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==Faculty==
* '''Heli Askola''', LLB, LLM (Turku, Finland) 2000, {{PhD}} (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) 2005, is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, {{UNI|Monash University|Monash}} in Melbourne. Before joining Monash in 2008, she worked at Cardiff Law School in the UK and she has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities around the world. Her main areas of teaching and research interest are international [[human rights]] law, feminist legal theory, and EU law. Clayton, Victoria{{AUSC|VIC}}, Australia.
* '''[[Zenas Baer]]''', {{JD}}, graduated from the {{UNI|University of Minnesota|U of M}} with a {{BA}} in German literature and political science (1976) and from Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, {{USSC|MN}}, in 1980. Since 1980, he has been in the private practice of law in Hawley, {{USSC|MN}}. He is licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court, United States Claims Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota, Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota, US District Courts in Minnesota and North Dakota, and the White Earth Band of Chippewa Tribal Court. His practice is focused primarily on complex litigation and he is known to take on unusual cases generally fighting for the underdog. He has handled a number of circumcision cases and dealt extensively with the concept of [[informed consent ]] as it relates to circumcision. Hawley, {{USSC|MN}}, USA.
* '''Amy Callan''', {{MS}}, holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Manhattan College and received her MS degree in health services administration from Iona College. She worked for Hudson Health Plan, a non-profit Medicaid managed-care company in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she served as project manager and was responsible for the coordination, oversight, and implementation of projects related to nonprofit program design and strategy. Amy is currently the Business Operations Manager for [[Intact America]], an organization that envisions a world where children are protected from permanent bodily alteration inflicted on them, without their consent, in the name of culture, religion, profit, or parental preference. Tarrytown, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
* '''Erika Dionisio''' is a graduating student in the Department of Applied Psychology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. She was involved in a field qualitative research on genital modifications in the Venda region in South Africa, and she collected data on body image from South African students. Padua, Italy.
* '''[[Dean Edell]]''', {{MD}}, received his medical degree from {{UNI|Cornell University|CU}}. He is known for his candid straight talk on radio and television, translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports, and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual, and often controversial. As one of the first media doctors, he knows the dangers of distorted medical reporting. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing fact from fiction. He has been outspoken on the issue of [[circumcision]] and promoted [[genital integrity]] since 1982. San Francisco, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''[[Christopher Fletcher]]''', {{MD}}, is a family physician in Santa Fe, NM, who graduated cum laude from Harvard College, has an {{MD}} from the {{UNI|University of Texas Southwestern Medical|UTSW}} School in Dallas, and residency training in the {{UNI|University of Massachusetts|UMass}} Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program. He has been in public and private practice in New Mexico since 1981, is an assistant clinical professor of family and community medicine at the {{UNI|University of New Mexico|UNM}} School of Medicine, and has a long-term interest in circumcision issues, having not performed one since 1981 and having left his own sons intact. He takes pride in being a supporter of the nurses who founded Nurses for the Rights of the Child at St. Vincent Hospital. He has delivered over a thousand babies and with aggressive but supportive and caring education of parents was able to prevent all but 10 of the boys he delivered from being circumcised. Santa Fe, {{USSC|NM}}, USA.
* '''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]''', {{PhD}}, Associate Professor of Anthropology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}’s Psychology Faculty, and former teacher of Applied Biology, Human Genetics, and Anthropogenetics. Her research on the biology of current human populations has taken place in several developing countries, particularly Somalia (from 1972 to 1985). At the invitation of the Somali Ministry of Public Health (1981), she was invited to take part in a scientific mission to Somaliland. Since 1988, she has been responsible for the Padua Working Group on FGM, dealing with African immigrants in Italy. Since 2000, she has studied the expansive forms of the traditional interventions on female genitalia, carrying out field research in Central Africa (Uganda, Malawi, and Congo RDC). She was co-coordinator of the VIIIth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights. Padua, Italy.
* '''[[John V. Geisheker]]''', {{JD}}, a native of New Zealand, is the Executive Director of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]], an international non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. As Director of D.O.C., he appears at medical and childbirth conventions, as well as educational institutions, presenting on the medical science and bioethics of merely cultural, non-therapeutic infant genital surgeries. He is the author of numerous publications on the subject. A law professor by education, he has been a litigator, law lecturer, arbitrator, and mediator, specializing in medical disputes for 27 years. Most recently, he and D.O.C. successfully defended Misha Boldt, a 14-year-old facing an involuntary religious conversion, including non-therapeutic circumcision, a cause that was eventually appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Geisheker is proud that, in the 1960s, his native [[New Zealand]] fully abandoned medicalized infant circumcision as unethical and unnecessary. Seattle, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.
* '''Antonio Iaria''', is former director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome and has been responsible for the Transcultural Psychiatric Group, which also works in Rome. He has worked in Somalia for several years at the Faculty of Medicine of the {{UNI|Somali National University|SNU}}. He was co-founder, with Professor [[Pia Grassivaro Gallo|Grassivaro Gallo]], of the Padua Working Group on FGM, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.
* '''Charles Geshekter''', {{PhD}}, Professor Emeritus of African history at {{UNI|California State University|CSU}}, Chico, earned his {{PhD}} in history from UCLA and received numerous grants for his African field research. His writings examine modern Somali history, techniques of documentary film making, and reappraising [[AIDS]] in Africa. Geshekter established the Somali Studies International Association and coordinated its first conference in Mogadishu (1980). In 1985, he produced a PBS documentary, “The Parching Winds of Somalia” for WQED-TV. During the UN intervention in Somalia (1992-95), Geshekter was news analyst for CBS National Radio Network, KRON-TV/San Francisco, and PBS. Geshek-ter coordinated the program for the 1989 Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science/Pacific Division. From 1991-95, he chaired its History of Science Section and served on its Executive Council. In 1995-96, he was Chief Policy Advisor on Education Finance for the California State Assembly. He has served as a consultant and researcher on African immigration issues for the Department of Justice. Geshekter was a member of the South African Presidential [[AIDS]] Advisory Panel (2000-03). Chico, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''[[David J. Llewellyn]]''', {{JD}}, a graduate of the {{UNI|University of Virginia|UVA}}, is a trial lawyer with the firm of Johnson & Ward in Atlanta, Georgia, who has fifteen years’ experience litigating wrongful circumcision, circumcision damage, and related cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and Canada with regard to the problem of neonatal male circumcision. A majority of his practice consists of genital injury litigation. Atlanta, {{USSC|GA}}, USA.
* '''[[James Loewen]]''' is a photographer, videographer, and intactivist. Since 1993, his work has been increasingly focused on ending the genital mutilation of infants and children. His videotaped interviews can be seen at Bonobo3D on Youtube. Vancouver, British Columbia{{CAPTC|BC}}, Canada.
* '''[[Gillian Longley]]''', {{RN}}, {{BScN}}, {{MSS}}, the mother of two grown intact sons, is a registered nurse with 11 years experience in newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care. For the last five years, she has been co-coordinator of NOCIRC of Colorado. Her recent master’s degree research was a content analysis of how parent circumcision handouts present the alternative of not circumcising. Boulder, {{USSC|CO}}, USA.
* '''[[Paul Mason]]''', {{JD}}, was appointed Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmanian in 2007. The Commissioner is a State appointment independent of the elected government of the day and responsible for advising government about all matters concerning the health, welfare, development, education of children and their protection from all forms of abuse and neglect. His other primary function is to raise public awareness about these matters. Before that, he had three decades’ experience working in all areas of family law, including complex parenting and child protection cases, both as a solicitor and barrister across Australia. He is deeply committed to the [[human rights]] of children and a strong believer in their capacity to make valuable contributions to all decisions affecting their welfare and development. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
* '''Linda Massie''', BSc, PGDip, is currently the director of NOCIRC of Northern Ireland, a voluntary charity that she established following the attempted [[suicide]] of her eldest son due to circumcision [[trauma]]. In 2009, Linda was awarded funding from UnLtd, the foundation for Social Entrepreneurs and she is developing an educational outreach project for counsellors and psychologists in Northern Ireland on the emotional consequences associated with genital surgeries on children. Linda is currently a member of Business and Professional Women UK, Ltd., which has co-funded this presentation. Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
* '''Ken McGrath''', VRD, {{MS}} (Hons), LIBiol, MNZIMLS, Senior Lecturer in Pathology in the Faculty of Health, {{UNI|Auckland University of Technology|AUT}}, Auckland, 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.
* '''[[Robert S. Van Howe]]''', {{MD}}, MS, graduated from Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine, completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the {{UNI|University of Michigan|UMICH}} School of Public Health. He is a Clinical Professor at {{UNI|Michigan State University|MISU}} College of Human Medicine and a full-time pediatrician for Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming, Michigan. Dr. [[Robert S. Van Howe|Van Howe]] has researched and published extensively on neonatal circumcision. He has lectured worldwide and provided expert testimony in court cases involving circumcision. His goal is to provide an evidence-based and scientific appraisal of the medical literature on this topic. He is considered a leading expert on neonatal circumcision, which led to his being a consultant for the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Marquette, {{USSC|MI}}, USA.
* '''[[Franco Viviani]]''', {{PhD}}, a physical anthropologist, is professor of anthropology applied to psychology at the Department of Applied Psychology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. He has been involved with studies about FGM and, as the director of NOCIRC of Italy, on studies about male circumcision. He has published scientific papers and articles on these topics and has presented some of his research in the popular media.
* '''Astrik Vardanyan''', {{BA}}, {{MA}}, received her {{BA}} in English linguistics and literature from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Yerevan, Armenia, in 1996, and her master’s degree in anthropology at {{UNI|California State University|CSU}}, Northridge. She is a recipient of the McArthur scholarship in journalism, a fellowship at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago, Illinois, where she published articles on social and environmental issues. Her recent interests are cross-cultural child-rearing practices. She is an advocate of [[genital integrity]] for boys and girls, prolonged breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and natural birth. Vardanyan is inclined toward action or advocacy anthropology and employs her research to out-reach the general public through media, seminars, and small group and individual talks. Northridge, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''[[B. Maurene White]]''', {{RN}}, graduated from Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing in 1962 and received a {{BTh}} in 1988, a {{DipEd}} in 1991, and a {{BA}} (medical anthropology) in 1997 from {{UNI|McGill University|McGill}}. She has worked in different areas of nursing, with special interest in perinatality and outpost work as a nurse practitioner in northern Canada. She currently does private case nursing, consulting, and has developed a health-tracking system as an iPhone and iPod application. Montreal, Quebec{{CAPTC|QC}}, Canada.
* '''David Wilton''', {{JD}}, received his undergraduate degree from the {{UNI|University of Texas at El Paso|UTEP}} and his law degree from the South Texas College of Law. He has a long-standing interest in issues of body integrity and [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. He blogs at Male Circumcision and [[HIV]] (www.circumcisionandhiv.com) while maintaining a full-time law practice specializing in criminal defense. His primary interests, outside of nurturing a debate on the controversial measure of removing sexual tissue to reduce the spread of [[HIV]], are in the areas of criminal justice, languages, and journalism. San Francisco, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
====Thursday, July 29====
* Looking Back and Looking Forward
: ''[[Dean Edell]]'' and ''Marilyn Milos'', with ''Georganne Chapin''
* Circumcision and More
: ''Clare Puskarczyk''
: ''Heli Askola''
* Medical Provider’s Duty of Care to a One‑Day Old Infant
: ''[[Zenas Baer]]''
* The Children We Injure: The Human Rights of Children vs the Parents’ Free Exercise of Belief
: ''John V. Geisheker''
: ''Frederick M. Hodges''
* Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group in South Africa
: ''Erika Dionisio'', ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'', ''[[Franco Viviani]]''
* Women from Timan Adde (Merka‑Somalia) Pray to Allah in Order to be Freed from Pharaonic Circumcision/[[Infibulation]]
: ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'' and Prof. ''Maria Chiara Turrini''
* Possession Ritual and Somalian Pharaonic Circumcision Culture
: ''Steffania Gazzea'', ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'', ''Antonio Iaria''
* Female Genital Mutilation and the Amelioration of Complex Trauma through Relational Attunement
: ''Patricia D. Raya''
* Male Circumcision Among the Venda of Limpopo (South Africa)
: ''Erika Dionisio'' and ''[[Franco Viviani]]''
* Penile Wounding: The Spectrum of Complications of Routine Male Circumcision as Seen in a Typical American Family Medical Practice
: ''Christopher Fletcher''