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The '''Seventh International Symposium''' on Human Rights and Modern Society convened in the [https://www.georgetown.edu/ Georgetown University] [https://www.acc-guhotelandconferencecenter.com/ Conference Center] in Washington, DC, USA on April 4-7, 2002.
==Proceedings==
<center><big><big>Program</big></big></center>
<center><big>Thursday, April 4</big></center><br>
''' 6:00 pm''' Registration<br>
''' 7:00 pm''' Welcome and Opening Remarks ''Marilyn Milos''<br>
''' 7:15 pm''' Keynote Address: Bodily Integrity in the Biotech Era ''Frederick Mansfield Hodges''<br>
''' 8:00 pm''' Award Presentations ''Marilyn Milos''<br><br>
<center><big>Friday, April 5</big></center><br>
''' 8:00 am''' Registration and Continental Breakfast<br>
''' 9:00 am''' A New Law Regulating Religious Circumcision in Sweden ''Yngve Hofvander''<br>
''' 4:30 pm''' Genital Integrity and Nobel Prize Winners ''Van Lewis''<br>
''' 5:00 pm''' Dinner (on your own)<br><br>
<center><big>Saturday, April 6</big></center><br>
''' 8:00 am''' Registration and Continental Breakfast<br>
''' 9:00 am''' What is the Foreskin? ''Steve Scott''<br>
''' 5:00 pm''' Dinner (on your own)<br>
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<center><big>Sunday, April 7</big></center><br>
''' 8:00 am''' Registration and Continental Breakfast<br>
''' 9:00 am''' Something Less than Joyful: Jewish Americans and the Circumcision Dilemma ''Leonard Glick''<br>
'''11:30 am''' What’s Going On: New Alliances, New Ideas, New Gains, New Hopes, And New Futures ''Hanny Lightfoot-Klein''<br>
'''12:00 pm''' Closing ''Jeannine Parvati Baker''<br>
'''12:30 pm''' Buffet Lunch<br><br>The proceedings are published in [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Flesh+and+Blood%3A+Perspectives+on+the+Problem+of+Circumcision+in+Contemporary+Society%5D&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society], edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield, and Marilyn Fayre Milos, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 2004.
==Sponsor==
<p>The International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society, a special project of the [http://www.nocirc.org National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC)], provides a forum for discussion about the sexual mutilation of infants and children from historical, anthropological, cultural, religious, social, psychological, medical, ethical, legal and human rights perspectives. NOCIRC is a non-profit educational organization that provides information for parents and others about protecting the rights of children.</p>