Fourteenth International Symposium

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The Fourteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights convened at the University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom on September 14-16, 2016.

Faculty

  • 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 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.
  • James Chegwidden is a barrister at Old Square Chambers, London. Old Square is a Band-1 ranked chambers in the fields of employment/equality law and is highly rated in the fields of clinical negligence and personal injury. James frequently acts for governmental agencies, including the Secretary of State for Health, the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and also for private individuals. In 2010, James worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg and prior to call to the Bar was Associate to Mr Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia. He was appointed Attorney General’s Counsel to the Crown in 2013. On issues of genital cutting, James was one of the most cited-participants in the State of Tasmania’s consultation on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys (2009); he acted as legal advisor to a delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the subject of genital cutting (2013); and most recently in 2015, James was junior counsel for the mother in the recent High Court (England and Wales) case of Re L & B on infant circumcision.London, UK.
  • 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 6000 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.
  • Fae Garland is a lecturer of law at the University of Manchester. She has been published in Edinburgh Law Review, New Zealand Law Review and The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. She and Mitchell Travis were awarded funding from the Socio-Legal Studies Association’s Small Grant Scheme. The grant enabled interviews to take place with a number of Intersex Organisations from around the world. Participants were asked to reflect on their experiences of law and the future directions that it could take. University of Manchester, UK.



Proceedings

The proceedings of the 14th International Symposia on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights, held at the University of Keele in Staffordshire, UK (2016), have not been published.

See also

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