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1600 - 1615 :* Tea<br><br>
0900 – 0915 :* Business – <br>''David Smith''<br>0915 – 0930 :* Introduction and Welcome – <br>''Marilyn Milos''<br><br>SESSION 1 HIV/AIDS ISSUES ''Chair, John Dalton''<br>0930 – 1015 :* A case against Neonatal circumcision as a Preventative measure to Reduce hIV HIV Infection Rates – <br>''Daniel Sidler''<br>1015 – 1100 :* Long-term Population Effect of male circumcision in generalized HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa – <br>''Michel Garenne''<br><br>1100 – 1115 :* Coffee<br><br>1115 – 1200 :* XVIIth International conference on AIDS, Mexico City, August 2008: Reason for hope or panic? – <br>''John Geisheker '' and ''Georganne Chapin''<br>1200 – 1300 :* HIV/AIDS Discussion<br><br>1300 – 1400 :* Lunch<br><br>SESSION 2 EDUCATION WORLDWIDE ''Chair, David Smith''<br>1400 – 1445 :* Onward and Outward – <br>''Paul Mason''<br>1445 – 1530 :* Educating the Professionals – <br>''Prasad Godbole''<br>1530 – 1600 :* Discussion<br><br>1600 – 1615 :* Tea<br><br>1615 – 1700 :* Genital Integrity: The Way Forward – <br>''David Smith''<br>1700 – 1730 :* Thanks by Session chair :* Closing Remarks – <br>''Marilyn Milos '' and ''John Warren ''<br> :* Business of Evening – <br>''David Smith''<br>1900 - :* Dinner (optional extra) + cabaret<br>
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The '''Tenth International Symposium''' on Circumcision, Genital Integrity and Human Rights convened at the [https://www.keele.ac.uk/ University of Keele], Keele, Newcastle, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom on September 4-6, 2008.
* '''Sandra Bussata''', PhD, is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Padua, and a member of the Padua Working Group on FGM, Padua, Italy.
* '''Georganne Chapin''', JD, is President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan, a non‑profit Medicaid managed care company in New York’s Hudson Valley. She is also founder and President of the Hudson Center for Health Equity & Quality (Hcheq), an organisation whose purpose is to contribute to policy and technology efforts toward healthcare reform. Under Hcheq, Georganne is leading the establishment of [[Intact America]], a new organisation dedicated to keeping babies whole. She has taught Bioethics as well as Medicaid and Disability Law at Pace University School of Law, from which she received her law degree. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Barnard College and a Masters in Sociomedical Science from Columbia University. She serves on a number of non‑profit Boards, including that of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC). Tarrytown, NY, USA.
* '''M. Gloria de Bernardo''', PhD, teaches Ethno‑Anthropology and Social Anthropology, Surgery and Medicine Faculty, University of Verona and University of Padova. She is the President of the Ethic Committee in “Clinical Practice, Hospital Institute of Verona, and has been a member of the Experimentation Committee, as an “Expert in Bioethic Sci‑enceScience,” following her experience at the San Raffaele in Milan and at Lana Foundation in Padova. She is a member of the Medical Anthropology Italian Society (SIAM). She has writ‑ten written many articles for ''Etnoginecology Magazine'', as a result of her personal research and her research with the Padua Working Group on FGM. She is the author of ''The Respect of Pain and Death in the Main Confessions''. Padua, Italy.
* '''[[George C. Denniston]]''', MD (Princeton University), MPH (Harvard School of Public Health), is the founder of Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.), co‑author of Doctors Re-Examine Circumcision, co‑editor, ''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy'', ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice'', ''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem'', ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society'', and ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change'', and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington, USA.
* '''Sarah Enany''', PhD, teaches drama at Cairo University. She has co‑authored and illustrated a book on feminism, and co‑authored and illustrated the UNICEF anti‑FGM manual. She has also written and drawn educational material for various Egyptian and international NGOs. She is currently working on founding Founding Day, an NGO focusing on gender issues and genital integrity for all. Cairo, Egypt.
* '''Marie Fox''' is Professor of Law at the University of Keele. Her main research interests are in the fields of Health Care Law, Animal Law and Feminist Legal Theory. Selected recent publications include: (with Jean McHale), 2nd edition of Health Care Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Sweet & Maxwell) 2006 (1204, xxxvi pages); “The Regulation of Xenotransplantation in the United Kingdom After UKX‑IRA: Legal and Ethical Issues” (with L.Williamson and S. McLean) (2007) 34(4) Journal of Law & Society 441‑64; “Rethinking the Animal/Human Boundary: the impact of xeno technologies” (2005) 26 Liverpool Law Review 149‑67; (with Michael Thomson) “Cutting it: surgical interventions and the sexing of children” (2005) 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 82‑97; (with Michael Thomson) “A Covenant with the Status Quo?: Male Circumcision and the new BMA Guidance to Doctors,” (2005) 31 ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' 463‑9; (with Michael Thomson) “Short Changed? The Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision,” (2005) 13 International Journal of Children’s Rights 161‑81; republished in M. Freeman (ed) ''Children’s Health and Children’s Rights'' Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006. Staffordshire, UK.
* '''Thomas w. Hennen''', JD, received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University (1969) and a Juris Doctor in Law from the University of Maine School of Law (1973). He is a member of both the Washington and California Bar Associations and is admitted as an attorney before the US Patent & Trademark Office. He has spent 33 years of his professional career working as an Intellectual Property Attorney for government and corporate employers. Des Moines, WA, USA.
* '''Robert C. Johnson''' recently retired from a 24‑year career as a writer and editor at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, USA, where he wrote extensively about deafness‑related research. He is co‑editor of ''Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability'', published by Gallaudet University Press. In 2005, at the age of 60, determined to understand and overcome the root cause of difficulties with intimacy he had experienced all his adolescent and adult life, he decided to pursue an eclectic form of regressive therapy for a second time. Much to his surprise, during one session of this therapy, he began to re‑experience his neonatal circumcision, an event he believes originally occurred within hours or minutes after birth, without parental consent (a frequent occurrence in 1945), many hours before he met his parents. His paper describes his journey from that shocking discovery to his current status as an anti‑circumcision activist. Alexandria, VA.
* '''[[Ron Low]]''', BS, MS, earned his BS degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois and his MS from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and is the marketer of a leading brand of foreskin restoration devices (TLCTugger.com) and the host of the “Circumspect” podcast series. Ron has been cited in the book, ''Everything you know about Sex is Wrong'', was featured in the BBC documentary Circumcise Me?, and interviewed by ''Time'' magazine. He appears in the 2007 documentary, Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision. Chicago, Illinois.
* '''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 navoiseauNavoiseau-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.
:* Discussion<br><br>
SESSION 4 CIRCUMCISION AND JUDAISM ''Chair, Sheila Curran''<br>
:* The Shadow Behind the circumcision Dialogue: How Do We Encounter Jews?<br>''Miriam Pollack''<br>
====Saturday, 6 September 2008====
The proceedings are published in ''[https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Genital+Autonomy%3A+Protecting+Personal+Choice%2C&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice]'', edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos, Springer, 2010.