Thirteenth International Symposium

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The Thirteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights convened at the University of Colorado on July 24-26, 2014.

Faculty

• Peter W. Adler, BA, Philosophy, Dartmouth College; MA, Philosophy, Cambridge University; JD, University of Virginia School of Law; and Editor of Virginia Law Review, is a former trial lawyer and is the Legal Advisor for Attorneys for the Rights of the Child. His publications include “Is Circumcision Legal?”, “Is It Lawful to Use Medicaid to Pay for Circumcision?”, and “Is Circumcision Unethical and Should It Be Illegal?”, co-authored with Svoboda and Van Howe, publication pending. Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.

• Jennifer Andersen is a speaker, writer, blogger, child advocate, and the founder of OurMuddyBoots.com, LIVING! With Kids. Through her work, Jennifer explores the things that keep us disconnected from our children, so that we can reconnect and know them more fully. Most importantly, Jennifer advocates for children—hoping to inspire others to understand that children are people—fully deserving of the same kindness, compassion, and human rights as their adult counterparts. A guest on HuffPost Live, speaker at parenting conferences, and contributor to publications both online and in print, Jennifer’s work focuses on bringing to light the specific ways children are dehumanized−and solutions for changing this. Denver, Colorado, USA.

• Scot Anderson, BSc, received his degree in physics from the Colorado School of Mines and is a practicing physicist working in industry doing analysis. He has many interests, including human rights, and he is active in supporting Colorado NOCIRC. He is otherwise unaffiliated within the medical profession. Conifer, Colorado, USA.

• Kira Antinuk, one of the founders and acting Directors of the Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership, has been a children’s rights advocate for more than 10 years. She is the recipient of the 2013 Paul Wainwright Nursing Ethics Prize, awarded in recognition of her paper “Forced genital cutting in North America: Feminist theory & nursing considerations”, published in the Journal of Nursing Ethics(September 2013). Kira received her training as a nurse in Victoria, BC, where she currently lives with her partner and two children. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• Riun Ashlie is a somatic healing practitioner, workshop facilitator, men’s group leader, and currently an intern at Colorado Therapies and Aquatic Center. A graduate of Body Mind Somanautics, an advanced training in somatic attachment, group process, and anatomy re-patterning, and a graduate of the Hendricks Institute 2-year Leadership and Transformation Coaching Program, Riun combines a variety of modalities, including Access Consciousness as well as Re-connective Healing in support of his passion−catalyzing male potency and empowerment with passion and purpose.

• Markus Bauer is the co-founder and campaign organiser of the international human rights NGO Zwischengeschlecht.org / StopIGM.org and legally responsible for their online presence. He is the partner of an intersex person, and a decade-long writer, editor, performing artist, political activist, and social organiser. Since 2007, he facilitated countless nonviolent intersex protests in front of mutilators’ clinics and medical congresses, as well as parliamentary motions, submissions, and testimonies for ethics and human rights bodies. He has spoken and published internationally on IGM at universities and symposia, and appeared on radio and television, and in newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal. Zurich, Switzerland.

• Jonathan Bernaerts, BA, MA, is a Human Rights Researcher at the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), where he focuses on children’s rights. He holds BAs in Philosophy and Law from the University of Antwerp (Belgium), a MA degree in international law from the University of Antwerp, and a MA degree in comparative international law from the University of Toulouse (France). He was awarded the European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratization by the European Inter University Centre in Venice (Italy), for which he spent a semester at the University of Vienna (Austria). His thesis on the circumcision of male children was written under the supervision of Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter. Kontich, Belgium.

• Gregory J. Boyle, PhD (Delaware), PhD (Melbourne), DSc (Queensland), Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, was Professor of Psychology at Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia for 20 years. Currently, he is Head of School at the Australian Institute of Psychology, based in Brisbane. In 2005, he was recipient of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements Distinguished Reviewer Award. He has contributed over 200 publications, and is Senior Editor of several international handbooks in the fields of personality theory and assessment (SAGE Publishers; Elsevier/Academic Press). Currently, he is Senior Editor of the SAGE series on both cognitive neuroscience and on industrial/organizational psychology. Professor Boyle has lectured in many universities, including Oxford University, Stanford University, and Princeton University. He also served as Associate Dean for Research at Bond University for several years, and as a Re-search Consultant to the Australian Army Psychology Corps (Hon Rank: LTCOL) for more than two decades. Professor Boyle has conducted empirical studies regarding the adverse psychosexual impact of infant male circumcision. More recently, his detailed critique (with George Hill, Doctors Opposing Circumcision) of the serious methodological, ethical, and legal concerns relating to the African circumcision RCTs (published in the Journal of Law and Medicine in 2011), attained international prominence. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

• Annie Brook, PhD, LPC, is an author, international speaker, master therapist, and former university professor who has worked in clinics, hospitals, public schools, and in private practice. She supports community awareness and healing. Her work with men began in the late 1980‘s when she started men’s groups in rural locations where there were no male facilitators. Her professional background in infant development gives her keen insight on the impact of early experience on identity and behavior. She trains therapists in body-based therapy work that includes early attachment. Her training programs have male facilitators leading men’s work that is full spectrum and empowering, and includes the tender and outrageous work of recovering from circumcision imprints. She is a somatic psychologist, Registered Movement Educator, and Cranial Sacral practitioner with a Doctorate in Perinatal Psychology and Human Sexuality. She has authored, Birth’s Hidden Legacy, From Conception to Crawling, and Sexuality and the Sacred. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

• Glen Callender is a Vancouver-based writer, editor and performance artist. In 2010, he founded the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP)—Canada’s best-known and feistiest pro-foreskin advocacy group—to promote his vision of a more positive genital autonomy movement that emphasizes pro-foreskin over anti-circumcision messaging. Glen has performed his educational-comedy foreskin shows Foreskin Awareness Booth and The Revolution Will Not Be Circumcised to thousands of people across Canada and the USA, and is developing a multimedia guide to the intact penis that he hopes will revolutionize society’s understanding of, and respect for, the male organ. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• Charli Carpenter is Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her teaching and research interests include human rights and humanitarian action, agenda-setting in transnational advocacy networks, and gender violence. She is particularly interested in why some human security problems and vulnerable populations get less attention on the global agenda than others. She has published three books and numerous journal articles, has served as a consultant for the United Nations, and contributes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book, Agenda-Vetting in Global Networks and the Shaping of Human Security, includes a case study of the transnational campaign against infant male circumcision. Amherst, MA, USA