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.
Proceedings
0900 - 0910 Business & Introductions – David Smith
0910 - 0930 Welcome and Opening – Marilyn Milos and John Warren
SESSION 1 LAW, ETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS, Chair, Peter Ball
0930 – 1030 adolescent autonomy and the Limits of Religious Freedom –MarieFox and Michael Thomson
1030 – 1100 Writing Rites gone Wrong: autobiography, testimonials, and Their Relevance to the Debate around genital alterations – Chantal Zabus
1100 – 1115 Coffee
1115 – 1150 Circumcision mythologies in conflict with Logic, Reason, and common Sense – Steve Scott
1150 – 1225 Three-Fourths Were abnormal”– Misha’s case, Sick Societies, and the Law –J. Steven Svoboda
1225 – 1300 Hospital’s Duty: Informed consent –Zenas Baer
1300 - 1400 Lunch
SESSION 2 LAW, ETHICS & HUMAN RIGHTS (2) Chair, Marie Fox
1400 – 1430 Violating all codes – George C. Denniston
1430 – 1500 Female genital mutilation: a human Rights Issue – Comfort Momoh
1500 – 1600 International Organizations, Political Interests: One group’s Experience – Seham Abd el Salam and Sarah Enan
1600 – 1615 Tea
1615 – 1730 The goal Posts Don’t move – Paul Mason
1730 – 1800 The Local Process for gaining agreement to create an FGM Protocol – Janette Shaw
1800 – 1830 Thanks by Session chairs closing Remarks – Marilyn Milos Business of the Evening – David Smith
1830 – 1900 Reception – Raven Mason Suite (Keele Hall)
1900 - Dinner – Comus Restaurant
SESSION 3/1 FORESkIN RESTORATION, Chair, Peter Ball
2030 – 2115 Foreskin Restoration
1980 - 2008 – Wayne Griffiths
2115 – 2200 Restoration: The Foreskin and the American Dream – Ron Low
SESSION 3/2 CONSIDERATIONS OF INFANtILE SEXUAL MUTILAtION, Chair, Andrew Tinson
2030 – 2200 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 Navoiseau-Bertaux)
Conference organisers
David Smith, General Manager, and Dr. John Warren, Chairman and Founder, NORM-UK
Professors Michael Thomson and Marie Fox, University of Keele School of Law