padova. He has published papers and articles on both male and female circumcision. He is the representative for Italy. NOCIRC of Italy. Padua, Italy.

• John Warren, MB BChir DCH FRCP, qualified in medicine at Cambridge University, England (1966). He obtained the Diploma of Child Health (1968), Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1970), and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1987). After junior training posts, he was appointed a consultant physician in Harlow, Essex (1975), specialising in general internal medicine and respiratory disease. He became interested in problems surrounding infant circumcision when studying child health (1968), and followed up this interest in the early 1990’s, leading to the establishment of NORM‑UK (1995), of which he has been chairman since its foundation. He retired from medical practice in 2006. Harlow, Essex, UK.

• Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13, a Researcher at the University of Paris 3‑Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a Senior Scholar at the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris. She is the author of Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts, Stanford UP, 2007); The African Palimpsest (Rodopi, 1991; rpt 2007); Tempests after Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2002). She has also edited Le Secret (with J. Derrida, Louvain, 1999), and Changements au féminin en Afrique noire (L’Harmattan, 2000). Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision is forthcoming with Rodopi this year, and she is currently editing Perennial Empires (with Silvia Nagy‑Zekmi). Paris, France.

• Ilenia Zanotti, PhD, received her degree in Psychology at the University of Padua. She is a member of Padua Working Group on FGM. Padua, Italy.

Proceedings

Program

Thursday, 4 September 2008

• Business & Introductions

David Smith

• Welcome and Opening

Marilyn Milos and John Warren

• Session 1: Law, Ethics & Human Rights

Chair, Peter Ball

• Adolescent Autonomy and the Limits of Religious Freedom

Marie Fox and Michael Thomson

• Writing Rites gone Wrong: autobiography, testimonials, and Their Relevance to the Debate around genital alterations

Chantal Zabus

• Circumcision mythologies in conflict with Logic, Reason, and common Sense

Steve Scott

• Three-Fourths Were abnormal”– Misha’s case, Sick Societies, and the Law

J. Steven Svoboda

• Hospital’s Duty: Informed consent

Zenas Baer

• Session 2: Law, Ethics & Human Rights (2)

Chair, Marie Fox

• Violating all codes

George C. Denniston

• Female genital mutilation: a human Rights Issue

Comfort Momoh

• International Organizations, Political Interests: One group’s Experience

Seham Abd el Salam and Sarah Enan

• The goal Posts Don’t move

Paul Mason

• The Local Process for gaining agreement to create an FGM Protocol

Janette Shaw

• Thanks by Session chairs closing Remarks

Marilyn Milos

• Business of the Evening

David Smith

• Session 3/1: Foreskin Restoration

Chair, Peter Ball

• Foreskin Restoration

Wayne Griffiths

• Restoration: The Foreskin and the American Dream

Ron Low

• Session 3/2: Considerations of Infantile Sexual Mutilation

Chair, Andrew Tinson

• Rites, Rights, and Wrongs (Psychoanalysis of Sexual mutilation/Sexual mutilation of Psychoanalysis) Excision, circumcision, “Hush, It’s for Your Own Sake! (A Presentation of ISM) Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed against ISM

Sigismond (Michel Hervé Bertaux-Navoiseau)

Friday, September 2008

0800 – 0900 Silence, on coupe! – Documentary by Dominique Arnaud
0900 – 0915 Business – David Smith
0915 – 0930 Introduction and Welcome – John Warren

SESSION 1/1 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CIRCUMCISION Chair, Tony Peters
0930 – 1000 It’s all Relational – Andrew Tinson
1000 – 1030 Neonatal circumcision Revisited: Implications for Surgeons of men’s Experiences in Regressive Therapy– Robert C. Johnson
1030 – 1100 Circumcision memory – Thomas W. Hennen
1100 - 1115 Coffee SESSION 1/2 FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION Chair, Iris Fudge
0930 – 0945 The First Survey on genital Stretching in Italy – Annalisa Bertoletti, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Ilenia Zanotti, Lucrezia Catania
0945 – 1000 The Stretching of the Labia minora and Other Expansive Interventions on the Female genitals in the Democratic Republic of congo – Nancy Tshiala Mbuyi, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Annalisa Bertoletti
1000 – 1015 Performing the Eradication of Infibulation: mana abdurahman Isse at merka, Somalia – Sandra Busatta and Pia Grassivaro Gallo
1015 – 1030 Mana Abdurahman Isse, 2007: The Prevention of Infibulation in the Lower Scebelli (Somalia)– Pia Grassivaro Gallo
1030 - 1045 Knowledge and Opinions of North Italian health Operators about Female genital mutilation– Ilenia Zanotti, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Annalisa Bertoletti, Miriam Manganoni
1045 – 1100 Male circumcision in Italy, From a Free Procedure to a Paid One – M. Gloria de Bernardo

SESSION 2 PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF CIRCUMCISION Chair, Tony Peters
1115 – 1150 Physical Effects of circumcision – John Warren
1150 – 1230 “I’m 19 and I don’t want to be circumcised” – Peter Ball
1230 – 1300 Circumcision and men’s health: a contradiction in terms? – Peter Baker
1300 – 1400 Lunch

SESSION 3 CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS Chair, Richard Duncker
1400 – 1430 The Foreskin in children – Pierre Mouriquand
1430 – 1500 adult urology – Gordon Muir
1500 - 1530 So They claim to know the answer: The Problem of association taken as causality – Ken McGrath
1530 - 1600 Discussion

1600 - 1615 Tea

SESSION 4 cIRcumcISION aND JuDaISmChair, Sheila Curran
1615 - 1645 The Shadow Behind the circumcision Dialogue: how Do We Encounter Jews?– Miriam Pollack
1645 - 1800 cut: Slicing Through the myths of circumcision – Documentary by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
1800 – 1830 Thanks by Session chair closing Remarks – John Warren
Business of Evening – David Smith
1900 – 1930 Reception/no host bar 1930 - Gala Dinner, Keele Hall

Saturday, 6 September 2008

0900 – 0915 Business – David Smith
0915 – 0930 Introduction and Welcome – Marilyn Milos

SESSION 1 HIV/AIDS ISSUES Chair, John Dalton
0930 – 1015 A case against Neonatal circumcision as a Preventative measure to Reduce hIV Infection Rates – Daniel Sidler
1015 – 1100 Long-term Population Effect of male circumcision in generalized HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa – Michel Garenne
1100 – 1115 Coffee
1115 – 1200 XVIIth International conference on AIDS, Mexico City, August 2008: Reason for hope or panic? – John Geisheker and Georganne Chapin
1200 – 1300 HIV/AIDS Discussion
1300 – 1400 Lunch
SESSION 2 EDUCATION WORLDWIDE Chair, David Smith
1400 – 1445 Onward and Outward – Paul Mason
1445 – 1530 Educating the Professionals – Prasad Godbole
1530 – 1600 Discussion
1600 – 1615 Tea
1615 – 1700 Genital Integrity: The Way Forward – David Smith
1700 – 1730 Thanks by Session chair Closing Remarks – Marilyn Milos and John Warren Business of Evening – David Smith
1900 - Dinner (optional extra) + cabaret

Conference organizers

• Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
• David Smith, General Manager, NORM-UK
• Dr. John Warren, Chairman and Founder, NORM-UK
• Professors Michael Thomson and Marie Fox, University of Keele School of Law

See also

• 1989: First International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1991: Second International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1994: Third International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1996: Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations
• 1998: Fifth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations
• 2000: Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity
• 2002: Seventh International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society
• 2004: Eighth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights
• 2006: Ninth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2008: Tenth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2010: Eleventh International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2012: Twelfth International Symposium on Law, Genital Autonomy, and Human Rights
• 2014: Thirteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2016: Fourteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2018: Fifteenth International Symposium‎‎ on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2022: Sixteenth International Symposium on Child Genital Cutting