Tenth International Symposium

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

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 1: 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)

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