Scientific Symposium

In 2014, MOGiS e.V. and pro familia NRW held a scientific symposium as a kick-off event for the WWDOGA 2014 on May 6, 2014 at the University of Cologne on the theme "Genital Autonomy: physical integrity, freedom of religion and sexual self-determination - from theory to practice".

The following speakers contributions were held:

• "Parents as best garants for child's interests?", Prof. Dr. Jörg Fegert, Ulm (Germany)

• "About the medical implications of a circumcision", Prof. Dr. Maximilian Stehr, Nuremberg (Germany)

• "Psychotraumatological and psychoanalytic aspects of boy circumcision", Prof. Dr. Matthias Franz, Düsseldorf (Germany)

• "European perspective of the debate" and "Discrepant rating of circumcision complications", Dr. Matthias Schreiber

• "In fearful symmetries: essays and eyewitness accounts of female genital mutilation and male circumcision", Prof. Dr. Tobe Levin

• "Male circumcision as sexual violence: Concealment of male injury openness in the majority society and in ritual contexts - insights from the violence gender studies", Hans-Joachim Lenz, Freiburg (Germany)

• "Circumcision permission and constitutional law", Dr. Jörg Scheinfeld, Mainz (Germany)

• "Internal and external views and insights regarding male circumcision, or: How I became opponent to the genital circumcision and proponent of the 'circumcision of the heart'", Michael Ingber, Passau (Germany)

• "The circumcision of Jewish-humanistic perspective", Dr. Jérôme Segal, Vienna (Austria)