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.
Contents
Faculty
- Janette Shaw, MA, RGN, RM, DMS, DPS(HV), Nurse Consultant, Safeguarding Children, Waltham Forest Primary Care Trust, sits on the Waltham Forest Local Safeguarding Children Board Management Group and is a member of the sub fora. Waltham Forest is a North East London Borough, with a multi‑cultural population, ranking 11th largest local government district in England and Wales, with a non‑white, minority ethnic population. London, UK.
- Daniel Sidler, MD, MPhil (Applied Ethics), FCS, is a Paediatric Surgeon at Tygerberg Children’s Hospital, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Sigismond (Michel Hervé navoiseau-Bertaux) is a psychoanalysis researcher. Paris, France.
- David Smith was educated at St Joseph’s College, Market Drayton, and he qualified in business studies at Underwood College. He worked for Re‑Solv, the solvent abuse charity, but he currently works full‑time as General Manager of NORM‑UK, and is the organisation’s only paid staff member. David created and now edits NORM NEWS, the organisation’s magazine for member. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
- J. Steven Svoboda, JD, focuses on civil litigation and human rights, and is the founder and executive director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC), a non‑profit organisation addressing the illegality of involuntary genital surgery. Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Franco Viviani, PhD, a physical anthropologist, is at present professor of Functional Anthropology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Udine, and Professor of Psychobiology and Physiology of Human Behaviour at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Padova. He has published papers and articles on both male and female circumcision. He is the representative for Italy. NOCIRC of Italy. Padua, Italy.
- John Warren, MB BChir DCH FRCP, qualified in medicine at Cambridge University, England (1966). He obtained the Diploma of Child Health (1968), Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1970), and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1987). After junior training posts, he was appointed a consultant physician in Harlow, Essex (1975), specialising in general internal medicine and respiratory disease. He became interested in problems surrounding infant circumcision when studying child health (1968), and followed up this interest in the early 1990’s, leading to the establishment of NORM‑UK (1995), of which he has been chairman since its foundation. He retired from medical practice in 2006. Harlow, Essex, UK.
- Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial Literature and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13, a Researcher at the University of Paris 3‑Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a Senior Scholar at the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris. She is the author of Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts, Stanford UP, 2007); The African Palimpsest (Rodopi, 1991; rpt 2007); Tempests after Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2002). She has also edited Le Secret (with J. Derrida, Louvain, 1999), and Changements au féminin en Afrique noire (L’Harmattan, 2000). Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision is forthcoming with Rodopi this year, and she is currently editing Perennial Empires (with Silvia Nagy‑Zekmi). Paris, France.
- Ilenia Zanotti, PhD, received her degree in Psychology at the University of Padua. She is a member of Padua Working Group on FGM. Padua, Italy.
Proceedings
Program
Thursday, 4 September 2008
- Business & Introductions
- Welcome and Opening
- 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
- Hospital’s Duty: Informed consent
- Session 2: Law, Ethics & Human Rights (2)
- Chair, Marie Fox
- Violating all codes
- 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
- The Local Process for gaining agreement to create an FGM Protocol
- Janette Shaw
- Thanks by Session chairs closing Remarks
- Business of the Evening
- Session 3/1: Foreskin Restoration
- Chair, Peter Ball
- Foreskin Restoration
- Wayne Griffiths
- Restoration: The Foreskin and the American Dream
- 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)
Friday, September 2008
0800 – 0900 Silence, on coupe! – Documentary by Dominique Arnaud
0900 – 0915 Business – David Smith
0915 – 0930 Introduction and Welcome – John Warren
SESSION 1/1 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CIRCUMCISION Chair, Tony Peters
0930 – 1000 It’s all Relational – Andrew Tinson
1000 – 1030 Neonatal circumcision Revisited: Implications for Surgeons of men’s Experiences in Regressive Therapy– Robert C. Johnson
1030 – 1100 Circumcision memory – Thomas W. Hennen
1100 - 1115 Coffee
SESSION 1/2 FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION Chair, Iris Fudge
0930 – 0945 The First Survey on genital Stretching in Italy – Annalisa Bertoletti, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Ilenia Zanotti, Lucrezia Catania
0945 – 1000 The Stretching of the Labia minora and Other Expansive Interventions on the Female genitals in the Democratic Republic of congo – Nancy Tshiala Mbuyi, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Annalisa Bertoletti
1000 – 1015 Performing the Eradication of Infibulation: mana abdurahman Isse at merka, Somalia – Sandra Busatta and Pia Grassivaro Gallo
1015 – 1030 Mana Abdurahman Isse, 2007: The Prevention of Infibulation in the Lower Scebelli (Somalia)– Pia Grassivaro Gallo
1030 - 1045 Knowledge and Opinions of North Italian health Operators about Female genital mutilation– Ilenia Zanotti, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Annalisa Bertoletti, Miriam Manganoni
1045 – 1100 Male circumcision in Italy, From a Free Procedure to a Paid One – M. Gloria de Bernardo
SESSION 2 PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF CIRCUMCISION Chair, Tony Peters
1115 – 1150 Physical Effects of circumcision – John Warren
1150 – 1230 “I’m 19 and I don’t want to be circumcised” – Peter Ball
1230 – 1300 Circumcision and men’s health: a contradiction in terms? – Peter Baker
1300 – 1400 Lunch
SESSION 3 CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS Chair, Richard Duncker
1400 – 1430 The Foreskin in children – Pierre Mouriquand
1430 – 1500 adult urology – Gordon Muir
1500 - 1530 So They claim to know the answer: The Problem of association taken as causality – Ken McGrath
1530 - 1600 Discussion
1600 - 1615 Tea
SESSION 4 cIRcumcISION aND JuDaISmChair, Sheila Curran
1615 - 1645 The Shadow Behind the circumcision Dialogue: how Do We Encounter Jews?– Miriam Pollack
1645 - 1800 cut: Slicing Through the myths of circumcision – Documentary by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
1800 – 1830 Thanks by Session chair closing Remarks – John Warren
Business of Evening – David Smith
1900 – 1930 Reception/no host bar
1930 - Gala Dinner, Keele Hall
Saturday, 6 September 2008
0900 – 0915 Business – David Smith
0915 – 0930 Introduction and Welcome – Marilyn Milos
SESSION 1 HIV/AIDS ISSUES Chair, John Dalton
0930 – 1015 A case against Neonatal circumcision as a Preventative measure to Reduce hIV Infection Rates – Daniel Sidler
1015 – 1100 Long-term Population Effect of male circumcision in generalized HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa – Michel Garenne
1100 – 1115 Coffee
1115 – 1200 XVIIth International conference on AIDS, Mexico City, August 2008: Reason for hope or panic? – John Geisheker and Georganne Chapin
1200 – 1300 HIV/AIDS Discussion
1300 – 1400 Lunch
SESSION 2 EDUCATION WORLDWIDE Chair, David Smith
1400 – 1445 Onward and Outward – Paul Mason
1445 – 1530 Educating the Professionals – Prasad Godbole
1530 – 1600 Discussion
1600 – 1615 Tea
1615 – 1700 Genital Integrity: The Way Forward – David Smith
1700 – 1730 Thanks by Session chair Closing Remarks – Marilyn Milos and John Warren Business of Evening – David Smith
1900 - Dinner (optional extra) + cabaret
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