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The '''Fourteenth International Symposium''' on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights convened at the [https://www.keele.ac.uk/ University of Keele], Keele, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom on September 14-16, 2016.
* '''Kitty Anderson''' is an Intersex activist based in Iceland. In 2014, she was one of the founders of Intersex Iceland and has served as the organisation’s Chairperson since. She has also served on the board of Samtökin 78 - The National Queer Organisation of Iceland--in 2015 as a board member and from 2016 as the Organisation’s International Secretariat. Since the fall of 2015, she has served as the Secretary of OII Europe and has had a place on the board of the Icelandic Human Rights Center since 2015, taking the position of Chairperson in May 2016. She has also served on Iceland’s Ministry of Welfare’s Queer Committee since 2014. Ice-land.78, the National Queer Organisation of Iceland, is involved in activism, the media and change in Iceland.
* '''Gaye Blake-Roberts''' has an honorary doctorate from Keele University and was selected to be their inaugu-ral inaugural President of the College of Fellows. The Fellows work as advocates for the University on a regional, national and international level.Gaye is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Museums Association. She is currently a Trustee to the Spode Museum, Chairman of the Raven Mason Trust at Keele University and Deputy Chair of the Trustees and Chair of the Academic and Curatorial Committee of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire. For many years Gaye has been Curator of the Wedgwood Museum at Barlaston. The new Wedgwood Museum reopened to the public in October 2008 and won the prestigious Museum of the Year Award in June 2009.Gaye has lectured extensively throughout Britain and has undertaken a number of tours in Australia, Japan, Italy and the United States of America. She has appeared on national and local radio and television and has contributed to numerous catalogues for major exhibitions and for a wide range of scholarly publications in England, Europe and America. Published books include Mason’s the First 200 years, Wedgwood Jasper (2011) and Wedgwood – The Illus-trated History of an Iconic Name in Pottery (2014). Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
* '''Clare Chambers''' is University Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She works on contemporary political philosophy, with particular focus on feminism, liberalism and theories of social construction. She is the author of numerous chapters and articles on topics such as autonomy, choice and consent; the body, appearance norms and cosmetic surgery; culture, religion and social practices; theories of justice. She is the author of two books: ''Sex, Culture and Justice: The Limits of Choice'' (Penn State University Press, 2008) and, with Phil Parvin, ''Teach Yourself Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction'' (Hodder, 2012). Her third book, ''Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State'', will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2017.
* '''John Dalton''' is the lead researcher and archivist for Genital Autonomy and [[15 Square]]. He lives in Cumbria where he was born and was educated at Dundee and St Andrews Universities. He is a semi-retired nuclear safety consultant and a lay member of an NHS research ethics committee. He has a long-standing interest in the subject of genital cutting and has amassed an archive of over 6,000 documents related to the issue. Cumbria, UK.
* '''[[Richard Duncker]]''' was born in Jamaica, educated in the UK attaining a degree in Fine Art and has spent most of his working life in editing documentaries and current affairs programmes for TV in the UK. In recent years, he has worked as a snowboard instructor and Yoga teacher, specialising in classes for older people. In 2004, Richard came across the NORM-UK web site and realised that his negative feelings regarding genital cutting were in fact a normal reaction to a very definite insult. As a victim turned activist, he has used his knowledge of the media to try and raise the profile of an assault on children that should not be tolerated by a society that purports to respect children’s rights. London, UK.
* '''Marie Fox''' is Professor of Law in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses on legal governance of human and animal bodies and legal theories of embodiment. She is currently working on projects which explore the policing of the human/non-human boundary and the role of technologies in mediating this relation and (with '''Michael Thomson''') examining the ethics and legality of genital cutting. She is a coordinating editor of Social and Legal Studies. Liverpool, UK.
* '''Rebecca Roberts''' is the Deputy Director, Marketing and Recruitment, at Keele University. She is passionate about developing effective marketing and communications strategies, integrating engaging content and bringing teams together. She enjoys exploring new platforms, ways of doing things and making sure ideas transform into imaginative, impactful and exciting work. Rebecca is experienced in high performance sport, working across media, marketing and PR, and more recently moved into Higher Education. She believes in bringing the best out of the toughest challenges and people. Keele University. UK.
* '''[[Lloyd Schofield]]''' was a proponent for the San Francisco Male Genital Mutilation Initiative, which received nearly double the amount of signatures required for the 2012 ballot in the City and County of San Francisco. The initiative was removed from the ballot on a technicality as the result of a concerted lobbying effort conducted by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Civil Liberties Union. He is the current President of the Bay Area Intactivists, a grassroots 501(c)(3) charitable organization, which works to protect and defend the genital autonomy of all individuals, male, female and intersex, from forced genital mutilation through education, expanding visibility, creating forums and working with other human rights organizations. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''[[David Smith]]''' is the Chief Officer of Genital Autonomy. He qualified in business studies and worked for a number of international companies before joining the charity sector in 2002. David was one of the founders of Genital Autonomy in 2008. As well as working for Genital Autonomy, he is also the General Manager of [[15 Square]], a charity helping men who have been damaged by [[circumcision]]. Previously he worked for Re-Solv, a charity dealing with problems caused by solvent abuse. He is a lay representative at the Keele University School of Medicine. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
==Proceedings==
====Wednesday, 14 September 2016====
* Welcome by Keele University President of the College of Fellows<br>
* Dinner and a Murder Mystery: Who killed the doctor
====Thursday, 15 September 2016====
* Activism, media and change in Iceland<br>
* Raven Mason Suite: Reception, Welcome by Vice Chancellor of Keele University, Prof. Trevor McMillan, followed by Gala Dinner
====Friday, 15 September 2016====
* Remembering Jonathon Conte<br>
* Professional ethics and genital mutilation<br>
::''Tommi Paalanen''
* Moving towards a psycho-social framework − <br>::''Holly Greenberry 1250 - 1400 Lunch1400 - 1435 ''* Lunch* Consequences of FGM and deinfibulation − <br>::''Comfort Momoh1440 - 1520 Momoh''* Pathways to treatment − ''<br>::''Speaker TBA1520 - 1550 Break1550 - 1625 TBA;;* Break* Considering the psycho-sexual impact of circumcision − <br>::''Eli Joubert1630 - 1705 Joubert''* Counselling and psychological damage − <br>::''Tiina Vilponen1710 - 1730 Vilponen''* Rounding off the symposium: Looking at ways forward − <br>::''David Smith''